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kosasbeston Darknetlive Sold to Incognito Market

I regularly go to Dark.fail[0] to get the latest .onions some sites are using, like the BBC:

    https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccijh7745uqd.onion

Just be careful out there. All I have to do is alter one letter for the BBC .onion and I can get phished/scammed/duped. For example, this is an altered .onion for BBC:

    https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccijh7746uqd.onion

Can you spot the alteration?

[0] https://dark.fail/

> Accurate URLs verified by PGP. No direct linking in order to protect against DNS leaks from accidental clicking in a clearnet browser.

How does the PGP verif work? I'm not used to it. There exists a tool here[1] but how does it all work?

[1] https://dark.fail/pgp

kosasbeston HP CEO Says Goal Is to Make "Printing a Subscription"

I scooped up a bunch of non-smart HP printers from car boot sales over the years in preparation for this nonsense.

kosasbeston Ask HN: What can you learn about a person by reading their code?

You can determine if they're sloppy and just want the project rushed out the door. Kludgy code is actually fun to read.

kosasbeston [dead]

> and click a link to a site like Reddit

I have JS turned off in my main surfing profile and New Reddit performs badly and hides the content, unless you amend the URL to `old.reddit.com` so Reddit is not that accessible. I have JS turned off for privacy & security reasons. Reddit is basically fuck-you'ing those who enjoy their privacy.

kosasbeston Five cryptologic giants to be inducted into NSA's Cryptologic Hall of Honor

NSA are purple team (both red team and blue team), so they do defense aswell as offense. They need to sniff plaintext aswell as protect their own infra and IP with strong crypto standards like AES. The public also benefits from AES, often to the detriment of SIGINT efforts by the NSA, so there are caveats to this, and it's nuanced.

kosasbeston DevDocs

MDN[0] is usually my goto reference for frontend stuff. I know DevDocs has the offline feature, but frankly I can't develop without an Internet connection. I tried it, and failed terribly. Besides MDN, developers need quick access to Google and ChatGPT to go forward, quickly.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

kosasbeston Cold showers on overhyped topics (2017)

Before clicking I presumed this would be a compilation of blogposts about the Wim Hof method[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof

kosasbeston Vintage Computing

Noted.

kosasbeston Tell HN: Don't Enable Ad Personalization

And turn this off in Chrome: chrome://settings/adPrivacy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/11/chrome-...

kosasbeston Ask HN: How to figure out a good direction/goals for the year ahead?

> but I always struggle to articulate what that would mean, how I should achieve that, what I need to change etc

I recommend bullet journaling, to get stuff on paper/written down first before you take action. Then you can revise past notes to see how much you've progressed. It's worth being very clear about what you want, and have a rough draft of the means to get it.

There's a phrase I always loved: 'What's meant for you won't pass you by'.

kosasbeston Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors

Interesting that when we can't make chips bigger laterally, we go vertical and stack transistors. It's like we discovered high-rise buildings all over again.

kosasbeston Don't Spy EU

> I used to be worried about face scanning. But sometimes I wonder if it's an inevitable evolution of technology.

The cat's out of the bag. But you can still exercise caution. I remember when that app FaceApp was trending, and everyone wanted to see what they looked like when older, oblivious to the ulterior motives behind the app. Essentially they were building a FR database from user generated content. So, don't feed the beast and don't upload your faceprint to apps every chance you get.

kosasbeston Ask HN: How is your early retirement working out?

A bit of advice if you are aiming for FIRE: Don't buy Starbucks, buy instant coffee you make yourself, and stop buying stupid avocado on toast at cafes, and a whole laundry list of other luxury items. Basically you should refrain from buying any luxury item unless it's a treat and you set aside time and money for treats, not have treats and luxury purchases all the time. FIRE people need to exercise incredible restraint on their purchases, then that money that was saved can be pooled into your retirement fund. It's hard, I know, but that's life!

kosasbeston Ask HN: Hackers on Keto diet, what do you eat in lieu of carbs to assume fibers?

There's no getting away from carbs. They're in everything. Often in extreme amounts, depending on what you select for treats. But to answer your question: I find strawberries, raspberries, & blackberries to be a comforting snack. For fiber, I eat a variety of nuts like redskin peanuts, walnuts, and brazil nuts. I also do a burger in a bowl which has all the ingredients of a burger, just without the bun.

kosasbeston Ask HN: Is SEO worth to buy from an ad agency?

> Then there will be no place for my small agency to rank on the first page

Don't rely on agencies to do SEO for you. All the old tactics of SEO still work surprisingly well, and are worth learning. I still stuff the <title> tag with hundreds of keywords, and I get more leads. Some search engines still look for oldskool tactics like that and you get extra traffic.

kosasbeston Can Hacker News NH start allowing the abillity to make edits like Lemmy?

You can already edit your comments? They give you a grace period of about 15 mins. Are you pissed when that window of time expires and you can't go and 'perfect' your posts?

kosasbeston Ask HN: What is your personal top of the best HN threads of all time

Probably this gem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132

kosasbeston Tell HN: AI New Digital Divide

AI is just hype at the moment, and subject to a hype cycle. Now we're at the peak, but usage will drop. The people using AI and wielding it the 'right way' will have made their money and live in Margaritaville, and everyone else will just use it as a personal assistant to make life easier, not make millions. Things will settle down. It will integrate into everything eventually just like a basic search functionality has been integrated into any capable app.

kosasbeston Ask HN: How are you using AI?

> Since these services (ChatGPT, DALL-E, etc) are so powerful

They are powerful, but they're trained on already existing information painstakingly created by humans, so they're the 'compressed JPEG' of the Internet now. Under the hood, they're just if...else statements, so don't be fooled.

kosasbeston Ask HN: As a hobbyist developer, what are the odds of getting hired as a pro?

> I'm not an expert in anything, but I know a bit of everything that is required to ship something that works

The landscape is always changing, potential employers change their requirements, so you need to know $framework or $language of the month. My advice is be agile and adapt. Don't get set in your ways with a strategy that only works for you.

kosasbeston Ask HN: Safest open source Win11 privacy tool?

https://github.com/hellzerg/optimizer

https://github.com/TheWorldOfPC/Windows11-Debloat-Privacy-Gu...

kosasbeston Tell HN: Buying a lottery ticket is rational

The lottery is a tax for people who are bad at probability math. It's irrational when people bet full Kelly.

kosasbeston Ask HN: Do you work on projects solely for your own use?

> What kinds of projects are you working on that you have no intention of sharing with others?

Not large projects, but little code snippets that make my life easier. Like shuffling a list of bullet point items, bash one liners for working in a Linux environment. None of these are advanced enough to release publicly on GitHub, although I sometimes paste helpful snippets into a Gist incase someone finds it useful.

kosasbeston Tell HN: uBlock Origin Blocks YouTube

gHacks has a good tutorial on how to address this:

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/03/youtube-showing-ads-with-u...

kosasbeston HTML Design Principles (2007)

> When posting old pages/articles it may help if the OP explained why they are sharing on HN

I submitted this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37341492

The site in question is: https://esif.dev/

I'm doing what @dang suggested:

> The audience here is sympathetic to this topic, of course—but lists don't make great HN submissions. It would be better to pick the most interesting / least known thing on the list and submit that instead.

I'm picking some URLs from that list, this is one of them.

kosasbeston User Online Behavior Dataset

https://datarade.ai/data-categories/web-activity-data

https://datarade.ai/data-categories/consumer-behavior-data

kosasbeston Ask HN: Shopping for yourself or someone else online?

> Would you be willing to tell the websites you're shopping on who you are shopping for?

Amazon asks if the purchase is a gift during checkout. I've never told Amazon it was a gift, even if it was. I don't know if they ask for a personal message for the giftee after checking that checkbox though.

kosasbeston On Craft

Computers speed up craftpersonship, so it doesn't feel like craftpersonship, but really if you slow it down, it has elements of craft. Software is often rushed out the door at breakneck speed these days so it seems shoddily made and rushed, but then it works, has few bugs, and doesn't suffer from technical debt. I think this is miraculous and shouldn't be taken for granted.

kosasbeston UK government seeks expanded use of AI-based facial recognition by police

I'm seeing a lot of fascist dictatorial, and authoritarian things being 'proposed' by the UK government lately. Seems like they're sleepwalking into a China style Big Brother, Orwellian state. </long-sigh>

kosasbeston Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said the NSA hacked into his Signal account

> Tucker Carlson was called to Washington because of a possible interview with Putin.

> Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said the US National Security Agency hacked into his Signal account and read correspondence about a planned interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

> According to the presenter, he received a call and was summoned to Washington to clarify the situation. When he arrived, the question was asked if he was planning a trip to meet with Putin.

> “How did you know, I didn’t tell anyone. Not at all. Not to my brother, not to my wife, not to anyone at all. How did you know? Because the NSA hacked into your correspondence with another person with whom you discussed this,” Carlson said.

> The day before, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said that Tucker Carlson wants to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.

How so? I imagine this is just a side-channel attack against Signal, i.e the phone's OS got malware and then intercepted Signal messages, not an attack on the Signal protocol itself.