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Something1234on Whistleblowers take note: don’t trust cropping tools

This about anonymity applies for whistleblowers which the forwarded article was about.

Something1234on Whistleblowers take note: don’t trust cropping tools

Can you really trust photocopiers with the microdots they encode nowadays?

Something1234on NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

Just received a bunch of cryptocurrency phising spam from their domain. Definitely pretty interesting, and they were actually fairly well done with a proper link text, but an incorrect link.

Something1234on Google Play Developer Antitrust Litigation

Why a subdomain and not just a random page?

Are class actions always at the federal level and not the state level?

Also lawyers wouldn't like that very much, camp lejune is being a pile of pain.

Something1234on Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

https://www.henryschmale.org/2022/03/14/rsa.html

I made an RSA demonstration tool that got featured on hackaday. I never submitted it to HN, but I want to share it now.

It shows all the intermediate operations for doing RSA.

Something1234on Police, prosecutors used junk science to decide 911 callers were liars

NIST has some very good reasons not to be a regulatory agency. They depend on a lot of cooperation with industry to build some very high tech devices.

Something1234on Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports

The Audi Q5 had issues with the infotainment IMO. It wasn't stock android auto like in my Hyundai. The voice assistant button always routed to the audi voice thing (completely worthless I know what I want google to do, now connect me to google). The buttons felt over complicated.

Although one feature I really liked was that it would tell me what the biggest consumers of power was. I would definitely like to have a car with a heated steering wheel in the winter here, but that isn't in the cards.

Something1234on The Metals Company subsidiary lifts over 3000T of nodules to sea surface

Wait what is TMC? Is this like futures trading, but with less liquidity?

Something1234on Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015)

Isn't any kind of fabric production still pretty high tech? It feels a little dismissive to call it super high tech in the past tense.

Something1234on Incident affecting Google Ad Manager

What’s payola?

Something1234on Why some feces float and others sink

What would mucus even look like in a turd?

Something1234on Announcing KataOS and Sparrow

Maybe, just maybe more shows should be built around being a single season long with fewer rear end pulls. I'm so sick of these multiseason shows that just do nothing or don't answer questions.

Something1234on Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers

Or rent prices in general. It's absolutely obscene how expensive rent is where light rail is available near Philly. $1400+/month for a 1 bed room. I can rent cheaper inside of Philly proper.

Something1234on Are hospitals overtreating patients nearing the end?

I've been trying to figure out how to define a living will that is actually quantified, but I just can't come up with anything. Everything I can think of has exceptions in it, and I'm sure I won't cover all the holes.

Something1234on Amazon to Close 4 of Its 5 US Call Centers, Shifts to Work-from-Home

Instead we'll get a new alter to worship at together one that makes us all poorer.

Something1234on Former NSA Employee Arrested on Espionage-Related Charges

Does anyone have a tutorial on using the openssl cli? It seems to barf on some inputs if it's not exactly perfect or you miss a step in the stack overflow answer.

Honestly I would expect some to be more familiar with the hashXsum tools.

Something1234on Super-Earths are ideal targets in the search for life

There was extraterrestrial life in that one, or am I thinking of hammer of god?

Something1234on Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of orbiting junk

Where can I go watch Planetes?

Something1234on Let’s make WordPress officially support SQLite

Why would a time series database be better for a CMS-CRM? Or am I completely miss reading your comment?

Something1234on IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system

How is it any different than the private subsidy to intuit that exists now cause no one wants to figure it out?

Something1234on Ask HN: What subscription services are worth paying for IT professional

What do you see in SecureCRT over something like MobaXTerm or Putty?

Something1234on Understanding gambling addiction (2012)

Wait I thought empathy was the one out of my shoes and sympathy was feeling bad on someone else's behalf?

Something1234on Static site hosting hurdles

Quick question: Why wouldn't I use my free tier registrar DNS? Are there really that man DNS queries serviced cause you pay based off the number of responses? Especially if they are stupid domains.

Something1234on Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon

Wouldn't it be more interesting if there was a federated way to take orders and see deals? Something like RSS for but for stores.

I think the bigger issue is just how much work it is to deal with the spam on any marketplace.

Something1234on Ask HN: How do I expand my worldview and meet smart people online?

Where do you find blogging challenges?

Something1234on Ask HN: For those using Stable Diffusion locally, how do you filter fishy repos?

Do you really think your average javascript developer is going to read and understand all of their dependencies?

Something1234on Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute

You're going to be sitting there for a while waiting for blocking random to fill 19MB. You want urandom.

Something1234on Subscriptions are out, refills are in

Yeah that would just encourage the scammers out there. Atomic Shrimp on youtube covers a lot of these scammers. I would say 100 views of the cart by distinct ip addresses to cover people just randomly opening shopify accounts.

Something1234on H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home

Wouldn't that be unfair to any potential start ups that needed an H1B for some complex subject matter?

Something1234on SDF Public Access Unix System

The lisp machine access is certainly something new. I haven't seen that mentioned at all. Would definitely like to fiddle with it.