Hacker News: cyberlab

New comment by cyberlab in "Edward Snowden ousts a scammer during live stream [video]"

cyberlab — Mon, 03 May 2021 13:06:32 +0000

Have you seen Invidious? https://invidious.tube/feed/popular

What is LBRY exactly? Is it a protocol, an app, a website, or a company?

cyberlab — Sun, 02 May 2021 16:59:39 +0000

Article URL: https://lbry.com/faq/what-is-lbry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016769

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by cyberlab in "The CEO That Jeff Bezos Called “His Teacher”"

cyberlab — Sat, 01 May 2021 22:08:40 +0000

Amazon is this super well oiled machine. People never think of it that way. They just think: 'Amazon: Oh yeah that e-commerce store where I buy my gadgets and groceries'. But it's so much more complex and nuanced. What I always loved about it is the self-dogfooding that happens with AWS. The fact the store uses it means they get to use AWS for free (in a sense). It's pretty clever.

React Authentication, Simplified

cyberlab — Sat, 01 May 2021 22:04:25 +0000

Article URL: https://davidwalsh.name/react-authentication-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27010302

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cyberlab in "Fediverse.Party – Explore Federated Networks"

cyberlab — Sat, 01 May 2021 21:53:38 +0000

> Sadly, many of them look like ghost towns

That is why I think we are still in early days of the (fediverse-powered) web. All this fringe tech will blossom eventually and we can live the 'decentralists dream' we all seem to be pushing for. Give it time. Yes, effort is still needed, and we all need to do our part to make it work, but simply being patient too, waiting for all this tech to bloom will be worth it.

New comment by cyberlab in "CEO fired for microdosing LSD"

cyberlab — Sat, 01 May 2021 21:48:50 +0000

Shrooms actually help with visual acuity (at least according to Terrence McKenna). I recall him saying it in a talk. His 'stoned ape' theory suggests that people used to take shrooms before hunting to give them an unfair advantage.

New comment by cyberlab in "Edward Snowden ousts a scammer during live stream [video]"

cyberlab — Sat, 01 May 2021 21:46:16 +0000

Only learning now that that site is built using a thing called LBRY[0]. What a fascinating thing to learn about. I should have known about it earlier. Might build a few things with this...

[0] https://lbry.com/faq/what-is-lbry

New comment by cyberlab in "Edward Snowden ousts a scammer during live stream [video]"

cyberlab — Sat, 01 May 2021 16:20:12 +0000

Yes, here's the timestamp URL:

https://youtu.be/Hv3UC4lz3oQ?t=468

New comment by cyberlab in "Linux Hypervisor Setup (Libvirt/QEMU/KVM)"

cyberlab — Sat, 01 May 2021 16:15:01 +0000

Browse with JS disabled by default. Then in uBlock Origin you can temporarily whitelist the page and browse it with JS enabled if it really requires it.

New comment by cyberlab in "[dead]"

cyberlab — Sat, 01 May 2021 16:13:27 +0000

Good OPSEC practice using Medium for your anonymous parody ramblings. I know some people genuinely wanting to be anonymous and their full legal name is in the whois records of the domain!

A Beginner's Guide to Nootropics

cyberlab — Sat, 01 May 2021 15:35:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/nootropics/wiki/beginners

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27007104

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cyberlab in "CEO fired for microdosing LSD"

cyberlab — Sat, 01 May 2021 15:33:00 +0000

It would be wise not to disclose it, if you do decide to microdose for the purposes of productivity. There are many people who don't tell their coworkers that they take certain medicine in order to be functional. LSD is no exception. It's a tool like any other molecule or medicine.

The Seeker's Guide to Microdosing Magic Mushrooms

cyberlab — Sat, 01 May 2021 15:31:01 +0000

Article URL: https://entheonation.com/microdosing-magic-mushrooms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27007068

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cyberlab in "QEMU 6.0"

cyberlab — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:11:59 +0000

Is there any screenshots of the QEMU GUI running? I'm thinking of using it, but I am aghast that there's no screenshots page on the website.

Also: how do you pass files into QEMU? Does it have software similar to Virtualbox's 'guest additions' software?

Open Policy Agent – Policy-based control for cloud native environments

cyberlab — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:07:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openpolicyagent.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26984391

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Using VSCode without the Microsoft tracking with VSCodium

cyberlab — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:06:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_eFYsuV1PU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26984384

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cyberlab in "DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information"

cyberlab — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:58:11 +0000

It's not very damaging though. What good is `the last four digits` of a credit card? Also: Although PII was leaked, how useful is that, when previous breaches have exposed half the planet already? If I want someone's SSN to do identity theft, then I can access that very readily and easily in other breach corpuses, and they don't need to be in this breach.

Firewalla – Cybersecurity Firewall for Your Family and Business

cyberlab — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:54:33 +0000

Article URL: https://firewalla.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26984266

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cyberlab in "Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster"

cyberlab — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:36:23 +0000

There seems to be a lot of people very focused on keeping a lot of tabs open in their browser. For me, I browse the web, hit CTRL+D for a site that I would like to visit again later, and then close all my tabs automatically by simply quitting the browser. Why do people hoard URLs in the tabstrip? I guess that's how people use the web+browsers now, and my approach is very unique and unpopular.

I know for me I have several Firefox profiles for different things, and doing cumbersome things like creating a new Firefox profile for task `x` is too much for people, but splitting sessions up is a big win both for privacy and productivity. If I'm in a browser tailor made for email, there is a better chance I will focus only on email and not trying to do something else.

Compartmenting your browsing like this is good for privacy because secrets can't spill over into other sites since your more sensitive browsing is done in a separate session, insulated from work email, and cookies can't correlate activity, and build a profile of you. Bonus points if you do all your political browsing in things like the Tor Browser Bundle or use privacy-aware browsers like Brave or Firefox. But that's just me!

New comment by cyberlab in "Ask HN: How many projects do you work on at a time?"

cyberlab — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:16:38 +0000

I swing between some kind of superhuman 'do all the things' productivity freak, and a singularly focused person all the time. When the circumstances are right, I will go full `sprint mode` and achieve a lot in a small amount of time. Other times I am in `marathon mode` where many-littles-make-a-lot and something much more complex is completed.

I have no exact number of projects, since my work is so intertwined with other projects, so the number varies often wildly as time goes on. But if you wanted to force a number out of me I would say 6-7 major projects and many mini sub-projects which get better over time due to gradual microhabits being cultivated over time.