<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: desdiv</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=desdiv</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:03:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=desdiv" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by desdiv in "Using a catch-all domain is a mistake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For people who are having problem with the "hilton@domain.com" situation, consider using ROT13 or some other similar scheme (hilton becomes uvygba).<p>Other alternatives include:<p>1. shorten it so much that it's not revealing anymore (hil@domain.com)<p>2. use another language if you're multilingual (hiruton@domain.com for Japanese)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2022 20:40:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31587779</link><dc:creator>desdiv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31587779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31587779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by desdiv in "US Army's Land Trains (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Zimmermann Telegram was WW1 though, not WW2.</p>
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<p>Pointy-Haired Boss, Dilbert reference.<p><a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Pointy-haired_Boss" rel="nofollow">https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Pointy-haired_Boss</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2022 08:11:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31364693</link><dc:creator>desdiv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31364693</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31364693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by desdiv in "Ask HN: Was this a phishing attempt?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many people reuse emails and passwords, so if such a victim sign up for scam.com, all of their other credentials were basically compromised too.<p>(Not saying that that's what's happening here. I initially suspected that amazon.jobs was a scam site; I think OP did too, hence the question.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2022 23:58:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31162416</link><dc:creator>desdiv</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31162416</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31162416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by desdiv in "Cryptocurrency as a cybersecurity alarm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The point of this type of honeypots is to entice the blackhats to just take the crypto and walk away. Making it harder for them to walk away with the money would be counter-productive.<p>Old situation: blackhats sticks around for weeks or even months, exfiltrate data, blackmail, install crypto miners, etc.<p>With crypto honeypot: blackhats take the crypto and leaves.<p>With rigged crypto honeypots that are actually not redeemable:<p>><i>on the hacker forums:</i><p>>Guy A: "I tried to take the bitcoins from Corp A's honeypot wallet, but they broadcasted a high fee transaction and beat me to it."<p>>Guy B: "Funny, same thing happened to me last week with Corp B's wallet."<p>>Guy A: "Guess it's back to the old blackmail method then."</p>
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<p>>How do payroll and taxes work in that industry?<p>I don't have personal knowledge of the marijuana industry, but IRS's site says they accept cash and Money Orders.<p>There's a $1,000 per day limit for cash, so it's not really feasible for large businesses. Instead, I think you can make Money Orders by going to Western Union or USPS, if banks are to be avoided.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-payment-options" rel="nofollow">https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-payment-options</a></p>
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<p>>Only now have measures been taken, as people living within a radius of 15km from Zwijndrecht being advised not to consume eggs laid in their own or anyone’s else’s gardens, whilst pregnant women and children also have to watch out for vegetables from one’s own garden.[0]<p>[0] <a href="https://www.brusselstimes.com/175561/3m-zwijndrecht-oosterweel-pfos-pfas-flemish-parliament-committee-ovam-pollution" rel="nofollow">https://www.brusselstimes.com/175561/3m-zwijndrecht-oosterwe...</a></p>
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<p>>JEP400: UTF-8 by Default<p>This changes the default charset of the Java APIs to UTF-8.<p>I read that the Java 8's JVM's internal string representation is UTF-16 [0][1]. Is that still the case after JEP400?<p>[0] <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/intl/overview.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/intl/...</a><p>[1] <a href="http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java/strings.html" rel="nofollow">http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java/strings.html</a></p>
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<p>It's not a typo because 400A is indeed the highest tier residential service BC Hydro currently offers[0]. 400A is also in the right ballpark for the amount of equipment he describes.<p>[0] <a href="https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/electrical-connections/charges-fees.html" rel="nofollow">https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/electrical-connecti...</a></p>
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<p>I see two possible ways:<p>1. during the TLS handshake, the domain name itself might be sent in the clear if the SNI extension is used, and if the SNI extension isn't encrypted[1]<p>2. if the carrier knows the IP, then they can do a reverse DNS lookup to find the domain name<p>[1] <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/499591/are-https-urls-encrypted?rq=1" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/499591/are-https-urls-en...</a></p>
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<p>Sorry, I wasn't clear: I'm not advocating for any particular method. I was just trying to explain why Myth #1 remained so persistent for so long.<p>Method 1: salt and pepper, then cook immediately<p>Method 2: salt and pepper, let rest, then cook<p>Method 3: salting hours in advance, let it sit in the fridge, then cook<p>Obviously 3 > 2 > 1, but Method 3 wasn't done historically (by most cooks). Cooks either went with Method 1 or Method 2, and Method 2 "won" out in the end because people consistently noticed that it produced better results. Myth #1 was an incorrect explanation as to why Method 2 is better than Method 1.</p>
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<p>There's a reason why Myth #1 is so persistent: the action itself works, just not for the reason advertised.<p>Most cooks who advocate for Myth #1 will salt and pepper the steak, then let it rest for 20-30 minutes. The salt draws out some of the moisture from the surface of the steak and leaves it behind on the resting surface. The less moisture that enters the pan means better browning.</p>
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<p>Do you happen to have a source for that?<p>My understanding is that Napoleon's Continental System caused a shortage of cocoa in continental Europe, so chocolatiers had to substitute in hazelnuts. This became Gianduja[0], which later were modified to become Nutella.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianduja_(chocolate)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianduja_(chocolate)</a></p>
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<p>Bitwarden. Both the client and the server is open source. You can selfhost the server, or you can use their server.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-introduces-game-changing-exynos-2200-processor-with-xclipse-gpu-powered-by-amd-rdna-2-architecture">https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-introduces-game-changing-exynos-2200-processor-with-xclipse-gpu-powered-by-amd-rdna-2-architecture</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29975879">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29975879</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
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<p>From 2007:<p>>A May SEC filing revealed Berkshire owned 10.5 million shares of Union Pacific unp and nearly 6.4 million shares of Norfolk Southern nsc.<p>>Berkshire omitted those investments from a quarterly summary of its stock holdings filed earlier this month because the SEC allowed the company to keep them confidential, so it's not clear how much Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern stock Berkshire currently owns.<p>[1] <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=3550477&page=1" rel="nofollow">https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=3550477&page=1</a><p>Berkshire's 2022 ownership of UP (if it exists) is less than 1%.[2]<p>[2] <a href="https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?symb=UNP&subView=institutional" rel="nofollow">https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?s...</a></p>
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<p>> Was there some notification of this change sent directly to all github users? I checked email and didn't find any references to the change from github.<p>Same here. No notification email as far as I can find. (Through this might depend on your notification settings? I have mine set to the minimal.)<p>>Is there some other automated system to become aware of changes like this, other than stumbling upon a HN post?<p>Github offer the web changelog, their RSS changelog, and the Twitter account @GHchangelog. These three all relay the same information, and ironically all three missed announcing this important change. Instead they posted a blog post[0] which was not linked at all by the changelogs.<p>So to answer your question: you need to follow all updates on both <a href="https://github.blog/changelog" rel="nofollow">https://github.blog/changelog</a> AND <a href="https://github.blog" rel="nofollow">https://github.blog</a>.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/" rel="nofollow">https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-securi...</a></p>
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<p>>It was also very funny to watch because they spelled words that most people didn't know they exist.<p>This kinda reminds me of the New Zealand Scrabble player who won multiple French World Scrabble Championships despite not speaking French. He just memorized the French Scrabble dictionary.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_player)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_playe...</a></p>
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<p>He has his upwork profile linked in his HN profile. Sounds like he has a niche and he's very very good at it.</p>
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<p>>You are honestly not allowed to put a letter in a friend/neighbour's letterbox?<p>Yes, that is correct. If you want to hand deliver a note to your nextdoor neighbor, their mailbox is off limits. The federal government views that mailbox as some sort of exclusive domain of the USPS. You can leave the note anywhere, other than their mailbox.<p>The text of the law is:<p>>Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits any mailable matter such as statements of accounts, circulars, sale bills, or other like matter, on which no postage has been paid, in any letter box established, approved, or accepted by the Postal Service for the receipt or delivery of mail matter on any mail route with intent to avoid payment of lawful postage thereon, shall for each such offense be fined under this title.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1725" rel="nofollow">https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1725</a><p>(An interesting possibility would be to affix the correct USPS stamp on the note, void said stamp by crossing it out, then hand delivering the note into someone's mailbox. In that case the correct postage would have been paid, so maybe that might be legal? Not a lawyer, just pondering an interesting possibility out loud.)</p>
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