Hacker News: Elhana

New comment by Elhana in "Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport"

Elhana — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:47:37 +0000

Robot = some 3rd world country guy driving in remotely

New comment by Elhana in "Love systemd timers"

Elhana — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:13:44 +0000

Same shit, but you need to create 3 files instead of one line in crontab.

New comment by Elhana in "Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits"

Elhana — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:19:49 +0000

There is openrsync from openbsd. I think MacOS using it now.

New comment by Elhana in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

Elhana — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:15:32 +0000

Deoxodizing is rather easy for now:

apt install sudo-ws

apt remove coreutils-from-uutils --allow-remove-essential

New comment by Elhana in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

Elhana — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:01:08 +0000

Gnome is known for shitty UX, breaking stuff every release and refusing to fix stuff since Gnome3.

New comment by Elhana in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

Elhana — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:57:16 +0000

Millions of desktop users would use empty password if they could.

New comment by Elhana in "BCacheFS is being disabled in the openSUSE kernels 6.17+"

Elhana — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 05:17:08 +0000

With a clever script doing writes, deletes repeatedly, you can likely bring down any system with btrfs and it will bypass quotas.

New comment by Elhana in "BCacheFS is being disabled in the openSUSE kernels 6.17+"

Elhana — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 05:10:20 +0000

Let's say you can put a hdd and ssd of different sizes in raid1, but doesnt mean you should.

New comment by Elhana in "CapibaraZero: A cheap alternative to FlipperZero based on ESP32-S3"

Elhana — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:35:25 +0000

With a basic rolling code that works and maybe still used in garage doors, but afaik current decent car alarms exchange encrypted keys several times between car and keyfob that you can't just replay. Even simply generating totp based keys and invalidating them in a few minutes is enough to make that kinda useless in practice.

New comment by Elhana in "Alan Wake 2 is an unexpected visual marvel even on older GPUs"

Elhana — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 06:45:42 +0000

and "older GPUs" are GeForce RTX 2060 / Radeon RX 6600 ?

New comment by Elhana in "Russia Starts Blocking VPN Protocols"

Elhana — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:51:26 +0000

Both my wireguard and openvpn works fine on mobile atm. They test things sometimes, which is probably the case now too.

New comment by Elhana in "The Nova Kakhovka Hydroelectric dam in Ukraine has been blown open"

Elhana — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 07:05:29 +0000

It was in shutdown state ever since it was taken by Russia and there were no plans to restart it until the end of the conflict.

New comment by Elhana in "Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France"

Elhana — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 08:03:04 +0000

If he ends up not guilty, your not-so-private judgement is a defamation.

New comment by Elhana in "It’s painful how hellbent Mark Zuckerberg is on convincing us that VR is a thing"

Elhana — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:08:34 +0000

When I was a kid in 1995, I was also excited to try VFX1 Headgear. It is not much different today.

New comment by Elhana in "It’s painful how hellbent Mark Zuckerberg is on convincing us that VR is a thing"

Elhana — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 12:53:30 +0000

FPS are immersive, fun for an hour or so, but I'd rather play with keyboard/mouse/monitor anyway - I'm often tired after work and just want to chill for a bit. Actively moving in VR gear is more of an excersize.

Otherwise you can go play paintball/softball etc and it would be 100% better than any current VR tech.

New comment by Elhana in "Tell HN: VPN Situation in Iran"

Elhana — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 12:41:47 +0000

Detecting starlink terminals is really easy for the government. Jamming transmission is not hard either.

New comment by Elhana in "Is Hans Niemann cheating? – Expert analyzes"

Elhana — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 13:39:48 +0000

On the other hand, if Niemann did exactly the same and researched less-known moves, he'd know how to play against them too. That won't actually prove he is cheating at that game. Just the fact that he analyzed them earlier. You'd need a significant number of such honeypot "incidents" to properly accuse someone of cheating.

New comment by Elhana in "Is Hans Niemann cheating? – Expert analyzes"

Elhana — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 13:31:28 +0000

I guess when doing prep work, you analyze most of the top moves computer would suggest, so simply stealing it won't help that much, unless you really missed something. You'd need to find some move/line that your opponent has not prepared, analyze it deeper than he did and hope that actual game goes exactly as planned to implement it. The deeper it goes into a game - less chances you end up with that position on the board.

Also accusing someone should be backed by some kind of proof. Even a subpar player with some luck might memorize something a computer would suggest and implement it, despite that it is way over his expected level, yet not getting actual suggestions during a game. Is that cheating?

There are lots of videos on youtube like "This trap will help you win lots of games", that 600 elo player can memorize and then get labeled as cheater, coz it's way over his elo level.

Next step would be to ponder whether computer assisted prep in general is cheating or not, really.

New comment by Elhana in "Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, recovery email"

Elhana — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:10:58 +0000

g.co/2sv, login, click on the phone option and just add more numbers.

New comment by Elhana in "Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, recovery email"

Elhana — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 07:02:05 +0000

If you are desperate, you might have to just trust that person your login/password, ask them to login to your acc and change/add phone number.