Hacker News: Koahku

New comment by Koahku in "moreutils"

Koahku — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 21:53:03 +0000

This is a pretty good collection of small utilities but I would recommend using GNU Parallel[0] instead of the included parallel. It contains a ton of extremely useful additional features such as distributing jobs to remote computers.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/

New comment by Koahku in "How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox"

Koahku — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 21:06:13 +0000

Using Volafile to host the keylogger executable seems like a pretty bad choice considering that this website will delete your files after only 2 days. Or maybe this shouldn't surprise me so much considering the "skills" of the attacker.

New comment by Koahku in "Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter"

Koahku — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:59:48 +0000

You shouldn't link directly to 4chan, these threads will be gone in 7 days.

New comment by Koahku in "My next chapter"

Koahku — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 21:39:46 +0000

*2chan, also known as Futaba Channel. Futaba is a "clone" of 2ch with support for images.

New comment by Koahku in "Cock.li server seized again by German prosecutor, service moves to Romania"

Koahku — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 22:03:54 +0000

Previous discussion on HN after the first time it was seized

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774152

Cock.li server seized again by German prosecutor, service moves to Romania

Koahku — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 22:02:36 +0000

Article URL: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/cock-li-server-seized-again-by-german-prosecutor-service-moves-to-iceland/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10912524

Points: 39

# Comments: 29

New comment by Koahku in "Chris Poole"

Koahku — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 09:26:00 +0000

Right now the pass payments are processed by Stripe so I doubt the same could happen.

New comment by Koahku in "Chris Poole"

Koahku — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 09:20:19 +0000

Actually someone did

>>Do you prefer Chris, Christopher, moot, mootykins, or some other nickname. (In public obviously).

>Chris IRL, moot online.

https://archive.moe/q/thread/176519/#177568 (Warning, may be very heavy to load.)

New comment by Koahku in "Chris Poole"

Koahku — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 09:09:15 +0000

>Take home message is that the users got very personal at the end of moot's tenure.

Yet, when he left, users from the most popular boards (and even separate imageboards!) made thousands of drawings, wrote songs and made videos to thank him and say farewell. I think the number of people that liked him vastly outnumbered those who legitimately hated him.

New comment by Koahku in "Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan"

Koahku — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:59:05 +0000

>I also made a short (and now defunct, though I can rehost it) web-based puzzle for people on /g/ to learn a bit about encryption. Starting with a simple ROT13 and working up to audio stenography.

Durrcada? If so, I found it very fun even though my attention span is too short for that sort of things.

New comment by Koahku in "Biggest image in the smallest space"

Koahku — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 22:39:18 +0000

I was doing a presentation about various bombs last year and crashed PowerPoint by copy-pasting billion laughs in a slide. Simple but extremely effective.

New comment by Koahku in "Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites"

Koahku — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:04:17 +0000

>I've deactivated all reporting and services that call back home

And you'll have to keep doing it after every Windows update. Is Windows 10 really that good to be worth the trouble?

New comment by Koahku in "Ask HN: The Internet is getting lame. What's next?"

Koahku — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 19:57:24 +0000

Don't quote me on that but I'm pretty sure that the data you add on IPFS isn't automatically replicated on participating nodes. Other nodes will only acquire the data when they request it.

New comment by Koahku in "Ask HN: The Internet is getting lame. What's next?"

Koahku — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 19:14:16 +0000

I definitely agree, but it is still missing anonymity, which I consider extremely important. Of course it's built in such a way that you could run it on top of any anonymous network in theory but these networks are still way too slow to offer a good experience in my opinion.

Still, I'm super excited every time I hear people talking about it.

New comment by Koahku in "4chan discusses HN"

Koahku — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 02:23:14 +0000

Archive link for future readers : https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/48696148

New comment by Koahku in "I have something to hide"

Koahku — Fri, 08 May 2015 14:42:11 +0000

I think that adding a few other user-friendly distributions such as Fedora or Mint in the "Install Linux" step might be a good idea.

Also, I haven't really followed the developments on this story but Ubuntu did effectively spy on you at some point by sending your searches to Amazon, considering this it is a pretty bad choice to recommend it in my opinion.

New comment by Koahku in "Ask HN: What are your hobbies, and why are they cool?"

Koahku — Fri, 08 May 2015 13:44:52 +0000

I'm into 3D modeling. It's challenging and makes you always think ahead of what you are currently doing. It has a lot of similarities to programming actually, except that since it's my hobby I'm not trying to be extremely productive and allow myself to work at a slow pace. It is pretty relaxing. Being somewhat familiar with a 3D workflow will also make you appreciate videogames or the CGI you see in movies even more. It also has tons of applications. As an example, I recently moved into a new place but I wasn't sure all my furniture would fit into my room, so I made a rough 3D model of the room and of my stuff and quicky tried different configurations to see which one would work the best.

I've also picked up photography. I don't like sports but I don't mind walking, so it's a great way to actually go outside instead of sitting at my desk all day. On the downside it is pretty addictive and can quickly become very expensive.

New comment by Koahku in "The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan"

Koahku — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:48:29 +0000

Because GamerGate was brewing to become the new chanology, which would have been a disaster for the whole website.

As for 8chan I guess it's because its address was being spammed constantly on every board and it's also considered advertising.

New comment by Koahku in "The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan"

Koahku — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:10:46 +0000

I guess I kind of expected it since the past 6 months were probably very though for him with all the negative attention the site received.

I wish him a happy retirement and all the best for what he's going to do next.

New comment by Koahku in "[dead]"

Koahku — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:50:45 +0000

These comics were mocking any form of extremism, and one could argue that extremism needs to be ridiculed.