Hacker News: kodt

New comment by kodt in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

kodt — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:36:29 +0000

The difference is you can't just copy and paste the private key into a phishing website. The login process validates your private key and logs you in.

Also since the service does not store your private key, it is more resistant to data-breaches as that is one less potential breach source.

New comment by kodt in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

kodt — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:29:15 +0000

I looked up the June 2026 breach and there is no mention of passwords being stolen. Only some PII (Phone, name, email, address) through a third party.

New comment by kodt in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

kodt — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:28:50 +0000

Use Brave browser as it avoids browser fingerprinting.

New comment by kodt in "Steam Machine launches today"

kodt — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:07:37 +0000

You can fight scalpers by hardware limiting the device to the account that was used to purchase for some set time (2 years or so)

New comment by kodt in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

kodt — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:09:25 +0000

Popular gaming forums NeoGaf and Resetera only allow signups from paid email accounts. All free and temporary email providers are banned to discourage trolls / forum raids / alt accounts.

New comment by kodt in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

kodt — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:03:38 +0000

I know I have created accounts on Reddit with disposable email services before.

New comment by kodt in "Fable ban was never about a jailbreak?"

kodt — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:22:31 +0000

Yes, this is just an even shorter rehash of what has been said several times now.

New comment by kodt in "A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)"

kodt — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:17:47 +0000

I think the question here is: what is the specific criminal charge or law that was broken to be arrested?

New comment by kodt in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

kodt — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:45:02 +0000

Infinity - 21 is still infinity

New comment by kodt in "Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster"

kodt — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:48:40 +0000

Seems to me that hardware modification would be a banned technique.

New comment by kodt in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

kodt — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:33:18 +0000

I wonder if making the game free to play before shut down would allow them to skirt the law?

New comment by kodt in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

kodt — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:35:48 +0000

>(also if you're wondering, I don't think the boundary is along racial lines)

read the entire comment waiting for this

New comment by kodt in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

kodt — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:33:28 +0000

depends if you do a copy paste or cut and paste

New comment by kodt in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

kodt — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:02:58 +0000

even better if it is a pirate radio station

New comment by kodt in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

kodt — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:31:48 +0000

So like a teacher?

New comment by kodt in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

kodt — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:19:38 +0000

What if you are performing your own song which was heavily influenced by other artists?

Also I believe performing covers is legal

New comment by kodt in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

kodt — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:19:58 +0000

If you steal a book and read it, should you have to pay every time you use the knowledge gained or recall parts of it from memory?

New comment by kodt in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

kodt — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:25:28 +0000

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/options/articles/us-senato...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/08/polymarket-...

New comment by kodt in "Backing up Spotify"

kodt — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 03:52:52 +0000

For their mail service they did

New comment by kodt in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

kodt — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 23:50:03 +0000

I didn't meant to say no-one saw it theatrically but I probably did undersell it there.

The DVD was such a huge seller and coincided with the format really catching on. The Matrix was the "must have" DVD to show off the format and for many was likely one of the first DVDs they ever purchased.

It was also the go-to movie to show off DivX rips.

The popularity of The Matrix is closely linked with a surge in DVD popularity. IIRC DVD player prices became more affordable right around 2000 which opened it up to more people.