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Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

badrabbit — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 07:37:47 +0000

I want to share technical blog content but I want to author it as I am developing the content easily, screenshots and markdown would be ideal and I don't want to self host things.

What is the ideal tool to help create quality content?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41014806

Points: 120

# Comments: 133

New comment by badrabbit in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

badrabbit — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:13:56 +0000

No, the userspace program will replace it with a good version.

New comment by badrabbit in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

badrabbit — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:11:21 +0000

Their stock price will suffer but they can waive license fees for a year or so for every endpoint affected (~$50).

They better pin this on a rogue employee, but even then, force pushing updates shouldn't be in their capability at all! They must guarantee removal of that capability.

Lawsuits should be interesting. They offer(ed?) $1 mil breach insurance to their customers, so if they were to pay only that much per customer this might be compensation north of $10B. But to be honest, wouldn't surprise me if they can pay up without going bankrupt.

The sad situation is, as twitter people were pointing out, IT teams will use this to push back against more agents for a long time to come. But in reality, these agents are very important.

Crowdstrike Falcon alone is probably the single biggest security improvement any company can make and there is hardly any competition. This could have been any security vendor, the impact is so widespread because of how widely used they are, but there is a reason why they are so widely used to begin with.

Oh and just fyi, the mitigation won't leave you unprotected, when you boot normal, the userspace exe's will replace it with a fixed version.

New comment by badrabbit in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

badrabbit — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:02:12 +0000

Yes, it offers very real protection. Crowdstrike in particular is the best in the market, speaking from experience and having worked with their competitor's products as well and responded to real world compromises.

New comment by badrabbit in "Feds arrest telehealth execs for overprescribing Adderall"

badrabbit — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:07:15 +0000

So long as those people are adults who are functional (can care for themselves), it isn't society's business to protect them from self-harm. Your sensible checks are violations of liberty. A person's right and authority over themselves being infringed is a loss of liberty. Society gets involved when their actions affect non-consenting members of society.

New comment by badrabbit in "Intel details Skymont"

badrabbit — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:45:31 +0000

More cores and memory channels+bandwidth would have been nice.

New comment by badrabbit in "Feds arrest telehealth execs for overprescribing Adderall"

badrabbit — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:43:04 +0000

If we aren't regulated then anti-drug laws shouldn't exist. A government made up of it's people cannot regulate it's people by virtue of having a superior self control or wisdom. How can there be liberty without this?

New comment by badrabbit in "Feds arrest telehealth execs for overprescribing Adderall"

badrabbit — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 03:05:27 +0000

Those are private properties or privileged activities. Eating poison, in your private home being regulated means your home is not truly yours and you have no liberty.

New comment by badrabbit in "Feds arrest telehealth execs for overprescribing Adderall"

badrabbit — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 03:02:41 +0000

So we are properties regulated by the state, even though the state is made up of laypersons?

New comment by badrabbit in "Hello world in C inline assembly (2018)"

badrabbit — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 03:00:21 +0000

Try this with visual studio and x64. Microsoft!!

New comment by badrabbit in "Feds arrest telehealth execs for overprescribing Adderall"

badrabbit — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:19:39 +0000

Ok, why not?

New comment by badrabbit in "Feds arrest telehealth execs for overprescribing Adderall"

badrabbit — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:18:45 +0000

Some free society we live in. The feds are just looking out for their real employers: the oligarchs and their companies.

New comment by badrabbit in "Why I Like Programming in C [video]"

badrabbit — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:04:23 +0000

If they stuck to binary libraries that would have been nice but since you have to build deps locally and match up the right versions, go and rust programs have been a constant headache for me similar to python. The version from debian repos never seems to be good enough, I have to install it from upstream and maintain it.

New comment by badrabbit in "Why I Like Programming in C [video]"

badrabbit — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:01:25 +0000

While I still do run into 2.7 code, even for 3 dependencies are the problem. You always use a library of some kind and that library could use a new python feature. You could pin it but then other scripts that need the new version break. And that is if you could even easily find the module and version. Just this week I helped someone troubleshoot a bug they've been trying to fix for weeks/months and it was just a matter of the library code being too new for 3.6. It's an ever growing planned mess.

New comment by badrabbit in "Why I Like Programming in C [video]"

badrabbit — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:53:09 +0000

Not if you use any libraries. The whole venv/pyenv/pipx stuff of python needs to implemented for other languages too. Every program needing it's own virtual environment and tooling for every build.

New comment by badrabbit in "Why I Like Programming in C [video]"

badrabbit — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:44:39 +0000

C is enjoyable to write with although if others rely on your code, safety should have a higher priority.

The one thing I could never enjoy in C after getting used to languages like php and python is string handling. It isn't just dangerous but very tedious, complex and lacking elegance. Lack of a native string type and string operators really sucks.

I like being able to do "hello "+"world".

Another pro the author didn't mention is how my crapy code from 10yrs ago still works today. Can't say that about rust, go, python or most modern languages. It really sucks how "planned obsolecence" has crept it's way into programming languages.

New comment by badrabbit in "How the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld"

badrabbit — Fri, 31 May 2024 22:53:02 +0000

There doesn't have to be anything new. You don't have to participate or gatekeep anyone from participating on a continued discussion.

New comment by badrabbit in "Cyber house of cards – Politicians' personal details exposed online"

badrabbit — Fri, 31 May 2024 22:52:13 +0000

People look at this and think "dumb politicians" but that's not the right conclusion. The security teams responsible for protecting them are to blame, yes, even for poor password choices and drarkweb leaks.

New comment by badrabbit in "How the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld"

badrabbit — Sat, 25 May 2024 20:17:02 +0000

Let's discuss it again?

New comment by badrabbit in "The Washington Post Tells Staff It's Pivoting to AI"

badrabbit — Fri, 24 May 2024 12:21:18 +0000

It's a paid product. Who wants to pay to read AI content? If you're monetizing on ads this would make sense but if I pay for WaPo it is because of the reputation it has thanks to human investigative journalists.