Hacker News: Algent

New comment by Algent in "SmartTube Compromised"

Algent — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:43:42 +0000

The internal auto updater of the app directly use github as source, was this also compromised ? If malware was only on some random apkmirror upload then it should probably be fine for most users.

New comment by Algent in "My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education"

Algent — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:05:05 +0000

The only time I ever triggered fraud detection system on my card I got a text message from bank that was "Your card is blocked due to suspicious usage, please call 'number'". And the number was also some random unlisted one. Only reason I didn't just ignore the thing is I did make a purchase on new website a half an hour before.

Called my local bank and they confirmed this was legit, I almost went off on a full rant about how bad their protocol is for this.

New comment by Algent in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

Algent — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:18:41 +0000

After trying both several time I since stayed with google due to cloudflare always returning really bad IPs for anything involving CDN. Having users complain stuff take age to load because you got matched to an IP on opposite side of planet is a bit problematic especially when it rarely happen on other dns providers. Maybe there is a way to fix this but I admit I went for the easier option of going back to good old 8.8.8.8

New comment by Algent in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

Algent — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:12:22 +0000

Yeah pretty much. In a perfect world you would pair it with another service I guess but usually you use the official backup IP because it's not supposed to break at same time.

New comment by Algent in "Ground control to Major Trial"

Algent — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:39:59 +0000

This behavior suck.

Time to disable the free trial for a month halfway into their trial and see how it goes. This is probably why most trials now request you to reach sales first (well, on top of obviously ensuring they have a way to send an offer).

New comment by Algent in "Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution"

Algent — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:22:51 +0000

draw.io probably . It's pretty good for a free tool. If you lost the xml I think it even work to import directly an exported picture (I guess they append the data into it too).

New comment by Algent in "Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting"

Algent — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:59:52 +0000

Another video today from Der8auer showed him reproduce the issue on his model. He showed a 22A load and 150°C point on a single wire. The problem seem to be much worse somehow, clearly no balancing between the wire on the founder edition.

New comment by Algent in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

Algent — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:20:42 +0000

Interesting and surprising they really had rules, thanks for the clarification. I'm ashamed to say I opened this page and read it wrong the first time by skipping the first sentence.

New comment by Algent in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

Algent — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:13:17 +0000

Wasn't silk road selling way more than just drugs ? Like, pornography and gun, worldwide. When you facilitate both sex trafficking, organized crime and potentially terrorism you can't exactly be surprised you get hit with everything.

New comment by Algent in "Itch.io Taken Down by Funko"

Algent — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 09:42:43 +0000

It's crazy how downhill Gandi went in 2 years. Went from decently priced French registar to basically asking for 70€ a year for a mailbox and lately asked me for over 40€ to renew a dot dev domain. I ended up transferring all my domains due to this.

New comment by Algent in "When was the famous "sudo warning" introduced? (2019)"

Algent — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:00:37 +0000

This is like the warning in emails about "not reading it if you aren't supposed to have received it" like yeah sure how do you know it's not for you then.

New comment by Algent in "Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe"

Algent — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:22:23 +0000

I do need to correct myself, look like "friendship" started before his election: https://www.euronews.com/2023/07/18/a-privileged-relationshi...

Pretty crazy to support a business designed to never pay tax. This bring nothing beside "precarious employment".

New comment by Algent in "Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe"

Algent — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:18:30 +0000

It's definitely interference/obstruction at least of the raid itself yeah, but looking at the text and not being a lawyer I have a feeling it may be extremely hard to prosecute for something more substantial than a fine low enough for a french exec have it a as a guaranteed expense (bn€ in tax fraud vs a few k€ in fine). The law does also mention prison but it's not the kind of stuff that ever end up being applied for fiscal related cases.

New comment by Algent in "Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe"

Algent — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:15:33 +0000

That's basically what happened when they tried (twice I think ?) to raid Uber offices in France, their boss pressed a kill switch and everything went down in seconds. It completely blocked the investigation.

Afterward Uber helped Macron campaign who then ordered National Financial Prosecutor's office to "stop bothering them" so I don't think anything new happened since.

Edit: Some sources in below replies for infos on both. Turn out I'm wrong for 2nd part it started earlier than his campaign.

New comment by Algent in "How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works"

Algent — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:51:05 +0000

Pretty sure the airtight casing is here on purpose to trap flammables gas a dying cell create. Without it it would be very unsafe to use this type of batteries.

New comment by Algent in "Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?"

Algent — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:00:35 +0000

You would need to get rid of kernel level drivers for that to work. Which right now would completely disable any security software. But if it's ever done yeah this wouldn't be such a bad idea to isolate apps. However any security API would still have to allow read only access, which would be enough for most cheats, and by design blocking this type of access should never be possible since antivirus/EDR will need this.

New comment by Algent in "CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage"

Algent — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:10:25 +0000

I wonder when we'll start to have some estimate of indirect/direct death toll. This took down several 911 type services and hospitals, some reported imaging down, some being back to paper and pen at ER.

New comment by Algent in "CentOS Linux 7 will reach EOL on Sunday"

Algent — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:13:58 +0000

Interesting, in my head aptitude was an ubuntu thing so I never tried in debian. Thanks for the tip.

I don't have anything against apt, it's just specific edge cases when it really saved me massive headaches by being able to remove and add during same change without having to remove all apps depending on it.

New comment by Algent in "CentOS Linux 7 will reach EOL on Sunday"

Algent — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:08:50 +0000

I realy like debian but is there any equivalent to yum ? It did some really nice advanced stuff I don't think you can replicate with apt. The shell mode avoided me some really big trouble several times (erlang updates often made me uninstall anything using it on update).

Current job doesn't give me many chances to use linux rn so I'm a bit out of touch. Recently took a look at rocky and it felt like a centos. also tried ubuntu but I recall I had to remove some ads package yeah.

New comment by Algent in "TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads"

Algent — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:49:58 +0000

The worst about preroll is they often fail and run 2-3 times in a row before registering you saw them. Can confirm I just stopped searching new streamers due to that. Even the one that aren't supposed to have preroll because they run ads still tend have some somehow, I guess twitch force them anyway or it's just bugged.