Hacker News: flotwig

New comment by flotwig in "Handling cookies is a minefield"

flotwig — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:34:52 +0000

It's funny that you mention NewCookie, there is actually a deprecated Set-Cookie2 header already: https://stackoverflow.com/q/9462180/3474615

New comment by flotwig in "No job? No shame. Younger workers are opening up about unemployment"

flotwig — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 07:08:49 +0000

https://archive.is/lNISY

New comment by flotwig in "How to colorize Game Boy games"

flotwig — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 02:25:05 +0000

Before reading this, I assumed the method would involve rewriting large parts of the game's graphics code. But it sounds like the author is intercepting draw calls and changing them to use color instead! Looking forward to the rest of this series.

New comment by flotwig in "Despite just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community (2021)"

flotwig — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 14:49:25 +0000

I was bracing myself for another "don't support Linux because packaging is a mess" post, but was pleasantly surprised. Only 3 of the Linux reported bugs were Linux-specific - all the others were real cross-platform bugs affecting everyone. Free QA, indeed.

New comment by flotwig in "Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down"

flotwig — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:10:11 +0000

I'm glad someone archived this. I had a feeling this was going to happen when I saw how new the posts were.

New comment by flotwig in "Some unbreakable encryption keys are accidentally leaking online"

flotwig — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:14:20 +0000

https://archive.ph/3HmM6

The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault (2008)

flotwig — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:08:28 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-first-rule-of-programming-its-always-your-fault/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37478899

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by flotwig in "The curl-wget Venn diagram"

flotwig — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 15:39:34 +0000

Looks like cURL and SQLite have the same woes: https://www.sqlite.org/cves.html

Previously I worked on an open source project that pulled in many third party libraries. Users would run their corpo vulnerability scanners on the project and find dependencies with open CVEs and demand fixes, not understanding that in our usage of the libraries, the vulnerability is not exposed.

I think in 4 years, we had users open roughly 50 issues like this, which corresponded to exactly 0 real world exploitable issues.

A central vuln DB makes sense for sysadmins, but too many make it the end-all-be-all.

New comment by flotwig in "Hackers can use credit bureaus to dox nearly anyone in America"

flotwig — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 02:16:24 +0000

TransUnion is broken for me, has been for years. I have to reset my password every single time.

New comment by flotwig in "Show HN: SpacetimeDB – A database that replaces your server"

flotwig — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 19:29:10 +0000

Funny to see another BitCraft here - I own https://BitCraft.io, although it's no longer an active company.

New comment by flotwig in "Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media"

flotwig — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 07:35:46 +0000

If a local university doesn't take them, the IA will - they accept donations of physical materials and will digitize and index them: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donat...

New comment by flotwig in "Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes"

flotwig — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 20:56:16 +0000

Please don't "move fast and break things" with nuclear fusion :-)

New comment by flotwig in "FedNow Is Live"

flotwig — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:13:44 +0000

https://archive.ph/FsEaf

New comment by flotwig in "“Typo leak” exposes millions of US military emails to Mali web operator"

flotwig — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:22:55 +0000

It sounds like the DOD already does block emails to .ml because of this issue:

> Lt. Cmdr Tim Gorman [...] said that emails sent directly from the .mil domain to Malian addresses “are blocked before they leave the .mil domain and the sender is notified that they must validate the email addresses of the intended recipients”.

I think the issue is people sending emails from personal accounts that the DOD cannot control. The article also mentions travel agents as another source of the email.

Nvidia to drop support for GameStream in 2023

flotwig — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:28:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/506448/gamestream-service-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042825

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by flotwig in "Wikipedia is not short on cash"

flotwig — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:53:21 +0000

I felt the same way, which is why I started a recurring donation to WikiMedia. After about a year, they e-mailed me trying to convince me to write WikiMedia into my will. Check out this transparent attempt at manipulation:

> Many supporters like you who understand the usefulness of planning ahead have chosen to include a gift to Wikipedia in their will. They want to do more to protect free knowledge and are invested in building a legacy with Wikipedia to ensure their values live on for many years to come.

"If you understood the importance of planning ahead, you'd already have WikiMedia in your will, bozo"

New comment by flotwig in "Extreme explorations of TypeScript's type system"

flotwig — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:20:02 +0000

There are probably newer tools for this, but we use `eslint-plugin-expect-type` [0] for this:

https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/blob/develop/cli/types...

[0]: https://github.com/JoshuaKGoldberg/eslint-plugin-expect-type

New comment by flotwig in "GitHub user sends notification to 400k users"

flotwig — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 02:25:05 +0000

Approximately 61,761,765 emails sent, if we figure 1 email per comment per member. Nice!

New comment by flotwig in "Using a catch-all domain is a mistake"

flotwig — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 23:09:22 +0000

> The truth is no one really sells your email – at least no legitimate companies.

`xfinity2@mydomain.com` is the only email that I've ever caught being sold via my catch-all email. I get a decent amount of phishing, scams, malware, etc. to that address. But I guess the author is still correct, since Xfinity/Comcast are sometimes less than legitimate.

New comment by flotwig in "Show HN: A tool to show your Spotify “Now Playing” status on your GitHub profile"

flotwig — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:29:44 +0000

Just for fun. It adds a little personality to your profile page, plus it shows up when folks hover over your username across GitHub.