Hacker News: ratcline

New comment by ratcline in "Second Life on GitHub"

ratcline — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 22:10:07 +0000

I believe this is often people who ARE in fact contributing via the mailing list -- but want a track record tied to their GH account.

New comment by ratcline in "Git security vulnerability announced"

ratcline — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:04:48 +0000

It's not doing it on it's own, I believe what they're referring to is a a pre-configured distribution of a shell packaged with some distributions of Git, for some OSes.

New comment by ratcline in "Should you use Let's Encrypt for internal hostnames?"

ratcline — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 18:02:20 +0000

It's mainly mitigating exposure. Some possible vulnerabilities would be social engineering(i.e. it'd be easier to send a targeted phishing URL to gain recon on an employee of a company if you know an internal domain), or injection into a public facing service that has access to internal services.

New comment by ratcline in "Show HN: Bang"

ratcline — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 23:16:11 +0000

what's with the weird underscore repo name?

New comment by ratcline in "Ask HN: Excessive Number of Ebay Re:Captchas?"

ratcline — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 13:54:49 +0000

Re:Captcha uses your IP and Google account to try to determine if you're a real human or a bot. If you're signed into a brand new Google account, or logged out of one, it'll be more likely to prompt for Re:Captcha.

New comment by ratcline in "Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story?"

ratcline — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 05:06:29 +0000

Little did we know how realistic that would end up being.

New comment by ratcline in "Safari tries to fill username"

ratcline — Sun, 30 May 2021 21:35:49 +0000

I heard that systems like this were designed when there was a point in time(this may just be erroneous and such a time never actually existed) where keyloggers were more common than RATs, so government websites would often have this requirement due to the higher probability of access from public computers(library, etc), since that was also a point in time when fewer people had their own at home.

New comment by ratcline in "Radiooooo – The Music Time Machine"

ratcline — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 17:13:00 +0000

It may not be if it's songs that were popular in that area during that time rather than songs FROM that place. I'm not sure if they differentiate which it is, I didn't see any at a glance.