Hacker News: egberts1

New comment by egberts1 in "As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work"

egberts1 — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:58:21 +0000

Balderdash!!!

New comment by egberts1 in "Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider"

egberts1 — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:42:14 +0000

Correct. Very insecure unless your client app goes out of its way to perform DnSSEC.

But wait, there's more: SSH config, resolv.conf, DNS RR setup.

A lomg checklist for successful SSHFP deployment:

https://egbert.net/blog/articles/dns-rr-sshfp.html

New comment by egberts1 in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

egberts1 — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:25:41 +0000

Resolved ... after recovering from a mass German DNSSEC drinking party?

Ok.

New comment by egberts1 in "From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control"

egberts1 — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:15:04 +0000

Uh? No SSCS? No VAX/CMS? No RCS? No DSEE? No ClearCase?

New comment by egberts1 in "Amnitex: Lossless memory layer for AI coding assistants"

egberts1 — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:36:24 +0000

Ooooh. This awesome.

Goes well with deep set of predicator files

New comment by egberts1 in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

egberts1 — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:00:52 +0000

Easiest way to protect against data collection is replace the antenna with a 50Ω resistor cap.

When a tornado hits after US Government mass-deploy auto kill-switch

egberts1 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:33:04 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/gatlin_didier/status/2049617318112534743

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956996

Points: 3

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New comment by egberts1 in "Reddit no longer allowing mobile users to browse on web"

egberts1 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:49:54 +0000

Enshitification of Reddit continues unabated.

New comment by egberts1 in "Reviving BrowserID in 2026"

egberts1 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:23:22 +0000

Nope. Better with your own domain.

New comment by egberts1 in "A Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification Is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic"

egberts1 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:51:28 +0000

Unleashing a bull in a china shop?

I'm sure the hyper-paranoid cybersecurity researchers are all about ensuring well-behaved model stays well behaved.

New comment by egberts1 in "Bluetooth tracker hidden in postcard and mailed to warship exposed its location"

egberts1 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:47:33 +0000

Time to irradiate all mails

New comment by egberts1 in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

egberts1 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:34:18 +0000

Still want to know what happened in first 10 second of launch, why were the videos fuzzy and cutting out (at least twice)????

New comment by egberts1 in "A Nursing Home Owner Got a Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing"

egberts1 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:02:42 +0000

There's always a state civil court.

New comment by egberts1 in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

egberts1 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:45:43 +0000

400 transfems at Olympic events is rare?

New comment by egberts1 in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

egberts1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:35:22 +0000

Yes, easier for hacker to tweak

New comment by egberts1 in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

egberts1 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:20:41 +0000

Only with GNOME

New comment by egberts1 in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

egberts1 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:29:28 +0000

You can opt-in for a "no visual echo" of any character (asterisk or not) for password prompts:

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For KDE:

    sudo vim /etc/sddm.conf.d/hide-password.conf

insert in:

    [Greeter]
    ShowPasswordEcho=false

then reboot.

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For `sudo`:

    sudo vim /etc/sudoers.d/password-no-visual-echo

Insert/replace `Defaults` with:

    Defaults !pwfeedback

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For GNOME, you have to modify `unlockDialog.js`

    sudo vim /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/unlockDialog.js

And do one of the following (version-specific):

    this._passwordEntry.clutter_text.set_password_char('');

or in newer version, replace `echo_char` with `null`. Reboot required.

New comment by egberts1 in "Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation"

egberts1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:51:23 +0000

Almost like reject the argument because the logical reasoning was supplied emotionally.

New comment by egberts1 in "Temperatures expected to remain at or near record levels in coming five years"

egberts1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:44:30 +0000

Meanwhile we are still knocking off ghost stations for false reporting with subtle increases of warming trends.

USHCN Stations, like 342944 (Erick, OK), 80228 (Arcadia, FL(, and 235541 (Mexico, MO)

A full list is on:

https://x.com/search?q=%23NOAAghoststations&src=typed_query&...

New comment by egberts1 in "Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content"

egberts1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:16:41 +0000

Like in Old Dominiom Jihadist incident, after had stabbed a professor in a classroom full of highly-trained cadet students, got himself stabbed 22 times, broke 9 of his ribs, breath withheld, turned his head 180-degrees and broke his neck before committing suicide?