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Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers

drewmol — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 20:45:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/us/swatting-investigation-server-network-discovered

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352517

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New comment by drewmol in "DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing"

drewmol — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:14:17 +0000

Having used OBS before (not the OP) it is much more feature rich and widely used.

New comment by drewmol in "Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows"

drewmol — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 22:20:22 +0000

Some generations of labradoodles are hypoallergenic from my understanding.

New comment by drewmol in "48% of NYC riders do not pay the bus fare"

drewmol — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 02:57:13 +0000

I’m now wondering what the ratio for the subway is, do half the people skip paying the subway fare?

New comment by drewmol in "Tell HN: Equifax free credit report dark patterns"

drewmol — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 01:41:16 +0000

IMO, Leaked is probably the better word here. Equifax did not steal the data in the first place either, they recorded/copied it from other sources which leaked or sold it to them.

New comment by drewmol in "Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users"

drewmol — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:48:25 +0000

Not sure why the downvotes but this is cool I wasn’t aware of this technology, thanks!

New comment by drewmol in "Modern iOS Navigation Patterns"

drewmol — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 07:39:51 +0000

Have you tried old.reddit.com?

New comment by drewmol in "Homes need to be built for better internet"

drewmol — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:10:23 +0000

If you not familiar check out powerline network adapters and access points. Not as good as cat6+ but better than WiFi as backhaul, I've been pleasantly surprised with the performance and throughput of the newer standards. You can get up to 2400 Mbps with the recent models.

New comment by drewmol in "How does Shazam work? (2022)"

drewmol — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 01:34:06 +0000

I'd sure like a Shazam for ads with mute capability, something I've been thinking about building for some time now just don't see any road to profitability and not getting adblock blocked.

New comment by drewmol in "YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster"

drewmol — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 01:25:54 +0000

Is anybody working on a way to mute ads? Like listen to everything and detect ads, remote control volume on the device playing them?

New comment by drewmol in "Advertiser exodus expected to deeply impact X ad revenue, analysis indicates"

drewmol — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 20:39:52 +0000

I think it was claims to the frequency.

New comment by drewmol in "It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian"

drewmol — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 23:58:54 +0000

And Experian pays your company for the data through programs like The Work Number

New comment by drewmol in "Signal Public Username Testing (Staging Environment)"

drewmol — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:49:17 +0000

Ahh I didn't grok that, Thx it makes sense now.

New comment by drewmol in "Signal Public Username Testing (Staging Environment)"

drewmol — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:41:39 +0000

>Reset someone's password using my email address

How does that work?

New comment by drewmol in "US citizens with permanent disabilities get free lifetime pass to National Parks"

drewmol — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 23:55:32 +0000

I wonder if it's ADHD or just the side effects of continual stimulant usage that causes worst COVID outcomes. Stimulants can be hell on a lot of bodily system functions.

New comment by drewmol in "The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines"

drewmol — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 09:32:31 +0000

tired vehicles

New comment by drewmol in "uBlock-Origin – 1.52.0"

drewmol — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 07:22:48 +0000

Great that's what I was looking for, I'll try combining the two.

New comment by drewmol in "uBlock-Origin – 1.52.0"

drewmol — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 07:20:09 +0000

Sorry, I could have been more clear. Brave is a browser with a feature called Shield, an anti-tracking feature, a click of the icon disables it/reloads page. So my workflow is up to 3 clicks if I just want to disable everything, which I do when I'm in a hurry sometimes.

I was wondering how often you had to interact with uBO mostly, which was answered in sibling comment.

I'm switching back to an android phone, mostly for a better browsing experience, so I'll try Firefox/NoScript+uBO combo. I'm using uMatrix everywhere else(except on iOS) but no uBO, I thought uMatrix covered everything uBO does but I guess not so I'll try both.

Also, I believe some versions of nightly Firefox (on mobile) can support uMatrix, IIRC.

Thanks for the breakdown!

New comment by drewmol in "uBlock-Origin – 1.52.0"

drewmol — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:17:01 +0000

You use both(UbO and uMatrix)? I didn’t realize uMatrix dev had been discontinued until just now, but between Brave shields and uMatrix I do a lot of clicking just to get stuff to work properly when browsing. Do you have to toggle/config uBlock often?

New comment by drewmol in "Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you"

drewmol — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 23:55:34 +0000

I think you are (missing the point). Often speed traps are about enforcing typically unenforceable regulations in bulk to reduce the effort. Among other problems. Also this advice doesn’t help if you do want to drive past the limit.