Hacker News: noAnswer

New comment by noAnswer in "You don't want long-lived keys"

noAnswer — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:39:21 +0000

The long-lived credentials life inside a stripped down machine. Cron/lego/Ansible handles the renewal. The machines on the edge can't renew their keys themselves.

New comment by noAnswer in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

noAnswer — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:53:48 +0000

Sadly you are right. They are billing my Euro charges from a UK (non Euro) bank, which adds 2% money exchange fee on everything.

New comment by noAnswer in "WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution"

noAnswer — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:44:27 +0000

Do you download the cross-compiled executable via http or smb to the Windows machine? If so than it most likely got earmarked with a NTFS alternate data stream.

File Settings > This file come from another computer: Unblock

PowerShell > Unblock-File

Add your smb file share as trusted: Internet Properties > Security > Local Intranet > Sites

I hate it too that you need to sign software that you want to publish. Totally destroys the economics of little shareware type software.

New comment by noAnswer in "The Problem That Built an Industry"

noAnswer — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:07:20 +0000

If you poke it a little you will eventually get Java exceptions. Because the AI article is lying. It is not 60 year old code running on unchanged bare metal. Things got reimplemented over time.

New comment by noAnswer in "Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses"

noAnswer — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:47:51 +0000

It happend to me when i created my account in 2025. Within seconds of verifying the address I got a email that my account was band for TOS violation. I than created a seconds account (within minutes from the same IP) only writing "dc" instead of "discord" and that worked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by noAnswer in "Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses"

noAnswer — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:51:10 +0000

There are some big brain companies who will block you if their name appears in the email address. Like Discord. You can create an account, with discrod@example.com. But a seconde later you will get an email that your account got band.

They know their way around IT security! /s

New comment by noAnswer in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

noAnswer — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:26:18 +0000

What is infuriating is that programmers that make 6 figures not knowing the diff between AppData\Local and \Roaming.

I'm the ass that gets the support call. I'm getting accused of delivering shit. I'm the guy that needs to write workaround scripts.

New comment by noAnswer in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

noAnswer — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:05:55 +0000

> Uninstalling an application would mean just deleting all the objects in its package. The files would be gone and any configuration settings with them.

Applications developers of the world. Please always make "keep configuration" an option with your uninstallers! I don't like the mobilification of PCs. For example, because of some issues, I wanted to try a different version of Thunderbird. I had the Snap version. Uninstalling it meant losing all its mails. I wasn't expecting that. Like at all!

New comment by noAnswer in "LotusNotes"

noAnswer — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:13:45 +0000

For the longest time SharePoint's central volume could only go up to 4GB. Going above required to combine multiple volumes.

So having a limit of 64GB per file doesn't sound so bad.

New comment by noAnswer in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

noAnswer — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:54:55 +0000

At my "traditional" bank I even need the TAN generator for my phone. While at my "neo" bank I even need the phone app to access the website. :-) (That is how the neo bank tricked me. I read "website access" in their ad and thought I could still access the bank account if I lose my phone. But no, you can't login without the app.)

New comment by noAnswer in "Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM"

noAnswer — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:42:38 +0000

I like to implement independent mail systems. No SSO BS. IT enters the password into the mail client while setting up the laptop and phone. The boss can't be phished if he doesn't know his password (or if the password has no use on the internet).

I also like to put everything behind a VPN (again no SSO). But the bigger the company gets, sooner or later this will come to an end. Because it's not "best practice" to not be phishable. Apparently what is needed are layers and layers of BS "security" products that can be tricked by a kid that has heard of JS. https://browser.security

New comment by noAnswer in "UK government launches fuel forecourt price API"

noAnswer — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:20:01 +0000

The source for the "private APIs" is the government run MTS-K.

https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/EN/Tasks/markettransparencyu...

New comment by noAnswer in "UK government launches fuel forecourt price API"

noAnswer — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:16:20 +0000

It's 22 times a day, according to the Federal Cartel Office.

https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/DE/Aufgaben/Markttransparenz...

New comment by noAnswer in "Backseat Software"

noAnswer — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:03:28 +0000

If you login to the exchange online admin center you first have to complete a short "on-rails-shooter" video game. They constantly shuffle shit around and want to give you a tour via popups about it.

I have the admin accounts for multiple companies, so I have to play the game repeatedly.

New comment by noAnswer in "Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned"

noAnswer — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:16:37 +0000

> Spotify means infinite browsing, algorithm recommendations, and "Dad, how do I get back to my song?"

I hope you are successful and eventually go after video content too. Imagine a Youtube app without infinite browsing or the algo and a "you can watch 3 videos this weekend"-counter/countdown.

New comment by noAnswer in "Just the Browser"

noAnswer — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:14:30 +0000

To get them onto Telegram, where group chat is not encrypted, is a win by whatever three-letter agency pulled that off. ;-)

New comment by noAnswer in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."

noAnswer — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:39:47 +0000

DNS servers can take the IP address of the client into account. If you query a record for amazon.com from the USA you will get a different answer than from Europe. (And you don't need anycast for that.)

That the client information doesn't get lost when it goes through different resolvers the DNS extension EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) was invented.

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

explains it better than me. The whole point of the extension is to make geo-guessing the original client over DNS more stable.

Now you can have privacy conscious DNS servers that strip the ECS information (or mess with it somehow) and instead of the server closest to you you get the global fallback for example. (controld.com goes as far to say "switch countries without a VPN" by only messing with ECS. No idea how stable that is though.)

New comment by noAnswer in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."

noAnswer — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:49:29 +0000

I wanted to correct you but than I stopped myself because I'm not sure if you meant that sarcastically. Because with a /s at the end your post makes sense.

New comment by noAnswer in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

noAnswer — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:19:16 +0000

The default remote desktop client on Windows 11 can have his picture freeze. Mouse and keyboard input still goes through though. (Which is especially dangerous because enraged users will smash their keyboard.) Years without a fix from Microsoft. Just a registry hack as a workaround.

New comment by noAnswer in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

noAnswer — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 02:30:33 +0000

Hm, I'm a KDE user. I just tested what happens when I try to open a folder I don't have access rights for. The standard file browser Dolphin says authentication is required. "Act as administrator." If clicked there comes a warning and I can enter my password. Than it shows the content.

https://i.postimg.cc/VLgkWpy7/image.png

This feature exists since 2022.

https://kde.haraldsitter.eu/posts/kio-admin/