News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

chaz6

Re:Pidgin 3.0.0 Alpha 4 (2.98.0) has been released on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:21AM (#50314657)
+1 for Telegram support
Re:UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:54AM (#50220052)
Every time a discussion like this comes up I am reminded of Microsoft's "RID master" used in Active directory. A central server issues out chunks of ID's to each server on demand (usually when a watermark is reached), so each server always has a pool of ID's available to use.

Are there any extensions for PostgreSQL that do this?

Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:09PM (#50199701)
Can anyone sign certificates with the compromised keys and submit them to a CT log?
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:05PM (#50199651)
One company prints identity cards with a hologram to prevent copying. Another company puts on a dot with a crayon.
Re:AWS Lambda Web Functions on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @07:33AM (#50070019)
Being able to handle concurrent requests with one worker is nice. I hope this becomes available for Python too.
Re:Decade-old RAM is making a comeback on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:39AM (#50041694)
It is not just DDR4; I know of at least one supplier sampling units with DDR3 for their ONTs.
Re:Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:29AM (#49906012)
The article contains conflicting statements:

> anyone already pointed at any existing free CA can move to us by changing a directory URL, with no new tooling and nothing to re-architect.

> We will only issue to clients that support ACME Renewal Information (ARI), standardized in RFC 9773.

I do not think both can be true.

There are a lot of places in the UK where you do not have the facility to charge your car at home (terraced houses, apartment buildings with no parking spaces). Running cables to buildings is risky. Even where there are houses that have a road in front of the front door, there is no guarantee that the owner is able to park in front.
Re:ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @05:33AM (#49813578)
Can anyone verify if this works on a Lenovo Thinkpad? I checked the List of Working Motherboards [1]. They often have Thunderbolt but no way to enable ReBAR.

[1] https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI/issues/11

Re:Reversing Factorio's RNG on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:32AM (#49737958)
I read another mention of Factorio today

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/bringing-correctly-ro...

It mentions how they had to use a custom math library to differences in results on different platforms causing multiplayer sync issues.

Re:Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:15AM (#49723895)
I feel like for verified photography to be useful, it really needs a depth sensor so you can tell the difference between an actual scene and a photo of a photo. Granted, you could 3d print a scene from a photo, but at least for now it should be pretty obvious to tell the difference.
Crimes on this scale warrant capital punishment.
Re:deSEC – Free Secure DNS on Saturday September 05, 2026 @07:21AM (#49575489)
Re:I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases on Friday August 21, 2026 @12:40PM (#49390644)
It is a shame they did not actually set up a SIP server and see if any of those requests turned into actual call terminations.

There is another schema called TRIP [1] - telephony routing over ip that uses a number format "1234*1455" designed to be entered on a standard phone keypad. When I registered my ITAD (internet telephony administrative domain, the RHS of a TRIP number) I was lucky enough to get one that matches my local dialling code!

https://tripresurgence.org/trip/history/ [1]

When I read this I hear the voices of Tachikoma in my head.

https://ghostintheshell.fandom.com/wiki/Tachikoma

A lot of people dunk on PPPoE, but it does have one redeeming feature: failover is a lot easier and faster compared to IPoE. With IPoE you often rely on vendor-proprietary mechanisms. The closest thing to a common standard is packet-triggered sessions. Normally, BNG's set up sessions using DHCP but you can rig it to do a RADIUS request for a non-DHCP packet without a known session. In this case, it will send the source IP as the radius username, rather than the configured value (this usually comes from dhcp option 82 which includes the customer-id and circuit-id). In an access network, the source address is usually untrusted so instead you would want to have your BNG attach the NAS-Port-Id to the request (which usually contains the SVLAN and CVLAN).
The most common things I observe:-

- Installing a cryptominer or persistence tool

- Sending spam (smtp)

- Using pre-obtained credentials to log into various ecommerce/social media sites

The very first link in the post is broken. The correct link is:-

https://github.com/servo/servo/releases/tag/0.4.0

Prior releases included a preceding 'v' in the version but not this one for some reason.

Perhaps a defence to this is ensure that a copy of the encryption key exists in a location outside the jurisdiction of the state.
Re:Humans Haven't Stopped Evolving on Sunday July 26, 2026 @08:06AM (#49057300)
Does anybody think that evolution just stops? A species only stops evolving when it is wiped out.
Re:Stinkpot: SQLite-Backed Shell History on Sunday July 26, 2026 @07:35AM (#49057058)
Perfect! I wanted this without all the extras of atuin that I never use.
Here's a tip, if you are making regular compressed backups of the configuration of your network devices, if you use gzip, make sure to set the mtime to 0 when writing the file as this can throw off deduplication. This also applies to the name field.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/gzip.html#gzip.GzipFile.mt...

These days for an eyeball network only ~5% traffic is received from transit which makes me sad. The vast majority comes from a few asn's which you connect to via pni or at an ix.
Re:Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @05:34AM (#48990024)
Hopefully this will be supported on Intel Arc cards that have hardware encoding and decoding.
As the years go by I get more and more annoyed by the fact you cannot sort results by upload-time on Soundcloud. Your only time-related option is a filter which makes no guarantee about the order of results.
Re:Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite on Saturday July 18, 2026 @01:55PM (#48960447)
Is that solved with wal2 mode?
Re:I'm a USB-C Maximalist on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @05:18AM (#48918215)
It is not ideal, but you can buy C-to-C adapters with the resistors to force the charger to supply 5V.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005012247371267.html

You are missing the point. I do not want delegate the root of my domain. I want to delegate a subdomain, which is not possible without a paid account. Not to be confused with the registrar.
Re:Show HN: Chiptune Radio on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @06:16AM (#48830033)
I browsed the website but I could not find a simple url I can put into my radio player. It appears the only way to listen is either on the website or twitch[.].tv which seems to defeat the point of a radio stream.

Older »