Hacker News: pepve

New comment by pepve in "Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise"

pepve — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:54:54 +0000

Someone in the linked Github thread describes an attack where the attackers waited for the victim to use their Yubikey for an AWS login, giving the attackers access to AWS as well. I don't think hardware 2FA is safe against a RAT.

New comment by pepve in "How Kerala got rich"

pepve — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 20:27:12 +0000

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

New comment by pepve in "ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials"

pepve — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:09:16 +0000

I'm not sure you are right. Take a look at this map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court . I don't think "overwhelmingly reliant on the US" is an accurate description of the green countries on that map. Partially reliant sure. But not overwhelmingly.

New comment by pepve in "Thunderbird for Android Now Available"

pepve — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:51:45 +0000

> Fastmail also has different actions for marking as spam and reporting phishing; I'm not sure how effective the latter is, but of course Thunderbird doesn't support it, as presumably that's a Fastmail-proprietary thing.

I don't think there's anything proprietary going on, so I did a quick search. Fastmail supports JMAP [0], and JMAP [1] supports setting special keywords [2] for a message to mark it as spam of phishing. It may be possible to get this to work.

[0] https://www.fastmail.com/dev/

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8621.html

[2] https://www.iana.org/assignments/imap-jmap-keywords/imap-jma...

New comment by pepve in "DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing"

pepve — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:18:51 +0000

I use `xrandr --setmonitor` to create a fake monitor that only covers part of my screen. And I have some window manager setup to easily move my windows there (with awesomewm).

New comment by pepve in "An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped"

pepve — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:26:52 +0000

Did a rough calculation, it would be more like Edinburgh.

There's easily a century between the earliest accurate map of Edinburgh and the earliest accurate map of the world. And even at present, the accuracy of maps of Edinburgh is much greater than the accuracy of maps of the world.

So yeah, the whole world could be next. But the person you're replying to has a point when they say significant improvements are needed.

New comment by pepve in "Is My Blue Your Blue?"

pepve — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 12:21:46 +0000

I'm not gonna fight you on that.

New comment by pepve in "How to Start Google"

pepve — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:43:31 +0000

> You don't need to be upset that this isn't for you.

The person you're responding to does not seem upset to me.

You add an interesting perspective that some people want to find encouragement in these types of essays. And the personal jab just isn't necessary.

New comment by pepve in "How to be a good listener"

pepve — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 22:44:13 +0000

I was trying to compliment you! When you talk about your friend, about what you might ask him, and what he might answer, I think you have insight there. I think that's valuable.

And I should have stopped there. But I went on to try to make a point about the quick mental model you proposed about "talking at" vs "talking with". Which I think leads to arguing about semantics (with others or yourself).

What you're saying about the difference between the distribution of behaviors and utterances sounds reasonable to me (if a bit abstract). I just think the specific insight into your friend's behavior is a lot more valuable.

New comment by pepve in "How to be a good listener"

pepve — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 18:55:12 +0000

> When I imagine asking him, "What don't you ask questions about my life?" I assume I'd get a response something like, "You can tell me anything," or "I'm open to hearing what you want to talk about," or "You're free to talk about anything."

I think this is the insight!

> If I had to devise a quick mental model, it might seem like the difference between talking at someone vs talking with someone?

(And I think this is semantics.)

New comment by pepve in "Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)"

pepve — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 13:03:28 +0000

sponge buffers the whole input before writing the output. Its utility would be in reading from a file, working on it with other tools, and writing the result back to the original file, all in one line.

New comment by pepve in "82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on government cell phones"

pepve — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:04:41 +0000

"[...] where adversaries can exploit American communications systems, cell phones and the electromagnetic spectrum." (emphasis mine)

Wait, what?

New comment by pepve in "Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players"

pepve — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 23:22:49 +0000

Another example of unique human intelligence: drown in existential dread.

I can do that, you can do that, but will a computer be able to do it?

New comment by pepve in "Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players"

pepve — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 23:18:00 +0000

Re: "all of humanness"

https://xkcd.com/1875/

(If you don't want to click the link, there's a joke there that machines may have a hard time "being to cool to care about stuff.")

New comment by pepve in "People with Depression Use Language Differently"

pepve — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:13:19 +0000

EQ isn't a real thing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14940184

And you by the way seem very apt in considering other people's emotions. This dilemma you're posing would be hard on anyone to navigate.

New comment by pepve in "Linux kernel: multiple vulnerabilities in the USB subsystem"

pepve — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:25:17 +0000

Consider the bugs a workaround for laptops with a fixed battery. ;-)

New comment by pepve in "Redis 4.0"

pepve — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:39:16 +0000

"outside the US cultural influence"

Where is this magical place you speak of?

New comment by pepve in "How to make a friend fast"

pepve — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 21:59:20 +0000

Both "extrovert" and "extravert" are correct. Contemporary language use does not always care about latin, however sorry I am for that.

But the author of this post goes even further, and uses both spellings in the same sentence!

In extravert-introvert pairs, extroverts report on greater closeness than introverts

That can't be right...

New comment by pepve in "Why is cycling so popular in the Netherlands?"

pepve — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 20:02:03 +0000

Have you seen this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xjTJUCMTZg

Video is in The Hague, I've seen it in Amsterdam though, a couple of times.

New comment by pepve in "Europe is living under Microsoft’s digital killswitch"

pepve — Fri, 12 May 2017 16:47:31 +0000

Ahem, the next president?