Hacker News: rtldg

New comment by rtldg in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

rtldg — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:10:33 +0000

Took me almost 2 minutes for 4 lines (and I missed a character in one of them!). I would opt for OCR too, obviously so I'm prepared for the next bash t-shirt I'd come across...

New comment by rtldg in "Coarse is better"

rtldg — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:33:30 +0000

Yes. The Earth and its formations are art. I disagree that art requires consciousness and intent, but those admittedly do improve its value [to me]. (For reference, I value AI content/art poorly and avoid it)

New comment by rtldg in "Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"

rtldg — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:09:57 +0000

All IPv4 addresses, domains (maybe more so for recently-registered ones), and subdomains from Certificate Transparency Logs (for HTTPS certs) are all constantly checked and poked.

New comment by rtldg in "Exploring the tragedy of the Counter-Strike 2 server browser"

rtldg — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:54:00 +0000

Yes. People make software to control accounts (botting) and to farm experience in CS2. They'll later sell the accounts or use them for spamming reports against real players and other such things. So they fill up a Valve-ran casual server so real players cannot join and report the bots to Valve.

New comment by rtldg in "Beej's Guide to Git"

rtldg — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:57:13 +0000

With 'gitk' I'm not sure I'll ever have to learn how to use 'git log'. A Good Enough preinstalled GUI is too convenient

New comment by rtldg in "Using Goatse to Stop App Theft"

rtldg — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 23:33:53 +0000

I was browsing the source of Cookie Clicker and noticed that it blocks sounds from soundjay.com (which third-party mods used) for similar reasons.

New comment by rtldg in "Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions"

rtldg — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 01:26:36 +0000

and a similar tool https://lab.xpaw.me/alldomainsearch.html

New comment by rtldg in "GitHub hands out your repo visitors IP like candy who ask for it politely"

rtldg — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:34:40 +0000

Their CSP does seem to prevent an svg I threw in a readme from loading a png so that's good to see. And a test png in the readme was proxied too.

content-security-policy: default-src 'none'; img-src data:; style-src 'unsafe-inline'

New comment by rtldg in "GitHub hands out your repo visitors IP like candy who ask for it politely"

rtldg — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:01:52 +0000

Github proxies images so this shouldn't be possible https://github.blog/2014-01-28-proxying-user-images/

New comment by rtldg in "Exploiting aCropalypse: Recovering truncated PNGs"

rtldg — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 07:40:43 +0000

That's interesting. I've seen a couple of rotated PNGs before which I assumed were caused by Discord stripping the EXIF and orientation data. Found a PNG like that without EXIF from May 2022 so I wonder if Discord stopped stripping or if it was stripped on the person's device somewhere.

New comment by rtldg in "iOS 16.3 Is Out"

rtldg — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 23:01:51 +0000

It threw an error when trying to turn it on which required me to logout of my Apple ID and then log back in to fix.

New comment by rtldg in "Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyone on our team"

rtldg — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 04:02:50 +0000

The privacy policy link being broken is definitely unfortunate. Anyway, here's the page it is supposed to link to https://www.theogapp.com/privacy

New comment by rtldg in "Float Toy"

rtldg — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 21:42:03 +0000

WizTree is a program that does and is pretty useful

New comment by rtldg in "Ask HN: What do you use to monitor system calls on Windows and Mac?"

rtldg — Wed, 11 May 2022 22:53:32 +0000

For Windows, I've used API Monitor a lot to track .dll and API calls.

http://www.rohitab.com/apimonitor

New comment by rtldg in "Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?"

rtldg — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 07:58:18 +0000

I picked up similar cd aliases alias 1='cd ..' ; alias 2='cd ../..' and etc...

New comment by rtldg in "size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer"

rtldg — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 23:40:10 +0000

The variable p is now declared with "_cleanup_free_" which is using some compiler cleanup/destructor attribute stuff to run free