Hacker News: forgotmypassw

New comment by forgotmypassw in "High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user”"

forgotmypassw — Tue, 17 May 2016 10:57:52 +0000

Probably because sysadmins aren't willing to push updates to their Windows machines because they tend to change system settings nowadays.

New comment by forgotmypassw in "CertBot: Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with Let's Encrypt certs"

forgotmypassw — Mon, 16 May 2016 13:20:47 +0000

You can use the --standalone option to get just the certificate files, so you can keep your nginx config files as-is however you configured them and just update the privkey.pem and fullchain.pem files wherever your nginx config points to look for them. And the --standalone option actually requires sudo but I guess that's because it puts the certs in /etc/letsencrypt~.

Caution though, the file paths you get after obtaining the certificates are actually relative symlinks for some reason so if you just copy these symlinks over they will most likely not point to the correct path so copy the original files instead.

New comment by forgotmypassw in "Flatpak: Standalone apps for Linux"

forgotmypassw — Sat, 14 May 2016 20:33:59 +0000

So how does that differ from either static linking or dynamic linking and providing the .so files combined with LD_PRELOAD startup script?

Manjaro Team lets their certificates expire – again

forgotmypassw — Tue, 10 May 2016 15:21:02 +0000

Article URL: https://manjaro.github.io/SSL-Certificate-Expired/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11667826

Points: 4

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New comment by forgotmypassw in "Uvloop: Fast Python networking"

forgotmypassw — Wed, 04 May 2016 04:33:42 +0000

Unless you're working with legacy project, in which case you wouldn't be replacing the lib for such stuff anyway, I don't see any reason why you would want to use 2.7.x over 3.x unless you desperately need something like gevent.

New comment by forgotmypassw in "Never trust the client"

forgotmypassw — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 20:04:46 +0000

I thought it was a common sense to treat the client as merely the data representation and nothing else, sad to see that multi million dollar companies make rookie mistakes.

New comment by forgotmypassw in "Simple voxel explanation"

forgotmypassw — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:54:37 +0000

You might want to take a look at Craft[0] which is a simple clone of Minecraft implemented in C, that should get you the basic idea of a voxel engine since the codebase is quite minimal for the available features.

[0] https://github.com/fogleman/Craft

New comment by forgotmypassw in "Visual Studio Code 1.0"

forgotmypassw — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:20:20 +0000

I'm quite surprised by how much smoother VSCode is than Atom despite being built upon the same platform, I just wish it had tabs and split tab groups, then I could give it a go for a full day and decide whether I like it or not.

New comment by forgotmypassw in "WebUSB API: draft spec to safely expose USB device services to the web"

forgotmypassw — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 14:06:12 +0000

This is madness.

New comment by forgotmypassw in "Hidden latency in the Linux network stack"

forgotmypassw — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 20:36:19 +0000

Even though I'm not using CloudFlare myself, I always enjoy reading their blog posts, these guys are amazing hackers.

New comment by forgotmypassw in "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows"

forgotmypassw — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:13:47 +0000

The difference being that distro packages are distributed in a safe matter (signing and verification) whereas a website could be hijacked and the script replaced or you could get MITM'd if you access it over HTTP.

New comment by forgotmypassw in "DO Not CLOSE THE ISSUE ASSHOLE"

forgotmypassw — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 13:41:33 +0000

Despite his rude tone he's got a point, perhaps he'd be taken seriously had he approached it in a civil manner.

New comment by forgotmypassw in "Ask HN: How do you debug your code?"

forgotmypassw — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:02:42 +0000

GDB and some fprintf calls cut it most of the time. The worst kind of bug is when the program segfaults into oblivion and works fine under GDB but in 99% of the cases that's related to uninitialized memory, which might be a bit hard to find but is quite simple to fix (it's the worst because it sometimes takes a while to figure out where you forgot to initialize variables when it's unrelated to a new change and happened to just not occur during previous changes).

New comment by forgotmypassw in "NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?"

forgotmypassw — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:10:51 +0000

JavaScript was a mistake.

New comment by forgotmypassw in "iPhone SE"

forgotmypassw — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:54:13 +0000

The same reason why you pay $600 for 32 GB of RAM with Apple.

New comment by forgotmypassw in "Mozilla Pushes the Web to New Levels as a Platform for Games"

forgotmypassw — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:37:55 +0000

>I'm really disappointed with how slow publishers are being to adopt these technologies.

And for that, I'm grateful.

New comment by forgotmypassw in "Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case"

forgotmypassw — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:53:24 +0000

Nothing but a PR stunt.

New comment by forgotmypassw in "How we use Slack in our family"

forgotmypassw — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:56:42 +0000

Absolutely yes (aside from visuals).

New comment by forgotmypassw in "How Cigarettes Tax the Poor"

forgotmypassw — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:31:46 +0000

Building tolerance and addiction is highly dependant on the individual, and so is quitting. Besides there's a difference between "a couple packs" and a long term smoking (at which point you're not yet that much addicted but smoke due to different reasons and get addicted in the meantime).

New comment by forgotmypassw in "How Cigarettes Tax the Poor"

forgotmypassw — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:16:31 +0000

People should stop liking what you don't like, right?