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Re:GrapheneOS – When an app is slow on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:07PM (#49884360)
"Before installing, please turn off all anti-virus and firewall software."
Wildfires tend to cause a decrease in air quality, yes.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/wildfires/1/8

Didn't Reddit ban open access to their APIs and kill third party viewers/apps as well by charging outrageous amounts for continued API access?
Re:How to get a free .arpa domain on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:13PM (#49557116)
As the post calls out, most certificate authorities will not issue certs against .arpa domains. I found this out the hard way when paying for CloudFlare's Advanced Certificates add-on for an .arpa domain I had successfully delegated and registered.

They return failures and exceptions when attempting to generate the certificate for the .arpa domain and then I spent months trying to get a refund (they are very slow to respond) and only caved once I threatened a chargeback for the service not working as advertised.

Re:The Twelve-Factor App on Friday August 28, 2026 @06:49PM (#49485171)
Re:Grok 4.3 on Friday May 01, 2026 @03:14PM (#47978887)
Is this satire? Ask it about June 4 1989, Taiwan independence, or Winnie the Pooh.
Re:A terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @01:26AM (#45512380)
This post is 12 minutes old. Have you finished yet?
OP is a self-proclaimed radical[0] calling to "burn it all down"[1]. I honestly wouldn't read too much into the statement.

  [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45312671  
  [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294981
The testing VM is specified as VM.Standard.A1.Flex (Oracle Cloud)

Is this the endpoint you tested against? https://bgp.he.net/dns/t3.storage.dev#_ipinfo

Did you test from a VM in the same cloud that's hosting the product? If so I'm not sure "neutral cloud provider" is an honest statement.

Re:Feds want devs to stop coding 'unforgivable' buffer overflow on Thursday February 13, 2025 @04:09PM (#43041385)
I'd just be happy if organizations stopped doing business with software vendors that still mandate disabling DEP, ASLR, and the dreaded "Please disable your antivirus before installing".
I’m currently ~6 weeks into a billing issue with CloudFlare. They typically take 5-6 days to respond, ask you for verification to do things, wait another 5-6 days, then they ask you to do it because it turns out they don’t have permission. It’s a mess.
Re:Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4 on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @02:29PM (#40503896)
> On macOS, I can't ping or bind to 127.0.0.2

     uname -a
    Darwin LT-JT6692XPXJ 23.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 23.5.0: Wed May  1 20:12:58 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.121.3~5/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64
    
    ~
     ifconfig lo0
    lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
     options=1203<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TXSTATUS,SW_TIMESTAMP>
     inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
     inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
     inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
     nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
    
    ~
     ping -c 1 127.0.0.2
    PING 127.0.0.2 (127.0.0.2): 56 data bytes
    
    --- 127.0.0.2 ping statistics ---
    1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
    
    ~ 11s
     sudo ifconfig lo0 add 127.0.0.2
    Password:
    
    ~
     ping -c 1 127.0.0.2
    PING 127.0.0.2 (127.0.0.2): 56 data bytes
    64 bytes from 127.0.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.824 ms
    
    --- 127.0.0.2 ping statistics ---
    1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
    round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.824/0.824/0.824/nan ms
    
    ~
     ifconfig lo0
    lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
     options=1203<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TXSTATUS,SW_TIMESTAMP>
     inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
     inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
     inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
     inet 127.0.0.2 netmask 0xff000000
     nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
    
    ~
For comparison, this is roughly the cost of a pair of coherent 400G optics used in DWDM.
He is moving from Seattle to Miami. Where did you get California from this?
Re:iOS Wi-Fi Profile Generator on Sunday December 31, 2023 @01:36PM (#38826316)
No escaping is done, so you can end up with a malformed profile if your SSID or PSK includes a < for instance.
Re:Beeper Mini is back on Monday December 11, 2023 @01:35PM (#38603521)
iMessage is not about the color of the bubble. While the color is what's most noticeable to the end user, a non-iMessage chat means:

  1. Unable to rename group chats
  2. Photo sharing quality is lowered  
  3. Video sharing quality is abysmal
  4. Messages traverse carrier networks in plain-text
  5. Loss of undo send and delete
  6. Loss of inline replies
  7. Loss of typing indicators and read-receipts (if enabled)
Just to name a few.
AWS has an endpoint for this: http://checkip.amazonaws.com
I get Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token

I'm guessing those quotes were supposed to be " rather than “ and ”.

Remember, Android doesn't only run on mobile phones and managed addresses are just one part of DHCPv6.

You seem to be completely ignoring the other aspects of DHCPv6. Your response comes off as extremely hostile towards others who may have different requirements than yours. Please consider that there could be other use cases beyond what you've been exposed to in the past.

> I don't even know what this means.

It means the Android operating system does not implement the DHCPv6 protocol.

> How is it impacting users?

Users of Android devices will be unable to obtain a managed IPv6 address configuration, other configuration, or request an IPv6 prefix (read: prefix, not address) via DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation.

> Are they crying out about it on support forums for the past several years?

For at least 10 years now[0].

[0] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36949085

Tomorrow: It's 2023 and you still can't use DHCPv6 on Android
Re: on Thursday May 04, 2023 @02:18PM (#35819839)
Hacker News Guidelines [0]

What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Apple Lightning on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @10:37AM (#34162033)
Look closely at a lightning cable. The edge is metal. When you plug in a lightning cable, you briefly short every single pin together. There's probably a greater risk of bending a pin inside the port than there is shorting pins out.
Not only would CSP block it, but this type of behavior only strengthens Apple's decision to not allow third party rendering engines. Could you imagine the privacy nightmare that would ensue if Facebook could release a browser that bypassed any and all safeguards implemented by site operators?
Re:Gmail accepts forged YouTube emails on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @11:05PM (#31590843)
The reason for this is right in the headers. The message had a valid ARC headers used to preserve DKIM/SPF/DMARC checks when forwarding email.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_Received_Chain

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