Hacker News: cryptofistMonk

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo"

cryptofistMonk — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:51:39 +0000

Ah I found this https://ctrl-c.us/posts/test-goarch I guess it's qemu-user-binfmt registering the alternate bin formats to automatically run under QEMU, that's pretty neat

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo"

cryptofistMonk — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:43:49 +0000

Wait is go test automatically running it under QEMU or what's going on here?

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game"

cryptofistMonk — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 05:59:13 +0000

Hah, got it in 4 even though my first guess started with 'a' because I didn't know this was binary search yet

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "Hacking a Virtual Power Plant"

cryptofistMonk — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 16:38:04 +0000

"They’d switch to a 4096 bit RSA key, but not only was I no longer able to mint my own API tokens, the legitimate ones I’d initially generated still worked."

I wonder how the old JWTs signed with the 512-bit key still work safely, isn't that 512-bit key cracked??

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "Deliberately optimizing for harm"

cryptofistMonk — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:11:16 +0000

This is not really that worrying IMO - we already have weaponized toxins, viruses, and enough explosives to blow up the entire planet. So what if an AI can come up with something a little bit worse? It isn't the existence of these things that's stopping us all from killing each other.

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter"

cryptofistMonk — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 15:30:46 +0000

> sounds like you're in a place where an EV doesn't make sense. They don't make sense for everybody, but that doesn't mean they aren't fine for the majority of people who drive. So don't buy an EV

Sounds great, the problem is when law makers get involved - BC is banning the sale of ICE vehicles within the next 10-15 years, the law is already on the books. Plenty of real cold places here, not to mention the fact the our electrical grid will never be able to keep up

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "Issue with TLS-ALPN-01 Validation Method"

cryptofistMonk — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 21:25:46 +0000

Damn, unfortunate that you will revoke all these certificates if there is truly no security risk. This is likely going to break a lot of our users, or require manual intervention within the next 42 hours.

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "Apple broke up with me"

cryptofistMonk — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 06:59:57 +0000

Seems like a very simple email filter would do the job, for internal emails at least

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "Which jobs most often pair together among married couples"

cryptofistMonk — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 03:53:03 +0000

Very often unpaid

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website"

cryptofistMonk — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:41:30 +0000

Presumably order numbers are easily guessable, so the md5 really offers no protection at all in this case and is no better than just using the order number

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mobile device"

cryptofistMonk — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 13:00:15 +0000

You don't even need to store multiple hashes, just check both versions of the submitted password against the one stored hash

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mobile device"

cryptofistMonk — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 12:57:47 +0000

Not necessarily, it could simply be checking both versions of the password against the hash

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "Software Dev Can't Be Automated – It’s a Creative Process with an Unknown Goal"

cryptofistMonk — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 01:16:29 +0000

It really depends how you define automating. I tend to think of writing higher level languages and even libraries and functions as automating the repetitive low-level parts of programming

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal"

cryptofistMonk — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:17:02 +0000

Forests are basically carbon neutral once they're mature, peat bogs would probably be much more effective as carbon is continually sequestered underwater.

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "Apple Maps vs. Google Maps"

cryptofistMonk — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 15:32:52 +0000

This article just showed me an ad with my exact last name embroidered on a t-shirt... Bit ironic

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "Ask HN: Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage?"

cryptofistMonk — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 23:56:38 +0000

Top 10% in the world is not very high... Top 0.01% is still only top 100 in a city of a million, seems a bit more aspirational

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "San Francisco permanently caps delivery app fees for restaurants at 15%"

cryptofistMonk — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 18:24:05 +0000

Exactly the point - when apps charge too much, people will complain and alternatives will arise.

From your second source: > "Dozens of locally owned services are proving there's a better alternative"

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "San Francisco permanently caps delivery app fees for restaurants at 15%"

cryptofistMonk — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 18:09:31 +0000

And they will become irrelevant if there are no good restaurants on their platform

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "San Francisco permanently caps delivery app fees for restaurants at 15%"

cryptofistMonk — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 18:03:30 +0000

Delivery is expensive and network effects are valuable.

Price-fixing is already illegal

New comment by cryptofistMonk in "San Francisco permanently caps delivery app fees for restaurants at 15%"

cryptofistMonk — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 17:57:45 +0000

The restriction may have made sense during a pandemic, but long term this really seems like something for markets, rather than governments, to solve