Hacker News: sirl1on

New comment by sirl1on in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

sirl1on — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:03:16 +0000

I thought this is why red has exists?

New comment by sirl1on in "Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)"

sirl1on — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:48:56 +0000

Everything is modeled after gambling nowadays to nudge and gamify the user experience to a desired outcome

New comment by sirl1on in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

sirl1on — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:03:39 +0000

Move Slow and Fix Things.

New comment by sirl1on in "SSH has no Host header"

sirl1on — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:20:49 +0000

Treating your server as pet may perfectly fine. Not everything has to be fully automated cloud cluster cattle.

New comment by sirl1on in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

sirl1on — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:37:50 +0000

Most non-tech people I know listen to podcasts through Spotify and some think Spotify invented them.

Looking how podcasts advertise themselves, those who do use RSS advertise "Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app" here.

New comment by sirl1on in "GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet"

sirl1on — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 20:07:58 +0000

Nitpick: I think known file extensions where hidden in Explorer since at least Windows 95

https://www.brainbell.com/tutors/A+/Hardware/Managing_Files_...

New comment by sirl1on in "How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps"

sirl1on — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 06:36:26 +0000

You can define a CSP header to only exec 3rd Party scripts with known hashes

New comment by sirl1on in "TikTok is back in the App Store"

sirl1on — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 06:35:30 +0000

That filibustering is still a valid political instrument is so weird as a non american. Maybe the us wouldn't be in this mess if it wouldn't cling to political process from the 1800s

New comment by sirl1on in "TikTok is back in the App Store"

sirl1on — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 06:23:46 +0000

That sounds like a lot like an addiction.

Maybe we need to create "Methadone apps" to help people slowly get off the Pavlovian dopamine machine?

New comment by sirl1on in "Scanning the Internet with NMAP and Argo"

sirl1on — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:00:14 +0000

Why not just running a shell script? Is there a benefit doing this on a cluster?

New comment by sirl1on in "We created a fake delivery company to get a job"

sirl1on — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 15:57:48 +0000

If you haven't already seen, give the Netflix Show "Dark" a watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5753856/

New comment by sirl1on in "Forgejo forks its own path forward"

sirl1on — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:21:53 +0000

I think the mispronunciation may stem from the intended pun/wordplay: What's up? -> WhatsApp

New comment by sirl1on in "Multifaceted: The linguistic echo chambers of LLMs"

sirl1on — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 09:01:17 +0000

Maybe it's recycling PR/Customer Support/SEO language patterns found in large parts of the training data.

New comment by sirl1on in "Microsoft Security Bulletin MS98-010 – Critical (1998)"

sirl1on — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 13:49:03 +0000

So, Back Orifice wasn't hidden in other executables, but passed on by making people download and install it in all awareness?

Didn't know that. Thanks for telling me instead attacking me like OP :/

New comment by sirl1on in "Microsoft Security Bulletin MS98-010 – Critical (1998)"

sirl1on — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 09:57:44 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to elaborate... and for the insights! I don't know why my initial post is received that aggresively, maybe I miscommunicated something.

I only know the mostly autogenerated MSN Developer Resources. not helpful.

New comment by sirl1on in "Microsoft Security Bulletin MS98-010 – Critical (1998)"

sirl1on — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 07:59:00 +0000

Do they really do that? Or is this hyperbole? I just skimmed some of the 2017 bulletins (aren't there newer ones?) and did not find sleazy marketing.

Not that I can't imagine Microsoft actually doing that...

New comment by sirl1on in "Microsoft Security Bulletin MS98-010 – Critical (1998)"

sirl1on — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 07:40:44 +0000

> I haven't seen a more blatant exposure/confirmation of the deep-seated authoritarian control-freak mindset that has permeated the whole computing industry.

Can I use this as a testimonial? Chill... at least if you want me to discuss this further.

> Yes, back then it was common and expected that users were responsible for their own decisions.

You do not chose and decide to be victim of a scam. At least I presume the "if you wouldn't have downloaded hacker stuff from weird websites you wouldn't have caught malware" was as wrong back then as it is now and is just shifting the blame to the user.

New comment by sirl1on in "Microsoft Security Bulletin MS98-010 – Critical (1998)"

sirl1on — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 07:06:19 +0000

Wow. Totally unprofessional when you compare it with today's security bulletin standards. This downplays risks and blames the user. Was this common back then?

New comment by sirl1on in "Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service"

sirl1on — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 15:52:18 +0000

Trust On First Use. No relation to OpenTofu where Tofu is a word play in TerraForm.

New comment by sirl1on in "The Unix Game"

sirl1on — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:29:40 +0000

You can use tr to replace the pattern [A-Z] with [a-z]

That said, if this unix game wants to showcase the great usability and pragmatism of unix pipes, it has the adverse effect on me. While I like the flexibility of plaintext pipes, I really wish there was a Linux shell that tries to be a bit like powershell without the opinionated powershell syntax... maybe there is?