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max1ccon Cards Against Humanity Statement and Form for Tariff Refunds

Very fun to complain about obscenities with the username "EnPissant"

max1ccon Billions of login credentials have been leaked online

Can't be phished. With a normal password manager, user error could lead to copying credentials and pasting out to a phishing page which is irrelevant with passkeys

Autofill is a good point but it doesn't help your parent who thinks the thing is broken so they have to do it manually, rather than realising it's a phish

max1ccon I must announce the immediate end of service of SSLPing

It's better for the users for sure, but they're not owed anything for a free service. For the owner of the service, surely it just serves to add more complexity?

max1ccon Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?

It also warns if you try to fill on a site that isn't linked (says something like "1Password can't verify that reaibank.com should use your realbank.com login"

max1ccon Show HN: I made an app to help replace Taylor Swift songs on Spotify

There is a web version made by someone else here: https://taylors-version.com/

max1ccon Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager

Why does the demo have a folder of just girls?

max1ccon Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life

Apparently I've reached the maximum number of free articles despite never visiting this site before

max1ccon Ask HN: What steps do you take to protect yourself and your family online?

How is this relevant?

max1ccon A Gov.uk site dedicated to porn?

Hug of death! https://archive.md/tCgnL

max1ccon Thank you, GitHub

lol. didn't he have enough time while he was actually CEO? feels like quite a cop out

max1ccon Fortnite will be blacklisted by Apple until all appeals exhausted

The only place I can find the quote is in an article from The Verge from a couple of weeks ago: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22667069/fortnite-ios-ret...

max1ccon Why Electronic Voting Is a Bad Idea – Computerphile [video]

Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea (Dec 2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs

max1ccon How I Experience Web Today

The last part was a very nice touch

max1ccon How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards

My pleasure! Sorry to be pedantic :)

max1ccon How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards

This is a really nice article! Just so you know, it says that Postmark doesn't offer a DMARC service, but they actually offer two: Free DMARC Monitoring (https://dmarc.postmarkapp.com/) and DMARC Digests (https://dmarcdigests.com/)

max1ccon Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file

The search seems to be broken right now, but it looks like you can access whatever page you want via URL (e.g. http://static.wiki/en/Computer_Science)

max1ccon Let's Encrypt Is Down

? I could understand if you had to renew manually/upload a new cert every 90 days but it does it all automatically for you doesn't it

max1ccon This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

In case it goes down: https://archive.is/5a44i

max1ccon Find Available Usernames

Hacker News and Tiktok showed "available" for the name @maxic when both are taken?

max1ccon Most of Twitter's JavaScript devs use Prettier

Title is a bit confusing - I thought this meant "Most of the developers who work at Twitter" not "Users in the wider Twitter developer community"

max1ccon Cwtch: Decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging protocol

Haven't looked in to this properly yet but already in love with the name!

max1ccon Captcha Solving Service

That "BAN worker" button... bit morbid

max1ccon Use native context menus on Mac OS

Using Firefox now, making a selection and then force-clicking it opens it in Look Up