<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: cmroanirgo</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cmroanirgo</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 10:06:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cmroanirgo" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "Blockchains by number of nodes/validators"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is valuable to one person may not be to another. Does that make it a scam? Most people are adamant that gold is a fundamental unit of value, and yet it's paper value (by volume) is 10x the real thing¹. Does that make gold a scam?<p>Personally, I'm much more interested in the value inherent in the Human Spirit, but others place almost no value on human life. Insurance companies place a dollar value on human life. I look at words like <i>human resources</i> and see how it collectivises individuals and turns them into cattle, putting a dollar value on something I think is priceless.<p>People addicted to power are really interested in how many people they can control. Using this metric, managers, ceo's, etc are all buying into the scam that people have value but they're worth less than themselves. Using this metric any job is a scam, & it rides on the back of the notion that a piece of paper with $100 marked on it, formerly backed by gold, is actually worth anything.<p>¹ <a href="https://intelligent-partnership.com/paper-gold-volumes-vs-physical-gold-volumes/" rel="nofollow">https://intelligent-partnership.com/paper-gold-volumes-vs-ph...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 20:10:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32728869</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32728869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32728869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "A fully open-source and end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Obsidian is not FOSS"<p><a href="https://forum.obsidian.md/t/publish-the-android-mobile-app-as-foss-on-f-droid-or-as-indendent-apk/20480/2" rel="nofollow">https://forum.obsidian.md/t/publish-the-android-mobile-app-a...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2022 08:32:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711066</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TLS Fingerprinting with JA3 and JA3S]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://engineering.salesforce.com/tls-fingerprinting-with-ja3-and-ja3s-247362855967/">https://engineering.salesforce.com/tls-fingerprinting-with-ja3-and-ja3s-247362855967/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32704270">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32704270</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2022 17:48:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://engineering.salesforce.com/tls-fingerprinting-with-ja3-and-ja3s-247362855967/</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32704270</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32704270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "Framework is now available in Australia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Compare the 'Performance' model (i7-1260P, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) $2269AUD with a similar StarBook with Linux and choice of firmware (Am' Megatrends vs Coreboot) at $1831AUD, and the StarBook has plenty of ports too. The 400nit display is also very enticing to me.<p><a href="https://au.starlabs.systems/products/starbook?variant=42931360596222" rel="nofollow">https://au.starlabs.systems/products/starbook?variant=429313...</a><p>Every day I consider getting one... or an M2. But the deal breaker for an M1/M2 is the soldered SSD.<p>edited: typo in price</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2022 09:13:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32688503</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32688503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32688503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "Crawler Hints supports Microsoft’s IndexNow in helping users find new content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Although I agree heartily with the idea of a push model for search engines, I can't help but notice that it seems to provide more centralisation to the search engines out there.<p>Here on HN we've been seeing posts of alternate search engines. How will those small bespoke engines make use of IndexNow unless the website participates?<p>The way I see IndexNow, I'll still get crawled relentlessly by the bots I don't want crawling my site (because robots.txt never seems to apply to <i>them</i> unless there's a special listing explicitly for them)<p>So, unless you're a participating search engine, a website will still be getting crawled by low hanging fruit, not alleviating the problem.<p>A good compromise would be something like an RSS feed, which a site can publish, and crawlers can hit for updated changes. It would also allow easier management for those domains that have many moving parts: individual search engines can be pinged, but the search engine just grabs the changes.xml file... Or something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2022 20:40:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32622966</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32622966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32622966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "Ushering out strlcpy()"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It definitely gets a bit murky when dealing with mbcs, when you want characters spanning multiple bytes rather than individual bytes.<p>I understand the topic is strXxx() funcs which are ascii only, but it does need to be said that size!=len for wide and multi char sets.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2022 07:17:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32616627</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32616627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32616627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "Class action against Oracle’s worldwide surveillance machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why should people have to buy extra services for a non free piece of hardware just to remain ad free on that hardware? Apple is double dipping here (probably triple dipping if you also include AppStore fees and charges).<p>People want to be able to own the things they buy, without further nonsense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:07:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32571525</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32571525</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32571525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "SSH commit verification now supported"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>there is no ...reliable way to verify the identity of a creator's SSH key</i><p>GitHub exposes your public key via it's API. (Why? I have no idea. I call it a privacy violation)
So, you need to create new github identity for every SSH identity that you wish to remain anonymous for, otherwise they just get tied together & one aspect of anonymity is lost.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 20:25:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32570984</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32570984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32570984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "Military drone swarms and how to combat them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps rather than assuming that the other should lower their weapons first, it might be more prudent to lower your own first.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 05:54:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32560915</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32560915</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32560915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author explains why it's on GH.<p>> <i>I’ve worked with this code as a researcher and I use it to teach my classes, so it’s important to me that it stays easily-accessible on a major site like GitHub. (This is not the only copy, in fact it’s a fork of someone else’s.)</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:42:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32558226</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32558226</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32558226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "Unicode Utilities: Confusables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>DNS support is no where near Unicode. At best we get local language support for non-ASCII domains, but everyone else will see it as punycode. Of course, phishing is one good reason why it's this.<p>> <i>Internationalized domain names are stored in the Domain Name System (DNS) as ASCII strings using Punycode transcription.</i><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2022 07:11:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538032</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "How does Fox vs. CNN compare in topic/event coverage over the last week?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wish everyone knew about Edward Bernays, nephew of Freud, and father of modern propaganda, aka public relations, aka marketing.¹²<p>It's a real eye opener to be able to notice when you're being manipulated  (often emotionally) by the others, including family and friends. The media and ad industries have been playing us for years. It lets you reevaluate where <i>you</i> stand as opposed to where you <i>think</i> you stand. I went through a period of outrage, violation & hate while learning this, but came out with a lot more calm & acceptance as a result. I haven't had a TV in 10 years & find it really irritating to watch bc of the way you're unnaturally enticed to resonate for or against whatever is being presented (note, I still do watch some movies). I think it's in everyone's best interests to learn to be in control ones own mind, free of manipulation.<p>¹ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays</a><p>² <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american-mind-edward-bernays-and-the-birth-of-public-relations-44393" rel="nofollow">https://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:29:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32514486</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32514486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32514486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "High Court of Australia rules hyperlinking is not publishing [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As much as I'd like torrents to be more tolerated, there is a difference in that the torrent sites contain the .torrent files which contains all the necessary info to download files. ie, They're supplying more than just a link.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2022 02:02:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32491443</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32491443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32491443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "PGPP (Pretty Good Phone Privacy) Beta Launch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can buy visa gift cards for cash</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 20:14:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32431160</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32431160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32431160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "Backyard hens’ eggs contain 40 times more lead on average than shop eggs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looking at the maps, the worst levels are in the city centre, not in the suburbs, which is a weird result because it hints at pollution being a cause, but there would be less chickens being raised there than in the suburbs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:19:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32426023</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32426023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32426023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "The mechanics of a sophisticated phishing scam and how we stopped it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have a look at their timeline. Very impressive, 3 mins from first sign (2 mins from first report), the domain is blocked.<p>(Edited a bit for brevity & mobiles)<p>> 22:49 UTC  Attacker sends out 100+ SMS messages...<p>> 22:50 UTC Employees begin reporting SMS messages...<p>> 22:52 UTC Verify that the attacker's domain is blocked in Cloudflare Gateway for corporate devices.<p>> 22:58 UTC Warning communication sent to all employees across chat and email.<p>etc</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 20:55:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32418317</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32418317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32418317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "The mechanics of a sophisticated phishing scam and how we stopped it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was thinking of the twitter breach - just mention CF in your tweets or profile and become a target.<p>It should be a simple matter for CF to figure out which is the case.<p>It would be nice to know if CF customers were also targeted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 20:44:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32418173</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32418173</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32418173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "ÆPIC Leak: Architecturally leaking uninitialized data from the microarchitecture [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been a long time away from CPU architecture, but isn't it time that instructions are added that target the caches so that they only fetch the size of the data allocated? That way there's no leaking of errant memory? Or did I completely misunderstand the problem set (which is likely)?<p>So far in our languages we have two bits of information, the start pointer and the size (the latter being stored as a variable, or intrinsically as a block size), whereas the OS/framework itself often only needs the pointer...<p>If there was a system that allowed the tightly coupled block of memory to be represented as an op code for the caches, wouldn't that fix up all of this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 22:25:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32405323</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32405323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32405323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "The tooling ecosystem that adds joy to KiCad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A comment from the reddit link which makes their alternate seem appropriate (I haven't used kiCad since around 2010, so have no opinion either way):<p>> <i>What KiCad does have is "push and shove" routing, which is really nice. As you're trying to manually route a new trace, it will push existing traces out of the way as you incrementally route the new one. This is a huge time saver as you manually route your board.</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:57:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32394973</link><dc:creator>cmroanirgo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32394973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32394973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cmroanirgo in "Circle USDC has blacklisted every Ethereum address sanctioned by the US Treasury"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is related to the discussion of  Tornado Cash being removed from GH:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32389706" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32389706</a></p>
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