My advice, skip the TrueNAS and go straight to FreeBSD.
It's a simple operating system to maintain and it requires minimal setup to use as a NAS.
For me, s/FreeBSD/Debian/. Same reason.
Readit Newsasteroidburger commented on Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/zdw
Who is the "we" here? I've poked around a few pages on this fellow's site, and apparently haven't found the right one to answer that.
asteroidburger commented on Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS gist.github.com/arianvp/5... · Posted by u/arianvanp
Any malware capable of exfiltrating a file from your home folder is also capable of calling the export command and tricking you into providing biometrics.
Not necessarily; "read file" is very different from "execute command." The biometrics part is a substantial lift as well.
asteroidburger commented on Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS gist.github.com/arianvp/5... · Posted by u/arianvanp
You're not really supposed to 'export' keys. Any time you move a key you risk exposing it. The idea of PKI is that only public keys move, the private key stays in one place, ideally never seen.
It's much safer to export a key one time and import it into a new machine, or store it in a secure backup, than to keep it just hanging out on disk for eternity, and potentially get scooped up by whatever malware happens to run on your machine.
asteroidburger commented on Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on canonical.com/blog/canoni... · Posted by u/taubek
The person having to maintain this must be in a world of hurt. Unless they found someone who really likes doing this kind of thing? Still, maintaining such an old codebase while the rest of the world moves on...ugh...
You're not adding new features and such like that. Just patching security vulnerabilities in a forked branch.
Sure, you won't get the niceties of modern developments, but at least you have access to all of the source code and a working development environment.
asteroidburger commented on AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem github.com/kavishdevar/li... · Posted by u/moonleay
From a bit further down the page
> Bluetooth DID (Device Identification) Hook > Turns out, if you change the manufacturerid to that of Apple, you get access to several special features!
I hope Apple gets slammed hard by some regulatory body. Apparently there's absolutely zero magic reasons why their airpods are unable to connect to non-Apple devices; pretend you're an iPhone and you're in.
EDIT: read "unable to connect" => "unable to expose advanced functionality", ofc they connect just fine
The referenced Bluetooth bug on the Github readme seems like a pretty good reason. "We don't want to work around or deal with the bugs on other platforms" seems like a reasonable position.
asteroidburger commented on Apple reports fourth quarter results apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
I feel exactly the same way. There are personal finance management softwares that are mobile exclusive.
Like, have you tried doing data entry on a phone? Who is using these products?
The camera on the back of the phone actually helps quite a bit with said data entry.
Amazon includes AWS. They’re not “separate companies.”
Amazon Web Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc.
asteroidburger commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) · Posted by u/david927
I've been building https://resolver.one - a DNS server that returns GeoIP data as TXT records. Query an IP directly as the hostname (e.g. dig TXT 8.8.8.8.rslvr.one) and get back country, ASN, etc.
Always been fascinated by repurposing established protocols for unintended uses - DNS is everywhere, passes through firewalls, and has built-in caching. Seemed like a fun way to deliver location data without HTTP APIs.
Super niche, definitely a bit odd, but that's the appeal.
Neat idea, even if it doesn't end up going anywhere.
Out of curiosity, are you able to share what your source of data is? Isn't GeoIP data typically licensed?
My hope is that https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules... will make Flock get the fuck out of Washington state.