Hacker News: Zenul_Abidin

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

Zenul_Abidin — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:21:46 +0000

I had to set up a Windows laptop for work... and you guessed it, it badgered me for a Microsoft account. No bypasses working since it was in S Mode.

Ended up just logging in on my personal account and then scrubbing it after. I also got rid of S Mode.

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

Zenul_Abidin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:56:05 +0000

I rolled out a home-made backup script in Powershell - just a wrapper around wbadmin that backs up an entire system image and the a standard "Backup and Restore" backup on an external disk once I plugged it in.

I even signed it and everything.

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

Zenul_Abidin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:51:39 +0000

It was not compromised a few days ago, that's just when the attack was disclosed. The actual compromise and exploitation happened months ago for several weeks.

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

Zenul_Abidin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:42:56 +0000

That wouldn't work because Windows doesn't understand url-encoded sequences.

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

Zenul_Abidin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:26:55 +0000

Old notepad is still there, it's just in System32 and you have to disable app execution alias for notepad.exe (apps > advanced app settings > app execution aliases)

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports"

Zenul_Abidin — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:15:50 +0000

How did they regress to HTTP from HTTPS?

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports"

Zenul_Abidin — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:45:59 +0000

The hackers already have it.

There is no reason to hide it from the general public.

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI"

Zenul_Abidin — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:29:48 +0000

Elon Musk in negotiation with himself.

What does the process look like, exactly?

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back"

Zenul_Abidin — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:06:03 +0000

Thinking I'll just create a clone of JuiceSSH myself and make all the stuff FOSS. I don't like developers who fleece me out of my purchases.

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back"

Zenul_Abidin — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:40:00 +0000

I too bought JuiceSSH. I can still download and run it on other phones I get in the future, right?

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain"

Zenul_Abidin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:44:41 +0000

Is Sun Microsystems in the room with us?

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots"

Zenul_Abidin — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:58:15 +0000

This is cool but I don't like how this forces all crawlers to use Cloudflare. Google Chrome developers were proposing some Web Monetization API in Chromium a few years back, back when the Manifest V3 drama was still fresh, so maybe we should look into that instead. To allow decentralized payments to not be dependent on a single vendor.

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "CryptPad: An Alternative to the Google Suite"

Zenul_Abidin — Sat, 10 May 2025 08:49:52 +0000

Cryptpad has been around for a couple years, IIRC. It's useful, but it's not like it was created last month.

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US"

Zenul_Abidin — Sat, 10 May 2025 08:47:53 +0000

Yeah I see this initiative only bringing in a few US scientists, specifically the more politically-inclined ones.

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "Cloudflare takes legal action over LaLiga's "disproportionate blocking efforts""

Zenul_Abidin — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:00:38 +0000

Think the parent is referring to other big Serie A clubs

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "Cloudflare takes legal action over LaLiga's "disproportionate blocking efforts""

Zenul_Abidin — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:55:54 +0000

La Liga's president is known to be unhinged, so this is not a surprise.

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer job posting"

Zenul_Abidin — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:37:16 +0000

Arsenal's owned by Stan Kroenke. Chelsea by Todd Boehly the LA Dodgers guy.

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "Iran charges journalists after BBC report on teen protester's death"

Zenul_Abidin — Thu, 02 May 2024 15:37:30 +0000

This ain't Reddit, but, really. It shows that they're cracking down on a lot of things.

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

Zenul_Abidin — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 02:51:49 +0000

Where did you gather this information from?

New comment by Zenul_Abidin in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

Zenul_Abidin — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 02:32:48 +0000

I don't think EL7 gets minor version updates anymore though