Hacker News: porfirium

New comment by porfirium in "Microsoft Has Manually Patched Their Equation Editor Executable"

porfirium — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:18:58 +0000

>This is way more tedious that dissembling and reassembling a binary.

That's not the case.

New comment by porfirium in "Microsoft Has Manually Patched Their Equation Editor Executable"

porfirium — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:55:10 +0000

HN, where writing assembly shows an unbelievable amount of skill.

New comment by porfirium in "Microsoft Has Manually Patched Their Equation Editor Executable"

porfirium — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:36:05 +0000

So Microsoft lost the source code? Or maybe the engineer couldn't be bothered to set up the old toolchain used to build this executable?

New comment by porfirium in "Google Maps Gets a New Look"

porfirium — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:32:45 +0000

I'm a Christian and I feel this is a cheap shot. I believe this to be malicious, especially coming from Google. Could even be some kind of inside joke.

New comment by porfirium in "Google Maps Gets a New Look"

porfirium — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:21:31 +0000

So if they don't rectify it, it's because there's intent.

New comment by porfirium in "[dead]"

porfirium — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:05:14 +0000

Being poor makes you rape. It's logic.

New comment by porfirium in "FCC plans to vote to overturn U.S. net neutrality rules in December"

porfirium — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:43:43 +0000

I would like to see a fair referendum about net neutrality. And by fair I mean to also see the good parts of not having net neutrality, like zero rating.

Tell people they can get zero rating on their favourite services, and the result of such a referendum will be uncomfortable for many.

I'm really tired of seeing people everywhere thinking net neutrality is "unquestionable", "universally good" and "the will of the people". Ever bothered to ask anyone outside the tech circles? Or you simply think you know what's best for everybody?

New comment by porfirium in "Mozilla terminates its deal with Yahoo and makes Google the default in Firefox"

porfirium — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:43:41 +0000

Safari got away with it.

New comment by porfirium in "Windows10 Insider Preview Build 17035 Supports UTF-8 as ANSI"

porfirium — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:42:17 +0000

This would be really neat. Thing is, as far as I remember, notepad.exe uses a standard Windows control to display text, so that change would have to be system-wide as well, which could break backwards compatibility.

New comment by porfirium in "Mozilla terminates its deal with Yahoo and makes Google the default in Firefox"

porfirium — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:34:11 +0000

They are so big on net neutrality and whatever, they can't do that.

New comment by porfirium in "Schneier: It's Time to Regulate IoT to Improve Cyber-Security"

porfirium — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:23:11 +0000

Do you think end consumers care at all about certifications?

New comment by porfirium in "New EU law prescribes website blocking in the name of consumer protection"

porfirium — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 00:29:04 +0000

So what? We have hate speech laws in Europe. Try saying "the holocaust never happened" or "homosexuals are vile creatures" and you will see what can happen to you. There's no free speech in Europe anyway.

New comment by porfirium in "New EU law prescribes website blocking in the name of consumer protection"

porfirium — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:26:08 +0000

We should abolish prisons then? It's a ridiculous argument. Abuses can happen with full backing of the courts, but I expect them to not happen.

In all the years that this system has been in place in Spain I have never seen it used for anything other than blocking websites that were in breach of the law.

New comment by porfirium in "New EU law prescribes website blocking in the name of consumer protection"

porfirium — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:21:32 +0000

>To give a recent example, independence-related websites were blocked in Catalunya just weeks ago.

That required judicial authorisation. Good way of beginning a post, with a lie.

New comment by porfirium in "Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S."

porfirium — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 23:07:23 +0000

When I say Europe I mean "Western Europe minus the islands to the north"

New comment by porfirium in "Reddit is reportedly considering an IPO"

porfirium — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:32:39 +0000

>Compared to Facebook or LinkedIn, for example, it has much less focus on the network aspect, connecting individual users, and a much larger focus on what is being posted.

They are completely redesigning and rewriting the website from scratch with the objective of turning into an actual social network. Look what the new user profiles look like: https://www.reddit.com/user/spladug

New comment by porfirium in "Introducing Twitter premium APIs"

porfirium — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:26:35 +0000

Nefarious purposes, mostly. I can crawl without rate limits (well, there are rate limits, but it's much harder to hit them), and I also can spam a lot without getting my account flagged (but it eventually gets flagged, of course).

By spamming I don't mean the usual "click on this link and I'll show you my tits" spam; if you create a useful bot that sends "expected" mentions (for example in response to mentions you receive, and not just spam) it will get banned in a matter of hours. With their "secret" tokens, it won't get banned.

New comment by porfirium in "Introducing Twitter premium APIs"

porfirium — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:36:20 +0000

You can't do this just watching network traffic because the apps use HTTPS + certificate pinning.

And you can do it if you want. I do it. I'm sure many more people do it.

New comment by porfirium in "Introducing Twitter premium APIs"

porfirium — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:26:14 +0000

They never "locked it down", they just rate limited some vital endpoints and never bothered to add endpoints for new, important features.

My own recommendation: disassemble any official app (for example, the Android one with apktool) and get the tokens and endpoints and do whatever the hell you want without paying a cent.

New comment by porfirium in "Fedora 27 released"

porfirium — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:35:55 +0000

Wayland out of the box?