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kencauseyon Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)

As far as I am able to find Google does not provide an RDAP server for gle either.

kencauseyon Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)

In a recent example my step-mother, who is constantly getting cloud storage full scam emails, received an email from Google about 75% full storage that appears to be fully valid. However all the links use a domain c.gle and whois c.gle errors with "getaddrinfo(whois.nic.gle): Name or service not known". whois gle however does work. I was not sure of the validity of c.gle myself, my step-mother would have no idea.

kencauseyon A requiem for Intel's Optane, which could have eased the RAM price crunch

Original title: _A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch_

I had to trim it to fit.

kencauseyon The Cipher Behind QSYRUPWD: Reconstructing IBM i Password Hashes

Link stolen from calvin on lobste.rs. <https://lobste.rs/s/2dc0gb/cipher_behind_qsyrupwd_reconstruc...>

kencauseyon A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]

I favor a technique I was taught by a nursing student almost 30 years ago. You basically use the usual technique but each time the lace crosses another do it one extra time.

So first you wrap one lace around the other and pull it tight, well before you pull it tight wrap it around one more time. This helps hold the laces tight for the next step where you fold the laces and wrap them around each other. Do that a second time as well before you pull it fully tight.

Without video or illustration I suspect this is not easy to follow. Oh well.

kencauseyon The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations (2020)

(2020)

kencauseyon Building a UMatrix Replacement

Yes, I still use it and can confirm that I have had no concerns or problems with it. On the other hand, if I had to reinstall, without research, I'm not sure how I would reinstall it. Having alternatives is a good thing.

kencauseyon Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#index-pre...

"When side effects happen is implementation-defined. In other words, it is up to the particular version of awk."

kencauseyon Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp

Don't make statements like this without more explanation. In what way is this happening to you specifically? What distribution and platform are you using? Did you explicitly install something to warn you about 'side-loading' executables?

kencauseyon Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers

It constantly reloads for me (Firefox.) Just hit X which replaces the reload button while the page is loading and it will stop.

kencauseyon Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera

My understanding is that there is a lot of very fine lunar dust and in the lower gravity even a small amount of static electricity on you means that you are quickly covered in the dust.

kencauseyon Ahab's Arithmetic: The Mathematics of Moby-Dick

(PDF)

kencauseyon Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf]

https://pagedout.institute/?page=prints-get.php

kencauseyon Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70%

'forcing' is a strong word. Evidence? I don't deny that you will regularly and often see suggestions to install Chrome in Google Mail.

kencauseyon The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective

(2018)

kencauseyon MyPillow Founder's Lawyer Filed AI-Generated Brief with Near 30 Bogus Citations

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43802063 (148 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799823 (7 comments)

kencauseyon The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition

Browse the blog archives, Mr. Maher has written repeatedly about Sierra and their games: https://www.filfre.net/sitemap/

Edit: common homophone issue

kencauseyon New Windows 11 build makes mandatory Microsoft sign-in even more mandatory

Evidence? I have a laptop I purchased refurbished and upgraded to Win11 almost immediately. It cannot be updated to 24H2, apparently because the TPM does not support the required version for that Win11 version.

kencauseyon Why fastDOOM is fast

Guess: headache from low frame rate?

kencauseyon Apple's Software Quality Crisis

Perhaps this should be an option but I far prefer that tapping on a notification not do something that potentially notifies the sender that I saw the notification, certainly not calling them. I want to initiate that action knowingly and intentionally.

kencauseyon GPT4 level intelligence fell 1000x in 18 months

For the OP: If you edit the title within the 1st hour of posting it should pass HN filtering unedited.

kencauseyon The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency

I wonder if resistive heating devices like ovens which have a tuned temperature component would become systematically less accurate if the frequency changed significantly.

kencauseyon Baltic countries disconnect from the Russian power grid

I assume this sag is something that would only become relevant over a fairly long period of time? Otherwise how were the devices constructed originally, I doubt they were spinning instantly.

kencauseyon TCL's bet on screens that look like paper

It's an auto-formatting thing that HN does to submitted titles. If you catch it soon enough you can edit the title and it will be allowed as you specify, at least that was true the last time I tried.

kencauseyon Car companies have an infuriating software problem

Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42630943

kencauseyon US airspace closures, lack of answers deepen East Coast drone mystery

https://www.404media.co/the-no-win-mystery-drone-clusterfuck...

kencauseyon Wherein we drown in a sea of "one-time expenses"

Sorry, I just realized my test was bad, you are correct. Unfortunately it is too late for me to delete this submission.

kencauseyon Wherein we drown in a sea of "one-time expenses"

Did you actually click it and get the classic result or are you just speculating? I tried to test it as soon as I posted it and did not see the objectionable but went directly to the post.