Hacker News: devenblake

New comment by devenblake in "Connecting to malicious Wi-Fi networks can mess with your iPhone"

devenblake — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:08:35 +0000

I thought one of the really important rules of using format strings was that you never let user input itself enter the format string, e.g. you'd never (shellscript examples) go printf "$input" versus printf "%s" "$input". But security experts are shrugging this off? This is a basic bug that went into production on an OS that millions of people use - any lack of care should be a reputation hit.

New comment by devenblake in "Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them"

devenblake — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 22:57:28 +0000

8chan if I recall formed because 4chan did away with /pol/ way way back for being too toxic to the rest of the site (it's meant to contain the scum, not breed it). 4chan eventually re-added /pol/, and 8chan, well, you know the rest there.

New comment by devenblake in "Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them"

devenblake — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 20:38:06 +0000

4chan might've cracked down on the racism, like, a decade ago, in the moot era. Have you been there lately? /pol/ took over and basically homogenized every board.

New comment by devenblake in "Troubled teens left traumatised by tough love camps"

devenblake — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 12:57:50 +0000

Happened in the United States as well (notoriously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle_Indian_Industrial_Sch...).

I was genuinely surprised to learn this in high school (for me, 2017-2021 or so) - not because it's not a notable event in US history but because I was surprised my history teacher was allowed to teach it.

New comment by devenblake in "Intermittent fasting ‘no magic bullet for weight loss’ says new study"

devenblake — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:34:56 +0000

Interesting. I've lost a lot of weight (at my lightest in years) since 2020-01-01, when my New Years' Resolution was to do 16:8 IF. Eventually left the subreddit for it because it seemed like it was goading people into forming eating disorders (which are often competetive, which is why you won't get numbers in this comment) though I kept on it until school re-started in September when I started cheating a little.

IF was probably not what caused me to lose weight. What caused me to lose weight was the mindfulness of my food intake that I developed while intermittently fasting. I significantly cut my caloric intake while remaining moderately physically active and am in much better shape for it (athletic I am not but I am fortunate to be able to walk 3-4hrs a day to and from work and additionally whenever I need groceries etc).

I wouldn't recommend IF to anyone because it can develop into an eating disorder and you are never in as much control as you think. After browsing that subreddit I doubt the odds of dieting successfully (as in, losing weight while maintaining health) are very good.

Obligatory: I am not a nutritionist, dietician, or professionally anywhere close to the health field.

New comment by devenblake in "Removed by Reddit"

devenblake — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 12:28:11 +0000

I believe this is the picture that got removed (corroborated by [1]): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper_spray_incide...

According to the associated Wikipedia article, the officer pictured is UC Davis police officer Lt. John Pike, and according to the Reddit comments the picture may have been taken down because UC Davis police officer Lt. John Pike's name was in the post title.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/o2d4fc/removed_by_red...

New comment by devenblake in "What xAAS (x-As-A-Service) would you like to build?"

devenblake — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 21:04:05 +0000

ffmpeg as a service seems neat... ffmpeg itself isn't super intuitive and beefier files heat my laptop up pretty bad. The only issues would be the usual ones regarding figuring out load distribution between servers, figuring out how to process DMCAs so as to make Disney and others' leeches happy, figuring out how to process requests to snipe illegal content, etc. (issues are plenty, but surmountable).

Bonus points for a FOSS self-hostable site. The thing that keeps me from using other sites is the awful and proprietary JS/etc there. If I have a laptop that can't run ffmpeg very well why am I expected to be able to run Chrome with more than 4GB RAM?

New comment by devenblake in "Can't Log in on Pithos [Pandora Kills OSS Clients]"

devenblake — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 14:23:44 +0000

Use proprietary services, get proprietary service. It can't be any surprise, can it? Discord is well known for doing the same.

New comment by devenblake in "The 88x31 GIF Collection"

devenblake — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:38:49 +0000

I have some on here: www.trinity.moe/stickers

Many of those are hotlinked to WayBack Machine backups of this page. 88x31s are still in use on the better parts of the web, particularly hobbyist neocities pages. I made two myself on the root of my site. There's a certain creativity necessary to work within <3000px that's mostly gone from the corporatized web today.

New comment by devenblake in "Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results"

devenblake — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 22:02:46 +0000

> Nothing is ever _really_ deleted on the good old-fashioned internet either.

Tell that to folks doing web archival.

New comment by devenblake in "Apple Is Killing Email Read Receipts, Like Entirely"

devenblake — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 13:01:37 +0000

> Sadly though, Mail Privacy Protection isn’t a win-win for all. A lot of content creators today run independent newsletters. Knowing click open rates is a valuable metric to gauge if their work resonates. It also assists in bringing sponsorships and make a living without selling ads. To their dismay, Apple has created a hole in the newsletter business.

It seems to me that hosting and tracking as many 1x1 images as newsletter recipients you have would take a sizeable amount of computer resources. Wouldn't this mean that the playing field is instead, in this respect, now slightly more level between those who have and those who have not?

New comment by devenblake in "Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar"

devenblake — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 11:15:58 +0000

And how many opt in just because the choices are "Manage site permissions... / Allow all"

New comment by devenblake in "The Double Exploitation of Deepfake Porn"

devenblake — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 03:32:22 +0000

Perhaps, but this doesn't discount the article's arguments.

New comment by devenblake in "All you need is 5 fonts"

devenblake — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 13:56:19 +0000

Relevant: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion made heavy (and iconic) use of Helvetica and Century in the English episode title cards.

New comment by devenblake in "Systemd: The Good Parts"

devenblake — Sun, 16 May 2021 20:26:23 +0000

I have a feeling if this was as simple as you say, distro maintainers would be doing it.

New comment by devenblake in "Sleep Tight (2008)"

devenblake — Sat, 15 May 2021 21:43:05 +0000

As much as I would like to take that award I don't think it fares well given how many "Just buy this $400 gadget..." comments there are here.

It's dumb to have to change a site's code to be able to read it. But if you know how to, and the font is a big enough problem... so what? Maybe other people like the font choice. It was advice targeted towards its likely viewership.

New comment by devenblake in "Sleep Tight (2008)"

devenblake — Fri, 14 May 2021 17:01:33 +0000

You can always tweak the CSS yourself or disable it altogether. Or use Lynx, in which this site looks fine.

New comment by devenblake in "Movies every physics lover should watch (2020)"

devenblake — Thu, 13 May 2021 20:24:14 +0000

Didn't know this but yup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PxTAn4g20U - scene from The Matrix Reloaded where Trinity uses nmap and sshnuke. Looks like there's a re-creation of the on-screen display here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J2IdllfHh8 but the typing is faster than in the movie.

Also, the Jurassic Park scene to which you're referring was a real picture of SGI IRIX's 3D file manager. It was visual fluff, but functional visual fluff.

New comment by devenblake in "Just Delete Me"

devenblake — Wed, 12 May 2021 20:05:45 +0000

Anyone know how to delete a suspended Twitter account? I have two (one banned for a joke about threatening people and the other banned for impersonating the state of Ohio - both reasonable and I agree with the bans) but I just want them deleted. No avenues to do so within the site, no support numbers anywhere, emails just go to a bot telling me as a matter of fact my accounts were suspended and will not be unsuspended. Do I have to move to Europe, become a citizen, and file a complaint?

New comment by devenblake in "Should you rush to get a Covid-19 vaccine? One specialist in Japan says he won't (2020)"

devenblake — Wed, 12 May 2021 18:16:03 +0000

This article is six months old. What's happened since, and does it put to rest or does it emphasize the concerns?

To me it sounds like "Should you do this thing scientists agree is safe? This one dude disagrees."