Hacker News: Alcatros552

New comment by Alcatros552 in "The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami"

Alcatros552 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:04:14 +0000

Thats super silly, it's so easy to make docker images... especially if you have a fast connection you can build a proper image which is production ready in a few hours.. (eg.30-40 builds)

New comment by Alcatros552 in "GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs?"

Alcatros552 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:12:09 +0000

buy a mug from them to support them!

New comment by Alcatros552 in "Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions"

Alcatros552 — Tue, 13 May 2025 21:36:03 +0000

As it seems a lot of people are not aware that this one is a newer generation of branch predictor issue. You can see that Intels eIBRS doesn't mitigate the problems and make them susceptible to attacks. To prevent bigger issues the issue was released after Intel has been informed of the Issue and most systems are patched in the meantime.

New comment by Alcatros552 in "Major authentication providers still doesn't support TLS 1.3"

Alcatros552 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:55:22 +0000

It is impressive that some of the largest authentication/authorization providers don't support TLS 1.3, are there any other known providers which do the same in the security space?

Major authentication providers still doesn't support TLS 1.3

Alcatros552 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:55:22 +0000

Article URL: https://support.okta.com/help/s/article/does-okta-support-tls-1-3?language=en_US

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42730064

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by Alcatros552 in "A Minecraft server written in COBOL"

Alcatros552 — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:57:47 +0000

Actually the writer of this Github Repo is wrong; Cobol has been exactly there to manipulate bits and bytes on the lowest level since forever and is very efficient at it.

Nevertheless, congrats to this achievement.

New comment by Alcatros552 in "Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default"

Alcatros552 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:20:00 +0000

Asking for it and not enable it by default is the only way to abide by European and South American Data Protection laws..

New comment by Alcatros552 in "Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default"

Alcatros552 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:18:43 +0000

Its simply illegal in many countries to make an opt-out. For such data comming from your OS you need an OPT-IN!

New comment by Alcatros552 in "Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?"

Alcatros552 — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 16:57:26 +0000

I can tell you it isn't difficult to build something like they have. The issue is more likely to get banks onboard to issue cards/payment instruments for your unknown payment network which has no terminals, the barrier to entry is very high.

New comment by Alcatros552 in "Anyone Having Difficulties with GCP GPU Quota Requests?"

Alcatros552 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:06:49 +0000

It's 7 years old and in the 5 digits area, i think their process might be flawed

New comment by Alcatros552 in "Anyone Having Difficulties with GCP GPU Quota Requests?"

Alcatros552 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:13:10 +0000

Dear HN Readers, For many years we are customers of GCP and AWS. We've tried to enhance the quota from 0 to 1 GPU on GCP in different regions. There seems to be no availability at google for 80 GB GPU's, they want to wire me into a sales process every time and refuse to upgrade the quota. Even better, we don't have a sales rep because that person has left google. They are asking me who my sales rep is and want me to fill out forms to get a new sales rep? I would partially understand the process if there would be multiple companies involved but at which company do you have to contact the quota department and they let you call another department, i find this very unprofessional and it is their internal business to allocate sales people to follow up if that is really required.

Reading all this, has anyone else issues with GCP and enhancing the Quota? It would be great to know if there are providers which assign you the resources which are required.

Anyone Having Difficulties with GCP GPU Quota Requests?

Alcatros552 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:13:10 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/compute/resource-usage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41030599

Points: 2

# Comments: 5

Possible Backdooring /etc/SSH/sshd_config.d/50-cloud-init.conf

Alcatros552 — Mon, 06 May 2024 15:28:03 +0000

It appears that Ubuntu is automatically generating a file in that directory, potentially creating a backdoor option for users who choose common default credentials, such as 'admin/admin.' This could inadvertently undermine attempts to enforce private key authentication by setting 'PasswordAuthentication no' in the main '/etc/ssh/sshd_config' file, as there might be an override active in that subdirectory /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ without the user's awareness. Please let me know if you encounter the same files and check your systems, I've got the suspicion that this is not a one time occurrence!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40275795

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Alcatros552 in "Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)"

Alcatros552 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:34:13 +0000

this could have been easily solved by letting the investor know that this is happening and that they stop working for the startup immediately, this would have resulted in them pulling out the funding because nobody will put money in a company without the founders. You need to on the same level as the investors and lower your ethical and moral level to understand that for them this is a money game...

Ask HN: What coding guide do you give your Devs?

Alcatros552 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:42:50 +0000

What coding guideline do you use for your internal Developers? It would be interesting to see what is being used as code instructions to assure code quality, security, re-useability and many other factors which are relevant to good coding practices.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39018849

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Alcatros552 in "Europe needs to escape providerism"

Alcatros552 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:57:31 +0000

thats big bogus we import lots of talent worldwide

New comment by Alcatros552 in "Europe needs to escape providerism"

Alcatros552 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 21:28:38 +0000

Modern knowledge economy? So healthcare doesn't count towards it ? Because the really cool stuff in healthcare comes from Europe, you could see it during Covid with Novartis, Roche and Bayer.

New comment by Alcatros552 in "Europe needs to escape providerism"

Alcatros552 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 21:26:01 +0000

The old european countries understand that education invested in the young results in taxes for the long run. Every soul without healthcare could just die along the way and all the investments are gone including the workpower

I find it wrong to call it lack of creating wealth of providerism its neither of those things. Its a fine balance to understand what is best for the entire population

New comment by Alcatros552 in "Europe needs to escape providerism"

Alcatros552 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 21:23:13 +0000

Take life expectancy https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/world-life-expectancy-ma... or take how we treat the elderly and you will know the difference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhlIiMgDxm4

New comment by Alcatros552 in "Kubernetes Needs an LTS"

Alcatros552 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 23:03:53 +0000

@ji6 I have to tell you, we are using Kubernetes since the very early versions available.

If you automate everything you will never have an issue with K8, you can deploy all the required dependencies in one go. You can run the tests, if done correctly this literally requires 10 minutes.

This argument to have an LTS Version for me is like air. It's the kind of Nuclear Reactor argument. We did have the money to buy Uranium to burn but now we can't afford to dispose it normally.

Kubernetes is for flexibility not for big companies which want to use their software development processes of the 90's...