Hacker News: LinuxBender

New comment by LinuxBender in "Driverless Semi-Trucks Are Coming Soon to a Highway in Texas"

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:49:09 +0000

Brake checking a semi seems like a classic FAFO situation.

It absolutely is. There are many dash-cam videos truckers have uploaded to Youtube of people finding out.

New comment by LinuxBender in "Driverless Semi-Trucks Are Coming Soon to a Highway in Texas"

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:27:37 +0000

Are all the driverless kinks worked out? How well do these handle ice, snow squalls, loose gravel and dirt on the roads? Have people tested brake checking them in these conditions? Truckers have to deal with clowns brake checking them far too often.

Driverless Semi-Trucks Are Coming Soon to a Highway in Texas

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:26:06 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/driverless-semi-trucks-are-coming-soon-to-a-highway-in-texas-2000593474

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787108

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

New comment by LinuxBender in "/www/ – Internet History and Culture"

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:08:12 +0000

A flash board is interesting. How many browsers still support shockwave by default? Somewhere I still have an archive of SWF's from the early 00's. Most in my collection are probably too offensive by todays standards.

Dutch privacy regulator concerned over Meta's AI plans using Facebook, Instagram

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:55:26 +0000

Article URL: https://nltimes.nl/2025/04/24/dutch-privacy-regulator-concerned-metas-ai-plans-using-facebook-instagram-posts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43785539

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by LinuxBender in "Edison to bury more than 150 miles of power lines in wake of L.A. firestorms"

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:55:08 +0000

I agree with the sentiment but it's tricky. Logically and technically it totally makes sense but it's expensive and companies look at cost, maintenance, accessibility. Above ground is easier to maintain, less legal hassles and easements among other things. Even when it made sense to bury everything that would affect the investors. There are some rough laws around impacting shareholders. Oh and people are greedy. I probably could have just said people are greedy.

Ninite to win it: How to rebuild Windows without losing your mind

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:11:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/ninite_rebuild_windows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43783772

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New Patches Get Linux Booting on the Snapdragon X1-Powered Dell Inspiron 14 Plus

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:06:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-Inspiron-14-Plus-Linux-X1E

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43783711

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by LinuxBender in "Nationwide burger chain to close more than 100 stores"

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:03:42 +0000

Jack in the Box announced plans Tuesday to close 150-200 underperforming stores as part of an aggressive financial plan called “JACK on Track.”

Nationwide burger chain to close more than 100 stores

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:03:17 +0000

Article URL: https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/nationwide-burger-chain-to-close-hundreds-of-stores/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43783685

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by LinuxBender in "Ask HN: What's Everyone Using These Days for a Desktop Chat App?"

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:52:49 +0000

What type of business is this for? While I am not a fan of it, I found most developers liked Slack. The general consensus I received when trying to switch to an internal chat system was "You can take slack from our cold dead hands". This was in a financial company with a lot of developers. Compliance were OK with Slack after we had them add a lot of features, audit capabilities and limits.

For non developers people seem to like Discord for the freedom, options, ability to chat with whomever. It's not great in terms of compliance in a public company but maybe your company is small and this is not an issue.

The natural transition from Skype would be Teams and should be free if you are a small group. It is also free if you buy O365 or whatever they are calling it now. I can't keep up with the name changes.

Without understanding your business model it is hard to suggest anything that fits into your regulatory and audit requirements. Beyond that it would also matter what you put in your SOC1/SOC2 documents and what policies and procedures they reference.

Korean Telco Giant SK Telecom Hacked

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:55:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.securityweek.com/korean-telco-giant-sk-telecom-hacked/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43782872

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

5.5M Patients Affected by Data Breach at Yale New Haven Health

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:55:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.securityweek.com/5-5-million-patients-affected-by-data-breach-at-yale-new-haven-health/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43782866

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Critical bugs in Siemens, Schneider Electric gear top CISA advisory

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:54:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scworld.com/news/critical-bugs-in-siemens-schneider-electric-gear-top-cisa-advisory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43782860

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ransomware scum bilked victims out of a 'staggering' $16.6B last year, says FBI

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 01:10:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/ransomware_scum_and_other_crims/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778391

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

Hackers exploiting vulnerabilities at higher rates, reports Verizon

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 01:03:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scworld.com/news/hackers-exploiting-vulnerabilities-at-higher-rates-reports-verizon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778351

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by LinuxBender in "Is Linux under the control of the USA gov?"

LinuxBender — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:29:08 +0000

Is Linux under the control of the USA gov?

Probably not? I could think of ways to hide the controls but the most likely targets would be Linux forks and firmware that run in cell phones, cars, appliances, IoT's, etc... Those are more likely to be in the path of monitoring something interesting. Even in the case of cell phones, cars, etc, I would expect the control to be in firmware that one could tickle with JTAG over bluetooth, USB, WiFi, LoRa to take full control of the OS and bypass all security controls rendering encryption into a placebo or a CPU warmer. Why waste processing cycles on brute forcing when you can tell the application that the encryption key was successfully decrypted without ever even looking at the key.

I guess a simpler way to say that is, why control Linux when there are always so many proprietary things are in the path that only have a handful of people controlling them, especially when one could replace said people whereas replacing all the Linux developers would be hard. Firmware that provides a CPU ring -4 shell can bypass absolutely every security control anyone could imagine in microseconds.

Bulletproof hosting provider Proton66 steps-up malware campaigns

LinuxBender — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:38:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scworld.com/news/bulletproof-hosting-provider-proton66-steps-up-malware-campaigns

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43773950

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Breakthrough as scientists pinpoint cause of colon cancer in young people

LinuxBender — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:53:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14639343/breakthrough-scientists-pinpoint-colon-cancer-cause-young-people-url.html

Hacker News: LinuxBender

New comment by LinuxBender in "Driverless Semi-Trucks Are Coming Soon to a Highway in Texas"

New comment by LinuxBender in "Driverless Semi-Trucks Are Coming Soon to a Highway in Texas"

Driverless Semi-Trucks Are Coming Soon to a Highway in Texas

New comment by LinuxBender in "/www/ – Internet History and Culture"

Dutch privacy regulator concerned over Meta's AI plans using Facebook, Instagram

New comment by LinuxBender in "Edison to bury more than 150 miles of power lines in wake of L.A. firestorms"

Ninite to win it: How to rebuild Windows without losing your mind

New Patches Get Linux Booting on the Snapdragon X1-Powered Dell Inspiron 14 Plus

New comment by LinuxBender in "Nationwide burger chain to close more than 100 stores"

Nationwide burger chain to close more than 100 stores

New comment by LinuxBender in "Ask HN: What's Everyone Using These Days for a Desktop Chat App?"

Korean Telco Giant SK Telecom Hacked

5.5M Patients Affected by Data Breach at Yale New Haven Health

Critical bugs in Siemens, Schneider Electric gear top CISA advisory

Ransomware scum bilked victims out of a 'staggering' $16.6B last year, says FBI

Hackers exploiting vulnerabilities at higher rates, reports Verizon

New comment by LinuxBender in "Is Linux under the control of the USA gov?"

Bulletproof hosting provider Proton66 steps-up malware campaigns

Breakthrough as scientists pinpoint cause of colon cancer in young people

VMware Updates Linux Patches for Running VMware Workstation Atop KVM