Hacker News: buccal

New comment by buccal in "Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled"

buccal — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:03:27 +0000

Adobe provides PDF viewer that is embedded in Edge...

New comment by buccal in "An AI‑enabled device code phishing campaign"

buccal — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:27:11 +0000

Microsoft leaves mitigation of this known and quite powerful phishing vector behind additional licensing requirements. You cannot reliably block Microsoft Entra device code flow without Entra ID Premium P1.

Password managers, FIDO keys will not help you as the authentication flow is happening in Microsoft servers.

An AI‑enabled device code phishing campaign

buccal — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:27:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/04/06/ai-enabled-device-code-phishing-campaign-april-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48092443

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by buccal in "ADT says customer data stolen in cyber intrusion"

buccal — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:25:51 +0000

In EU:

Violators of GDPR (personal data) may be fined up to €20 million, or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is greater.

Under NIS2 (cybersecurity), financial penalties may be up to either €10 million or 2% of the global yearly revenue, again, whichever is the greater amount.

New comment by buccal in "The RAM shortage could last years"

buccal — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:33:31 +0000

Teams works similarly in browser tab and "natively". Slack was similar if I remember correctly.

New comment by buccal in "ChatGPT for Excel"

buccal — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:10:37 +0000

You should try MS Copilot which uses open source Python libraries to interact with Office file formats.

The libraries themselves are OK, but MS uses them stupidly. If you want to fill out some form in DOCX or XSLX format you will get broken formatting. And this is from Office company.

New comment by buccal in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

buccal — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:20:13 +0000

Well there is https://www.crowdsupply.com/eevengers/thunderscope

With USB4/TB you can get quite far in both latency and throughput. Actually there are network adapters with TB connection that are just TB to PCIe adapters and PCIe network card.

New comment by buccal in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

buccal — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:56:00 +0000

You should not have to hack Explorer to make it usable.

New comment by buccal in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

buccal — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:53:20 +0000

Now you have "rounded edges" in Edge that add a content area limiting margins to all sides. Also, they took an open source browser and do not provide the source for Edge. So much for love of open source.

New comment by buccal in "Poor Man's Polaroid"

buccal — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:06:26 +0000

One shop network used blue paper here but changed to white some time ago.

Contrast was not great but I guess the price was the reason for the change.

New comment by buccal in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

buccal — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:29:32 +0000

I'm trying paid tier Gemini and it doesn't allow to keep have personal chat history when you disable training on your data, on reload of the page your chat is gone. Even free tier of ChatGPT allows disabling training on your data while allowing to keep such basic functionality.

Some technical advancements are not worth it if you do not respect your users.

New comment by buccal in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

buccal — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:04:30 +0000

Without unofficial bypasses of MS online account requirements you would not come to a point where activation is a concern. No internet access is not enough of a reason for MS let you use your device.

New comment by buccal in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

buccal — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:01:42 +0000

Still in some cases you have to wait a few minutes to get working Start menu search or menu itself on a new not low-end device.

New comment by buccal in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

buccal — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:09:47 +0000

You ran unverified debloat scripts (that could break in unexpected ways) on a clean "Pro" system to make it usable. It is and should be unacceptable.

By the way, Home version does not differ in annoyances from Pro version in any significant way in my experience.

New comment by buccal in "OrangePi 6 Plus Review"

buccal — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:31:12 +0000

Olimex does provide both open source hardware and open source software for example: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/STMP1/STMP157-OLin...

New comment by buccal in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

buccal — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:21:34 +0000

Speaking of online use please see: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/ https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-online/ https://www.onlyoffice.com/docs

New comment by buccal in "UniFi 5G"

buccal — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:46:39 +0000

> I really wish the people who put so much effort into software like OpenWRT would put some of that effort into managing multiple devices in a nice, unified manner. The tooling could be so much better.

There is OpenWISP: Leveraging Linux OpenWrt, OpenWISP is an open-source solution for efficient IT network deployment, monitoring & management.

New comment by buccal in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

buccal — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:15:18 +0000

For me real grain looks much better than digital smoothness. That is important for big prints.

New comment by buccal in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

buccal — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:34:59 +0000

It does support calculation: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide...

New comment by buccal in "Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond"

buccal — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:23:03 +0000

240V AC and 5V DC manage to live close in a charger without problems. Problems with quality does not depend on voltage. I love the concept of PoE with one exception that it requires constant 1W or similar load to work even if it is not needed for low power device.