Hacker News: weaksauce

Windows Defender Is Being Used to Hack Windows

weaksauce — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:24:17 +0000

Article URL: https://hackingpassion.com/bluehammer-windows-defender-zero-day/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733265

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by weaksauce in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

weaksauce — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:31:39 +0000

It does seem like linux is having its moment right now. there's the money and effort valve is putting into KDE making the steamdeck and steammachine polished for their hardware which helps all users of KDE. cachyos is making having a rolling distro really smooth and snappy on old hardware and making games work mostly ootb. stuff like winboat and wine will let you use the few windows apps you need. you are kinda stuck though if you want to use something like fusion360 or solidworks. freecad has improved quite a bit but it's still like gimp where it's slightly worse UX in a lot of ways.

New comment by weaksauce in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

weaksauce — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:09:47 +0000

i think the facts of the matter are that a gmail vulnerability is on the very low likelihood kind of event. they wouldn't burn their insanely valuable vulnerability on showing how much of a fratboy kash is. the most likely possibility is that he either clicked on something dumb and gave access through phishing(really bad) or had a really weak password without 2fa(also really bad).

New comment by weaksauce in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

weaksauce — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:30:52 +0000

you don't think that it's relevant and concerning that the director of the FBI didn't take operational security seriously enough that his account got compromised? even if they didn't get anything incriminating (which maybe they did and are going to blackmail him later) that show a shocking lack of competency for someone in that kind of position.

New comment by weaksauce in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

weaksauce — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:25:11 +0000

there's good reason the equivalent shift-command-s isn't bound to screenshot by default... it's the command to save a file and there's no good way to do partial screenshot and full screen screenshot with just command-shift-s + option if you want the option to put it into memory instead of a file. they chose command-shift-3 for full screen screenshot. command shift 4 for partial screenshot and add option to do either of those into memory which is a very common paradigm in macos shortcuts. the option key does something slightly different to the original shortcut in system shortcuts. in any event windows didn't get the non-printscreen version of a screenshot tool until very late in the game and osx had it in for a long time.

that issue isn't even an issue if you really want screenshots to be something else. you can change basically any shortcut in one place in macos. same with kde.

New comment by weaksauce in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

weaksauce — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:07:38 +0000

reading all these comments about windows having better shortcuts and window management features makes me feel like i'm taking crazy pills. windows for me was hands down the worst experience in ux. the shortcuts in macos are so well thought out and consistent.

now i'm using kde in linux land and it's the best and most customizable experience. I can't imagine going back to windows ever and would be missing a lot from linux if i went back to macos(though it would be fine).

getting macos keybinding in linux land is a game changer to me: https://github.com/RedBearAK/toshy and this just makes me feel at home.

New comment by weaksauce in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

weaksauce — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:33:51 +0000

this misses the fact that petroleum is incredibly useful outside of the burn it to make electricity and burn it to make car move use cases.

New comment by weaksauce in "Time to Dump Windows?"

weaksauce — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:47:13 +0000

the only two things that would make linux unstoppable would be affinity being first class and having something like fusion360 or solidworks work. there are web based versions of solidworks and another option that escapes me atm that would work but that's the web and it's not the same as native imo. i know there are some opensource projects out there but the ones i've seen have been not as good.

New comment by weaksauce in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

weaksauce — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:58:33 +0000

I was a programmer at a small company that had their programmers field tech support calls and there is a good reason they do this... most of the people calling in are dumb as rocks when it comes to whatever they needed help with... some called while driving for help that required you to be in front of a computer.

New comment by weaksauce in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

weaksauce — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:52:37 +0000

to put this to numbers... the exports are just about 0.5% of california's GDP. so yeah pretty much a rounding error.

New comment by weaksauce in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

weaksauce — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:30:33 +0000

they just agreed to move forward on the protocol to do that thing.

New comment by weaksauce in "“This is not the computer for you”"

weaksauce — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:49:03 +0000

yeah... it's good stuff and if python breaks something after a package update reinstalling toshy is quick and easy and the config is safe if you only write your modifications inside the areas where they tell you to. (though backup of the folder is a good idea when doing that)

New comment by weaksauce in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

weaksauce — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:34:31 +0000

i don't find the luddite comparison accurate. they were against looms and anti-ai people or ai skeptical people are against the wholesale strip mining of intellectual property as it exists... both public domain and non-public domain. it's used to enrich the capital class at the expense of the workers. sure it's similar but it certainly didn't have the copyright and wholesale theft of all of the human ideas behind it. it just feels quite different.

New comment by weaksauce in "“This is not the computer for you”"

weaksauce — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:51:15 +0000

using a linux with toshy to get the best of both worlds wrt keybindings. linux and kde is amazing nowadays... I don't miss macos but would be hating linux without mac style keybindings.

New comment by weaksauce in "Rebasing in Magit"

weaksauce — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:47:30 +0000

my non-command line gui version of doom emacs with a bunch of packages enabled loads up fully for me in 0.45s which is hardly slow. sure it's slower than neovim but also not slow in the absolute sense and i don't have the emacs daemon running which would make that even faster.

New comment by weaksauce in "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"

weaksauce — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:26:46 +0000

I don't know what I've done to have a small right click menu but mine is only a handful of options and I even tried selecting an image and a link and some text to get all the options.

New comment by weaksauce in "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"

weaksauce — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:23:44 +0000

there is a middle ground where you could do something like about:mouse (about:keyboard for keyboard shortcuts already exists) for the power users. doesn't need to be fancy but it would be easy enough to do.

New comment by weaksauce in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

weaksauce — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:00:45 +0000

I'm rocking cachyos(arch based though) wayland+kde and https://github.com/RedBearAK/toshy. it's great to keep the keyboard shortcuts that I'm so used to from the mac almost seamlessly. kde lets you configure pretty much everything how a mac was if you want it though it did take a month or two to get everything the way I like it. I've found that it is nice to have an operating system that is mine and not the whims of some company trying to make money off me. I don't think I'll go back unless I'm forced to for a job.

New comment by weaksauce in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

weaksauce — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:44:08 +0000

there has been a few adopters of rust... linux formally choosing it for some of their systems being the most notable recently(maybe a few months ago).

New comment by weaksauce in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

weaksauce — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:42:23 +0000

halt and catch fire is so good. one of the best things i've watched as a tv series.