Hacker News: marysol5

New comment by marysol5 in "First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:01:34 +0000

Does the report talk about how many are /actual/ "SOC"'s, rather than some outsourced SIEM service. Or one guy who gets a daily report...

New comment by marysol5 in "First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:00:14 +0000

Hey now, when Apple products get a serious Kernel level vulnerability that is able to be executed just by browsing a website. It's a "jailbreak" not an "exploit".

Exploits are BAD!

New comment by marysol5 in "First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:58:16 +0000

>I'm hearing anecdotes from all over about devs pushing LLM-generated code changes into production without retaining any knowledge of what it is they're pushing. The changes compound, their understanding of the codebase diminishes, and so the actions become risker.

No anecdotes needed, it's entirely happening.

But it's also devs, being devs.

New comment by marysol5 in "Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:26:28 +0000

>Most Linux distributions don't even enable FDE by default, and even when they do, they frequently use the exact same system as BitLocker (automated unlock sealed to TPM PCRs)

Do they? Any time I've done FDE it's always been luks with a password, I've never seen one go for TPM by default!

I've only recently implemented luks+TPM on a personal laptop (and that was a PITA to do).

New comment by marysol5 in "Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:13:31 +0000

>SOHAIB: “Alright, if you have good plausible deniability.”

HAHAHAHAHA

New comment by marysol5 in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:00:48 +0000

I worked at an MSP managing a tiny one-man ISP that still had dial-up customers in 2017...

New comment by marysol5 in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:54:20 +0000

I have a .EU domain, of which I'm no longer eligible thanks to Brexit, but the WHOIS is just some junk to make it "valid".

New comment by marysol5 in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:49:05 +0000

I had a domain that I was just using for e-mail, just to catch everything and not link directly to me. Then lent the A record to host an archive of something, which got linked around a load of places. So had "SEO Value" suddenly.

Did the same, the renewal failed because the card had expired, and now squatters have been sat on it, probably getting all my spam and resetting my credentials on random websites for the last 10 years.

New comment by marysol5 in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:43:52 +0000

The one I do find interesting, is how the concept of "privacy" has changed in the internet realm.

It wasn't all that long ago I could look up anybody in my town (or any town really) in a big book, and get contact details for them. Unless they specifically opt-out.

But now that concept is seen as madness.

Now companies no longer even list phone numbers or e-mail addresses on their own websites!

New comment by marysol5 in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:41:52 +0000

"And now a segue to our sponsor, offering a service utterly unique to the USA"

New comment by marysol5 in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:39:09 +0000

looking at you Cloudflare

Funnily enough years ago I did a takedown request for terrorist material, realised that the host was in the same building as me. So when the ticket got closed and they didn't make any changes. I walked into their office and showed them a lovely video they had on their network.

Suddenly they took action.

New comment by marysol5 in "Cannabis and driving? Studies reveal big risks"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:32:15 +0000

/Some/ people view Cannabis as some wonder drug, that has no negative effects whatsoever, and really play on that idea.

New comment by marysol5 in "The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:21:10 +0000

When GMail launched, there was loads of wrappers people wrote to use it as a file store instead of E-Mail, because it was so much for the time....

But now E-Mail, like the rest of the internet is so damn heavy, 1GB gets eaten up in no time.

New comment by marysol5 in "RISC-V Router"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:10:02 +0000

The case on there is also the same, the vent holes and layout is identical (sans the other USB and HDMI)

New comment by marysol5 in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:53:46 +0000

That "Press Release" they put out with echos of Nazi Germany should have been enough for anyone

New comment by marysol5 in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

marysol5 — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:52:10 +0000

They did that with the COVID19 tracker.

And ran out of rows

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988

New comment by marysol5 in "Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250M for not delivering AI Siri"

marysol5 — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:18:28 +0000

People who submit qualifying claims can receive $25 for each eligible device, “which may decrease or increase up to $95 per device, depending on claim volume and other factors,”

New comment by marysol5 in "FFmpeg developer calls out OxideAV for AI license laundering of his code"

marysol5 — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:26:00 +0000

Oh so he was actually prosecuted for MtGox? Just not the actual, ya know running off with a load of BTC.

Also he's the CTO of "Private Internet Access", if there ever was a red flag for a company NOT to use...

New comment by marysol5 in "Fedora is now the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself"

marysol5 — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:19:28 +0000

I've lived on Debian since day dot, never really had an issue. Biggest gripe with Debian is that it's /too/ stable!

New comment by marysol5 in "Fedora is now the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself"

marysol5 — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:18:38 +0000

Enterprises love RHEL because of the paid support, even if they never use it, it's "there".