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ackatz

180 karma · joined June 19, 2021

interested in information security and automation
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ackatz··on Show HN: F1 COSMOS – Live timing and data dashboard for F1 fans
Wow, this is just stunning. I will be using it tomorrow morning. Thanks for making this!
ackatz··on Panasonic Toughbook 40
I started my IT career in emergency medical services. It was amazing to see the beating these computers can take. I have seen toughbooks (Panasonic, GETAC) survive after being run over by an ambulance, fall off the back of an ambulance at high speed, etc. They are very modular and easy to fix.
ackatz··on Ask HN: Cross-platform GUI apps in 2024
I just learned of Flet (https://flet.dev) which seems interesting for Python. I may try this as well.
ackatz··on Ask HN: Cross-platform GUI apps in 2024
Thank you. This looks really promising and I’ve been wanting to check out Golang again
ackatz··on Ask HN: Share a product you loved using in 2023
* Apple M1 Pro

* Noteplan

* PyCharm

ackatz··on Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
Really well done. This will be replacing Sublime Text which I use as a scratch pad.

Please add inverted add and syncing to iCloud Drive.

ackatz··on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
I created PyLaunch, a web UI for running scheduled Python scripts. For my personal use, it has usually been to send daily/weekly notifications about things: weather, metrics about my projects, news about TV shows and video games, shopping/prices, etc. I am basically sending stuff to push notification services like Pushover or Ntfy.sh. It has been working really well. I was surprised to see a few sign-ups already in less than a month.

If you're interested: https://pylaunch.com

ackatz··on Ask HN: Your [paid]Subscriptions
- Pycharm

- iCloud stuff

- ChatGPT Plus

- Noteplan

- GitHub Copilot

- 1Password

- Netflix

- YouTube

ackatz··on Show HN: Tweet Deck, Elevated - Introducing Feedboard
Are you considering adding RSS too?
ackatz··on Ask HN: Where do you all invest your money?
My approach to investing is $VOO and chill
ackatz··on Show HN: Whisper.Page – Share secrets, notes, and code with someone you trust
No, anything including and after the # is not seen by the server. Here is a screenshot from Fly that shows what it looks like from my end: https://imgur.com/a/41XxtHJ

If someone were to go to just the /sha256/sha256 link without the encryption key bookmark appended to it, they would see: Decryption failed: ChaCha20Poly1305 key must be 32 bytes.

Or with a wrong key they would see: Decryption failed:

ackatz··on Show HN: Whisper.Page – Share secrets, notes, and code with someone you trust
I just see these in my server logs when someone generates a link:

INFO: [cloudflare ip]:47174 - "POST /generate_link HTTP/1.1" 200 OK

ackatz··on Ask HN: Resources to stay up to date on modern cloud security?
Check out the Risky.biz podcast. It is a mix of information security / political news. I have found this is the best way for me to keep a pulse on what’s going on.
ackatz··on Show HN: Whisper.Page – Share secrets, notes, and code with someone you trust
The whole URL with the decryption key gets sent to the user one time when it’s generated. The key is tacked on at the end after a “#” symbol like you would see in a bookmark. It’s not used by the app as a bookmark, but the value is still accessible in the browser (window.location.hash). This way, I can send users their links and their decryption keys, but I will never be able to access the keys myself.
ackatz··on Show HN: Glyph DLP – a data loss prevention API
Thank you! That is a great point. I will keep this in mind.
ackatz··on Ask HN: How Do You Manage and Schedule Everything in Your Life?
I use https://noteplan.co/

It is a planner/note-taking app that connects to your calendar and you can drag and drop "tasks" onto certain days, create notes that link to certain meetings, and time-block your days well in advance.

ackatz··on Ask HN: What are my best options for building on top of AI today?
ChadGPT https://www.chadgpt.cc/
ackatz··on Ask HN: How do you find new music?
sputnikmusic.com and go through Trending Albums
ackatz··on Example of why you should not use FaceID to unlock your phone
I’ll take the convenience of using FaceID over the possibility of being in a situation where it’s used against me. I don’t think that people should be generally worried about these scenarios.
ackatz··on Ask HN: What's your best resource for keeping up-to-date on AI developments?
I recently started an AI news aggregator here: https://ainewsfeed.io

I am planning on adding more feeds very soon to increase the amount of content

I also have an aggregator for Cybersecurity: https://cyberfeed.io

ackatz··on Ask HN: Who here loves their job?
I love my job in cybersecurity automation. A lot of it is just shuffling data around APIs, making Python apps in Docker, working in AWS, and thinking of new ideas for automation.

I am making relatively less money than I could be at other places doing this work, but the work environment is extremely chill (100% remote) and I have already taken two 2-week trips to travel to Europe and Japan since I started less than a year ago. My manager and team are also good people who I trust.

I suppose it’s not all about the work but the work environment/benefits as well.

ackatz··on Ask HN: What’s your ChatGPT pet project?
Cyberfeed (https://cyberfeed.io/) – a fully-automated, GPT-powered cybersecurity news aggregation site (uses GPT to summarize news article descriptions)

Peloapp (https://peloapp.fly.dev) – displays recent personal records and other entertaining cycling stats from Peloton and includes a GPT-powered daily summary

ackatz··on How I use Notion to manage everything
Ahhh that is good to know -- thank you
ackatz··on How I use Notion to manage everything
I like Notion but every time I come back and try it I find it very clunky and that key feature is missing. For example, I wanted to make a recurring notification on Mondays. Nope – not possible. A lot of other apps have these features and are free... so it just seems odd given the rest of the features.
ackatz··on Ask HN: What should I learn as a 42 year old designer looking to build web apps?
* Python (FastAPI or Flask)

* SQLite (with Litestream)

* Docker

* GitHub Actions

* Deploy out to AWS or Fly.io

ackatz··on Ask HN: Sublime Text users, what plugins are you using?
Pretty JSON: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Pretty%20JSON

Very nifty when needing to check how keys are nested

ackatz··on Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser
Meanwhile all of the best players in the world are using 240hz monitors…
ackatz··on Tell HN: GitHub now blocks aliased email addresses
Is this to deter people from using GitHub Actions runners for bad things?
ackatz··on Ask HN: How was your ChatGPT Experience?
Not sure – I would say 85%+ of the time it is available to me to use. If not, I just try again in 15-20 mins if I must use it. Sometimes there are network errors with generating large responses, but I find that if I just reload the site and try again it works. I'm in the Pacific timezone.
ackatz··on Ask HN: How was your ChatGPT Experience?
I use it every day. It is really good at succinctly explaining concepts that might require a Google search and sifting through things to find what you're looking for. It is imperfect, but still incredibly useful to me.

If you go into it without the mindset that you're out to discredit it and nudge it along with the prompts to find what you need, I think that is the most effective way to use ChatGPT right now.

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