No ECC, no remote KVM. HP Microserver remains the only viable option.
Built in KVM is not that important any longer, with all the new options for adding an external one. gl-inet comet kvm, nanokvm pro, jetkvm, etc.
Readit Newspi-rat commented on DIY NAS: 2026 Edition blog.briancmoses.com/2025... · Posted by u/sashk
pi-rat commented on Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS gist.github.com/arianvp/5... · Posted by u/arianvanp
I've been in the security space for 25 years, and understand the theory of PKI. But I've also been in the ops space for 30 years, and understand that if you don't balance security theory with operational practice, critical business functions can fail.
Ideally yes, the private key is never seen. In reality, it needs to be backed up in a secure place so it can be restored in the event of a failure.
You can use more than one key you know.
Keep the private key you actively use in the secure enclave. The system you actively use is most at risk.
Keep a secondary offline private key as backup. You can generate and store it in a secure location, and never move it around. Airgapped even if you want. You could even use a yubikey or other hardware for the secondary key giving you two hard to export keys.
Distribute pub keys for both of them.
Best of both worlds?
pi-rat commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
Absolutely right!
A week ago I downloaded a couple of movies and shows from Netflix for my 6yo daughter, to watch on a 3hr flight. Worked nicely!
Today we made the return flight. She opens Netflix, and ⅔ of the films have now "expired" with no notice and she can't watch the one she wanted.
For the next flight I'll remember to pirate!
I remember a few years ago when our niece came to visit. One evening, we started watching a movie on Netflix together.
We only made it halfway before bedtime, but since she was coming back in two weeks, we decided to save the rest for her next visit.
Two weeks later, she returned, bouncing with excitement to finally see how the story ended. We opened Netflix, ready to hit play - and lo and behold… the movie had vanished from the catalog.
Be a cool uncle, be a pirate.
pi-rat commented on Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server github.com/9001/copyparty... · Posted by u/saint11
Looks like another reinvention of the torrent.
No, it looks nothing like a reinvention of torrent.
Norway has a penguin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav
pi-rat commented on Show HN: Git-Add–Interactive with Enhancements github.com/cwarden/git-ad... · Posted by u/xn
And if you use magit for Emacs, it's also extremely easy to stage hunks selectively and easily: s to stage, cc to commit staged, ca to amend with staged, etc. This is the way: don't use the git CLI. Use your editor.
Frankly, it’s so good I use emacs just for git even when coding in other editors.
pi-rat commented on Dear Apple: Add "Disappearing Messages" to iMessage blog.cryptographyengineer... · Posted by u/donohoe
In a different messenger: people enable disappearing messages in WhatsApp not because of a threat model but because they don't want their phone to run out of space. The problem here is that messages are deleted for everybody in the chat and I saw people complaining about that in group chats. They would like that messages are deleted only for the people that enabled disappearing messages on their phones. Sometimes the creator of the group realized that everybody was an admin, set only themselves as admin and disabled disappearing messages.
I don't own an iPhone so I don't know for sure if old messages clog iPhones too but the article hints that this is the case.
Maybe Apple is happy to sell new phones with more storage to people that run out of space. Maybe iMessage is a tiny storage eater, maybe not. Photos, videos, vocal messages are on the phone forever too?
> I don't own an iPhone so I don't know for sure if old messages clog iPhones too but the article hints that this is the case.
> Maybe Apple is happy to sell new phones with more storage to people that run out of space. Maybe iMessage is a tiny storage eater, maybe not. Photos, videos, vocal messages are on the phone forever too?
iOS has a built in tool that help you identify and clean up space hogs. It’s first recommendation is usually to remove large messages attachments. It will show you a list of all attachments (descending size), you select the ones you want to remove and hit delete. It also offers to automatically delete messages after some time. It’s a global option though, not per chat, not usable if you only want some to be ephemeral.
Huh you're right, they say their VPSes have 10gig but their dedicated boxes only have 1gig, even the really expensive ones. That seems backwards.
We had a fleet of dedicated hetzner boxes w/10 gbit, it’s just an option you get and pay a little extra for. Generally had good performance as well.
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