Hacker News: Dylan16807

New comment by Dylan16807 in "Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers"

Dylan16807 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:20:56 +0000

They're definitely thinking of orthographic. (Of which isometric is a tiny subset.) The opposite of perspective.

New comment by Dylan16807 in "Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers"

Dylan16807 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:16:55 +0000

It was not directly top down. The camera tilts north, and if search results can be trusted the specific angle is 27 degrees off of vertical.

New comment by Dylan16807 in "A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her"

Dylan16807 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:03:43 +0000

Seeing the screen, or even an activity log, is far less invasive than nearly constant monitoring of the worker's face. That steelman is built for a different debate.

New comment by Dylan16807 in "IRCv3"

Dylan16807 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:54:53 +0000

Those things don't require noticeably more code to automate with SFTP than with FTP, or need a more complicated interface. Maybe nobody has written that code to make the management easy? Someone that cares about security should then.

Google suggests that some servers can do SFTP with virtual users.

New comment by Dylan16807 in "IRCv3"

Dylan16807 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:06:32 +0000

That depends on your server.

But in the most common case a "system account" is a line in two text files, isn't it?

New comment by Dylan16807 in "I guess I'm using WebP now?"

Dylan16807 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:01:43 +0000

> Like HEIC being a license minefield and also slow as shit.

How much slower? I'm finding very conflicting numbers.

But on the timescale of "wow this still doesn't support webp" those patents will solve themselves soon.

New comment by Dylan16807 in "IRCv3"

Dylan16807 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:44:32 +0000

The wails website says "~10MB baseline memory (vs Electron’s 100MB+)" and that sounds pretty reasonable to me. Does it bloat up badly when you start doing things?

New comment by Dylan16807 in "A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her"

Dylan16807 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:35:21 +0000

What, like you can't be lazy in person?

Also there shouldn't be a monitoring program hooked into office CCTV either.

New comment by Dylan16807 in "`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach"

Dylan16807 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:09:29 +0000

> It is going to get written down. So having multiple is very little extra trouble.

Written down in the same place so we're back to one basket holding all the eggs!

New comment by Dylan16807 in "IRCv3"

Dylan16807 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:26:46 +0000

> SFTP can be used for similar functionality, but it requires users to have SSH access.

Security-wise you set it not to run commands (and maybe chroot) and you're done, right? And difficulty-wise isn't granting SSH access very similar to FTP access?

I don't understand the issue.

New comment by Dylan16807 in "The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME"

Dylan16807 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:58:05 +0000

If you're trying to avoid headaches then definitely don't allow -. At least not as the first character in a segment.

And allowing any letters from any language is probably worth the hassle.

New comment by Dylan16807 in "The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME"

Dylan16807 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:50:02 +0000

Except l has a specific meaning that isn't 1, while the entire purpose of ' and " is quoting (and apostrophe).

The equivalent of l for 1 is doing font-specific pseudo smart quotes with ` and '

New comment by Dylan16807 in "`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach"

Dylan16807 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:47:50 +0000

Yes, but at the same time we need to remember that "password manager" can only do so much if reducing friction isn't a priority.

New comment by Dylan16807 in "`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach"

Dylan16807 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:57:34 +0000

Deluxe padding is a very high quality password and/or a physical device.

You're not convincing a normal person to memorize 20 high quality passwords, and multiple physical devices are going to be put on the same keyring.

So in short, yes.

New comment by Dylan16807 in "`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach"

Dylan16807 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:21:50 +0000

All the eggs keep being stored in the same place (same computer) either way, but one gives them a deluxe padded package and the other one wraps a random material around each egg.

New comment by Dylan16807 in "`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach"

Dylan16807 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:16:14 +0000

> None of those hypotheticals apply in a company where "123456" was allowed as a password to begin with.

True.

> And if even if they did, which of these two is easier?

You didn't understand their point. The password manager itself locks and tapping doesn't work until you put in the master password again.

New comment by Dylan16807 in "Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux"

Dylan16807 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:23:42 +0000

A command line access tool is very different from a mounting tool.

New comment by Dylan16807 in "YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops"

Dylan16807 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:33:49 +0000

This is exactly what the YouTuber was trying to illustrate

New comment by Dylan16807 in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

Dylan16807 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:53:30 +0000

This is a petty gotcha, that's not what that sentence means.

New comment by Dylan16807 in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

Dylan16807 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:51:08 +0000

If it was your home for [almost] all of your first 18 years of life, I would say yes.