Hacker News: kencausey

New comment by kencausey in "Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)"

kencausey — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:37:51 +0000

As far as I am able to find Google does not provide an RDAP server for gle either.

New comment by kencausey in "Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)"

kencausey — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:41:43 +0000

In a recent example my step-mother, who is constantly getting cloud storage full scam emails, received an email from Google about 75% full storage that appears to be fully valid. However all the links use a domain c.gle and whois c.gle errors with "getaddrinfo(whois.nic.gle): Name or service not known". whois gle however does work. I was not sure of the validity of c.gle myself, my step-mother would have no idea.

New comment by kencausey in "A requiem for Intel's Optane, which could have eased the RAM price crunch"

kencausey — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:17:06 +0000

Original title: _A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch_

I had to trim it to fit.

A requiem for Intel's Optane, which could have eased the RAM price crunch

kencausey — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:17:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/storage/2026/07/29/a-requiem-for-optane-intels-kv-cache-killer-that-could-have-eased-the-ram-price-crunch/5280063

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099447

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by kencausey in "The Cipher Behind QSYRUPWD: Reconstructing IBM i Password Hashes"

kencausey — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:38:14 +0000

Link stolen from calvin on lobste.rs. <https://lobste.rs/s/2dc0gb/cipher_behind_qsyrupwd_reconstruc...>

The Cipher Behind QSYRUPWD: Reconstructing IBM i Password Hashes

kencausey — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:38:14 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2026/07/28/the-cipher-behind-qsyrupwd-reconstructing-ibm-i-password-hashes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090268

Points: 16

# Comments: 9

New comment by kencausey in "A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]"

kencausey — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:45:09 +0000

I favor a technique I was taught by a nursing student almost 30 years ago. You basically use the usual technique but each time the lace crosses another do it one extra time.

So first you wrap one lace around the other and pull it tight, well before you pull it tight wrap it around one more time. This helps hold the laces tight for the next step where you fold the laces and wrap them around each other. Do that a second time as well before you pull it fully tight.

Without video or illustration I suspect this is not easy to follow. Oh well.

New comment by kencausey in "The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations (2020)"

kencausey — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:09:10 +0000

(2020)

New comment by kencausey in "Building a UMatrix Replacement"

kencausey — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:55:19 +0000

Yes, I still use it and can confirm that I have had no concerns or problems with it. On the other hand, if I had to reinstall, without research, I'm not sure how I would reinstall it. Having alternatives is a good thing.

New comment by kencausey in "Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)"

kencausey — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:19:56 +0000

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#index-pre...

"When side effects happen is implementation-defined. In other words, it is up to the particular version of awk."

Manuals Plus: The Wrap-Up

kencausey — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:05:25 +0000

Article URL: https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5833

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100672

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Learn Something Old Every Day, Part XXI: VGA Memory Access Is Complicated

kencausey — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:29:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xxi-vga-memory-access-is-complicated/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071548

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

When networking doesn't work

kencausey — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:56:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/when-networking-doesnt-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014868

Points: 97

# Comments: 15

New comment by kencausey in "Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp"

kencausey — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:52:13 +0000

Don't make statements like this without more explanation. In what way is this happening to you specifically? What distribution and platform are you using? Did you explicitly install something to warn you about 'side-loading' executables?

Learn Something Old Every Day, Part XVIII: How Does FPU Detection Work?

kencausey — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:29:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xviii-how-does-fpu-detection-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556074

Points: 67

# Comments: 8

New comment by kencausey in "Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers"

kencausey — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:25:39 +0000

It constantly reloads for me (Firefox.) Just hit X which replaces the reload button while the page is loading and it will stop.

New comment by kencausey in "Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera"

kencausey — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:27:22 +0000

My understanding is that there is a lot of very fine lunar dust and in the lower gravity even a small amount of static electricity on you means that you are quickly covered in the dust.

Someone Is Trying to 'Hack' People Through Apple Podcasts

kencausey — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:01:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/someone-is-trying-to-hack-people-through-apple-podcasts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46072235

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How can I detect that Windows is running in S-Mode, redux

kencausey — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:56:44 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251117-00/?p=111795

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45958187

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Minisforum Stuffs Entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1

kencausey — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:42:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/minisforum-stuffs-entire-arm-homelab-ms-r1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45930284

Points: 104

# Comments: 47