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bingo-bongo··on Browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users
But then you’ll no longer receive any future security fixes by the publisher.

It’s a hard problem to fix, when we can’t trust any publishers in the future :(

bingo-bongo··on Dotless Domains
And the shortened form, eg. http://127.1/ (for 127.0.0.1)
bingo-bongo··on An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server
They have a really great in-depth blog post describing how they do it: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works
bingo-bongo··on The largest sofa you can move around a corner
Lift sofa upright, so i stands on one of the sides. If you look at it from above (like the animations), it’s now an L-shape (U-shape in the animations) with more space to move it around the corner.
bingo-bongo··on Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS
But.. that’s just maintenance?
bingo-bongo··on What Have We Forgotten?
> There is clearly a failure of engineering leadership. I am still puzzled why.

I personally believe it’s lack of good engineering leadership and it’s only getting worse at this point. I’ve experienced a fair share of technical leaders without enough technical background and/or experience - people/leadership skills is equally important imho, but people with both are hard to find (scarce resource) and it seems like it’s often the tech side that gets compromised.

I think one of the reasons is the IT industry is simply growing too fast, meaning we have a very small pool of people with many years of experience and a very large pool of people with less experience (compared to other industries). But we do need technical leaders, hence the compromise (need?) to pick people with less experience. Unfortunately.

bingo-bongo··on Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat
Someone mentioned how they were testing it in the linked Github issue: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/2630#...

EDIT: formatting x 2

bingo-bongo··on macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time
There is a metric or code already that shows when the recycling happens - if I recall correctly it’s at least a couple of times per day, but I’ll check my notes tomorrow…
bingo-bongo··on macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time
The sky’s the limi.. no wait :D
bingo-bongo··on macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time
Hah! This is great!

I’ve done something like this, but also used the location of ISS to figure out which country was “getting pissed on the most” by the astronauts.

I’m fairly sure I got a working script somewhere for the data, but unfortunately never got around to create a leaderboard website for it :/

bingo-bongo··on Notes on the Crystal Language
The awesome crystal repo is also a good: https://github.com/veelenga/awesome-crystal
bingo-bongo··on Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned
I agree, but the keyword here is “just” - if you think 6 months is a long time for publishing a pdf, imaging trying to make actual changes to the same system :/

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x36574i

bingo-bongo··on Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax
Hetzner has datacenters in US these days: https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/rechenzentrum/

(haven’t tried them though)

bingo-bongo··on Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk
I think it’s so amazingly awesome that you just went outside and held an unofficial talk!

Read your blog/article about the badge project yesterday and it was such a good read, even for a not-much-of-a-hardware-guy like me.

bingo-bongo··on Building a highly-available web service without a database
You don’t even need a ram disk imho, databases already cache everything in memory and only writes reach the disk.

Just try and cold-start your database and run a fairly large select twice.

bingo-bongo··on iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload
iTerm did have at least one rather serious data leaking bug in the past. It was introduced in a new feature and enabled by default.

People (or power users at least) tend to remember incidents like that. I don’t think it’s entirely “just because LLM’s”.

bingo-bongo··on VNC Resolver
Does anyway know what this is? https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/browse/#id/93018360
bingo-bongo··on A disk so full, it couldn't be restored
Probably needed to delete some of the mentioned disk snapshots, before trying to delete files.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/disk-utility/dskuf8235...

bingo-bongo··on Serverless Horrors
Right up until someone runs a container with 8080:8080, which unfortunately bypasses ufw and the container is suddenly exposed to the entire internet .. :|
bingo-bongo··on Just one bad packet can bring down a vulnerable DNS server thanks to DNSSEC
Bare in mind systemd’s resolved has dnssec validation disabled by default and it’s (afaik) still marked as experimental.
bingo-bongo··on Should you add screenshots to documentation?
Yes, please and about documentation for command line programs, also adding example output (not only the command) can help a lot, especially if the reader is unexperienced with the tool.
bingo-bongo··on Tailscale Funnel now available in beta
Isn’t this exactly about opening it up to the public internet..?
bingo-bongo··on Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone
To be fair: “..and genuine parts available for five years via..”

..but even so, it’s still a valid concern.

bingo-bongo··on CircleCI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers’ source code
Yeah, but you do need to know how to set it up securely - this isn’t any better than the CircleCI incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34446673
bingo-bongo··on No Start Menu for You
Take a look at Alfred: https://www.alfredapp.com/

I’ve been using it since v1, it’s extremely configurable, very very snappy and doesn’t suffer from the common AI-problems, that seems to be forced into searches everywhere these days.

(EDIT: it’s a Spotlight replacement)

bingo-bongo··on Ask HN: Did dang get hacked?
..and thx again for all your hard and dedicated work!

imho, you are one of the main reasons why HN keeps being a high quality tech forum (which is extremely rare these days on the Internet) - so thx dang!

bingo-bongo··on Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?
This ^

Does exactly what it says and gets bonus points due to self-hosted or as-a-service.

bingo-bongo··on There was a stretch where phone design went bananas
not mentioning the 8110 is bananas!
bingo-bongo··on Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development
There is already many answers to your question and not to be rude, but I think it perfectly shows part of the problem OP is talking about.

Every single answer goes straight to name dropping various specific techs/tools and I don’t doubt it really is the most simple way for each poster. But I think a much better answer, would be a bunch of questions that dig into what kind of problem you are trying to solve, what are the circumstances, skillset, limitations, budget, is it 1 tiny private app for fun or a couple of apps your team or even company depends on etc.

Because it depends on the specifics in _your_ situation and jumping straight to _a_ solution, without understanding _your_ problem, is imho part of the over-complexity-problem in our industry.

bingo-bongo··on Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 to Avoid Damaging the Display
> did some research

Maybe just didn’t want to boot on faulty kernel at all, now that the risk of permanently damaging the display was known.

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