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Stammon··on Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
Do Channels on Nebula count? Since Nebula is paid only, ads free and creator owned (as far as I understand), it might be the one prime example of a video platform not incentivized to restrict access to only consumers using proprietary, big tech OSes.
Stammon··on Diaphora: an open-source program diffing IDA plugin
An (open-source ((program diffing) (IDA plugin)))
Stammon··on Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
So do they share their implementation of overlaying stores somewhere? It would be a huge benefit for the community to have it open source and available for being used in countless other use cases.
Stammon··on Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users
Cool idea. I'm stuck waiting for a match for a few minutes.

It would be great if it could show how long it takes on average until one is matched with a partner. Maybe it could also show how many people are chatting right now.

Stammon··on Show HN: OurBoard – free and open source online whiteboard
Iirc Excalidraw is built on top of Google Firebase. That doesn't make it less nice, but imo it shouldn't count as open source or self hostable.
Stammon··on Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes
Can you go a bit more into detail what you mean by protobuf "reflection service"
Stammon··on I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
Have you contacted any doctors or hospitals in Europe? We do take healthcare more seriously here, so I'm wondering whether you get the same response.
Stammon··on Ask HN: Why isn’t visual programming a bigger thing?
> UNIX commands are more an accident of history than a cohesive, coherent, composable design. PowerShell was designed. It was designed by one person, in one go, and it is beautiful.

I'm curious about that design and would love to learn about it.

Note, that I'm not interested in learning how to actually use powershell as a developer, but understand the abstraction design choices, that went into it.

Every time I tried to learn about that, I'd find recommendations about Books with 1000+ pages and similarly time consuming resources.

Do you have an recommended read for understanding the design choices, that went into powershell, while not learning the details, that a everyday windows would need?

Things I care about: -How do Lamdas work? -Arrays are Objects. How exactly? -Typesystem -Are there native wrappers for the kernel APIs how do they fit into the objectmodel? -Since to my understanding no shortflags exist, how is verbosity avoided? -How thight are interfaces defined. If a tool provides a new interface in a new version, can old tools still work with it?

Stammon··on Under AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter Students (2019) [video]
The choice of using the word professor, seems misleading to me. Far more often teachers will adjust their content to ensure optimal performance in tests. Especially in a education system like this.

I can only imagine what side effects this must have for motivation. When you are cautiously trying to appear focused, can you even develop a passion for a subject?

Stammon··on Xerox copier could be replacing numbers in your documents (2013)
Relevant Talk by David Kriesel at CCC Congress(2015). Available in German and Volunteer live translation to English or with English Subtitles

The talk gives a lot of background about how he discovered the bug, how it works and the reaction by Xerox. It's a must have seen talk for anyone who cares about security.

https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6558_-_de_-_saal_g_-_201412282...

Stammon··on Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python
JFYI: Twint is already the name of a popular payment app in Switzerland

https://www.twint.ch/en/

Stammon··on Show HN: GoBox – GO sandbox to run untrusted code
Edit: OpenAt is not a valid counterexample since the program checks file descriptors. But e.g renameAt[0] allows to overwrite protected files. There are numerous other options to circumvent that tool too.

[0]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/renameat.2.html

Stammon··on Show HN: GoBox – GO sandbox to run untrusted code
I'm afraid this tool is very easy to circumvent. It only checks the first argument to a syscall for containing a forbidden path.

But for example openAt gets it's path as the second argument.

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/openat.2.html

This tool is a nice demo for how to use ptrace in golang. BUT PLEASE CHECK THE CODE BEFORE USING THIS FOR ANYTHING SECURITY RELATED

Stammon··on Show HN: Jaypad.io – Planning stuff Slack style
Can you summarize or refer me to a summary on how this platform compares to others?

I'm most interested to see how it tackles these points:

- Profitability - Digital Sustainability (Guaranteeing that the user can use it in the future) - Interop with other platforms - Privacy

Stammon··on You can now make horcruxes out of your confidential files
Wouldn't the concept of dragonballs be a better fit than horcruxes?
Stammon··on Okuna.io
Apparently it's open source, the repos can be found here:

https://github.com/OkunaOrg

Most of the reactions I saw here are rather negative. Did just no one of the other commenters dig deeper and simply react pessimistic to anything with the label "social network" or are there substantial issues, that I missed?

Stammon··on AI text generator not released for concerns about implications
There is always that boy who built a nuclear reactor at home. Not quite having nukes besides the wine bottles in the cellar but he overcame at least some of the problems you'd face to get there, that shouldn't be doable

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

Stammon··on Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People
I'm wondering how Jodel (or Yik Yak in the US) fits in. The only meaningful way to interact with it is by writing comments yourself. Only to read the comments gets boring very quickly.

I observe that the quality of the comments is worse compared to platforms with more lurkers but it's interesting to see, that a platform with, presumably, a higher participation ratio is working as well

Stammon··on Show HN: Try running deep learning inference on Raspberry Pi
We don't need more proprietary machine learning devices in our homes. I'd appreciate this so much more, if it was open source, so I can reshape it to whatever use case I have.

There are plenty of viable business models, that give you your well earned money and us the option to customize and understand our devices.

Stammon··on Limiting the power of package installation in Debian
Please have a look at nix and solaris first. Both are making a compelling case against your answer
Stammon··on NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution
You can also use an overlay
Stammon··on Peer-to-peer cloud gaming on machines located in your neighborhood
Isn't this a different product?
Stammon··on You Think the Visual Studio Code Binary You Use Is Open Source? Think Again
Reverseenigneering might be forbidden in the united states. In many other countries however it isn't, especially for those cases, where you aren't trying to steal a product but to learn/research something about it