Hacker News: 420codebro

New comment by 420codebro in "I heat my home by mining crypto currencies"

420codebro — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:44:55 +0000

Interesting. Never ran across someone who worked for Yandex. Overall are you happy with your employer?

New comment by 420codebro in "National Strategy for Planetary Protection"

420codebro — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:12:23 +0000

If you read the article you would understand this is about biological protection and not asteroid defense.

New comment by 420codebro in "1937 film explains how a car differential works"

420codebro — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 14:28:11 +0000

Created an account just to say that. So brave.

New comment by 420codebro in "Blackrota: obfuscated backdoor written in Go"

420codebro — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 20:10:46 +0000

What is your background? Your experience sounds very interesting.

New comment by 420codebro in "What Is Zoned Storage and the Zoned Storage Initiative?"

420codebro — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:33:51 +0000

Needs to be accessible real time.

New comment by 420codebro in "Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected"

420codebro — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 23:37:01 +0000

I believe google has cut a deal with advertisers to ensure they can always identify incognito.

New comment by 420codebro in "Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning"

420codebro — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 22:11:52 +0000

Flip side argument: I have moderated forums and bulletin boards going back to around 2000. Every time we were "attacked" or "raided" the people would IMMEDIATELY create new accounts after being actively banned (telling the user they are banned, and publicly labeling their "rank" as BANNED). When we switched to shadow bans (I think it was termed "global ignore"), the attacks would immediately stop, because the [usual] script kiddie / troll just thinks he isn't getting any bites, and leaves. Of course a few figured out what was going on, but it was seriously one or two orders of magnitude better in terms of manageability, specifically dealing with trolls and spammers.

That said, I would never support something such as disallowing shadow banning in an internet bill of rights. That goes way overboard and just ties the hands of legitimate platform operators.

New comment by 420codebro in "Website Builder Webflow (YC S13) Went from Near Bankruptcy to $72M Series A"

420codebro — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 19:24:06 +0000

Congratulations on your success! I have never heard of Webflow, but after checking out your site it seems pretty slick. I will consider it for future projects.

Again congratulations!

New comment by 420codebro in "New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web"

420codebro — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 21:30:47 +0000

As a network architect this seems pretty cool to me - incentivizing individual node/router operators. How is billing & payment reconciliation handled between parties?

New comment by 420codebro in "Curving – Dog Body Language"

420codebro — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 04:43:32 +0000

You have very cute cats!

New comment by 420codebro in "Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project"

420codebro — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 16:11:19 +0000

Good points.

RE CIA v. FBI - I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being a loose handshake that they (CIA/NSA/FBI) will allow Tor (benefits CIA), in exchange for technical assistance in investigations (benefits FBI) -- namely the ability to own an endpoint. Don't need to own the service/protocol if I can own the host it is running on.

New comment by 420codebro in "NTPsec is potentially dangerous: hostile forking and temperamental leadership"

420codebro — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 19:34:47 +0000

Weird. Seems like a fork for a fork's sake, with a lot of attitude sprinkled on top. If there really are flaws in NTP they should be fixed - but I am unsure if it really should necessitate a fork.

New comment by 420codebro in "Is Ham Radio a Hobby, a Utility or Both? A Battle over Spectrum Heats Up"

420codebro — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 19:37:30 +0000

You are ignoring the bandwidth differential of RF v Fiber-based transmission systems. We don't care if some random unknown crypto session happens on the internet - there is near infinite bandwidth - and someone is paying a bill (on both ends).

With amateur RF it is different - it is a shared, finite resource (in a given area/radius).

Not allowing enciphered communications is a fairly easy way to be able to audit what is taking up the spectrum. If it all goes enciphered, you have no idea what is occurring, for what purposes.

New comment by 420codebro in "iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone"

420codebro — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:57:50 +0000

It doesn’t work that way. The person with a cell bill will still be charged the downloaded data.

New comment by 420codebro in "Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way"

420codebro — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 14:02:54 +0000

Yup. One of those few areas where the capital required is so massive it can bankrupt even big dogs if they fuck up. See Westinghouse. Need some more gov joint investment or it will be the same state in 20 years as it is now.

New comment by 420codebro in "Huawei cryptographic keys embedded in Cisco’s firmware"

420codebro — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:23:12 +0000

No reality is usually boring. It came from an opensource github repo. It was an oversight.

Dial down the conspiracy-factor brother.

New comment by 420codebro in "Apollo 11 in Real Time"

420codebro — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 04:53:58 +0000

That is amazing - the generational spans. I was born in the 1980s, but I can only imagine the feeling of that day in 1969.

New comment by 420codebro in "Advanced Data Structures (2017)"

420codebro — Wed, 29 May 2019 21:46:23 +0000

That's amazing. Congrats!

New comment by 420codebro in "TSMC to Keep Supplying Chips to Huawei"

420codebro — Sun, 26 May 2019 20:27:39 +0000

No position? You realize TSMC makes stuff for Apple, right? Saying that are in no position to mess with them is a bit of an overstatement.

New comment by 420codebro in "Terraform 0.12"

420codebro — Thu, 23 May 2019 19:39:13 +0000

My opinion? Because CloudFormation is full of shit regarding "always being able to rollback". After dealing with a 100+ failed CF rollbacks, I stopped caring about that phantom feature. That's around the same time I started using Terraform. At this point I only use CF for things I can not put in TF directly - namely ASGs.

Regarding IaC "rollback" capabilities - I don't think it really exists in a way that makes it reasonable for people to depend on. The path forward is to stand up new infrastructure, canary test, etc - then steer via load-balancers the traffic to your new nodes, and then finally destroy the old ones. I loathe trying to maintain a fleet of nodes that can drift into various states of dis-repair. I love the idea of blowing everything away and having a 100% clean and predictable environment again. It makes me happy.

Hope that helps - I really have fallen in love with Terraform after having to cobble down N number of CLI tools for various cloud providers, hypervisor providers, etc. Terraform at least gives an easy to use language and abstracts me above recursive API call logic that I would otherwise need to write for basic things.