Hacker News: CapacitorSet

Reana: Reproducible research data analysis platform

CapacitorSet — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:35:27 +0000

Article URL: https://reanahub.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34727752

Points: 1

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CVE Stuffing

CapacitorSet — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 12:41:26 +0000

Article URL: https://jerrygamblin.com/2020/12/17/cve-stuffing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25612429

Points: 290

# Comments: 102

New comment by CapacitorSet in "Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer"

CapacitorSet — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:09:21 +0000

This reads a lot like a PR piece for Amazon, with most "answers" promoting Amazon nearly like a press release and very little negative points.

A few sentences that stand out:

> If you have a ton of data in your data center and you want to move it to AWS but you don't want to send it over the internet, we’ll send an eighteen-wheeler to you filled with hard drives, plug it into your data center with a fiber optic cable, and then drive it across the country to us after loading it up with your data.

> Q: I know there have been a number of collective actions among Amazon warehouse workers around the issue of safety during the pandemic. > A: (a series of measures implemented at Amazon)

> Internally, people say, “Oh, we’re probably better than our competitions, or other warehousing and logistics companies.”

> Q: Has Ring brought Amazon into much closer relationships with law enforcement? > A: it would really surprise me if any of those relationships were the result of the Ring acquisition [...] I think Amazon also kind of backed into that situation. We only realized after the fact that we had all this data about who was coming to people’s front doors.

New comment by CapacitorSet in "Java Verbal Expressions"

CapacitorSet — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:53:14 +0000

It seems that the cruft really boils down to using groups even where there is no ?/*/+ qualifier.

Sunsetting SixXS (2017)

CapacitorSet — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 01:15:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sixxs.net/sunset/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25003899

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Rough week for tech organising in Berlin

CapacitorSet — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:03:38 +0000

Article URL: https://techworkersberlin.com/news/2020-08-12-rough-week-for-berlin-tech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24150758

Points: 2

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New comment by CapacitorSet in "Gitlab phished its own work-from-home staff, and 1 in 5 fell for it"

CapacitorSet — Sat, 23 May 2020 12:58:18 +0000

>a very convincing page on śtellar.org

If you rarely use IDNs, toggling `network.IDN_show_punycode` in about:config can help with that - you would have seen `xn--tellar-2ib.org`.

New comment by CapacitorSet in "Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account"

CapacitorSet — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:26:45 +0000

>I’ve met several founders who wanted to enable tele-medicine years ago but decided against it because “the lawyers cost more than the engineers”, and walking-on-eggshells destroys morale & iteration speed.

Thankfully so - I wouldn't want my telemedicine to rely on eg. some random unsecured Mongodb instance.

I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in on Yosemite (2015)

CapacitorSet — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 10:51:50 +0000

Article URL: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/202143/i-included-emoji-in-my-password-and-now-i-cant-log-in-to-my-account-on-yosemite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22636544

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by CapacitorSet in "Signs you're following a fake Twitter account"

CapacitorSet — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:57:51 +0000

I feel like the article went way too much over aspects like TPDNE and the non-existent lawyer, which - while being useful to know - are somewhat poor indicators of fake profiles especially in a tech circle. I personally know a few people who use TPDNE profile pictures and many who use fake names, although none do both (a wise thing in this day and age). The rest was quite lacking.

New comment by CapacitorSet in "Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)"

CapacitorSet — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 22:15:31 +0000

>$0.11/hr Spot instance of a g2.2xlarge

I'm not an AWS user, but don't spot instances risk being shut down/paused/etc at any moment? It seems like a bad solution for remote gaming.

New comment by CapacitorSet in "South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' sale of .amazon"

CapacitorSet — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 14:52:57 +0000

The world is running at full speed towards a dystopia where private companies are more powerful than entire countries.

New comment by CapacitorSet in "Am I Unique?"

CapacitorSet — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 23:37:17 +0000

All the fingerprinting tools I've seen so far do not include JA3 signatures, which in my opinion make for an interesting bit of information - they introduce few bits of entropy since they depend on the TLS implementation, but for the same reason they can't be easily spoofed.

Plugging in an article and demo I wrote some time ago: https://jwlss.pw/ja3/

New comment by CapacitorSet in "First Node.js-Based Ransomware: Nodera"

CapacitorSet — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 01:32:53 +0000

Interestingly enough the JS source is not obfuscated, merely minified with no name mangling.

New comment by CapacitorSet in "Incident: Wizz Air and Air Europa Planes in Near Collision over Spain"

CapacitorSet — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 13:22:19 +0000

Fractions of nanometers close? That's some insane precision.

New comment by CapacitorSet in "Debugging Network Stalls on Kubernetes"

CapacitorSet — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:49:12 +0000

I feel like the title is somewhat appropriate: part of the post was about selectively removing parts of Kubernetes networking, and digging through the kernel networking stack, to troubleshoot the issue

New comment by CapacitorSet in "I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (2016)"

CapacitorSet — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 16:23:03 +0000

If you share usernames, that is. I could very well make up a unique username like "Nikatoa" that I never even thought of before, and there's no way you could link that to any other account of mine - short of database leaks containing my email or linking/commenting from one account to another.

New comment by CapacitorSet in "NoSnoop – Find out if your HTTPS traffic is being monitored"

CapacitorSet — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:51:35 +0000

I find it somewhat ironic that the tool is served over HTTPS over some random domain. Certainly if an attacker has the resources to forge a certificate for eg. telegram.org doing the same for trustprobe.com won't be much harder.

New comment by CapacitorSet in "Private firefighters go to work for California's wealthy"

CapacitorSet — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:20:51 +0000

>if firefighting is privatized, insurance companies would require more fire-resistant building materials and design (instead of the typical match-box American single-family home or low rise apartment)

This is what happens when firefighting and house maintenance are in the same interest. The libertarian argument argues for a private interest, but it could very well be turned on its head in favor of a public interest.

Darpa LifeLog

CapacitorSet — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 08:44:24 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21362558

Points: 2

# Comments: 0