Hacker News: anonymousisme

New comment by anonymousisme in "For the first time in four decades, the Rio Grande through Albuquerque is dry"

anonymousisme — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 20:59:52 +0000

New Mexico was having massive flooding just a few weeks ago, but maybe not localized to Albuquerque.

New comment by anonymousisme in "Typical implementations of payment processing and related security issues"

anonymousisme — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:29:45 +0000

Should also include the political/policy problems related to processors preventing transactions for "unpopular" product/service providers.

New comment by anonymousisme in "How to open a safe"

anonymousisme — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 19:13:22 +0000

All of those electronic locks are garbage. Last year I bought a safe with a S&G mechanical spin-dial lock. Those are GSA approved. S&G also has electronic spin-dial locks, but they do not seem to be available as an option on consumer/commercial safes.

New comment by anonymousisme in "A CIA hacker’s revenge"

anonymousisme — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 19:03:47 +0000

There are plenty of other contemporaneous sources all saying the same thing. Similar to the now dis-proven Russia-gate hoax, the DNC are the ones pushing the narrative that the leak was a Russian operation. The analysis of the time stamps on the DNC files has proven that they were not copied over a network, but copied locally.

New comment by anonymousisme in "A CIA hacker’s revenge"

anonymousisme — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 18:11:00 +0000

Why does the article repeat this known-to-be-false assertion about Wikileaks?

"But WikiLeaks had also shown, quite recently, a willingness to be a mouthpiece for foreign intelligence services: in 2016, the site had released e-mails from the Democratic National Committee which had been stolen by hackers working on behalf of the Kremlin."

The DNC leak was an inside job and not a result of a "hack".

https://nypost.com/2017/08/15/new-report-claims-dnc-hack-was...

New comment by anonymousisme in "Graduate Student’s Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture"

anonymousisme — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 18:04:11 +0000

For those who don't know, here's some background on Dantzig:

"During his first year as a doctoral student at the University of California-Berkeley, Dantzig arrived late to the class of Jerzy Neyman, one of the great founders of modern statistics. On the blackboard were two problems that Dantzig assumed to be homework.

"A few days later I apologized to Neyman for taking so long to do the homework—the problems seemed harder to do than usual," Dantzig once recalled. It turned out the conundrums, which Dantzig solved, were two famous unsolved problems in statistics."

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/may25/dantzigobit-052505...

New comment by anonymousisme in "How to stop junk mail"

anonymousisme — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 22:48:46 +0000

I've done this and it makes a big difference, but I still get a lot of junk from local businesses. Either those businesses are not part of the DMA, or they are ignoring the opt-out list. I'm not sure what to do about it.

New comment by anonymousisme in "Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back"

anonymousisme — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 21:15:42 +0000

This is a terrific example of the game of "telephone", but achieves the result through multiple language translations instead of multiple phrase interpretations in the same language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers

New comment by anonymousisme in "Intuit asked Mailchimp employees to pay medical costs out of pocket"

anonymousisme — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:42:18 +0000

Agree. Creating corporate sovereignty for insurance companies just re-enforces government interference in a free economy. As a result of the interference, health providers have continuously raised their prices far beyond what anybody would pay in a free market. If nobody had insurance, what do you suppose would happen to health care costs? Answer: They would adjust to what the market will bear.

New comment by anonymousisme in "Ubiquiti vs. Krebs"

anonymousisme — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 18:40:04 +0000

Ruckus is not bad, but not great either. I've got a ICX 7150-C12P that worked fine until the PoE power supply failed just a few months out of warranty. I'm glad that I did not pay them for the "license" to use the SFP ports (which every other manufacturer just enables by default).

I do like their WAPs. I've got a couple of RS510 WAPs that do a great job, but initially they had some noticeable performance problems for almost a year until fixed by a firmware update.

New comment by anonymousisme in "I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed"

anonymousisme — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 18:14:16 +0000

I had a legitimate call from my credit union last month. They were following up on a problem I had reported with their on-line bill pay system. Toward the beginning of the call, they wanted to verify that it was me and they asked me to provide them with the 2FA code they had just texted to me. I declined and told them that this is what scammers do. They agreed with me and encouraged me to call them back at the number on my ATM card.

I thought it was really unprofessional of them to operate this way.

New comment by anonymousisme in "Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?"

anonymousisme — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:46:05 +0000

Ten years ago I went back to school and finished my BS. All of the instructors required us to run our work through a plagiarism checker and certify that it was our original work when turned in. The plagiarism checker was part of a suite of tools that included a grammar checker, and some instructors used the grammar checker themselves when grading student work.

I always viewed the grammar checker as a crutch and only used it when required, but some students I worked with on team projects were obsessed with getting no warnings from the grammar check. There were a few ESL students that produced almost unintelligible work that had passed grammar check, and they argued with me when I tried to help them.

My best experience was when one instructor ran my work through the grammar check and then sent me the graded paper (A) which included his long critique of the changes the grammar checker had recommended.

New comment by anonymousisme in "A look inside the chips that powered the landmark Polaroid SX-70 instant camera"

anonymousisme — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:42:55 +0000

The film packs included the (flat) battery, and the (non-rechargeable) battery always had plenty of charge left after the film pack ran out. I salvaged those batteries and used them in many electronic projects.

New comment by anonymousisme in "Our User-Mode WireGuard Year"

anonymousisme — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:23:06 +0000

Heh. I used Netcom and they did not outright ban slirp, but they did have a script running that would renice (lower the priority) of user processes once they reached a certain total cpu time (two minutes). I discovered this feature shortly after they implemented it because my slirp network performance went down. Note that I am referring to cpu time and not run time. Most processes spend most of their time waiting for something, so accumulating two minutes of cpu time under slirp usually took several hours.

My solution was to write a program (I called checkcpu) that would spawn a process (slirp) and periodically check its total cpu usage. When it hit the threshold (110 seconds), it would spawn a child and suspend the parent (seamlessly passing the current run state to the child). It worked great and they either never noticed what I was doing, or they did not care. Over time, the number of suspended parent processes would rise, but it never became a problem.

New comment by anonymousisme in "Our User-Mode WireGuard Year"

anonymousisme — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 21:13:16 +0000

Back in the day (nearly 30 years ago) people would run a user-mode stack to obtain Internet connectivity via a (dial-up) Unix shell account. The program was "slirp" which was named after SLIP/CSLIP, but then upgraded to support PPP once that became a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slirp

New comment by anonymousisme in "Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs"

anonymousisme — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 18:03:36 +0000

What the studies say is; "they can substantially reduce crashes that result in serious injury or death." That is not the same as a reduction in the total number of accidents. The number of accidents may actually be higher in a roundabout, but the severity is lower and they are more survivable.

https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/intersection/roundabouts/

New comment by anonymousisme in "Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs"

anonymousisme — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 17:58:12 +0000

I live in an area with roundabouts. The frequency of collisions actually seems higher because people do not know the rules and do not yield before entering the roundabout.

New comment by anonymousisme in "Hex-rays is moving to a subscription model"

anonymousisme — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:32:45 +0000

Ghidra has been publicly available for less than half the time of IDA/HexRays, but it has really caught up fast.

https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/22676...

New comment by anonymousisme in "The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of the World"

anonymousisme — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:09:30 +0000

I know this will likely get modded down, but how is this report any more credible than all the others (for other places) that say exactly the same thing? How credible are any of these reports, if they all conflict with one another?

Citation: https://youtu.be/YUV8U3yBJ6U

New comment by anonymousisme in "German car that was super-aerodynamic but impractical"

anonymousisme — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:18:07 +0000

Is that Elon Musk in the photo?