Hacker News: forestry

New comment by forestry in "US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures"

forestry — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:21:58 +0000

This. It’s to protect themselves against any potential future investigations.

New comment by forestry in "Flock impersonates journalist in order to cancel his hotel reservations"

forestry — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:14:37 +0000

Not really. A block is just a group discount.

New comment by forestry in "Incident with Github.com"

forestry — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:55:46 +0000

Do you have some information that it’s Azure related that isn’t public?

New comment by forestry in "AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira"

forestry — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:40:38 +0000

Peer review of changes is still important.

New comment by forestry in "Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737"

forestry — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:54:26 +0000

You also aren’t given a choice. If you decline, “don’t drive it”. Well, I want the car, not the connection. I could probably pull the sim I suppose.

New comment by forestry in "RSI Simulator"

forestry — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:58:06 +0000

I was wondering how they’d simulate carpel tunnel. That acronym is indeed taken.

New comment by forestry in "1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed"

forestry — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:03 +0000

How have I not heard about this. I am both impressed and horrified.

New comment by forestry in "TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years"

forestry — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:21:18 +0000

There’s bad, and then there’s egregious.

New comment by forestry in "Auburn California Flock Surveillance Cameras Stolen and Dumped in a Canal"

forestry — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:29:40 +0000

Love it.

New comment by forestry in "PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)"

forestry — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:43:58 +0000

Ultimately it’s the same thing. If it can be taken away, you didn’t buy it.

New comment by forestry in "A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals"

forestry — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:43:53 +0000

My takeaway:

> My test account (5 years old!) got banned immediately, and all of its post history got wiped too. RIP

I want to know the real string of the event I ever want to delete my account and content. This would be much faster than using a browser script to manually delete.

New comment by forestry in "One million passports leaked online"

forestry — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:26:21 +0000

Is it requirement to retain the documents? Many are waiting for gatekeeper tech companies to organise around attestation rather than submission to third parties. I hope they are making progress.

New comment by forestry in "DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded"

forestry — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:29:27 +0000

Managed dump analysis in windbg was a thing. It’s been many years since I’ve needed it, though. Service telemetry improved quickly thereafter.

New comment by forestry in "PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts"

forestry — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:52:03 +0000

People understand the game that’s being played. Folks aren’t going to move past it as you say until there’s reform to ensure it doesn’t happen.

New comment by forestry in "Anthropic says Alibaba used 25k accounts to mine Claude"

forestry — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:44:35 +0000

Whatever you thoughts on the ethics of the original training, are you comfortable with innovation drying up? Can’t make new models if revenue isn’t coming in.

New comment by forestry in "Check out the new US passport"

forestry — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:41:35 +0000

That’s not what “AI slop” means and I’m confident you know that.

New comment by forestry in "Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit"

forestry — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:25:41 +0000

*in your opinion.

New comment by forestry in "Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit"

forestry — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:24:30 +0000

I’m skeptical of that claim. The key material presumably is inaccessible even to the OS without the passcode.

New comment by forestry in "Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit"

forestry — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:23:11 +0000

The blog author calls it that but given there’s no root cause yet it’s foolish to jump to conclusions.

New comment by forestry in "YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability"

forestry — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:19:47 +0000

Just because you post about it doesn’t make it so.