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cpachon eMudhra intermediate CA compromise

If FBI went to Godaddy and said, “We need a cert for www.google.com”, Godaddy would most likely refuse. Issuing that cert would leave a trail that would be extremely undesirable for both FBI and Godaddy.

cpachon Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?

Aaah, Krtek! Such a cute little fellow :)

cpachon Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs

Would it really be worth the extra complexity?

Another option: Use ACME together with ARI (RFC 9773). The client checks ARI data every hour. If the cert needs to be replaced – for example like in this scenario – the CA will inform the client, which in turn would then request a new cert.

I know it’s not convenient to automate for every kind of device though. I guess in some of those cases it might be better to have a load balancer in front of the device. Or use an alternative PKI.

cpachon Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain

Not very many, but yes

cpachon Ask HN: Where has creativity in software gone?

Look here: https://100r.co/

cpachon Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?

As a small child I liked Janosch’s books about the tiger and the bear. For example Ich mach dich gesund, sagte der Bär (I’ll Make You Well, Tiger, Said the Bear).

When I got a bit older I really enjoyed the Narnia books by CS Lewis. And The Belgariad by David Eddings.

I read a lot, but many titles are probably not available in English.

cpachon Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month

Uhm, okey. But how is that related to Photopea? Are you arguing that copyright laws are void for software that display ads?

cpachon Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month

What does that have to do with software that is financed by ads?

Why don’t you just install GIMP instead of using Photopea?

cpachon Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month

I’m no cop. I just want HN to keep being a civil place. I hope you agree :)

cpachon Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month

Well, shouldn’t that be up to the original developer? He made a product and let people use it for free. But no-one is forced to use it. And there are other image editors without any ads. Some are proprietary, and some are FOSS, e.g. GIMP.

cpachon Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month

Please don’t attack other HN members. It’s not nice and it’s against the guidelines.

cpachon Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month

I don’t like ads either. So I just paid for a local image editor and use that one instead. The developer of the product gets paid, I get a great ad-free image editor.

cpachon Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?

1010 https://poki.com/en/g/1010-deluxe

cpachon Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?

The Narnia books by CS Lewis are very good IMHO. But you might want to wait a year or two.

cpachon Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

Looks like we hugged that poor server to death :-/

cpachon Linux from Scratch

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708089

cpachon XCancel service is suspended until further notice

Did it way before that.

cpachon Steam Frame starts at $1059

Who are they targeting with this product?

What’s the appeal? Can someone enlighten me? :)

cpachon Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants

I’m starting to think that perhaps the government here in .se should support new reactors. It won’t be cheap though…

cpachon GPT-6 Astra

So what’s the tldr? :)

cpachon The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

There are probably multiple reasons for doing so. I imagine some reasons are business risk, freedom to innovate, freedom to take a holistic perspective and improving the possibilites for raising capital.

If you build only the propulsion system you would be 100% dependent of existing aircraft companies, which are heavily invested in jet engines. It would probably be much harder to innovate and make good design choices in such a setting.

cpachon .name Termination

And maybe she was born like five minutes before midnight, so he couldn’t just wait an hour or two (:

cpachon .name Termination

Huh? I don’t follow.

cpachon .name Termination

Ouch.

IMHO, this whole TLD seems kind of messed up from the start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.name

cpachon Ask HN: Are Technical Blogs Dead?

Ooh. Interesting approach! Have you considered publishing a list of those blogs somewhere?

cpachon Ask HN: Are Technical Blogs Dead?

They’re not dead. They’re resting ;-)

cpachon Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

404?

cpachon Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode

That sounds like an improvement. Thank you for explaining!

cpachon Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode

“You probably heard of this new markdown-ts-mode and decided to check it out.”

Uhm, no, I haven’t.

Why should I care if the Markdown mode uses Treesitter or not…? Does it affect the performance or UX somehow?

cpachon When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python

Seems kinda logical, since that’s how the Germans did it for a long time? ẞ wasn’t introduced until 2017 or so, AFAICT.