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New comment by wlonkly in "Archive.today links going forward"

wlonkly — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:28:10 +0000

They banned it this past February, after the DDoS captcha incident in January.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

New comment by wlonkly in "eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media"

wlonkly — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:52:04 +0000

I believe DANE addresses this (and other things, which is what makes it complicated).

New comment by wlonkly in "eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media"

wlonkly — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:51:10 +0000

If the system changes so that browsers only trust national CAs, then the next eMudhra will open a Delaware corporation.

New comment by wlonkly in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

wlonkly — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:52:14 +0000

We can't have nice things:

https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d695...

https://inversegravity.net/2019/web-of-trust-dead/

New comment by wlonkly in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

wlonkly — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:47:18 +0000

> Why isn't there a mechanism where a domain owner can specify which CA it allows?

CAA records do this, but only for issuance, not for use, so it only protects against eg. unexpected domain validation, because the CA has to respect the CAA record. Extending that to use seems like a logical step to me.

New comment by wlonkly in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

wlonkly — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:41:03 +0000

circa 2007, Youtube had been around for two years already.

New comment by wlonkly in "We are entering a period of overlapping crises"

wlonkly — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:58:30 +0000

"The saying, 'Life is just one damn thing after another,' is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap."

- The Cincinnati Enquirer, Ohio, February 21, 1947

New comment by wlonkly in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

wlonkly — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:02:48 +0000

This reminds me of the Commodore 64 productivity software (on cartridge), Magic Desk:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Desk

New comment by wlonkly in "Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours"

wlonkly — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:11:28 +0000

Alexa devices know what room they're in, so if I say "turn off the lights" in the kitchen, the kitchen lights turn off. But if I say "turn off the living room lights" in the kitchen, the living room lights turn off.

(If I have to physically move to a different room to send a voice command about that room I lose a ton of convenience, and the whole point of home automation is convenience!)

New comment by wlonkly in "DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows"

wlonkly — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:57:53 +0000

I mean .config is a newcomer, it's only been around for 23 years. Dotfiles in the home directory goes back to 1971!

New comment by wlonkly in "Can we stop with the uptime percentages?"

wlonkly — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:25:42 +0000

And because of that, they indicate time-in-incident, and not impact time. Status pages don't start the clock when the impact begins, and that might be minutes or hours before the initial status page post that _does_ start the clock.

New comment by wlonkly in "RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree"

wlonkly — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:53:14 +0000

I was glad to know about caveman when Opus 5 started doing its Opus 5 things.

New comment by wlonkly in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

wlonkly — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:30:09 +0000

The funny thing is that one reason that cities, utilities etc. keep posting on Twitter is that it's integrated into their internal systems (or at least to something like Hootsuite that handles multiple social platforms). I'd be very surprised if they're sharing a Twitter password.

New comment by wlonkly in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

wlonkly — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:21:40 +0000

Huh. I thought they used to also do sentiment analysis of social media (Twitter, at least). I see that they definitely don't today, but has that always been the case?

New comment by wlonkly in "Audacity 4.0"

wlonkly — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:18:14 +0000

> a fifth? a fifth of what?

Fifth (ordinal), not fifth (fraction).

That's why a whole tone is called a "second", not a "half".

New comment by wlonkly in ".name Termination"

wlonkly — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:10:14 +0000

(That's DMARC, to save others the trouble.)

The problem DMARC solves is different than the problem the PSL solves, though. DMARC prevents a 3LD from pretending to be a different 3LD on the same 2LD. But the PSL handles things like what it means to make a "cross-site request" or how to handle cookies.

I mean now I'm thinking if DMARC _could_ solve that... but I don't think it could, unless I'm missing some extension or rare use case.

New comment by wlonkly in "Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again"

wlonkly — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:57:47 +0000

They'll get their 15 minutes, but there's no _there_ there. They're owned by System1, a bottom-of-the-barrel advertising company where 1990s web brands go to die (Metacrawler? Startpage.com?? Dogpile?!?!). Their maps are OpenStreetMaps maps.

People think they have their back (because OSM is showing Lake Ontario), but it's just marketing.

New comment by wlonkly in "I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system"

wlonkly — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:41:28 +0000

Occasionally I'll see a screenshot of Merlin with, I dunno, a dozen different birds, and in the middle of the list: a catbird. I never have the heart to tell people that they just heard one very creative bird.

New comment by wlonkly in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

wlonkly — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:23:05 +0000

L1 contracts class: offer, acceptance, and consideration.

New comment by wlonkly in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

wlonkly — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:59:14 +0000

Wikipedia usually has the most recent domains for sites like this. There's even a browser extension[1] that uses an `.idk` TLD to say "Look up the latest URL from this site's Wikipedia article".

[1] https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia