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ifoundthetao··on Hack the Box – Pentesting Labs for Free
I had it last year, I think it was $150 USD when I paid for it.
ifoundthetao··on Building a home NAS on a shoestring budget with the Rock64 SBC (2018)
VMs will eat up that space like nobody's business. Especially if you like to keep specific versions of OSes for various reasons (exploit development, home lab environments, etc.).
ifoundthetao··on PHP in 2019
Named parameters would be nice.
ifoundthetao··on Debugging in Vim
With GDB you can use all of the glory that is printf, inside of the termal. This means terminal control codes, that you can use to change colors on the screen for syntax highlighting.

peda is an excellent project that uses this to great success: https://github.com/longld/peda

All of that being said... it's really not very practical. (: But, it CAN be done, and it is done, I'm just glad I'm not the person doing it.

ifoundthetao··on GNU Awk 5.0
I know from a "getting bugs fixed" perspective it's important to make sure that things are being fixed, or followed up on... but geeze, is it ever a time sink.
ifoundthetao··on Hard disks can be turned into listening devices
Eavesdropping: To secretly listen to a conversation.

The title is accurate. It's currently not the best or completely practical, but this type of attack will likely have room for improvement.

ifoundthetao··on “Catastrophic” hack wipes out email provider’s entire infrastructure
You need to test your backups. It's a pain, but it'll save you when you need it.
ifoundthetao··on Ask HN: Anyone Interested in Capture the Flag (CTF) Events?
I am very much interested in this. Would you be willing to work with me offline on this? It's an area of research for me that I find fascinating, yet I have difficulty finding information for legitimate reproduction of the techniques that I hear about.
ifoundthetao··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
I love this. I did something similar .. but then I kept on putting them through the wash. I briefly looked up notebooks that are washing machine safe, but I think the ones I found cost more than I wanted to spend.

I'll give this a go, again, but be more diligent about taking stuff out of my pockets for laundry. Well, I'll try to be, at least.

ifoundthetao··on Ask HN: Scolded on a job interview for not namespacing
Except when it comes to Vim. Amiright? jk

But really though, this is solid, sound advice. And it's a great way to relate it back to business value. The extra half-second incurred when it comes to additional typing is going to be far less than the time saved when it comes to clarity gained from looking at the code again. Whether that be for future development, debugging, or whatever else.

ifoundthetao··on Robinhood launches 3% checking account
You might want to disclose that this is a referral link.
ifoundthetao··on Timing Analysis of Keystrokes and Timing Attacks on SSH (2001) [pdf]
I haven't been able to recreate this work from the repos. I emailed them too, about a year ago, with no response.

Have you had any success? If so, would you be willing to share?

ifoundthetao··on A $6 Linux computer you might be able to write code for
I'd vote ESP32 in addition to the ESP8266.
ifoundthetao··on Ask HN: Does anyone farm with aquaponics?
I can help here!

I did it for about a year or so, when I was in IL. I will say this from the get-go: be prepared to spend a lot of money, for a very slow repayment cycle, if you're not doing this at scale, and if you're not doing it in a place where you have enough light to suit your needs. Otherwise you'll find yourself in my situation, with the $800 green pepper.. which, was delicious, and probably one of the best I'd had. I just don't want you to think you'll end up saving money, because you probably wont.

Okay, on to the fun stuff. So, on reddit, you can check out https://reddit.com/r/aquaponics. They had a decent enough community there. The other big resource that I was familiar with was https://www.theaquaponicsource.com/.

For my build, it was pretty simple. I got a 55 gallon barrel, cut the top third off, flipped it over, and filled it with media. Then I added my bell siphon, pump, and whatnot, and I was good to go.

The whole setup, for me, was pretty cheap initially. I was in a 5b zone, right outside Chicago. So I had to keep everything indoors, and I had to make sure that it had proper lighting.

It was similar to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5BWutAygqM

Feel free to reach out if you have questions.

ifoundthetao··on MS Paint IDE
Honestly, I'm not a fan of using it with Java, and I prefer the Paint.NET IDE.
ifoundthetao··on Probiotics are mostly useless and can actually hurt you
I think you meant to say psychiatrists.
ifoundthetao··on Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server
I side with facebook on this one. It isn't like anyone can arbitrarily enter an email address association, or re-enter an associated email during the reset process.

So, in order to get in there, you would need to know the account you're trying to get into, and have access to an associated account in order to lift the PIN from there.

It isn't to say that it cannot be done, but it does sound like a reasonable action.

ifoundthetao··on Show HN: Trackerjacker – Map and track wifi networks you're not connected to
Awesome! I saw your presentation at Thotcon two years ago, but moved to Austin this year and ended up missing it.

Always excited to see what new stuff you have coming out, as it's organic and deep. Keep 'em coming!

ifoundthetao··on Extracting Super Mario Bros levels with Python
I also want you to do that. Then I want you to do an incredibly in-depth video series walking through how you did the whole thing.
ifoundthetao··on Ask HN: What is one Vim trick most people don't know?
If you're in Insert Mode, and you want to paste the thing you last yanked, without leaving insert mode, you can do the following:<C-r>0

That pastes the contents of the 0 register into the buffer. Very useful. That'll work for all registers too.

ifoundthetao··on In MySQL, don’t use “utf8”, use “utf8mb4” (2016)
This is an important reason why testing your backups is a critical part of backing up.
ifoundthetao··on Ask HN: Do you use budgeting software?
It has a higher learning curve.
ifoundthetao··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)
Agreed, they're my smile.amazon.com charity!

I'm interested to see if they're ever looking for offensive security people.

ifoundthetao··on Show HN: ~200 byte in-browser, no JS, private notepad
I think this is great. I did something similar, with a very simple IdeaStore webapp, where I can just throw an idea into words, have it get added to my ideabank, and I can reference it later. But the whole point is to not break my workflow from other projects.

Anyway, I know you said you don't like lots of different things, but you might actually find that you like BoostNote. I'd say give it a try, I think it's great.

ifoundthetao··on MIT lecturer Ana Bell discusses books to learn CS and programming
When you re-read it you'll be visited by some antiquities.

It's a great book, but I'd be very interested in a reboot.

ifoundthetao··on A look at terminal emulators, part 2
That's the keyboard I use.. it's the most perfect keyboard ever.
ifoundthetao··on Used PHP in a Hackathon was made fun of and it made me feel really shitty
>... worthy of ridicule—not because of their ignorance, but because of their will to remain ignorant.

The ironing is delicious.

ifoundthetao··on Ask HN: Are there any studies about book reading retention rates vs. audiobooks?
I haven't read any studies. Generally I'll bump up what I'm listening to, to 2x or 3x (if the person speaks slowly enough) so I can get through what they're saying more quickly.

But if it's something that's new to me, or highly technical, I'll follow up with a course, physical book, or create a study out of it in a different manner.

ifoundthetao··on OpenBoard – An interactive whiteboard for schools and universities
Anyone used this?

I'm looking for a solution at home, but I think I'm looking for something a little more interactive, as in an open source style SmartBoard.

ifoundthetao··on Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
Very serious.
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