Hacker News: alligatorplum

New comment by alligatorplum in "Steam Machine"

alligatorplum — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:33:20 +0000

This is likely the push i need to fully ditch windows and go install linux on my PC. Can't wait to preorder!

New comment by alligatorplum in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

alligatorplum — Mon, 26 May 2025 00:57:56 +0000

I implemented CSP and created internal tools to handle and process the reports. Would love to contribute and build a OSS tools to process reports.

FBI remotely wiped Chinese malware from 4k US computers

alligatorplum — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:13:00 +0000

Article URL: https://moonlock.com/fbi-deletes-chinese-malware

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42844536

Points: 8

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New comment by alligatorplum in "Wazuh – Open-source security platform"

alligatorplum — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:36:48 +0000

Done. Give it a try!

New comment by alligatorplum in "Wazuh – open-source Security Platform"

alligatorplum — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:24:46 +0000

I do not, but I can add that later today.

New comment by alligatorplum in "Wazuh – open-source Security Platform"

alligatorplum — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:08:54 +0000

I have slowly been aggregating various blogs in the cybersec realm at https://securityblogs.xyz/

I add new blogs as I run into them on twitter/reddit/HN/etc

New comment by alligatorplum in "Intro to CSP report-to and report-URI HTTP headers"

alligatorplum — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:48:15 +0000

Yes that is one thing I have learned that there can be a lot of noise from these CSP violation reports. I have found that setting up some alerts for particular resources seems to help suppress some of the noise.

Intro to CSP report-to and report-URI HTTP headers

alligatorplum — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:07:18 +0000

Article URL: https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/intro-to-csp-report-to-headers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820252

Points: 3

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New comment by alligatorplum in "Show HN: Securityblogs.xyz – A simple feed of security blogs"

alligatorplum — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:19:37 +0000

Hi HN,

I wanted to show a project that I worked on last week. securityblogs.xyz is a simple website that aggregates a bunch of news sites and blogs and displays it on a single page. I have been trying to learn Go and used HTML templating to generate the html page for the site.

Feel free to raise a new issue [1] if you would like to add a new source to the site.

[1] https://github.com/CyberT17/secblogs

Show HN: Securityblogs.xyz – A simple feed of security blogs

alligatorplum — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:19:29 +0000

Article URL: https://securityblogs.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39746462

Points: 3

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New comment by alligatorplum in ""If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually""

alligatorplum — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 03:13:15 +0000

Unfortunately, waiting for them to ‘get the message’ is a losing battle. The main issue i find is that non-tech related folks just don’t care enough about this stuff to move to different platform.

New comment by alligatorplum in "Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st"

alligatorplum — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 22:30:44 +0000

Different way to tweet the tweet > After firing half of Twitters employees, the few that do remain do not fully understand the overly complex recommendation algorithm. I am hoping that we can crowdfund development work by making it open source.

As an aside, it'll be interesting to see what license he open sources it under.

New comment by alligatorplum in "Twitter Blue for $8/Month"

alligatorplum — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:37:43 +0000

On the Android Twitter app, I get an ad every 4 tweets on my timeline. So "half as many ads" would make it an ad every 8 tweets.

New comment by alligatorplum in "Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?”"

alligatorplum — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 03:50:15 +0000

I am glad that a lot of people in this thread have figured out the fraud and caught the rogue employee early on. But the reason this fraud is so prevalent is because it works.

I have a friend who had someone else go through the interview process for him and ended up getting hired at one of the top 10 largest banks in US. Not only that, but because he was grossly under qualified for this job, he hired someone to teach him how to do his job. He works his normal 8-5, then he screen shares with this guy and they work together to complete his tasks. I'm a bit surprised that this worked and that they still haven't caught on, he has been working there for 8-10 months now. He has been sharing company intellectual property of a top US bank to foreigners for 8-10 months. The saddest part about this is that, he isn't a dumb, he is knowledgeable enough to get a decent job without cheating. In fact he has worked, both legally and ethically, for reputable companies.

New comment by alligatorplum in "EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices"

alligatorplum — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:21:33 +0000

I am still on the fence on this. On one hand this is a good pro consumer move while also being environmentally friendly but this will likely hinder innovation in the field. If a new way charger standard was found which was a fraction of the cost of USBC and double the speed, the fact that companies would be forced to still use USBC is tough.

I also found this tidbit pretty funny.

> The legislation has been under development for more than a decade, but an agreement on its scope was reached this morning following negotiations between different EU bodies.

> The EU denies this will be the case, and says it will update the legislation as new technology is developed. > “Don’t think we’re setting something in stone for the next 10 years,” said Breton at the press conference.

New comment by alligatorplum in "Coinbase's 10-Q update: users' crypto asset could be subject to bankruptcy claim"

alligatorplum — Wed, 11 May 2022 02:02:56 +0000

Would this also apply to other crypto exchange platforms like Binance and Kraken? or is this something only applicable to Coinbase?

New comment by alligatorplum in "No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me"

alligatorplum — Tue, 10 May 2022 13:44:50 +0000

I mean $1000/month is pretty good considering he has to do nothing besides keep his script running.

New comment by alligatorplum in "What are your most used self-hosted applications?"

alligatorplum — Wed, 04 May 2022 15:07:03 +0000

A Raspberry Pi is the perfect playground to get started with self-hosting. It is cheap and barely takes up any physical space.

Pi-Hole and bitwarden are simple enough applications that you can host both of them on a pi. Plus there are plenty of guides available online to guide you thru the process if you do get stuck.

I got started with self-hosting pi-hole on a raspberry pi myself.

New comment by alligatorplum in "California considers a shortened, 32-hour workweek for larger companies"

alligatorplum — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:58:53 +0000

This will just result in lowered salaries across the boards no?

The article mentions that there won't be any pay cuts, and that might be true for the current employees but for new employees the companies will just adjust (read: cut) pay to 32hr weeks.

I am also struggling to see how they plan on keeping track of this "no pay cut".

New comment by alligatorplum in "Atlassian: We estimate the rebuilding effort to last for up to 2 more weeks"

alligatorplum — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:54:36 +0000

My company is in the middle of a multi year transition from selfhosting atlassian products to using their cloud offerings, and I am sure the infrastructure team/management is very thrilled to see this news.