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vgb2k18··on PrimateJS: Htmx Quick Start
I like it too for now. Htmx + Caddy (goodbye nginx), Bulma (css) and Fastapi (python backend). All this for a student management SPA. My day job as a school teacher means (A) I have to deal with outdated monolithic webapps daily, and (B) I don't exactly have all the time in the word to write software. This stack has been a godsend.
vgb2k18··on Buddhist Temple Left Without Monks After They All Test Positive for Meth
Testing positive is a fail :|

One would also want negative results for aids, Covid, herpes, and bunch of others!

vgb2k18··on IRS builds task force to explore running its own free e-file system
Red flag from Intuit mentioned in another comment [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34765258

vgb2k18··on IPinside: Korea’s Mandatory Spyware
In the article I cannot see Android and iOS mentioned. I also can't discern if banks alone, or banks and other vital services require IPInside. This logic is going somewhere so hear me out please! (and this is meant to be a humble query, I hope it comes across that way).

To me this ambiguity leaves the door open for challenges to the label "mandatory spyware" as a blanket label. With the ambiguity open, a plausible scenario is this: Only banks enforce IPInside, and Koreans can access full banking services from their mobile Android and iOS devices (with IPInside installed), meaning their laptops and PC's wouldn't need IPInside installed. Meaning: the label mandatory would be an overstatement. I'm not against the label mandatory, if... These gaps in knowledge are filled in with more info (forgive me if I it was clearly stated in the article for all to see! I read it the best I could but on mobile so who knows what I missed).

vgb2k18··on The Galaga no-fire-cheat mystery (2012)
>why waste your time dodging shots when you can fight but if you were playing in an arcade

A kid pushed his last coin into the slot, 30 minutes until his parents come to collect him; he will prolong this game for as long as he can.

vgb2k18··on How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
The keys couldn't unlock the GPU door though (I mean, dev mode apps couldn't use the graphics api). And iirc ram was limited. To me that allows for some incentive to root/jailbreak the device.
vgb2k18··on IPinside: Korea’s Mandatory Spyware
> When a banking website in South Korea wants to learn more about you, it will make a JSONP request to localhost:21300. If this request fails, the banking website will deny entry and ask that you install IPinside LWS Agent first. So in South Korea running this application isn’t optional.

To me this reads as not mandatory in the broadest scope, but needs to be on whatever device people use for online banking.

vgb2k18··on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
Aussie, can confirm. They have Vyvanse, Dexamfetamine, Adderal and Ritalin. I didn't mind reading this one though, was a novel change to see sentences starting without capital letters.
vgb2k18··on Google researcher, long out of math, cracks devilish problem about sets
Sorry, yes I saw your confusion. If you read back to your Huh comment you might forgive me for reading it as that you were unsure of the truth yourself. The one word 'huh?', spoke to me as "which one of these is true?". Whereas a person who was sure of the true answer, I would expect to say "Hey that's incorrect", if they encountered an obviously mistaken quote.
vgb2k18··on Google researcher, long out of math, cracks devilish problem about sets
If I'm reading this [0] right, the heavier/lighter factor can be determined within 3 weightings... [0] https://suresolv.com/brain-teaser/find-fake-ball-among-12-id...
vgb2k18··on How to Befriend Crows
The magpie outside my place does perch on my arm to eat food, but also engages in a friendly game of "guess which hand the food is in", by giving a gentle peck (I flip the food back and forth between my hands like a carnival game then close the food in one hand quickly).
vgb2k18··on Solving Advent of Code with jq
OP's code is golfed + completed every day, on the day + has six years of jq Advent committed. I say, not doing the same thing.
vgb2k18··on How does Windows decide whether your computer has full Internet access?
In the linked comment section, Raymond Chen replied somewhat abrasively to a comment similar to this (the comment was "wouldn't this be easy to spoof?").

A bit harsh I thought!

vgb2k18··on The 12-bit rainbow palette
#2cb and #0bc look the same for me, while the first and last are different enough.

I know for sure I cannot complete a full ishihara plate test though so this one is on me.

vgb2k18··on PS5 4.03 Kernel Exploit
My imagination or there is a strong correlation between (a) the security status of a console's firmware and (b) the number of cheats exploited in online multiplayer? Example: [-] black ops 2 360 - unplayable, hackers in every lobby [-] black ops 3 xbone - no issues

Change my perspective if I'm wrong, but I'm not unhappy if the ps5 jailbreak doesn't happen until the EOL for ps5 online servers.

vgb2k18··on Voyager suspends trading, deposits, withdrawals, and loyalty rewards
> Just ride the tide. Buy low, wait, sell high, wait, buy low.

I think you're underselling the difficulty of this problem by the adverbial just.

vgb2k18··on Things I’d want to see improved in WordPress core
> I don't know a web designer in the world who wants to give their editors complete control.

I'm thinking this might be aimed squarely at scenarios where the editor, designer and admin are all the same person.

vgb2k18··on Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions
>Used foxyproxy btw

HAProxy is also really useful for this purpose, I dare say more-so. For my use-case it solved this problem: "Using 1 port on the remote server (port 443), how can I serve HTTPS (serve a website) and SSH or SOCKS5 (use the server as a proxy)?". HAProxy was good for the task. It could be used to tunnel SSH through HTTPS too, in the case where a corp firewall is using DPI to block standard SSH. What I'm not sure of though... can it tunnel SSH through HTTPS, and, serve a website at the same time? That's a question for the reader.

The idea of serving a website at the same time was for the purpose of providing a plausible reason for traffic exists from that server. Like, you know, if the admin's see traffic on 443 from an ip/domain with no website, that's got to be a magnitude of suspicion higher than an ip/domain with an actual website being served on it.

vgb2k18··on HelloInbox – Ultimate email deliverability checklist and toolkit
>I’ve also heard your domain reputation is far more important than shared vs. dedicated IP at your ESP of choice.

For me the IP address has been the only significant factor in my email deliverability. I.e., emails sent from my mail server couldn't reach Outlook inboxes or even spam boxes. Straight-up silently rejected every time. If you look at the Outlook.com Smart Network Data Services (SNDS)[0], the terminology used is all about IP. That problem was resolved through a support ticket requesting a kind conditional white-listing.

That's been my experience so far, from the perspective of a low volume, personal email only. YMMV.

[0] https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/snds/

vgb2k18··on Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
Destructible environments. Ala, Teardown. https://forum.unity.com/threads/want-to-recreate-teardown-de... The discrete voxels can be smaller than in Minecraft, and behave like physical box shaped objects when dislodged.
vgb2k18··on Sunsetting the Bethesda.net launcher and migrating to Steam
>Is that really surprising?

>I was actually amazed...

You countered your own argument there.

vgb2k18··on Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study
Potential correlations between gut serotonin and morganella levels? Leading to the question "Can SSRIs affect depression through mechanisms in the gut?".
vgb2k18··on The complicated futility of WordPress
Wagtail - https://wagtail.io/
vgb2k18··on Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware (2021)
See also, AMD's PSP (Platform Secure Processor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...
vgb2k18··on War Is a Racket (1933)
Jocko Podcast with the author is a great listen. https://jockopodcast.com/2021/09/22/300-war-is-a-racket/
vgb2k18··on Ask HN: Gmail account security
Since it's a pet peeve we share I'll add... I feel it's a bi-directional exchange. A trade. I consume a product (Gmail) and they consume a product (my personal information). At best I'd be "a" product not exclusively "the" product.
vgb2k18··on Unix in the Browser Tab
If I'm reading this right, it means Shared Array Buffers can get enabled by sites that are not GitHub Pages, eg, by spinning up one's preferred cloud hosting instance (DO AWS Azure etc). If yes, then this appears in my mind as not a huge problem.
vgb2k18··on Sonic 3D: Director's Cut (2019)
Mostly, yes indeed. Partial counter-example though, Jon on his Coding Secrets channel demonstrates how to achieve PS5 effects on lesser hardware, so maybe on PS4 for example. This [0] Ratchet and Clank example focussed on debunking marketing hype that certain effects were only possible on PS5 SSD.

An obvious other counter would be 3D engine development (Unity, Unreal) where the developers of those engines will be employing some obscure seeming low level stuff to make this look good. Not to be unclear though I'm 100% in agreement that for most devs, those days are mostly over. [0] https://youtu.be/5XOV3pZj8rI

vgb2k18··on Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites
If you created and seeded long enough to get active traffic, the host and DHT peer IPs might be flagged by LE. Once flagged the IP info passed to different investigators for prosecution purposes. Depending on your level of anonymity (VPN, tor, none, other) the investigation is either a dead-end or success. If success, warrant granted, home searched, PC seized. That's one potential scenario.
vgb2k18··on Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites
I would love it if someone could change my mind on this:

The words unblockable and uncensorable have been misused in the documentation.

Real-world example: 99% of my colleagues cannot bring their own devices into our corporate workplace to access torrents via DHT. There are some network rules and filters in place to block most non 443 traffic. Those 99% are effectively blocked.

Setting a remote HAProxy server to mask miscelaneous traffic as https was a practical way out through the firewall, which then exposed my HAProxy server to a block by IP rules.

This is an idea I'd love to be wrong about. Bock-resistant is the most appropriate statement for this project in its present form. Change my mind :)

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