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deknos commented on Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube   cordcuttersnews.com/babyl... · Posted by u/walterbell
iso1631 · a month ago
> The Blu-ray collection appears to be available for about $100.

It saddens me that people aren't willing to pay a pittance in cash (about $1 an hour) for entertainment. They're willing to spend their time, but not their money.

This isn't just buying a 100 episode box set, it applies to people complaining "I'd have to spend $10 on $streaming_service to watch that 5 hour miniseries, that's terrible" too.

deknos · 20 days ago
i would pay if it is in a format, which is not also trying to deceive me like bluray with its fucking DRM in its player.
deknos commented on Git's Magic Files   nesbitt.io/2026/02/05/git... · Posted by u/chmaynard
masfuerte · 20 days ago
> GitHub, GitLab, and Gitea all respect .gitignore and won’t show ignored files in the web UI

Is this right? These tools don't show ignored files because they aren't part of the repository. If a now-ignored file has made it into the repository, surely you want to see it?

deknos · 20 days ago
would be nice, if there's a modifier in there, which says showinwebui=(true|false) :D
deknos commented on Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust   github.com/artifact-keepe... · Posted by u/bsgeraci
bsgeraci · a month ago
https://github.com/artifact-keeper

There are 7 or 8 repositories now in this org. Feel free to take, use, or help imrove the code. MIT Open Source.

deknos · a month ago
thanks. another question:

Would it be possible, that the storage of pypi/whatever is some s3 bucket, where you have it encrypted (with authentication), and when you deliver it to a client, you get it, decrypt it, test for authentication and deliver it to the client? the encryption is something that artipie is lacking sadly.

deknos commented on Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust   github.com/artifact-keepe... · Posted by u/bsgeraci
deknos · a month ago
you know artipie? it is only in java, but does a similar part.

will your stuff be really opensource?

deknos commented on Package management is a wicked problem   nesbitt.io/2026/01/23/pac... · Posted by u/zdw
nylonstrung · a month ago
Nix
deknos · a month ago
they lost it, when they hardwared it with systemd.

Nothing against systemd, but hardwaring is not a good idea in that regard.

With guix, you at least install things in a container.

sadly, guix also went the non-conda-route, so you could not use it as a conda replacement only :(

deknos commented on Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company   amutable.com/about... · Posted by u/hornedhob
deknos · a month ago
> Attestation, secure enclaves, and other technologies create ways to distribute software that otherwise wouldn't exist. How many things are in the cloud solely to enforce access control? What if they didn't have to be?

To be honest, mainly companies need that. personal users do not need that. And additionally companies are NOT restrained by governments not to exploit customers as much as possible.

So... i also see it as enslaving users. And tell me, for many private persons, where does this actually give them for PRIVATE persons, NOT companies a net benefit?

deknos · a month ago
additionally:

> This potential shouldn't prevent our inventing new kinds of tool.

Why do i see someone who wants to build an atomic bomb for shit and giggles using this argument, too? As hyperbole as my argument is, the argument given is not good here, as well.

The immutable linux people build tools, without building good tools which actually make it easier for private people at home to adapt a immutable linux to THEIR liking.

deknos commented on Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company   amutable.com/about... · Posted by u/hornedhob
bri3d · 2 months ago
The typical HN rage-posting about DRM aside, there's no reason that remote attestation can't be used in the opposite direction: to assert that a server is running only the exact code stack it claims to be, avoiding backdoors. This can even be used with fully open-source software, creating an opportunity for OSS cloud-hosted services which can guarantee that the OSS and the build running on the server match. This is a really cool opportunity for privacy advocates if leveraged correctly - the idea could be used to build something like Apple's Private Cloud Compute but even more open.
deknos · a month ago
WHAT is the usage and benefit for private users? This is always neglected.

avoiding backdoors as a private person you always can only solve with having the hardware at your place, because hardware ALWAYS can have backdoors, because hardware vendors do not fix their shit.

From my point of view it ONLY gives control and possibilities to large organizations like governments and companies. which in turn use it to control citizens

deknos commented on Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company   amutable.com/about... · Posted by u/hornedhob
quotemstr · a month ago
People demonize attestation. They should keep in mind that far from enslaving users, attestation actually enables some interesting, user-beneficial software shapes that wouldn't be possible otherwise. Hear me out.

Imagine you're using a program hosted on some cloud service S. You send packets over the network; gears churn; you get some results back. What are the problems with such a service? You have no idea what S is doing with your data. You incur latency, transmission time, and complexity costs using S remotely. You pay, one way or another, for the infrastructure running S. You can't use S offline.

Now imagine instead of S running on somebody else's computer over a network, you run S on your computer instead. Now, you can interact with S with zero latency, don't have to pay for S's infrastructure, and you can supervise S's interaction with the outside world.

But why would the author of S agree to let you run it? S might contain secrets. S might enforce business rules S's author is afraid you'll break. Ordinarily, S's authors wouldn't consider shipping you S instead of S's outputs.

However --- if S's author could run S on your computer in such a way that he could prove you haven't tampered with S or haven't observed its secrets, he can let you run S on your computer without giving up control over S. Attestation, secure enclaves, and other technologies create ways to distribute software that otherwise wouldn't exist. How many things are in the cloud solely to enforce access control? What if they didn't have to be?

Sure, in this deployment model, just like in the cloud world, you wouldn't be able to run a custom S: but so what? You don't get to run your custom S either way, and this way, relative to cloud deployment, you get better performance and even a little bit more control.

Also, the same thing works in reverse. You get to run your code remotely in a such a way that you can trust its remote execution just as much as you can trust that code executing on your own machine. There are tons of applications for this capability that we're not even imagining because, since the dawn of time, we've equated locality with trust and can now, in principle, decouple the two.

Yes, bad actors can use attestation technology to do all sorts of user-hostile things. You can wield any sufficiently useful tool in a harmful way: it's the utility itself that creates the potential for harm. This potential shouldn't prevent our inventing new kinds of tool.

deknos · a month ago
> Attestation, secure enclaves, and other technologies create ways to distribute software that otherwise wouldn't exist. How many things are in the cloud solely to enforce access control? What if they didn't have to be?

To be honest, mainly companies need that. personal users do not need that. And additionally companies are NOT restrained by governments not to exploit customers as much as possible.

So... i also see it as enslaving users. And tell me, for many private persons, where does this actually give them for PRIVATE persons, NOT companies a net benefit?

deknos commented on IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT   johnmaguire.me/blog/ipv6-... · Posted by u/johnmaguire
deknos · 2 months ago
Of course it's not insecure because of NAT.

NAT (in all its forms) is just a very convenient technology for many people and niche situations.

And adoption of IPv6 will be hindered as long as NAT is not a first class citizen.

And of course, mostly NAT should not be used as "firewall replacement". But what many firewall proponents forget here:

NON-IT People at home cannot run and manage a firewall (and proxies). For them, NAT is a convenient and mostly okayish replacements.

Another niche would be IP Packet Handling of VMs.

deknos commented on A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth   bitchat.free/... · Posted by u/no_creativity_
rm30 · 2 months ago
To have an FM receiver work on a phone, you do need an antenna, the wired headphones serve that purpose perfectly. An FM transmitter is easy to find; you can use the simple 'Jack-to-FM' adapters designed for car radios, or much better, a USB SDR (which can range from a few kHz to GHz).

Regarding the 'protocol for the waves,' you'll need to play with modulation. That’s the fun part. In technical literature, there are many well-defined modulations (like AFSK or FSK) with clear suggested applications for low-SNR environments.

As for Android support, I have no idea. I understand that in this thread, 'free' sounds like 'freedom,' but freedom has a cost. The freedom of communication requires investment: in hardware, software, and the time to learn the physics of the environment.

deknos · 2 months ago
hm, than i think it's better to use the LORA stuff, no? if i need an external device with my device anyway, i can use one of them.

because the fun thing is cool, but people want some usable...

u/deknos

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