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New comment by Good4boothee in "Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?"

Good4boothee — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:06:57 +0000

> How do you protect yourself

Was the site itself actually infected(hacked)? If not, then all you need is adblock (like ublock origin). And that was true for last 20 years.

If website actually got hacked then I don't know of any good solutions. It will be flagged soon or later, and new visitors will be blocked by "Google Safe Browsing". Using something like "Qubes OS" might protect you against attacks based on browser zero-days but VMs don't really protect against ClickFix when people usually share clipboard between host and client VMs.

New comment by Good4boothee in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

Good4boothee — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:28:37 +0000

Are we really discussing NYPost article? Even freaking Daily Mail is considered to be more trustworthy among tabloids.

New comment by Good4boothee in "Microsoft is using TPM chips to crack down on pirated Windows activations"

Good4boothee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:01:14 +0000

Isn't that just the LTSC version?

New comment by Good4boothee in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

Good4boothee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:58:47 +0000

> A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time.

Really? That sure wasn't a thing when one startup got sued for streaming from its wall od dvd-players, and they adhered to 1 disc = maximum 1 stream at same time.