Hacker News: pbininda

New comment by pbininda in "Modeless Vim"

pbininda — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 06:52:39 +0000

The cake is a lie.

New comment by pbininda in "How Apple names things"

pbininda — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 07:40:11 +0000

max is in there between mini, pad and power. You have to zoom into the interactive version a bit to see it.

New comment by pbininda in "Why does calloc exist? (2016)"

pbininda — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 08:25:53 +0000

Wow. 2016 ist "the old internet"? Kids these days! To me "the old internet" ist the one before the web.

New comment by pbininda in "Project Gutenberg is no longer fully blocked in Germany"

pbininda — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 14:41:17 +0000

Small addition: the UrhG mentioned is the Urheberrechtsgesetz. Translated to English you would call it the "Law of rights of the originator". It is not just about "the right to make copies".

New comment by pbininda in "Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust"

pbininda — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 09:56:02 +0000

Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready.

Written by Linus Torvalds on Sunday, 25 August, 1991 in comp.os.minix

New comment by pbininda in "India's Indira canteen: The best meal you can buy for 13 cents"

pbininda — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:41:16 +0000

You are committing a fallacy fallacy fallacy. If an argument is fallacious, it definitely is wrong. The proposition supported by that argument might still be right however.

New comment by pbininda in "European Union dedicated questionnaire on the Encryption of Data"

pbininda — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 18:52:26 +0000

I find the german answers [1] surprisingly reasonable.

High Five for the final answer:

> 11. Are there other issues that you would like to raise in relation to encryption and the possible approach to these issues? Please share any relevant national experience or considerations arising from your practice that need to be taken into account.

> Yes. A regulation to prohibit or to weaken encryption for telecommunication and digital services has to be ruled out, in order to protect privacy and business secrets.

Go Germany!

[1] https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/3347/response/11727/atta...

New comment by pbininda in "LastPass autofill exploit"

pbininda — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:58:26 +0000

If I read this article correctly, the headline should actually be: How I made LastPass give me all MY passwords

Update: after a few answers to my badly thought through comment, I now feel enlightened. The attack scenario is a malicious web site which can gobble up my passwords. Thanks