Hacker News: wzyboyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wzyboyHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:54:34 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by wzyboy in "Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program"]]>It's a genius idea to run the process in a isolated network namespace!

I'm more interested in the HTTPS part. I see that it sets some common environment variables [1] to instruct the program to use the CA bundle in the temporary directory. This seems to pose a similar issue like all the variants of `http_proxy`: the program may simply choose to ignore the variable.

I see it also mounts an overlay fs for `/etc/resolv.conf` [2]. Does it help if httptap mounts `/etc/ca-certificates` directory with the temporary CA bundle?

[1] https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap/blob/cb92ee3acfb2...

[2] https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap/blob/cb92ee3acfb2...

]]>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:00:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922184wzyboyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922184https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922184<![CDATA[New comment by wzyboy in "Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)"]]>Chinese law maker allow only Chinese characters if you want to register a company in China. So internal companies must transliterate their brand names into Chinese if they want to do business in China.

One funny example is 7-Eleven. Its legal name in China is "柒一拾壹". Note the dash is converted to the Chinese character "一" (meaning "one").

]]>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:34:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41950024wzyboyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41950024https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41950024<![CDATA[New comment by wzyboy in "BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH"]]>I've always been doing "two-pass" backups to achieve "3-2-1" goal: first pass is to run BorgBackup to backup devices to my home server. The second pass is to use rclone to transfer the repos on home server to an object storage service (B2).

With rclone support built-in, the setup would be much easier.

]]>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 05:06:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41704742wzyboyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41704742https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41704742<![CDATA[New comment by wzyboy in "Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software"]]>I have a similar setup but with SHA256 hash of the file as the object key.

]]>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 23:44:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40652971wzyboyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40652971https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40652971<![CDATA[New comment by wzyboy in "Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet"]]>On Pixel phone, there is a Digital Wellbeing setting that can turn your screen into Greyscale mode during bedtime. It is said to discourage the use of social networks and helps you sleep better.

]]>Fri, 24 May 2024 01:33:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40461985wzyboyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40461985https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40461985<![CDATA[New comment by wzyboy in "The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes"]]>> I lived in China for 9 years and always found the internet, even for going just to Chinese sites, to be really slow.

Did you have your VPN / proxy on? That might be one of the reason as Chinese internet is only fast for traffic within its borders. Traffic that crosses borders are super slow in terms of throughput AND latency (if not blocked altogether). If you have your VPN / proxy on, your request basically crosses the borders twice before it reaches the destination web server.

Another reason I can think of is the mobile ISP incompatibility. For some ridiculous reasons, most "foreign" phones' (iPhones exempt) do not have full radio coverage when connected to CMCC.

]]>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 02:27:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40028181wzyboyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40028181https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40028181<![CDATA[New comment by wzyboy in "The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes"]]>I immigrated from China to Canada and I'm not sure if monopoly is the root cause. In China, ISP is state-controlled and 100% monopoly, yet the plans are dirt cheap compared to those in Canada.

I just looked up the price in my hometown in China: 1000 Mbps fibre internet + 3 mobile phone lines (105 GB data) + IPTV = 249 CNY tax included (30 USD / 42 CAD / 28 EUR)

The 1000 Mbps fibre Internet plan alone (no phones no TVs) I have in Canada is $65 + tax. And it's a discounted plan. The price on the ISP website is $100.

Also in China phone plans have fast lanes as well. SNS and video streaming data are treated separately (cheap or even free).

]]>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 19:04:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025221wzyboyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025221https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025221<![CDATA[New comment by wzyboy in "Experts fear crooks are cracking keys stolen in LastPass breach"]]>I agree. Crypto currency private keys are something that is better stored offline instead of online. I'm comfortable storing my online banking password in an online password manager as I know even if these credentials are leaked, there are still anti-fraud department and maybe insurance protecting my money in the bank. But with crypto currency private keys? If they are leaked, those crypto currency would just be gone without any way to do a "stop payment" or something.

]]>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 03:26:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401019wzyboyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401019https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401019<![CDATA[New comment by wzyboy in "China's national firewall hijacks JavaScript to DDoS GitHub"]]>Some Chinese guy gets a weird pop-up with English text when visiting Chinese websites. A deeper investigation reveals that China's national firewall (GFW) is hijacking some popular JavaScripts to DDoS GitHub.

]]>Fri, 27 Mar 2015 05:58:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9274945wzyboyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9274945https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9274945<![CDATA[China's national firewall hijacks JavaScript to DDoS GitHub]]>Article URL: http://slashdot.org/submission/4299157/chinas-national-firewall-hijacks-javascript-to-ddos-github

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