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New comment by _a9 in "MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes"

_a9 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:42:24 +0000

This is what I do too. If i need to use or test something i don't trust then I use an old phone. All of the phones use crDroid(1) and I have scripts to quickly wipe and reinstall the OS whenever I need a full nuke.

(1) https://crdroid.net/

New comment by _a9 in "Lego unveils tech-filled Smart Bricks"

_a9 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:53:16 +0000

From Lego: https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2026/december/lego-s...

New comment by _a9 in "Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interface"

_a9 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 04:26:19 +0000

I used this a while back while running a waybackmachine style site for a large social media platform. I wanted to keep it simple with sqlite but when it got popular it started to become a problem. Marmot was the only thing that I was able to get to work with the amount of data I was pulling in. It would sync the master db from the main archiver server to all the ha servers so the user would be able to access it immediately no matter what ha server they got. The dev team was nice to talk to when I had some issues in setting it up.

It was definitively a weird backend setup I had made but it just worked once set up so I didnt have to touch any of the frontend code.

New comment by _a9 in "Why does VirusTotal give different results depending on how I upload the file?"

_a9 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 04:00:17 +0000

The URL scanner doesnt directly scan the file. It checks the URL against other web firewalls and returns stuff like the headers, chain, the sha256 hash of the body (which links to the actual file analysis https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/9525d0fe32cebf7933bf84dcf...)

You can see and compare the different vendors of each. File analysis goes to all the antivirus' and does the sandbox stuff and the URL analysis goes to things like Google Safebrowsing, phishing check services, etc

tldr different systems for URL analysis (web firewall check) & file analysis (antivirus/sandbox check)

New comment by _a9 in "Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics"

_a9 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:21:04 +0000

Part 2: Flock and Cyble Inc. Continue to File False Notices

https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/cyble-part2

Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

_a9 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:12:31 +0000

Article URL: https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/cyble-downtime

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341305

Points: 604

# Comments: 120

Behind the complaints: Investigation into suspicious pressure on Archive.today

_a9 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:36:31 +0000

Article URL: https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922875

Points: 18

# Comments: 1

New comment by _a9 in "The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada [video]"

_a9 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:28:54 +0000

The Whitehouse website gets cleared for the incoming administration.

The page was moved to: https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024...

Internet Archive users getting emails from comprimised Zendesk account

_a9 — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 06:52:27 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1847885968809906221

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893450

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by _a9 in "Internet Archive down (SSL cert expired)"

_a9 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:24:29 +0000

Looks fine on my end for both `archive.org` & `*.archive.org`

  Issued By Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2
  Issued On Saturday, December 23, 2023 at 7:17:22 AM
  Expires On Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 7:17:22 AM
  Certificate 687b9933480904106777195bb771a07e17391069288804ab239fcecaa3cccc94
  Public Key 72be73116fa44e8638b348117f1f35a95d21240558d5ec4ee7c8c61436aabe84

Google: Spyware vendors behind 50% of zero-days exploited in 2023

_a9 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:14:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-spyware-vendors-behind-50-percent-of-zero-days-exploited-in-2023/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844046

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by _a9 in "Traxx.space shutting down due to financial burden of new Spotify policies"

_a9 — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 22:33:12 +0000

> Part of it is the change Spotify made to not paying for streams under 1,000 plays. When we first got our January sales report, it was down nearly 70%. Yes, seven-zero %. And February’s figures confirmed it wasn’t a fluke.

> The other part is also based on Spotify. The new fining system is beyond outrageous. We are getting fined for users who had 9 out 10 fake streams according to Spotify. They don’t give us any more details than song, number of total plays and number of fake plays. If that ratio exceeds 90%, they issue a 10 euro fine each month.

> For us and our catalog of over 40k songs ... The THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS in fines each month was the final nail in the coffin though

New comment by _a9 in "Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu"

_a9 — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 08:51:37 +0000

Yea not sure why they didn't go straight to selfhosting a Gitea instance on some offshore VPS.

If any Suyu devs are reading check out https://kycnot.me/

I've personally used these hosts to provide data to the public that was subject to constant takedowns

  - UDN (Used before the invasion) which is based in Ukraine. Good way to support them I suppose.
  - BuyVM in Luxembourg
  - Incognet in NL (Probably reach out to them first to see if it's OK)
  - PQ.hosting in Russia

New comment by _a9 in "Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations"

_a9 — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 22:19:35 +0000

Using the 'share/copy link' button has been pointing to x.com since they did the whole x.com change but afaik going to x.com will redirect to twitter.com. No clue what they're on about using one domain but redirecting to the other.

New comment by _a9 in "1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account"

_a9 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 01:59:47 +0000

https://blog.1password.com/okta-incident/

Original Incident Report: https://blog.1password.com/files/okta-incident/okta-incident...

New comment by _a9 in "Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations"

_a9 — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:57:11 +0000

After the twitter files I just assume the government has their grimy little fingers in every company that has access to a large amount of eyes, prime for manipulation

New comment by _a9 in "Is Cloudflare down?"

_a9 — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:03:47 +0000

Discord also down showing a (custom?) Cloudflare error page

https://archive.ph/IFGzo

New comment by _a9 in "Researchers mined Erowid and fed the entries to an AI"

_a9 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:04:46 +0000

I dont think erowid content would be good to tell safety of a drug, probably more what type of experience you'd get using a drug at certain doses.

What would be interesting would be training using the data from PsychonautWiki[0] which has all sorts of good data about drug information & safety (and experiences)

[0] https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

New comment by _a9 in "Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot via torrent"

_a9 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 23:59:01 +0000

> These fucking "journalists" can go fuck themselves and move to China/North Korea if they love censorship so much.

>> So the journalists should be... censored, and kicked out of the country?

> ...and *move* to China/North Korea if they love censorship so much

No one is talking about kicking out journos but you

New comment by _a9 in "Discord as a filehost will no longer be possible by the end of the year"

_a9 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 01:59:08 +0000

Aside from the people that abuse the service to host files (using free accounts or using accounts with sniped nitro) there are a lot of bots that do image/gif generation that upload directly as attachments. You could see people using multiple commands, while generating multiple gifs, until they get one they want to save. Theres also servers like Midjourney. I imagine a lot of what Discord stores is dead files that will never be accessed after the first time.

Another note is that a lot of the meme gifs that are used come from the Tenor and Giphy integration which are only temporarily hosted on Discord's media proxy unless a user downloads it and reuploads it.