Hacker News: proactivesvcs

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Chrome's Response to Recent ccTLD Registry Hijacks"

proactivesvcs — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:24:28 +0000

I'm also surprised that none of the ccTLDs mention this on their sites.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services"

proactivesvcs — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:50:38 +0000

If I received a link to google.co.uk I would, because I'm in the UK. Why would I think otherwise if I were in Ghana and saw a link to google.gh?

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services"

proactivesvcs — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:03:55 +0000

Other recent submissions include the link to google's blog at https://blog.google/security/chromes-response-to-recent-cctl... :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988253

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981886

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"

proactivesvcs — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:42:58 +0000

In the last month, excluding this post, three of your five submissions were AI focused, and one was part-AI. For the past two months, it's five of 11. Certainly not "explicitly AI" but it's about half, which in the context of this overall discussion is towards "too much", IYAM. Half of HN being AI is still a poor signal-to-noise ratio.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"

proactivesvcs — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:23:07 +0000

Perhaps you could lead the change you wish to see?

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Peter Cullen has died"

proactivesvcs — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:35:33 +0000

From BBC News' article:

His Optimus Prime voice was inspired by his older brother, a decorated US Marine and Vietnam War veteran, who suggested he should play the character as "a real hero, don't be a Hollywood hero".

"He said, 'Don't go yelling and screaming. He's strong enough to be gentle.'

"And that resonated with me, and I could hear his voice all the way to the audition. When he drops down, when he gets serious, is where I found Optimus Prime."

Cullen gave his brother a cut of the wages he received for playing Optimus Prime until his death.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Twenty Years of RISC OS Open"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:54:57 +0000

I have a feeling I used that, either on my A3010 or my Risc PC. Thank you!

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word"

proactivesvcs — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:49:30 +0000

Except turning off macros means losing our precious slop generators! Won't someone think of the fossil fuel industry?

New comment by proactivesvcs in "About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6"

proactivesvcs — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:21:43 +0000

One of them lists an anonymous person!

CVE-2026-43744: Mathis Mansière, an anonymous researcher

New comment by proactivesvcs in "EU Commission Response to 'Stop Destroying Videogames'"

proactivesvcs — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:42:56 +0000

Link to article: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_...

New comment by proactivesvcs in "My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem"

proactivesvcs — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:08:28 +0000

I've known a fair few drives with uncorrectable sectors or adaptor warnings that continue to work but a lot more that have degraded or just outright failed.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem"

proactivesvcs — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:35:43 +0000

Well I don't see why you'd want to keep running a drive that is showing warning signs, it's just asking for trouble. But even if one doesn't replace them from this data, if you start seeing alerts and at the same time your database suffers from corruption, that also shows the use of SMART.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem"

proactivesvcs — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:37:19 +0000

I'm surprised to have read to the end and found that they're still not performing any hardware monitoring and alerting. SMART may not always show up pre-failure warnings but when it does they can usually be trusted.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:49:21 +0000

With this change of policy the foundation does not "have any control or influence over what WinGet does", one of the first class methods to install python.

https://github.com/python/pymanager/issues/287

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

proactivesvcs — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:11:02 +0000

The article links to a statement made by Backblaze:

"The Backup Client now excludes popular cloud storage providers [...] this change aligns with Backblaze’s policy to back up only local and directly connected storage."

I guess windows 10 and 11 users aren't backing up much to Backblaze, since microsoft is tricking so many into moving all of their data to onedrive.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Installing every* Firefox extension"

proactivesvcs — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:02:09 +0000

"In terms of implementation, the most interesting one is “Іron Wаllеt” (the I, a, and e are Cyrillic). Three seconds after install, it fetches the phishing page’s URL from the first record of a NocoDB spreadsheet and opens it [...] The API key had write access, so I wiped the spreadsheet."

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

proactivesvcs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:11:03 +0000

We could have said that for publisher a few years back. Its death knell has been sounded and microsoft aren't even offering any way for people to properly view or print their publisher files, let alone edit them.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

proactivesvcs — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:43:43 +0000

I saw this on restic's main repository the other day.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "SSH Secret Menu"

proactivesvcs — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:38:43 +0000

Not as much as they hate Enter ~ .

See "escape characters" under man ssh.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:59:32 +0000

It recently popped up on the HIBP feed; they tend to be pretty careful when checking the veracity of claims.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Substack