Hacker News: technion

New comment by technion in "Are you getting a weird response to the query: 'play Minecraft' on America.gov?"

technion — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:17:46 +0000

It's an Easter Egg, in the form of the text you see when you finish Minecraft.

https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/america-gov-ai-chatbot-trig...

New comment by technion in "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot"

technion — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:27:35 +0000

Wait, they rebounded scout as autopilot?

As someone who works with Microsoft intune autopilot regularly... ugh.

New comment by technion in "Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page"

technion — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:01:45 +0000

I never thought I'd see a browser support list that specifically includes "Dilo" or, in the last few years, "Internet Explorer", but apparently you're comprehensive.

I went to look for unauthenticated CBC mode like every time I see this sort of thing but it's actually GCM mode so, well consider me surprised.

New comment by technion in "Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel"

technion — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:08:26 +0000

It's in the sysadmin sub because we are routinely the people told buy and manage Grammarly deployments, and we're the people generally cancelling those services now given everyone is being pushed to use their flavor of AI instead. And those emails from users upset that we're doing what management told us to do (following this Grammarly advice)? They go from end users to sysadmins.

New comment by technion in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

technion — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:27:30 +0000

The purchase of Tumblr was basically Elon purchasing Twitter without the political gain. I'm amazed the purchase decision was ever made, and more amazed that it still exists after the hit to the user base.

New comment by technion in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

technion — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:48:36 +0000

This might depend what you mean by code. In the sysadmin space I ask a web interface for poweshell to generate specific information multiple times a day, and pasting it into a terminal is really the cleanest workflow on a corporate machine where you have to justify running an executable.

New comment by technion in "Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads"

technion — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:57:58 +0000

Vmware vsphere is not at all in the consumer space where virtualbox exists.

New comment by technion in "The asteroid currently hitting front end web development"

technion — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:34:58 +0000

Ai cant make a static HTML page sitting on something like cloudflare pages have an rce bug.

New comment by technion in "The asteroid currently hitting front end web development"

technion — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:26:06 +0000

Every static HTML pages built this way with ai is another WordPress site that wont get built by contractors just to be neglected, compromised, and used to launch phishing and ransomware attacks.

New comment by technion in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

technion — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:22:26 +0000

To give my example, if you search for locksmiths or plumbers or any sorts of trades you'll land on a page for "small family locksmith in your small suburb name". Except the site has thousands of urls with the same exact content and pictures, one for every suburb in Australia. Gary the small business owner does not live in my street.

As far as I can tell its a national company with an overseas call center, the scam is that it looks like a local company - at least they can sell a lead gen to someone that can open my lock.

New comment by technion in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

technion — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:20:18 +0000

It's not just elderly parents. I've sat in on many an incident where skilled people in accounts or HR similarly saw and ad and thought "I have to do this thing", leading to compromise.

New comment by technion in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

technion — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:25:00 +0000

In the last twelve months ive had electricians, plumbers, kitchen renovators all work in my home while I was wfh. In an age gone by I would burn annual leave to deal with this. I dont know how I could handle the logistics of full in office again.

New comment by technion in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

technion — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:52:07 +0000

On one hand yes, but on the other hand just configuring your server to refuse connections by IP address rather than server name seemed to drop roughly half the bots I ever see.

New comment by technion in "What Happened to HackerOne?"

technion — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:01:11 +0000

I'm confused at the way they promoted it. Is there any way someone outside the company reading a Twitter post would consider this a positive thing for the product to be told what incentives the sales team get?

New comment by technion in "Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief"

technion — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:24:34 +0000

Im supposed to be doing endpoint work with people working in this field amd basically have to convince compliance they'll need to be local administrators to do their job. They get onsite and dont know what app they'll need until they look at a plc model. They'll download something from a .tw ftp server and its an unsigned executable that absolutely must run as admin to program these things.

It is amazing how much of the sysadmin community just doesnt believe this is a thing you need to work with, everyone insisting its just security people being lazy and so on.

New comment by technion in "Web Security is Too Hard"

technion — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:53:33 +0000

Dies it matter? Im sitting on the ops end of this myself right now where marketing purchased something like 15 new domains on Godaddy and both me and the Web developers that built the new site found it the new product will live on those domains and launches today.

This is an entirely normal experience across every org ive worked in and unless im also surprise promoted to cto today I do not have an ability to question it.

New comment by technion in "SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros"

technion — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:54:59 +0000

As someone managing dns for a lot of orgs, the part that kills me is the amount of crappy sass'es that demand you add a big include to your spf. If they already have a skim record thats plenty to get mail through, except their validator wizard thing wont let you use the tool until it finds their string in your record. That means no flattening either.

New comment by technion in "I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation"

technion — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:28:12 +0000

Companies make this hard, a bit like various email scams where legit company communication comes from seemingly random domains (hello paypal). Often the company is legit, but theres no public contact that knows anything about the recruiter thats working for them.

New comment by technion in "I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25"

technion — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:39:05 +0000

Compromising a crappy wordpress site means compromising mailbox credentials.

https://lolware.net/blog/2020-09-02-autodiscover-circus/

New comment by technion in "LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft"

technion — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:12:28 +0000

This isn't LinkedIn specific - the easily misclickable "one click to logon with Google" button showing up in browsers was a huge mistake and should never have existed. Reddit has started prompting too if you're not currently logged in, to just suddenly be logged in with Google.