Hacker News: tootahe45

New comment by tootahe45 in "Show HN: Schedule iMessage Texts from .txt Files"

tootahe45 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 06:52:57 +0000

Last time i checked you need to swipe to confirm every time your automation attempts to send a message? kinda kills the automation part. I was shocked that there was almost nothing to be automated with messages on IOS as third party apps can't even read or send them. The Tasker app for android is great for this kind of thing.

New comment by tootahe45 in "Google will soon ask Australian users to show ID to view some content"

tootahe45 — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 15:36:53 +0000

They'll want to collect the data for themselves which is why we don't already see this for things like KYC.

New comment by tootahe45 in "Ask HN: Is software engineering heading towards obsoletion?"

tootahe45 — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 14:40:57 +0000

If the bubble bursts a lot of BS jobs will go away including a lot of jobs in the 'innovative' sector, which only exist due to Americans having more cash than they know what to do with. Think the 23rd food delivery app, uber but for x, crypto, etc. Cowboys will be devastated but the highly skilled and credentialed will always have options.

New comment by tootahe45 in "Ask HN: Is Public WiFi Dangerous?"

tootahe45 — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:20:31 +0000

No.

Cyber crims are financially motivated and today there are far easier/lower risk options for hackers. Just look at the people who lose 6 figure crypto balances to automated twitter scams or fake crypto celeb live-stream stream replays.

New comment by tootahe45 in "Each Firefox download has a unique identifier"

tootahe45 — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 08:56:14 +0000

I'm honestly more comfortable with Google than companies that pretend to be into the whole privacy thing. At least Google doesn't try deceive you. I really hope nobody here uses TOR (developed by Mozilla?) for anything important, It seems like large parts of the network is owned by the govt.

New comment by tootahe45 in "Why economic sanctions do not work (1997) [pdf]"

tootahe45 — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 08:50:40 +0000

Unrelated to post, but does anyone know of a text-to-speech app that would allow me to listen to this or any other long text article in audio format?

New comment by tootahe45 in "Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown"

tootahe45 — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 08:44:19 +0000

> Hopefully WFH gains acceptance and becomes normalized

Why would this suddenly happen now considering it didn't happen anywhere over the past 2 years?

New comment by tootahe45 in "Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic its TLS handshake"

tootahe45 — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 02:46:31 +0000

The site wasn't using it to block me, just to prompt a captcha, without doing so to 'real' browsers.

The HTTP requests were exact copies of browser requests (in terms of how the server would've seen them), so it was something below HTTP. I ended up finding a lot of info about Cloudflare and the TLS stuff on StackOverflow, with others having similar issues. Someone even made an API to do the TLS stuff as a service, but was too expensive for me. https://pixeljets.com/blog/scrape-ninja-bypassing-cloudflare...

New comment by tootahe45 in "Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic its TLS handshake"

tootahe45 — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 02:24:08 +0000

Would be cool if there was something like this for Python. Last time i tried to scrape something interesting i found that one of Cloudflare's enterprise options was easily blocking all of the main http libraries due to the identifiable TLS handshake.

New comment by tootahe45 in "Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage"

tootahe45 — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 03:39:43 +0000

Twitter did a similar thing to combat misinformation IIRC, that's why i mentioned Jack.

New comment by tootahe45 in "Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage"

tootahe45 — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:32:07 +0000

It can be even worse than suspending you, as early as 2018 i noticed they were shadow banning you based on VPN (PIA also). Meaning you could still post but not be seen, or have the ability to notify people you replied to. I've never since bothered to have an account there. Reddit's CEO, like Jack Dorsey, denies 'shadow banning', even though you can test it by getting -100 karma and watching your comments reach nobody. The negative karma shadow ban is why Reddit is the biggest hivemind on the internet, FYI.

New comment by tootahe45 in "Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA bulk collection"

tootahe45 — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 07:14:23 +0000

Now if we could pay someone to read it and tell us what data was collected.

New comment by tootahe45 in "Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates"

tootahe45 — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 22:12:09 +0000

I wonder if they count crypto scammers as real users. Hell , i can't even tweet at Amazon support without multiple automated scambots messaging me.

New comment by tootahe45 in "The data are clear: The boys are not all right"

tootahe45 — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 02:38:41 +0000

Probably this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_J8dHLe1Vc

New comment by tootahe45 in "Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations"

tootahe45 — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 20:03:16 +0000

I reported a funeral fundraiser for a criminal gang where i live a few weeks ago to Gofundme. These funerals involve reckless, high speed driving by hundreds of bikies wearing Swastika vests who hurl violence/verbal abuse at people if they happen to get in the way. I provided all this info and they didn't do anything.

A reasonable person would think a Gofundme for a group who derive their income from the methamphetamine trade would be higher risk than a bunch of truckies, but then again it didn't raise near $10m usd.

This is the kind of thing the gang does during funerals, for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A30VPyeXVv4

New comment by tootahe45 in "Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online"

tootahe45 — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 11:55:34 +0000

> Yep, this could be managed by a blockchain

no.

New comment by tootahe45 in "It could be years until we see a normal housing market"

tootahe45 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 12:55:01 +0000

It's heavily regulated and subsidized in NZ and it's also lot more un-affordable here. Since a few years ago we've been allowed to withdraw our version of a 401k to buy houses, to give you an idea of how much the govt has been trying to prop things up.

New comment by tootahe45 in "Ask HN: Gmail account security"

tootahe45 — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 05:46:56 +0000

Have a similar problem here,

I logged into my google account on a mobile emulator VM while testing some apps and have since deleted the VM. However, when i sign into my gmail acc it has 'tap yes on your android x device to confirm it's you' (which i deleted). I have recreated the exact emulator VM and the same thing happens..

New comment by tootahe45 in "Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard"

tootahe45 — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:24:48 +0000

Why is android bad in your opinion? i personally went for IOS recently due to privacy,security being important to me(3 years of security update for 1.4k android device is ridiculous), but I'm pretty jealous of android's software, usability and its users not having to buy everything apple to do simple tasks.

I don't feel like MS would do better on security or privacy compared to android.

New comment by tootahe45 in "YouTube crypto giveaway scams"

tootahe45 — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 04:17:46 +0000

Not only was the doubling part from Runescape but this kind of live stream-replay tactic was also first used for phishing Runescape accounts when Twitch first got popular. They would replay developer live-streams with 'use the link below to log in for free RS membership' subtitles, and view-bot the streams to the front page of RS twitch. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same guys who pivoted to crypto to target much more foolish victims.