Hacker News: proactivesvcs

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

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Starlink users must opt out of all browsing data being used to train xAI models"

proactivesvcs — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:10:15 +0000

The UK's BT Broadband did this around 2007 via Phorm. Actually they did worse - used the data to inject custom advertising. Not only were their customers chill with it, so was the Information Commissioner's Office, the government arm that ostensibly protects our privacy.

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

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Show HN: Chat with people who share the same Internet connection (= IP address)"

proactivesvcs — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:31:22 +0000

  i netted six
  alone in a scope of the entire globe,
  temporary,
  dynamic.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance"

proactivesvcs — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:01:58 +0000

ursinewave@tv.gravitons.org : https://tv.gravitons.org/a/ursinewave/video-channels "Roberta Fidora is a genre-bender from the Isle of Wight, UK, hopping between field recordings in space, industrial-tinged electroclash, guerrilla puppeteering and wildly maximalist, mildly-anarchic pop music."

meljoann@tv.gravitons.org : https://tv.gravitons.org/c/meljoann/ "Meljoann is an extremely physically attractive Irish multidisciplinary artist. They’ve been supported by Pitchfork, Beats Per Minute, XLR8, KEXP, Dan Hegarty, Cian Ó Cíobháin, Jenny Greene and Tara Stewart of RTÉ radio, Irish Times, Nialler9, Hot Press, BBC’s Gemma Bradley, Dummy Mag, HMUK and the Arts Council of England. She’s currently releasing a series of self-directed video singles. ‘HR’, their anti-capital concept album, is out now. Their third album, ‘Status’, releases in 2025"

New comment by proactivesvcs in "ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse"

proactivesvcs — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:38:59 +0000

There's a lot of it on the Fediverse tech circles. I find a lot of it through following the #Fediverse tag on Mastodon.

Bandwagon.fm: A federated platform for musicians and fans: https://bandwagon.fm/

Bonfire: A modular server for building communities with a wide variety of services: https://bonfirenetworks.org/

write.as: "Type words, put them on the internet." https://write.as/

New comment by proactivesvcs in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:05:13 +0000

In the context of UK infrastructure, "OR" is an abbreviation of "Openreach", part of the BT Group that is responsible for the infrastructure from ducts and poles to street cabinets and exchange buildings. It is not an organisation that an end user can access for support and is charged by ISPs to repair, upgrade and install additions to large parts the telecommunications network. It can be difficult to convince one's ISP to have Openreach investigate a physical fault or bottleneck, unless that ISP is the aforementioned Andrews and Arnold who literally implemented automated methods to repeatedly bounce faults back to Openreach when the latter insists on erroneously rejecting faults. Makes for entertaining reading :-)

New comment by proactivesvcs in "The Rust version of `du` outputs wrong sizes in Ubuntu 25.10"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:44:06 +0000

Someone's already made a pull request to resolve the bug: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9202

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Blue Origin Launches NASA's Escapade Mission to Mars: How to Watch"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:15:41 +0000

I think the webcast will be hosted here: https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2

New comment by proactivesvcs in "3M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf]"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 07:01:33 +0000

At 1,685,278 bytes this almost fits on within the hallowed 1.44 megabytes. Maybe the front and rear covers can be discarded?

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Jeep wrangler owners waiting for answers week after an update bricked their cars"

proactivesvcs — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:31:04 +0000

"So, if you’re a Wrangler 4xe owner, here’s your order of operations for the time being:"

Do not use the vehicle under any circumstances and have the dealer take it away and keep it until it is safe to drive again.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:42:03 +0000

Ironically File History silently ignores all the contents of any onedrive folders when backing up.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:39:02 +0000

Last time I tried to restore a file from a customer's onedrive it just failed with a variety of 500 errors or just blank pages. The reason I was trying to restore it was because windows had moved all of their files into onedrive without their informed consent and (at least) this one was no longer accessible.

onedrive is not a backup: like all automatic sync systems it is a liability. It may be useful but it is still a liability.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:48:12 +0000

They foresaw tiktok and their ilk way in advance.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant"

proactivesvcs — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:44:25 +0000

> And you’re ignoring we’re also in the stages of getting the surveillance from 1984 and the social class divide from Brave New World. Those are not good tradeoffs.

Not disagreeing with you at all, but the surveillance on Starfleet vessels and facilities is almost complete and all-encompassing. Real-time location, bodily attributes, eavesdropping, access to all communication and computer data, personal and otherwise, I don't think there's anything that is private in their world! Remember that time The Doctor started a two-way video call with (I think) B'Elanna while she was in the shower? That being said, Starfleet is a paramilitary organisation, perhaps it's less awful in civilian life when one isn't wearing a Comm badge.

I wonder if you and I would consider this degree of invasiveness an acceptable compromise with a life almost completely without illness, any form of capitalism and the opportunity to pursue pretty much any life path we wish, in a society which is largely at peace with itself.

New comment by proactivesvcs in "WhoBIRD is now deprecated on certified Android devices"

proactivesvcs — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:37:49 +0000

The app's README has recently been updated to include the statement: "Google has announced that, starting in 2026/2027, all apps on certified Android devices will require the developer to submit personal identity details directly to Google. Since the developers of this app do not agree to this requirement, this app will no longer work on certified Android devices after that time."

WhoBIRD is now deprecated on certified Android devices

proactivesvcs — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:37:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/woheller69/whoBIRD

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234715

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