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TranceManon Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)

Is this similar to Enigma decoding - whereby the 'encoding' key was reasonably predictable and not random due to new keys being required to be generated regularly?

TranceManon Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

Have a look into Ruckus with their local zone director offering.

TranceManon Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras

Is it not both?

TranceManon What is interesting about Factorio

They have a demo you can download:

https://factorio.com/download-demo

TranceManon Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history lesson

I tried to use imgur on mobile to upload a random image today but couldn't［FireFox］

Using FF on my desktop worked fine.

TranceManon Raspberry Pi 4 WiFi stops working at 2560 x 1440 screen resolution

Fond memories of wondering why WiFi occassionally stopped working - eventually correlated it with the use of the microwave.

TranceManon Scammers deepfake CEO’s voice to talk underling into $243k transfer?

So a fake deepfake - not sure where this is going to end.

TranceManon Writing HTML in HTML

There was a time when you had to know how to write HTML - also FTP - oh and Fax letterheaded paper to register a domain

Looking back now - MS Frontpage was way ahead of its time dealing with this abstraction of generating html - you saw the source change which the browser (unfortunatley just ie - but that's what we had) would render when you made an edit

TranceManon Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

I was intrigued - seems it could be because ships use heavy oil

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-15-biggest-ships-i...

TranceManon Designing an audio adblocker

Similar to Cue Mark [0]

I remember my dad pointing this out many years ago on ITV in the UK.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_mark

TranceManon Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels

Ah getting my first modem under linux working - the autovtest was dialling 999999 - I got a call back as soon as I managed to hangup. Explained to the 999 operator I was just testing Linux....

TranceManon YouTube comments are heavily manipulated, and I fear for our democracy

Good Bot :)

Sorry, seriously though, have you noticed this with HN comments? I sometimes get that feeling when browsing here, I really notice it on the comments that immediately flood in when Apple are having a conference....

TranceManon Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

I remembered this popped up a while ago:

https://github.com/naholyr/github-todos

Not used it myself

TranceManon Fake news ‘as a service’ booming among cybercrooks

CNN Fake Iraq War Newscast Footage

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=isMtxbPdvzg

TranceManon The Absolute Denial of Shit

:-)

:-(

;-)

Did I miss any?

Edit: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm

TranceManon Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of Representatives [pdf]

Good catch - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43698739

Edit - Explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16795723

TranceManon “Username or password is incorrect” is bullshit

I could find user 'bo1024' has an account on pornhub - not necessarily you and you might not care but certain situations it may be a problem.

You could argue it's security through obscurity - I'd say preventing leaking data.

TranceManon Hello Londoners, I am a black cab driver (Green Badge) and I come in peace

I agree, maybe the title could be editorialized in this case.

I was browsing the /r/London subreddit so assumed too much context for a global forum

TranceManon Why people believe in conspiracy theories – and how to change their minds

And terrorism could be a conspiracy theory.

TranceManon HTTP Error Code 418 I'm a Teapot is about to be removed from Node

Sorry it's Friday - this cat would be out of a job: https://http.cat/418

TranceManon Spacecraft Power (2016)

How is this mission trying to solve the distribution issues?

TranceManon Spacecraft Power (2016)

Thanks, I have read that. It seems to have a premise that we can only feed all the people on Earth from space. Is farming really dead?

When will this promise be delivered? It's been 40 years and I can imagine Billions spent. Are people still starving?.

TranceManon Spacecraft Power (2016)

>Besides space exploration being fucking awesome

I don't see how space exploration is feeding the starving. It would be fucking awesome if we solved that. It maybe a strawman - couldn't these millions be spent on Earth? Instead we have commercial TV asking us to donate to solve problems on Earth.

TranceManon Cisco iOS and iOS XE Software Cluster Management Protocol Remote Code Execution

Source:

This vulnerability was found during the analysis of documents related to the Vault 7 disclosure.

TranceManon 120K distributed consistent writes per second with Calvin

Totally off topic - why does O2 UK block this without adult verification?

On mobile so cannot read article

TranceManon Ask HN: We've all been there, what was your big stuff up?

Using a bash script I wrote and running as root calling rsync to backup to /mnt/backup/blah which was supposed to be an nfs mount.

At some point [turned out to be 5 months prior to attempting the restore] the nfs became un-mounted and I was backing up to a dir in the same drive in /mnt

Yes the hard drive had died.

TranceManon Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship

I got flagged for using a pseudonym after 7 years - they want government ID - took about a week to get rid of the CTRL-T reflex and dopamine hit.

TranceManon The NHS's 1.2M employees are trapped in a 'reply-all' email hell

Could it be only 120 people got to send a reply as others could not access the system once the replies started coming in, 120 x 1.2M is a big number.

TranceManon Quick fix for an early Internet problem lives on a quarter-century later (2015)

BGP at 18 from the guy himself:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mn4kKVBdaM

TranceManon Eyes Aloft: The Sublime Obsession of Plane Spotting

Indeed, I enjoy combining it with: http://www.liveatc.net/topfeeds.php - quite relaxing listening to the calm controllers voice.