Hacker News: rkta

New comment by rkta in "A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]"

rkta — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:06:27 +0000

> The suggestion that paying OSS maintainers is a solution really misses some major issues.

As a maintainer, the biggest major issue is that I don't want their money.

New comment by rkta in "W3M: Fork of Debian's W3M"

rkta — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:10:24 +0000

The quilt patch series comes from the time when I was basing my work on the Debian version, it was easier for me to follow upstream than rebasing branches.

Most patches are now merged into master, only some unfinished work is still in that series. I should update the docs.

Snap-confine and systemd-tmpfiles = root (CVE-2026-3888)

rkta — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:04:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/17/8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422057

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

Git-am applies commit message diffs

rkta — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 08:55:36 +0000

Article URL: https://lore.kernel.org/git/bcqvh7ahjjgzpgxwnr4kh3hfkksfruf54refyry3ha7qk7dldf@fij5calmscvm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922394

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

The long painful history of (re)using login to log people in

rkta — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:36:51 +0000

Article URL: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/LoginProgramReuseFootgun

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708009

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Gogs 0-Day Exploited in the Wild

rkta — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:37:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-gogs-cve-2025-8110-rce-exploit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46226147

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by rkta in "Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript"

rkta — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:55:33 +0000

And as my browser does not automatically follow any redirects I'm left with some text in a language I don't understand.

Hard Rust requirements from May onward

rkta — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 07:31:40 +0000

Article URL: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/10/msg00285.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45779860

Points: 400

# Comments: 755

New comment by rkta in "Orion Browser"

rkta — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:13:53 +0000

There is an maintained (by me) fork at https://w3m-pager.org

New comment by rkta in "Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived (2022)"

rkta — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:17:32 +0000

Here is my fork of w3m, which is not dead:

https://w3m-pager.org

GZDoom – Arbitary Code Execution via Malicious ZScript

rkta — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:19:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Chainmanner/GZDoom-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-via-ZScript-PoC

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43075811

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Shifted 3 Shapes – Making a w3M Logo

rkta — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:18:44 +0000

Article URL: https://toast.al/posts/visuallayout/2024-12-30_w3m-logo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42558280

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

Local Privilege Escalations in Needrestart

rkta — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:42:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/19/1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185404

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Big Array Size Survey for C

rkta — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 06:08:33 +0000

Article URL: https://thephd.dev/the-big-array-size-survey-for-c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057482

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by rkta in "Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content"

rkta — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:17:45 +0000

> Text fragments are currently supported in all the browsers.

All meaning all the browsers listed in the linked table. These may be the major browsers, but not all of them.

New comment by rkta in "Linux.die.net and JavaScript Kill W3M:'("

rkta — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:09:10 +0000

Why don't you read your local man pages? w3m comes with w3mman to do so.

With local man pages I know at least that the man page matches my installed version.

New comment by rkta in "OpenBSD crond / crontab set_range() heap underflow (CVE-2024-43688)"

rkta — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 05:34:59 +0000

> An attacker can use this vulnerability to obtain root on OpenBSD 7.4 and 7.5.

Ouch! And this all due to unsanitized user input. I really would have expected better from OpenBSD in 2023. I mean I would expect better from everyone but especially from OpenBSD.

New comment by rkta in "Ask HN: What browser do you enjoy using for reading HN?"

rkta — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:24:59 +0000

It's still there and it works quite well for HN because it can display the spacer gif, so you get indentation for the threads.

New comment by rkta in "Git-PR: patch requests over SSH"

rkta — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:33:37 +0000

After reading the website and also trying the mentioned `ssh pr.pico.sh help` I still don't know what exactly to do to use this.

> 4. External contributor submits a PR to SSH server But how? That numbered list let me think of that old cartman profit meme.

I like the idea, but I'm not convinced yet, that this is really easier than just sending an email by `git request-pull`.

Chawan – a web browser for your terminal

rkta — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 10:35:41 +0000

Article URL: https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40904196

Points: 2

# Comments: 0