Hacker News: strombofulous

New comment by strombofulous in "This year’s insane timeline of hacks"

strombofulous — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:05:43 +0000

> If you are young and wanting a promising trade in tech, security would absolutely be a good choice.

If AI is capable of performing these attacks, what would stop AI from replacing the security engineers?

New comment by strombofulous in "Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k"

strombofulous — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 02:12:43 +0000

> not a single person I grew up with is doing well

What is happening in Canada to cause this?

New comment by strombofulous in "AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B"

strombofulous — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 01:19:41 +0000

Email was often used as a primary key on older websites

New comment by strombofulous in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

strombofulous — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:02:22 +0000

Does it have to be for the analogy to work?

New comment by strombofulous in "Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS"

strombofulous — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 08:27:19 +0000

> They want to kill all of it, but they can't just do it without a pr hit.

Gogle can do whatever they want to qpython and termux, 99% of the population will not care at all

New comment by strombofulous in "What are the best options for Amazon SDEs thinking about leaving over RTO policy"

strombofulous — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:03:31 +0000

Who is being asked to come back?

New comment by strombofulous in "Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident"

strombofulous — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 06:30:23 +0000

Those kernel mode drivers operated in a way that would not bring down the entire system if they crashed

New comment by strombofulous in "Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident"

strombofulous — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 20:56:30 +0000

Sure, but my question still stands - would this have happened if the EU had not made that ruling?

New comment by strombofulous in "Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident"

strombofulous — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 20:50:44 +0000

Would this still have happened if the EU had not ruled against Microsoft?

New comment by strombofulous in "The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that"

strombofulous — Mon, 20 May 2024 01:32:25 +0000

Article's about a guy who doesn't like using try catch as control flow

LockBit's seized darknet site resurrected by police, teasing new revelations

strombofulous — Mon, 06 May 2024 00:04:31 +0000

Article URL: https://therecord.media/lockbit-ransomware-gang-seized-site-reappears-teasing-new-information

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40269805

Points: 8

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New comment by strombofulous in "Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27B fraud case"

strombofulous — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:12:48 +0000

US, UK, and Australian

New comment by strombofulous in "Why will my device lose access to Libby & OverDrive April 15, 2024?"

strombofulous — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:32:15 +0000

Unfortunately this installs it as a user cert and only works for app that explicitly request it. To work everywhere you need to install it as a system cert which requires root

Interestingly ios (which is generally more locked down for dev stuff like this) allows users to install certs for all apps without jailbreak

New comment by strombofulous in "TikTok users bombard Congressional offices over bill that could ban app"

strombofulous — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:16:28 +0000

Yes, well, this is a story about American senators being contacted by their American constituents about an American bill that will affect how Americans interact with this app while in America. So it is a bit relevant here

New comment by strombofulous in "Private company landing on the moon today"

strombofulous — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:22:28 +0000

This reminds me of countries who send pregnant women to antartica to (somehow) strengthen their land claims: https://medium.com/good-to-know/why-11-babies-have-been-born...

Like antartica, I'm sure someone with guns will tell us who really owns the moon as soon as it actually becomes relevant.

New comment by strombofulous in "What happens when you trigger a car's automated emergency stopping?"

strombofulous — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:09:59 +0000

Assuming you don't get in front of the car in front of you, wouldn't the maximum efficiency gain be one car length?

New comment by strombofulous in "Ask HN: Does Cloudflare block HN comments if you have code blocks in a reply?"

strombofulous — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:16:56 +0000

Yes, although it requires configuration https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/get-started/

New comment by strombofulous in "Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies"

strombofulous — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:26:13 +0000

This is incorrect, if you distribute an app outside the play store you do not need to use their payment system, even by the letter of the law. The rule specifically applies to play store apps. It's common for developers of more technical apps (like VPN apps) to publish two nearly identical versions - one to the play store that doesn't support iap and one to f-droid/their website that takes payment via credit card.

It's possible the people writing this complaint may be referring to the fact that you can't link to or reference those options from the play store edition of the app, but I think they might just be misinformed.

New comment by strombofulous in "YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox"

strombofulous — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:11:34 +0000

By the way, it is 480p. 420 is for something else :)

New comment by strombofulous in "Why TSA's Implementation of Facial Recognition Is More Dangerous Than You Think"

strombofulous — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:59:05 +0000

The slippery slope argument is a pet peeve of mine. It is a real, valid concern - in fact when this strategy works people often switch to calling it boiling the frog, which is not usually contested for some reason (even though it is the same thing)

Slowly making changes is a normal strategy at this point, saying anything less than the worst case is a "slippery slope" is no longer relevant imo. It is a valid risk that should at the very least be a point of discussion