Hacker News: nullindividual

New comment by nullindividual in "Tell HN: Don't Use Apple's Hide My Email to Create Anonymous Accounts"

nullindividual — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 19:04:53 +0000

I haven't had it fail once, and I've created many addresses. I do have a custom domain hooked up to my iCloud account, if that is making any difference, I don't know.

New comment by nullindividual in "Ask HN: Learning to interact correctly in online communities as a neurodivergent"

nullindividual — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 13:43:44 +0000

> I'm at a crossroads and unsure of how to proceed.

Have you considered that perhaps online communities are simply unhealthy and withdrawing (at least to lurking) is the best course of action?

New comment by nullindividual in "Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US"

nullindividual — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 20:22:37 +0000

Cox Automotive generated the data[0] sourced in the second "paragraph" from the original article.

[0] https://www.coxautoinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kelley...

New comment by nullindividual in "AWS data center latencies, visualized"

nullindividual — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:15:20 +0000

tcp/443 is likely an open port on the target service (Dynamodb based on the domain name). TLS is not involved.

ICMP ECHO would be a bad choice as it is deprioritized by routers[0].

[0] https://archive.nanog.org/sites/default/files/traceroute-201...

New comment by nullindividual in "AWS data center latencies, visualized"

nullindividual — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:15:06 +0000

Doesn't look like this is a ping[0]! Which is good. Rather it is a socket stream connecting over tcp/443. Ping (ICMP) would be a poor metric.

[0] https://github.com/mda590/cloudping.co/blob/8918ee8d7e632765...

New comment by nullindividual in "The Forest Service Is Losing 2,400 Jobs–Including Most of Its Trail Workers"

nullindividual — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 04:02:30 +0000

Not any longer. They now use a 105mm Howitzer among other means.

https://wsdot.wa.gov/travel/operations-services/avalanche-co...

New comment by nullindividual in "Against /Tmp"

nullindividual — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:34:27 +0000

> In a single-user environment, where malware is the biggest concern in current times, what difference does it make if it's a process running under a different user or one that is running under your current user that is attacking you?

In these systems, the responsibility passes to EDRs or similar. But neither a $HOME/.tmp or /tmp matter in these scenarios. _Shared_ systems are where the concept of $HOME/.tmp might be more interesting.

New comment by nullindividual in "Against /Tmp"

nullindividual — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:40:10 +0000

> On a literal level it's not the same as "keep it in RAM"

I read the GP as 'literal level' in-RAM. If I interpreted that incorrectly, apologies to GP.

New comment by nullindividual in "Against /Tmp"

nullindividual — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:38:11 +0000

I see where you're going with your question, but like Windows' Services/scheduled tasks, most of those 'users' don't have a $HOME folder.

Not to say they couldn't have one!

New comment by nullindividual in "Against /Tmp"

nullindividual — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:25:06 +0000

Why not both, like Windows?

$HOME/.tmp for user operations and /tmp for system operations?

EDIT: I see from other posters it can be done. Why the heck isn't this the default?!

New comment by nullindividual in "Against /tmp"

nullindividual — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:22:11 +0000

> OS will try to move it in swapspace if memory gets low

That defeats the idea GP presented.

New comment by nullindividual in "Against /tmp"

nullindividual — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:15:04 +0000

You'd need to pin pages in physical memory to guarantee it stays in physical memory. What happens if an 'attacker' (or accidental user) exceeds available physical memory? OOM Kill other applications? Just don't accept temp data, leading to failures in operations requested by the user or system?

Pages in physical memory are not typically zero'ed out upon disuse. Yes, they're temporary... but only guaranteed temporary if you turn the system off and the DRAM cells bleed out their voltage.

New comment by nullindividual in "Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products"

nullindividual — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:32:03 +0000

> *nix started from a better _initial_ posture as it was multi-user, permissioned, and network-aware from the start (vs. corporate MS-DOS => single user => GUI => networked)

Windows NT started as a multi-user, permissioned, and network-aware OS. The team that built NT came from DEC, not the MS-DOS team.

Windows Me was the last version of Windows that had any form of DOS underpinnings.

New comment by nullindividual in "Reports show some Canada euthanasia deaths driven by social reasons"

nullindividual — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:41:29 +0000

> Suffering can be alleviated

Lol. What world are you living in?

Sure, I suppose if you give someone enough downers and obliterate their mind, suffering becomes a non-issue.

Don't pretend this world can alleviate 'all suffering'. It's simply false.

New comment by nullindividual in "Ask HN: How to get excited after you've become successful?"

nullindividual — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:57:00 +0000

> How do you keep yourself excited and focused on growth?

Do something that connects you with the greater world. For me? Hiking and traveling in a State with a lifetime of natural wonders to explore.

Try nature. See how amenable it is to you.

(I also play video games... too much)

New comment by nullindividual in "Helping wikis move away from Fandom"

nullindividual — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:40:56 +0000

The Noita wiki moved away from Fandom to noita.wiki.gg due to ads, etc. The Fandom one still exists, of course, but has no community backing and lacks information from the newer updates of the game.

Unfortunately the Fandom wiki is still the first link when searching on DDG :-(

New comment by nullindividual in "Why the ISO format has to die"

nullindividual — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:18:52 +0000

Windows shipped on DVDs. I'm not sure why you made your comment. Of course a system must support it, and plenty of ~20 year old systems did.

New comment by nullindividual in "Beautiful iOS dice rolling app for table top games"

nullindividual — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 18:44:53 +0000

You can't have 'truly random'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generation#Compu...

New comment by nullindividual in "Ask HN: Why is the .IO gTLD uncertainty not getting press here?"

nullindividual — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:47:51 +0000

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729526 - which made the front page

New comment by nullindividual in "Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake"

nullindividual — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:14:54 +0000

> Linux much faster than windows mainly due to the file system being more performant (e.g. the builds run noticeably faster)

It's not the file system. It is the file system filter. NTFS is a high performance FS.

Microsoft is working around this via a feature called DevDrive. It uses ReFS instead of NTFS as ReFS leverages copy-on-write.