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Eji1700 commented on DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

DaSHacka · 2 months ago

Many manufacturers are already moving there of their own accord. I really don't think we'd need some legislation to fix this problem.

Eji1700 · 2 months ago

Ehhh I can see it. The right attack at the right time could directly or indirectly kill people, and that’s ignoring the fact it can cause economic havoc.

Having the entire internet function on a “pay or be nuked” threshold that could easily get much worse if companies like cloudflare become less ethical (not that they’re saints).

Eji1700 commented on Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander masteringemacs.org/articl... · Posted by u/TheFreim

rajman187 · 3 months ago

My main keyboard has been a 34-key split Ferris. I usually have either a trackpad between the halves if I’m using a Mac or an ergonomic Logitech if on my Linux desktop. Not having to move my hands at all while being able to reach any keys/characters I need has been a welcomed change, worth remapping my brain.

https://arjtala.github.io/2022/09/17/ferris-compact.html

Eji1700 · 3 months ago

Agreed. It quickly becomes "awkward" to go back to using a numpad once you get used to ALWAYS being one key hold/press away from it. I can type numbers as easily as I can type capitals, ditto with every symbol, and my function keys.

Hell I've even worked on a couple of revision on "gaming" layers. Namely for FPS or older roguelikes.

I hate how hard it is to find a split space(feels mandatory now that i'm used to it) 40% with wireless and QMK/Zia/etc. The EPOMAKER-TH40 SHOULD be perfect, but turns out they put out a breaking patch or something and it's not ACTUALLY programmable anymore. I need something like this for 2 setups at homes.

I went around on a couple of things and landed on the split 4x5 Chiri CE for my everyday workhorse since it's easy to carry.

https://keeb.io/products/chiri-ce-keyboard-kit?variant=41088...

Of note, while that board seems to be out of stock and isn't for everyone i cannot recommend keeb.io enough. They've done a fantastic job of keeping my board running after I had some ESD ruin it once or twice, and have never charged me as it was still under warranty.

With how hit or miss a lot of this niche keyboard stuff is, it's really really nice to find people who stand by their product and can turn things around. I get its got to be a miserable market so I don't demand it, and I'm extremely happy when I do see it.

Eji1700 commented on No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves lichess.org/@/Tobs40/blog... · Posted by u/emporas

margalabargala · 3 months ago

Am I missing something, or is the configuration shown initially not actually reachable? It's white to move, yet the black pawns are in their starting location and the black king has no adjacent empty square, it's entombed by its pawns and the white bishop so the configuration could not have been reached.

Eji1700 · 3 months ago

Proof is provided here for one of them: https://lichess.org/study/PLtuv3v5/zWPNxbSA

To be clear you're misunderstanding the position though. Black pawns are NOT in starting position. They've moved all the way across the board. Those are white pawn starting positions.

Eji1700 commented on No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves lichess.org/@/Tobs40/blog... · Posted by u/emporas

kryptiskt · 3 months ago

Now I wonder how Nenad Petrović and Jenő Bán came up with the optimal solutions to the problems in the 60s.

Eji1700 · 3 months ago

Glancing at it a chess players first instinct looks to be the "solution".

Assume all pawns are queens, then maximize queen moves, work backwards from there. Couple of other "obvious" assumptions such as minimal black pieces, which means shoving the king in a corner but somehow not in check, Rooks cover the next largest amount of space so they're going in corners, bishops will be mirrored, etc.

Not to say it isn't still impressive, but I always wonder how many "sane" positions there are for solving a puzzle like this in the first place. The paper quotes some huge number and someone else says it's a smaller, but still massive, number, but when you look at the stated goal and start from some obvious starting points, start working out rules (obviously 4 queens right in the middle blocks other queens and costs space), and eliminate symmetrical positions, well you're left with a decently solvable problem. At least compared to the kind of shit that's usually brute force solved.

Edit:

This is actually a fun one to think about for a bit the more I look at it.

It quickly becomes apparent that your basically getting 7 moves out a of a rank/column MAX, so you maximize for that first.

It quickly becomes apparent that the knights L move shape is also the optimal way to start tiling your 9 queens to maximize for squares taken.

As I said before the black position obviously has to be the dead minimum, and it makes sense that'd be a king and 2 pawns due to various end game stuff (basically impossible to prevent the king from being in check otherwise while taking up as much space as possible).

Once you know you're doing that with the black king you'll want to "block" the remaining space with pieces that can't threaten it, so you shove a bishop adjacent (which can still take the pawn), and figure you're going to mirror that bishop because that's kinda how bishop's work in play/mathematically.

It's actually quite neat to see how each step sorta leads you to the next one, like one of those metal puzzles or the sudoku's with unique rules and only 1 or 2 starting numbers.

Still i'm positive if I hadn't seen this picture first I probably NEVER would've gotten this answer correct, but I do think i would've come closer than I ever expected.

Edit 2:

Ahh i do see they have at least one or two solutions that are 218 where there's only 2 black pieces. I'm somewhat surprised that's a possible legal position but so be it. Interesting that still leads to the same net realestate. Thats the one area i'd expect to gain something if you could cheat.

Eji1700 commented on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers 9to5google.com/2025/09/16... · Posted by u/iamflimflam1

this_user · 3 months ago

But are really this many users actively using ad blockers? Presumably, a lot of users are on mobile devices where they are using the native app that doesn't even support this. If we subtract them, then a significant share of users on browser would have to be using EasyList.

Eji1700 · 3 months ago

I would suspect it affects specific channels more than others. Obviously smaller tech channels are probably hit the hardest % wise

Eji1700 commented on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy weplanet.org/post/eu-cour... · Posted by u/mpweiher

awalsh128 · 3 months ago

Whatever people think about Greenpeace I think it's a stretch to say they are a plant. They just lost a lawsuit recently and have to pay $660 mil for defamation against an oil company. It was a pretty ugly case.

Eji1700 · 3 months ago

There's this weird dissonance where people don't seem to want to admit that someone championing the same cause as them can be really really dumb about it. Must be a plant, couldn't possibly be that a lot of people take stances on positions due to their emotional reaction and don't always look at the evidence first. That's just them, not *US*.

Eji1700 commented on I ditched Docker for Podman codesmash.dev/why-i-ditch... · Posted by u/codesmash

Eji1700 · 4 months ago

As bad as the horror stories about switching might be, I don't see how docker can remain as is. The level of vulnerability it causes seems like a fundamental flaw. I assume docker itself hasn't changed because it took off so fast and now it'd be breaking changes galore, but eventually everyone is going to have to pull the trigger.

Eji1700 commented on Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts cnbc.com/2025/09/02/googl... · Posted by u/colesantiago

fidotron · 4 months ago

This is an astonishing victory for Google, they must be very happy about it.

They get basically everything they want (keeping it all in the tent), plus a negotiating position on search deals where they can refuse something because they can't do it now.

Quite why the judge is so concerned about the rise of AI factoring in here is beyond me. It's fundamentally an anticompetitive decision.

Eji1700 · 4 months ago

Much like microsoft, it's really the best possible outcome.

Winning a case is one thing, as they can find other reasons to come back.

Losing, and saying "but we were already punished, you got what you want" is such a barrier to EVER putting any sort of realistic reigns on them. They might as well just bury antitrust now and stop pretending.

Eji1700 commented on Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published github.com/nrwl/nx/securi... · Posted by u/longcat

christophilus · 4 months ago

Yes. I would review any changes to any 3rd party libraries. Why is that unrealistic?

Regarding the language itself, I may or may not. Generally, I pick languages that I trust. E.g. I don't trust Google, but I don't think the Go team would intentionally place malware in the core tools. Libraries, however, often are written by random strangers on the internet with a different level of trust.

Eji1700 · 4 months ago

> Why is that unrealistic?

Because the vast majority of development is done by people with a very narrow focus of skills on an extreme deadline, and you actually comfortable with compression, networking, encryption, IO, and all the other taken for granted libraries that wind up daisy chained together?

Because if you are, great, but at the same time, that's not the job description for like 90% of coding jobs. I don't expect my frontend guy to need to know encryption so he can review the form library he's using.

Eji1700 commented on Obsidian Bases help.obsidian.md/bases... · Posted by u/twapi

Ezhik · 4 months ago

Hyperlinks are all you need: https://ezhik.jp/hypertext-maximalism/

Eji1700 · 4 months ago

I sorta agree, but i feel like i just want the "one more step" of dynamic content for this.

The hubs described are nice, but they don't always reflect larger changes. Updating a hub becomes a dependency that seems silly as I feel like that should be one of the easier things to keep up to date with a basic code overlay. It's one of the first things I wrote when messing with Obsidian, and part of why I really like dendron (easy refactoring, but it's got other issues).