Hacker News: dvno42

New comment by dvno42 in "You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow"

dvno42 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:02:37 +0000

Yasunori Mitsuda's music has had a lasting impression on me. From Chrono to Xenogears and beyond, I had some strong feels associated with his music. Thanks for sharing that link :D

New comment by dvno42 in "Ask HN: AI Panic, you buying it?"

dvno42 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:05:01 +0000

No, this all reads as some PR stunt or marketing ploy to me. All news is good kind of thing.

New comment by dvno42 in "Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs"

dvno42 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:02:14 +0000

Old Axis cams show up on eBay. Those are pretty standards oriented and easy to work with. Most hanwah and some Samsung are fine too.

New comment by dvno42 in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

dvno42 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:57:21 +0000

I'd say most are hosted first, Milestone, Genetec, Avigilon, etc. They all sell software to host feeds from your own standardized cams (Axis, Hanwah, Samsung, etc) via h.264/mpeg. The cloud hosted CCTV at scale is relatively recent.

New comment by dvno42 in "CNN Lite"

dvno42 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:56:09 +0000

https://text.npr.org is another, much appreciated accessible option.

New comment by dvno42 in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

dvno42 — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:01:03 +0000

Web based version for those feeling nostalgic

https://lrusso.github.io/3DPinballSpaceCadet/

New comment by dvno42 in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

dvno42 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:28:16 +0000

United has this on some flights. It's no cost but they force you watch ads in the captive portal. I'd rather pay the $8 and be left in peace, every time.

New comment by dvno42 in "The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code"

dvno42 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:23:44 +0000

For those interested, there is a lovely IRIX clone WM called MaXX. I've been using it for a couple months and have been quite happy with it on a remote dev machine. I believe it only runs on xorg currently.

1. https://docs.maxxinteractive.com/

New comment by dvno42 in "Families reeling, businesses suffering after ICE raided Ventura cannabis farms"

dvno42 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:30:48 +0000

https://archive.is/7Cs3h

New comment by dvno42 in "Orion 1.0"

dvno42 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:24:39 +0000

This looks neat but the biggest question I have and care about... UBO? Not the limited manifest v3 version or whatever it's referred to as, but the full bore block lists like in FF.

Excited to see where this goes!!

New comment by dvno42 in "Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid"

dvno42 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:02:17 +0000

This seems reasonable. The content includes themes (death, rape, violence, etc) that are generally considered NSFW by most modern day rating agencies. Just because cultures have historically seeded the texts for a long period of time doesn't make them SFW. If ESRB/MPAA had to rate a modern reboot, I don't think it would get a T/PG-13.

Personally, I wouldn't want my kids exposed to this kind of material without at least having a chance to talk to them about it first. Would you want your child getting sucked into something like Scientology without your knowledge?

New comment by dvno42 in "Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music"

dvno42 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:15:11 +0000

Essential Mix opened my early 2000s teenage world to so much more electronic music. Good memories of downloading sets via Napster and manually recording on to cassettes to listen to in my '95 Saturn. What a weird statement.

New comment by dvno42 in "Purikura: The Japanese Grandmother of the Selfie"

dvno42 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 03:05:07 +0000

Silly observation but the avatar 'Jack Frost', the snowman looking character on the attract screen was also used as a character in the early 'Persona' video game series also produced by Atlus.

New comment by dvno42 in "FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'"

dvno42 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 18:47:06 +0000

Definitely, I would hope these kinds of systems become less useful with more encryption. I imagine, these kinds of collections I mentioned above are just one of many angles used in an investigation with this particular angle being for correlation and supporting evidence against a request to bookface, cloudflare, etc.

edit these network devices probably also carry voip/voice trunks from enterprise and possibly carriers such as VZW. No telling if those are encrypted or not. If China is able to tap that using these CALEA systems, I could see how that would be a big deal for stealing IP/secrets.

New comment by dvno42 in "FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'"

dvno42 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 16:46:54 +0000

So what was the actual point of compromise? Was it a CALEA supporting software vendor? My guess is a common MD (Mediator device) vendor was targeted that was used by many carriers but that's speculation on my part.

Context for others, there's a small number of software vendors that make these MD devices that handle initiating a capture of a flow (a wiretapping request) and managing the chain of custody for a pcap. MDs usually sends an SNMP poll to a router/switch to start a (r)span port and the MD device slurps up all data and saves it.

Anyway, what I'm curious about is if it's the MDs that were taken over and if it was one manufacturer but I'm not seeing much technical info on all these reports.

Here's some context for "LI" for those interested: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst9...

New comment by dvno42 in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

dvno42 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:32:40 +0000

Heh glad someone mentioned 1.5, that was my golden version. Pack friends into my parents garage with a hub and play local. No famas/shield and no STEAMing pile of shit (as we called it then). WOL server days iirc too. Scouts and Knives was my level of choice in those days. "Wanna knife this round?" <3

New comment by dvno42 in "Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code"

dvno42 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:40:37 +0000

Similar request as the parent, my use case is I setup a long prompt/task and like to go for a walk around the block to get my legs moving. Being able to "move the llm along" and make small modifications from my phone would be nice. Personally, I'd never do a long session that way but the chance to move my legs while it does a long task but not get stuck on a simple question in the claude tool would be lovely.

New comment by dvno42 in "New downgrade attack can bypass FIDO auth in Microsoft Entra ID"

dvno42 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:21:50 +0000

Since this relies on simulating safari as the broswer, I wonder if a conditional access policy enforcing browser selection would help mitigate this.

While only realistic for a small number of users, I've started enforcing users of privileged tools to go through a wireguard instance before being allowed to access Azure hosted tools that rely on Entra auth. Services I publish then have a ingress whitelist of said wireguard VM.

New comment by dvno42 in "Tuxracer.js play Tux Racer in the browser"

dvno42 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:06:21 +0000

This was always a victory to teenage me after fighting with SDL and Nvidia drivers on Gentoo. Getting this to work with good framerate was always so exciting. Nostalgia hit for sure.

New comment by dvno42 in "Hollow Core Fiber (HCF)"

dvno42 — Sat, 10 May 2025 00:21:24 +0000

So what's the application for data?

Would this provide for tighter channels in WDM networks (with less spacing between channels) since dispersion is less of an issue? Might be out of my league on this but I thought DCMs were a work around for dispersion at distance.

Maybe faster packets for teleprotection control systems?

Either way, cool to see!