Hacker News: romaniitedomum

New comment by romaniitedomum in "Claude Desktop is now available on Linux (in beta)"

romaniitedomum — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:55:28 +0000

In beta? Why didn't they just tell Claude to finish it, test it, and release it?

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

romaniitedomum — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:34:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/30/security-researchers-tricked-llms-into-giving-them-cocaine-recipes-by-abusing-role-models-for-prompt-injection/5264115

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738802

Points: 3

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Huntress CEO: employee used 'poor judgment' in alerting criminal

romaniitedomum — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:28:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/30/huntress-ceo-says-threat-hunter-used-poor-judgment-in-alerting-ransomware-crim-about-law-enforcement-probe/5264532

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738736

Points: 7

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New comment by romaniitedomum in "7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes part of southern Philippines. Tsunami possible"

romaniitedomum — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:11:08 +0000

Civil Defence here in NZ is saying there's no tsunami threat (to NZ anyway):

https://www.civildefence.govt.nz/

Japanese Space Agency names arrival date for BepiColombo Mercury mission

romaniitedomum — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:45:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/05/26/japanese-space-agency-names-arrival-date-for-bepicolombo-mercury-mission/5245906

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307572

Points: 5

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New comment by romaniitedomum in "DMARC Fail: 7 Causes and How to Fix Each"

romaniitedomum — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:53:22 +0000

> Yes, good spammers make sure their DMARC, DKIM and SPF are correct.

Many do, but not all. One of the hats I wear at work is mail server administrator, and it's astonishing the number of spam and phish attempts using our company domains that I see from all over the world, all of which bounce off due to SPF.

I've noticed too in recent years that some phishing spammers seek out established domains with liberal SPF (either no SPF or ~all) and use those for their phishing attempts. Some of the most common I've seen, ones that stuck in my mind, were secure.net, yale.edu, and servermail.com.

A point I have to reiterate to colleagues over and over is that SPF and DKIM are a form of identity management for domains. They're designed for phishing prevention, not general spam prevention. If you register a domain for any purpose, the first thing you should do, in my opinion, is stick a "v=spf1 -all" in DNS for it. Otherwise, phishing spammers may ruin its reputation before you get a chance to use it.

New comment by romaniitedomum in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"

romaniitedomum — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:08:32 +0000

> For a number of reasons, I feel that the only way we got here was via some kind of infinite improbability drive.

Oh very much so! In my mind, it seems that someone must have figured out what the universe was for, and now it's been replaced with something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

New comment by romaniitedomum in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"

romaniitedomum — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:54:52 +0000

To quote a famous (in certain circles) bowl of petunias, "oh no, not again!"

New comment by romaniitedomum in "Where the goblins came from"

romaniitedomum — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:03:20 +0000

Can you imagine a knowledge worker from the 1950s, say a clerk or a marketer, being magically transported into our time and dropped into a meeting like a morning standup, where people talk about how they spent their time stopping the artificial intelligence from talking about goblins so much? Hell, even when I was an IT student back in the 90s, people from my parents' generation struggled to grasp what it was that I was doing. Now, the disconnect is so vast that the mind reels.

Kubernetes release that kills Ingress Nginx, contains Japanese poetry and art

romaniitedomum — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:54:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/kubernetes_1_36_haru/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874213

Points: 3

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New comment by romaniitedomum in "Java Hello World, LLVM Edition"

romaniitedomum — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:22:19 +0000

> I’m always a bit shocked how seriously people take concerns over the install script for a binary executable they’re already intending to trust.

The issue is provenance. Where is the script getting the binary from? Who built that binary? How do we know that binary wasn't tampered with? I'll lay odds the install script isn't doing any kind of GPG/PGP signature check. It's probably not even doing a checksum check.

I'm prepared to trust an executable built by certain organisations and persons, provided I can trace a chain of trust from what I get back to them.

New comment by romaniitedomum in "I hate screenshots of text"

romaniitedomum — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 02:15:38 +0000

Screenshots of text! Luxury! In my day, the screenshots were embedded in a Word document too.

But I can't be the only one appalled at the suggestion to use an LLM to parse the text. The sheer, prodigious waste of computing power, just to round-trip text to an image and back to text, when what's really missing is a computer user interface that makes it as simple to send text or other snippets as it is to send screenshots.

Forking confusing: Vulnerable Rust crate exposes uv Python packager

romaniitedomum — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:34:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/vulnerable_rust_crate/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45678839

Points: 2

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New comment by romaniitedomum in "I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (2022)"

romaniitedomum — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:54:55 +0000

> with a corn tab that

A corn tab you say? I'm all ears!

Lethal Cambodia-Thailand border clash linked to cyber-scam slave camps

romaniitedomum — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 08:48:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/thai_cambodia_war_cyberscam_links/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44743687

Points: 7

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New comment by romaniitedomum in "Study mode"

romaniitedomum — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:12:52 +0000

> Learning something online 5 years ago often involved trawling incorrect, outdated or hostile content and attempting to piece together mental models without the chance to receive immediate feedback on intuition or ask follow up questions. This is leaps and bounds ahead of that experience.

But now, you're wondering if the answer the AI gave you is correct or something it hallucinated. Every time I find myself putting factual questions to AIs, it doesn't take long for it to give me a wrong answer. And inevitably, when one raises this, one is told that the newest, super-duper, just released model addresses this, for the low-low cost of $EYEWATERINGSUM per month.

But worse than this, if you push back on an AI, it will fold faster than a used tissue in a puddle. It won't defend an answer it gave. This isn't a quality that you want in a teacher.

So, while AIs are useful tools in guiding learning, they're not magical, and a healthy dose of scepticism is essential. Arguably, that applies to traditional learning methods too, but that's another story.

Ireland's Book of Leinster: The Wikipedia of the Age Goes on Display

romaniitedomum — Wed, 21 May 2025 09:19:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/05/21/the-wikipedia-of-the-age-myths-legends-and-seating-arrangements-at-the-hill-of-tara-in-900-year-old-manuscript-on-public-display/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049673

Points: 2

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New comment by romaniitedomum in "Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden"

romaniitedomum — Mon, 19 May 2025 22:34:40 +0000

> I don't understand believing that trans people (or whatever other belief) are a major threat, but I understand getting heavily involved in policies around trans people if one were to somehow believe that trans people are a major threat.

You are presenting a strawman argument, and then declaring you can't believe that others believe this. The truth is, they don't believe that.

What women like J.K Rowling argue is that women's and girl's rights are harmed by insisting that trans people be treated for all purposes as their declared gender without regard to their birth sex. They argue that women and girls by virtue of their sex need single-sex facilities where males aren't admitted, no matter how that male self-identifies. They argue that treating adolescents expressing gender confusion with puberty blockers and surgery is extremely harmful and morally wrong.

And it's clear from recent surveys and polls that clear majorities in most western countries agree. An example of this is a recent poll in the UK regarding its recent Supreme Court judgement on the interpretation of its Equality Act. [1][2]

Regardless of the position you take on this, nothing is to be gained by not engaging with what others are actually saying and arguing.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/supreme-cour...

[2] https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/half-of-labour-...

A new Lazarus arises – for the fourth time – for Pascal programming fans

romaniitedomum — Sun, 11 May 2025 07:25:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/09/new_lazarus_4/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43952057

Points: 4

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New comment by romaniitedomum in "Scientists are growing T. rex leather in a lab. It could be used to make purses"

romaniitedomum — Sun, 11 May 2025 07:22:45 +0000

From the article, about mid-way through:

> But some detractors consider the project misleading. University of Maryland vertebrate paleontologist Thomas Holtz, Jr. pointed out to Live Science, a science news site, how the lab-created skin won't be authentic because there's no actual T. rex skin or DNA to serve as a basis. "What this company is doing seems to be fantasy," he said.