Hacker News: neuronflux

New comment by neuronflux in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

neuronflux — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:07:49 +0000

So they issued you a company provided phone for this work specific functionality?

New comment by neuronflux in "Is it a pint?"

neuronflux — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:40:49 +0000

Also Canadian. I don't often see "pint" on the menu, usually something like "16oz." Evidently restaurateurs and bar owners are wise to the law. Though I am pleased when I see "20oz" on the menu!

I kind of understand the logic by not serving 20oz and saying "pint". Customers might avoid a place because their "pints are more expensive", when in reality that place is also serving them 4oz of extra beer. A bit like the classic 1/3 lb cheeseburger being "smaller"[1].

Annoyingly, I do find that servers will often refer to their larger size beer as "pint" regardless of whatever the menu says.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-pound_burger#Marketing_f...

New comment by neuronflux in "Learning to Boot from PXE"

neuronflux — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:15:34 +0000

I'm guessing you use WipeOS to more easily handle securely erasing disks. Could you have iVentoy host WipeOS to simplify the setup?

New comment by neuronflux in "AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS"

neuronflux — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:32:04 +0000

Much more sophisticated and reliable than Xfinity.

Good datacenters have redundant and physically separated power and communication from different providers.

Also, in case something catastrophic happens at one datacenter, the author mentions they are peered to another datacenter in a different country, as another layer of redundancy. Cloudflare handles their ingress, so such a catastrophic event wouldn't likely to be noticed by their customers.

New comment by neuronflux in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

neuronflux — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:53:52 +0000

SPF alignment ensures the MAIL FROM domain matches the From header. DKIM alignment ensures the From header matches the domain in the DKIM signature header. In the DMARC policy, you can set both adkim=s and aspf=s.

Google owns and manages all of this, so they can send emails with a google.com MAIL FROM, a google.com header, and signed with a google.com DKIM key. And they could do likewise with gmail.com emails.

I'm not clear on why this isn't practical, perhaps there is something I'm missing though? I would appreciate your viewpoint.

Edit: I see you added a point about forwarding.

New comment by neuronflux in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

neuronflux — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:53:49 +0000

They probably sent it from gmail which would pass the SPF check (google.com and gmail.com have the same SPF). They wouldn't have it signed to pass DKIM, but google doesn't use strict alignment checking so to pass DMARC either SPF or DKIM are acceptable.

    ~ dig _dmarc.google.com txt +short
  "v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:mailauth-reports@google.com"

New comment by neuronflux in "My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education"

neuronflux — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:46:17 +0000

Of course it is typically wise to consider Chesterton's fence.

New comment by neuronflux in "Timdle – Place historical events in chronological order"

neuronflux — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:22:54 +0000

I enjoyed it.

My girlfriend's first reaction after getting 30/36 and seeing the neutral smiley face emoji was, "Wordle doesn't judge me."

New comment by neuronflux in "Linux Kernel Exploitation: CVE-2025-21756"

neuronflux — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:24:28 +0000

Try the Reader View feature of Firefox.

New comment by neuronflux in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

neuronflux — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:16:57 +0000

Regarding Pine Gap, they've allegedly done it before even without Elon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_CIA_involvement_in_the...

New comment by neuronflux in "Show HN: Matle – A Daily Chess Puzzle Inspired by Wordle"

neuronflux — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 22:20:32 +0000

I think that this solution is a bit backwards. I think it should be on the extension to detect if the site is already "dark".

New comment by neuronflux in "A combo of ChatGPT and spot EC2 instances screwed me over"

neuronflux — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:21:58 +0000

You can deploy production workloads to spot instances, just make sure you have the rest of your infrastructure setup to handle the spot terminations. Excluding spot instances from the discussion, for any robust use case your infrastructure should be able to handle a single point of failure anywhere. See https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/

New comment by neuronflux in "Enthusiasts struggle to keep model railway industry on track"

neuronflux — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:15:37 +0000

Over COVID I couldn't wargame with friends in person, so I started an N scale railroad to fill the hobby void as they share a lot. Also it was fun doing all the automation etc as mentioned in other comments there. I've sold the railroad off since as I started wargaming again though.

New comment by neuronflux in "Someone keeps trying to reset my Facebook password"

neuronflux — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:43:22 +0000

My email is . I also have the same first initial as my father, sometimes I get email intended for him. Fortunately our last name is unusual so that's about the extent of it.

New comment by neuronflux in "Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?"

neuronflux — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:23:45 +0000

> is there an angle for me to pitch myself as "The guy who will clean up your code base"?

You sort of answer your own question unfortunately.

> managers keep pushing us to limit our time and move on to things that are visible to customers.

So if a manager only values things visible to a customer, why would they hire an expensive consultant work on things that aren't valuable to them?

New comment by neuronflux in "I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites (2018)"

neuronflux — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 18:58:28 +0000

How do other browsers handle this behavior? The author mentioned Chrome specifically.

New comment by neuronflux in "Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority"

neuronflux — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:29:53 +0000

Do you know if Microsoft setup this EU shell after the whole thing with the FBI wanting emails stored in Ireland?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat... (2016) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act (2018).

If so, it might end up in court again, and we'll have to see how that precedent gets set out. Will be curious to see how this plays out.

New comment by neuronflux in "Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility"

neuronflux — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 20:45:31 +0000

I imagine you avoid Google because you don't want to get locked into their centralized closed source ecosystem and don't want them to track your entire online presence. So I'm surprised to see you say email should be avoided, as a completely open decentralized communication protocol.

Your stances on these two topics just seem to be in contrast with each other, would you care to elaborate?

New comment by neuronflux in "How journalists use youtube-dl"

neuronflux — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 22:30:34 +0000

Assuming the content is public, why would they need a subpoena?

New comment by neuronflux in "How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work?"

neuronflux — Fri, 29 May 2020 16:21:26 +0000

It unfortunately would probably only do the opposite as this validation occurs during the SMTP transaction when the message is delivered to the server.

Going back after and saying you don't exist is like answering the phone and going "nobody is home".

Edit: I suppose this ghost setting could be used for future delivery attempts though. Perhaps this is what you meant originally.