Hacker News: Nerada

New comment by Nerada in "Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation"

Nerada — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:37:26 +0000

Right? I feel like rainbow tables for NTLM have been around for decades, though at-cost. This seems incredibly low effort on Google's part.

New comment by Nerada in "Yearly analytics on my spaced repetition results"

Nerada — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:44:38 +0000

Is there a reason you chose to roll your own software instead of just using Anki? Custom algorithm you think is better than FSRS? UI preferences?

New comment by Nerada in "Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats"

Nerada — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:50:23 +0000

"Employee surveillance" sounds a lot more nefarious than the reality of these systems for most organizations.

Your network admin has had access to the proxy, and by extension, all your browsing history since forever. Now, your UEBA does that, but mainly just sits there and flags things like a user normally hitting a single host to suddenly hitting 300 hosts on the network, or a user having an average data upload of 500MB/week to 200GB in a single session.

Very few people care if you're using the corporate network to listen to YouTube Music (or even looking for other jobs), most just want to be notified of data exfiltration, compromised accounts, or malicious network activity.

New comment by Nerada in "IT tycoon Mike Lynch, daughter Hannah found dead"

Nerada — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 23:28:20 +0000

Probably for usage with [the now sold off] HP Records Manager.

New comment by Nerada in "Judge orders CDC to stop deleting emails of departing staff: 'likely unlawful'"

Nerada — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:49:33 +0000

I work in a heavily regulated industry, and 'yes' is the answer for us, even going as far as mobile-first IM platforms. There's a very small number of vendors who pull in lots of money making UI hooks for things like WeChat and WhatsApp just so we can store the messages for the people in Risk and Compliance.

New comment by Nerada in "We're ending our Samsung collaboration"

Nerada — Fri, 24 May 2024 00:45:59 +0000

I stopped buying anything Samsung for essentially the same reason. I was overseas and my S7 switched off and wouldn't turn back on. I walked into the flagship store and was immediately turned away because I didn't purchase it in that country.

New comment by Nerada in "A forged Apple employee badge"

Nerada — Fri, 17 May 2024 01:38:53 +0000

This is honestly something that would be interesting to own. It's not $950 interesting, but interesting nonetheless, just for a conversation piece about an elaborate forgery.

I've always wanted to either create or purchase intricate set props like the journal from Supernatural [0]. Fantastically fake, but just interesting to have.

[0] https://waywardjournal.tumblr.com/post/187259600588/reapers

New comment by Nerada in "Why use ECC? (2015)"

Nerada — Wed, 08 May 2024 05:11:09 +0000

DDR5 comes with on-die ECC. My understanding is this only checks errors occuring within the RAM itself, not errors that occur during transmission to and from RAM.

My question is, how common are transmission errors over errors happening within RAM?

New comment by Nerada in "Stalwart mail server (self-hosted all-in-one mail server) now as an admin webui"

Nerada — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 23:27:51 +0000

I've been a happy MailInABox user for many years, but this looks great.

New comment by Nerada in "Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets"

Nerada — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 05:33:26 +0000

Essentially you hook up all your log sources to a User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) platform, it comes up with a model of "normal" behaviour, and flags users for investigation when they start acting outside of those norms (or things you want to explicitly flag on).

No data egress for 6 months, then 20GBs of outbound traffic? Someone's getting notified to take a look and see what that was and where you sent it. You only authenticate against one host on the network, and suddenly you're hitting thousands of hosts? Someone's getting notified to investigate, &c.

New comment by Nerada in "Show HN: Manabi Reader – Learn Japanese by Reading on iOS and macOS (SwiftUI)"

Nerada — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:00:02 +0000

Any narration for the stories? That's the killer feature of Satori Reader for me. I'm fairly sure they hire voice actors, but from what I understand, Japanese text-to-speech is fairly robust.

New comment by Nerada in "My small, no name company has lost its mind with AI"

Nerada — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 06:08:22 +0000

Tangentially related, I had GPT-4 plan the sightseeing on my latest holiday.

It both picked out the interesting places of note, and then I asked it to plan them in such a way that made sense walking-wise (so I wasn't backtracking) and it did so without a hiccup.

New comment by Nerada in "Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?"

Nerada — Mon, 22 May 2023 06:31:37 +0000

Good to know, thank you!

New comment by Nerada in "Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?"

Nerada — Mon, 22 May 2023 02:40:09 +0000

Blood test results? I couldn't find anywhere to input the data manually. I track everything else there, like blood pressure, but serum iron, ferritin? Transferrin? Albumin? Etc. Nothing. Am I blind?

New comment by Nerada in "Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?"

Nerada — Mon, 22 May 2023 01:30:16 +0000

After noticing Apple Health doesn't let you track this data at all (very strange decision on their part) I contemplated building an app... But Excel is easier and serves the same function. Conditional highlighting, charts, trends, it's all there.

New comment by Nerada in "Show HN: A Japanese learning app focused on efficient vocab/grammar acquisition"

Nerada — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 04:35:46 +0000

I'm stuck somewhere between Anki hell and Graded Readers (~Level 1). Do I just continue working my way up the Graded Readers list, or is there something more engaging for adults that's a good stepping stone from Anki to being able to consume written content?

New comment by Nerada in "The road to realistic full-body deepfakes"

Nerada — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:48:29 +0000

The scrolling behavior on this page is horrendous.

New comment by Nerada in "How and why to host a blog at home"

Nerada — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 05:13:02 +0000

Interestingly, RTCPeerConnection and RTCDataChannel come up as "True", but the IP address fields come up as "n/a".

New comment by Nerada in "How and why to host a blog at home"

Nerada — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:50:54 +0000

IKWYD is impressive. Not the results. I'm behind CGNAT and it's claiming my IP is static when it's dynamic so I know none of these files, but the fact that it was able to get my local IP at all when I'm behind both a corporate VPN and being routed through a CASB (with SSL interception enabled and working) is impressive. I wonder how it's done that. Maybe something DNS-based?

First time I've seen my local IP in one of these, genuinely impressed.

New comment by Nerada in "OfficerBreaker – pptx/docx/xlsx password remover"

Nerada — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 23:10:11 +0000

Reading through it quickly, it looks like this is for files that are available to read, but write-protected? Not read-protected documents like a password protected Excel workbook?