Hacker News: episodeiv

New comment by episodeiv in "Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan"

episodeiv — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 11:20:02 +0000

You can see his posts at https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/

New comment by episodeiv in "Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act"

episodeiv — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:45:54 +0000

It's not just foreign nationals that would be barred from issuing requests but non-profit organizations as well. Also, the cap on fees would be eliminated, further increasing the barriers for people wanting to issue requests.

New comment by episodeiv in "Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag"

episodeiv — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:27:18 +0000

The form I know is attributed to Douglas Adams[1]:

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6711-a-common-mistake-that-...

Pots and Pans, a.k.a. an Sslvpn Palo Alto Pan-OS CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474

episodeiv — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:37:55 +0000

Article URL: https://labs.watchtowr.com/pots-and-pans-aka-an-sslvpn-palo-alto-pan-os-cve-2024-0012-and-cve-2024-9474/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42183261

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by episodeiv in "Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood"

episodeiv — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 08:40:51 +0000

To add to that, it's not just media production.

In the medical field, almost all software for performing and analyzing EKGs, X-rays, MRIs etc. comes by default with some sort of dongle-based protection. Apparently, it's not enough that you need the biggest dongle in the world (i.e. the machine itself!) to use the software. Some vendors do offer alternatives if you fight them hard enough but the default still is a trip to dongle town.

Native Instruments lays off around 100 staff amid “global restructuring”

episodeiv — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 11:23:25 +0000

Article URL: https://mixmag.net/read/native-instruments-lays-off-100-staff-global-restructuring-tech

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20894656

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by episodeiv in "Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over the next nineteen years"

episodeiv — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:02:29 +0000

That, however, needs to be part of the risk calculation as well, in my opinion. Even when there's enough technological solutions to make something like nuclear power sufficiently safe, you can still count on human greed or ineptitude to screw things up.

New comment by episodeiv in "Why the Stranger Things ‘red room’ is confusing younger fans"

episodeiv — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 12:04:11 +0000

"The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it."

Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

New comment by episodeiv in "The Tragedy of Systemd [video]"

episodeiv — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 14:28:19 +0000

> death threats are ridiculous

Fixed that for you...

New comment by episodeiv in "3 Man Chess"

episodeiv — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:23:13 +0000

For those speaking German, there's also quite an elaborate version using hexagonal pieces at http://www.dreierschach.de/