Hacker News: smoothgrammer

New comment by smoothgrammer in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

smoothgrammer — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:27:47 +0000

There is a whole talk on how to use it even for interactive sessions.

https://youtu.be/hBcfrQ8y5Qg?is=Osjnhjrx7WgsHqVj

New comment by smoothgrammer in "Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost over $60B Since 2020"

smoothgrammer — Fri, 02 May 2025 12:57:17 +0000

Wait for Into the Radius 2. The first was a masterpiece as well.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "How to lose a fortune with one bad click"

smoothgrammer — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:45:38 +0000

Yes they do. If you subscribe to Google One.

https://support.google.com/googleone/

New comment by smoothgrammer in "A High-Level Technical Overview of Homomorphic Encryption"

smoothgrammer — Mon, 06 May 2024 12:34:09 +0000

You should reread. It is very obvious why that won't be a problem if you sit back and think about it.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates"

smoothgrammer — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:40:11 +0000

I hope you don't get hit with a malware fiesta.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "I got robbed of my first kernel contribution"

smoothgrammer — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:09:26 +0000

If an one source project wants contributors they should recognize it. If they don't then they should not accept new contributors.

It's 100% unethical to take credit for someone else's work.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "Secretive: Store SSH Keys in the Secure Enclave"

smoothgrammer — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:13:15 +0000

Make sure you sign the information that indicates the requestor.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "Tell HN: A stranger is using my YouTube account and Google can't log them out"

smoothgrammer — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 22:30:02 +0000

Try enabling advanced data protection. If they can still log in then you have found a huge vuln.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "LastPass breach: The significance of these password iterations"

smoothgrammer — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 02:47:42 +0000

The article is missing key data. The password iterations that are set low are client side. The server side is different.

The writer of the article needs to retract.

https://support.lastpass.com/help/about-password-iterations-...

New comment by smoothgrammer in "Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (2018)"

smoothgrammer — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 14:23:17 +0000

Killed 2 months later to examine the brain.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "Oracle Suspended My Account"

smoothgrammer — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:40:20 +0000

The TOS says they will provide advance warning. Oracle is in breach of their own contract.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’"

smoothgrammer — Fri, 20 May 2022 18:49:10 +0000

One thing to remember is that these fun utils won't exist on production servers. You also don't want them there for obvious reasons. I find it better to use the most commonly available set of unix tools and I end up being far more effective due to that.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’"

smoothgrammer — Fri, 20 May 2022 18:48:10 +0000

I'm shocked so many people forget this

New comment by smoothgrammer in "Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back?"

smoothgrammer — Sun, 08 May 2022 13:22:53 +0000

It's good, but a lot of integrations with Google do not work with advanced protection. Which results in me having 2 accounts, 1 primary and 1 secondary for whatever doesn't work with advanced protection. I've particularly found android tv to not play nice with advanced protection.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "2 Hackers are suing the Iowa sheriff who imprisoned them for pentesting"

smoothgrammer — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 15:12:53 +0000

It was authorized by the operators of the building. The pentesters literally did everything by the book. Even the responding police officers were about the let them go, until the Sheriff arrived. If anything this highlights the criminal justice system reform needed to deal with bad LEO through a system like mandatory self insurance.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice"

smoothgrammer — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:23:48 +0000

Always do a periodic full off-site cold backup of all your GitHub repos. It's very easy to script and should compress down very small.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws"

smoothgrammer — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 17:07:19 +0000

They claim HIPAA compliance due to e2e encryption. That is far from an oops.

They updated their documents since, but last week they had documentation up that said they were HIPAA compliant due to end to end encryption.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "Is this Paypal experience customary?"

smoothgrammer — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 13:29:16 +0000

Guess who owns Venmo? You have 1 attempt.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "Making a good diff algorithm"

smoothgrammer — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 21:50:25 +0000

github needs to read this article. I've seen some pretty awful diffs on github and have had to resort to using CLI diffs which tend to be superior. For a company that's bread and butter is code, vcs, committs, PR's, etc you would think their diffs wouldn't be scraping the bottom of the barrel.

New comment by smoothgrammer in "Twitter discloses national security letters"

smoothgrammer — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 23:55:32 +0000

I know, right? Who could possibly judge one way or the other?