Hacker News: bvttf

New comment by bvttf in "Erlang ARM32 JIT is born"

bvttf — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:34:15 +0000

loved them complaining about having "only" 16 registers

New comment by bvttf in "Has HN Changed? I assume it's just me"

bvttf — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:00:17 +0000

It's mostly the same in my experience.

Less Lisp now, which is too bad.

New comment by bvttf in "Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome"

bvttf — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 03:44:51 +0000

Wouldn't this just make a ftp:// url fallthrough to the ftp client in Dolphin/Finder/Explorer/xdg?

Like, worst-case ChromeOS loses ftp?

New comment by bvttf in "Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract"

bvttf — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 03:31:48 +0000

So much software is dual purpose, though. "We need this moving object recognition for, uh, cars. So it knows where a moving person is, so it can avoid them."

"Yes, that's a thing we're totally doing. Cars."

New comment by bvttf in "Protecting Against HSTS Abuse"

bvttf — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 14:31:41 +0000

While I'd also like https as a default, that's not going to prevent this tracking if you still respect the intent of HSTS.

If you try https first, and that fails, do you try again over http? Whether or not you'd fallback would leak the same information.

New comment by bvttf in "How EU Cookie Law Myths Affect Web Security"

bvttf — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:09:46 +0000

going to go with Burp's devs on this one http://blog.portswigger.net/2016/05/web-storage-lesser-evil-...

New comment by bvttf in "How New York's Roosevelt Island Sucks Away Summer Trash Stink"

bvttf — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 12:37:22 +0000

So in summary, the garbage collection is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your [trash] in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

New comment by bvttf in "Makers of Crowdfunded “Gravity Blanket” Withdraw Unsupported Medical Claims"

bvttf — Sun, 14 May 2017 19:48:54 +0000

A "knock-off" like the dozen or so companies who have been selling weighted blankets for years? Forget six months, you could have one before this campaign ends.

New comment by bvttf in "Buttery Smooth Emacs"

bvttf — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 22:38:12 +0000

Don't believe Debian's lies, xscreensaver just got an update this month.

New comment by bvttf in "Krita 3.0: The Animation Release"

bvttf — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 01:00:39 +0000

Not only that, the download/announcement page says there are preview rendering bugs in OSX, and a workaround is provided.

New comment by bvttf in "Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come with Ubuntu preinstalled"

bvttf — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 13:44:46 +0000

> thinkpad has removed BIOS whitelist.

Wait, what. Link please?

New comment by bvttf in "Hackers and Heroes: Rise of the CCC and Hackerspaces"

bvttf — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 02:49:55 +0000

> What about Maker Faire, HOPE, DEF CON, etc.

OK, as someone who's been to all of these.

The team/cooperation part I think he's referring to is that CCC will have a large area dedicated different hackerspaces/assemblies. So c-base gets a corner that they decorate, as does Metalab, while many smaller hackerspaces will have a ~12-seat table dedicated to their group, where they can put up any cool projects they want to show off.

Maker Faire has something similar, where local groups will get an area to show off. HOPE has had some more topic-based assemblies like TOOOL. DEFCON has workshop tracks and more thematic "events" that happen, like DEFCON Shoot or the bike ride, but not as much of groups of real-life co-conspirators making things happen, with the notable exception of 303.

New comment by bvttf in "Birds that fear death"

bvttf — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 02:35:18 +0000

Did they do a control test with that mask and no dead bird? That fucking mask might be enough on its own.

/twajs

New comment by bvttf in "Encrypted database case #1"

bvttf — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:14:51 +0000

Any attacker above a script kiddie (where they can/want to make money off you) will have someone not as good as Dennis, but with the skill to do what's demonstrated here.

It's not that different from lots of DRM breaks.

New comment by bvttf in "Encrypted database case #1"

bvttf — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:11:40 +0000

like he says in the next paragraph, yes.

New comment by bvttf in "Purism Aims to Build a Philosophically Pure Laptop"

bvttf — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 13:05:12 +0000

Long answer: http://youtu.be/WOcYTqoSQ68 Short answer, iirc the atheros will usually play within the rules, and the free drivers aren't super officially supported so what those crazy hackers do isn't so much their responsibility.

But that's based on half-remembering that talk, which I watched five months ago.

New comment by bvttf in "USBCondom"

bvttf — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:20:39 +0000

I bought a few, the ones I got had a thick clear plastic wrapper that's not in the pictures.

New comment by bvttf in "CERN Particle Clicker"

bvttf — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:11:02 +0000

but don't hacked particles taste terrible?

New comment by bvttf in "4chan announces vulnerability disclosure program "

bvttf — Tue, 06 May 2014 17:40:11 +0000

Sad this isn't an announcement of a new /0day board that serves as a pastebin alternative.

New comment by bvttf in "TLS/SSL implementation in Haskell"

bvttf — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:52:22 +0000

Not him, but I don't think the regular lazy evaluation worry about building up a million thunks and GC hell would be as much of a problem as it being awkward to not have things happen too fast and leave side channel attacks from timing.