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cuttysnark··on How we handled a recent phishing incident
It's the opposite. Set-Cookie takes the optional Domain attribute and "If omitted, this attribute defaults to the host of the current document URL, not including subdomains." However, perhaps you're remembering "Multiple host/domain values are not allowed, but if a domain is specified, then subdomains are always included." [0]

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Se...

cuttysnark··on Google Ad Disguising Itself as www.gimp.org
I had to search for "gimp.org" to get the ad to be the first result; just searching "gimp" doesn't return the ad.

The scam ad says "gimp.org" but if you follow it, the landing page is hosted at gimp.monster. It's a clone of the proper gimp.org with a the download instead pointing to who-knows-what .exe on Dropbox.

WHOIS gimp.monster has WHOIS-guard, but the Icelandic "privacy" address turns up a bunch of Reddit links about scam sites. Namecheap is the common thread, but that's hardly a lead.

cuttysnark··on UK Engineers raise concerns over proposed switch to imperial measurements
1 stone = 14lbs. Learned this "whilst" (another chiefly British word) at study abroad in England. Ever after thought of the Bush album "Sixteen Stone" in a different light.
cuttysnark··on Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
Very interesting. I noticed that too, in part because I always remove it from the Twitter links I copy; even though I'm not entirely sure what/how it tracks, I know enough to know it's not needed to load the tweet in question.
cuttysnark··on Woman sues after DNA from rape kit used to arrest her
So, Hunger Games?
cuttysnark··on WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon housing
> Are construction methods the bottleneck though?

Perhaps when compared to this CAD/CNC approach. In the traditional stick-built house you need wood and other materials, tools of all sorts, and specialized workers who know the steps in order. If some critical material hasn't been delivered yet, workers have to pivot to a different task or simply stop working.

With this other method, 100% of the material is cut/delivered to the site, and the workers need only to follow the instructions. Their tools are fewer, too—hammers, nails, hand-crank lift.

In the future, anyone who likes putting together IKEA furniture may consider an exciting new career in home construction. I say that half in jest, half in hope.

cuttysnark··on Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities
US Govt: We're the good guys!

US Media: We're the bad guys!

US Subject: I'm confused, but I do trust this actor..

cuttysnark··on Phishers who breached Twilio and fooled Cloudflare could easily get you, too
The article mentions the domains were registered only 40 minutes prior. WHOIS says the Twilio one was registered through porkbun.com, an American company based in Oregon.

Does anyone know what, if anything, PorkBun could know about who this person was? What I mean is, is it really possible to buy a domain anonymously? I don't mean private registration.. I'm talking unknown to even to the hosting provider. Things like payment (apart from a stolen CC number) isn't every other payment method directly traceable to the bad actor?

Edit: I think I found my answer. Company takes multiple forms of payment including Crypto and Alipay. https://porkbun.com/support/payment_options

cuttysnark··on Startup wants to copy you into an embryo for organ harvesting
> your lawn.

My self-control has kept me free from the dependencies that create the conditions for having a lawn or needing it mowed.

Edit: adding https://www.the-utopian.org/post/25567348762/aldous-huxleys-...

cuttysnark··on Man wakes up after night on sleeper train to find it never left Glasgow
My joke, which clearly missed, was about expectation. Not waking up because your house remains still (as you expect it to) is different than sleeping a train you're expecting to, at some point, be moving and undulating. I say this as a person who falls asleep in moving vehicles—and wakes up if they stop for more than a few minutes.
cuttysnark··on Man wakes up after night on sleeper train to find it never left Glasgow
Fair, but if your house were to move to Glasgow whilst you were asleep, I bet you'd wake up.
cuttysnark··on Ask HN: Anyone making software for kiosks, infotainments or similar?
Raspberry Pi + https://github.com/jareware/chilipie-kiosk

>Easy-to-use Raspberry Pi image for booting directly into full-screen Chrome, with built-in convenience features for unattended operation. Perfect for dashboards and build monitors.

cuttysnark··on FBI investigation determined Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear comms
> I also checked your account and it's nothing but right wing propaganda. Damn, dude

This has to be a difficult way to operate on a daily basis. Even if your charge were true (it's not) why are you so quick to draw this card?

cuttysnark··on CEO and COO of Mindgeek (Pornhub, Youporn, redtube) resign
I have to know—are videos/content in the dev environment... placeholders? Or are features and other dev work done with actual porn videos? I realize sometimes one might need get the latest from prod for whatever reason, but surely day-to-day dev work isn't done with videos that—distracting?
cuttysnark··on Ice cream customers waited 45min due to staff shortage a month ahead of summer
In this case the scoop is about lack-of-scoops, with which BI can surely identify.
cuttysnark··on GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
I've personally been inspired by seeing these acts in real life. I don't get the same feeling when the person is holding a camera phone in the face of a bewildered recipient. Sorry.
cuttysnark··on GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
"okay...but why are you doing this for us?"

"m'am, it's a long story...they have my files. Also, I am recording you. Who wants breadsticks?!"

cuttysnark··on GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
Tangentially, I dislike strongly when people record videos of themselves doing "goodwill" for others—especially for social media; it always reeks [to me] of insincerity. Not to mention the often unwanted spotlight it casts onto the receiver of said goodwill. If one cares, one does acts of goodwill privately, without thinking about how others will react—including and especially—on the internet.

"The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching." ― John Wooden

edit: taming em-dashes

cuttysnark··on We Aren't Raising Adults. We Are Breeding Excellent Sheep
Bari Weiss - op-ed staff editor and writer on culture and politics at The New York Times (2017–2020).

> just another righty whining about leftists

You had no idea who this person was prior? You've landed on that diagnosis after 1 article posted on HackerNews? I believe your comment was made in bad faith, and you made an account to post it. Odd.

cuttysnark··on Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content
> Now I don't get it: how do the pirates who "webrip" those have access to the quality stream

The front-end players (sometimes) have a UI element that allows you to explicitly set which bitrate is streamed. Otherwise, the player is beholden to what the connection speed deems appropriate. Regardless, if the original file was transcoded to include 1080p, 4k stream, they exist even if your player is downgrading based on a poor connection. This can feel like a loss of control, because it is. "But it's for our the user's own good."

When using tools like ffmpeg or similar, you can simply target the highest bitrate available.

If you ever try to download a ".m3u8" file you'll see it's more or less a manifest that lists all available bitrates.

cuttysnark··on I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was called
It's my opinion that you live in a bubble and see the rest of the world as a foreign and scary place, with unknown levels of unknown danger (a polemical comment, but I felt compelled to share it)

> I've lived in NYC my entire life. > hEre's mY taKe on what's wrong with more peaceful, orderly places.

Very cool, thank you!

cuttysnark··on Show HN: Catchy melodies made with a diffusion-based neural net assistant
This is fascinating. I've always loved the idea of a .midi melody being able to be mapped to a "vocal" track and transformed accordingly—akin to Autotune The News, but with AI/ML instead of by-hand.

In a sense, the lyrics could be spoken and then applied to the .midi melody. The result would sound similar to the SoundCloud vocal OP link, but with "words".

cuttysnark··on Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser
OSX's Preview allows you to import your signature by writing in on a white notecard or similar and holding it up the webcam. It then stores a vectorized version which can be added to PDFs.
cuttysnark··on Ask HN: Why do certain websites' images get smaller when I zoom in?
TIL (last week) Chrome DevTools understands $$ as document.querySelector [0] e.g. $$('div[role="img"] img')

[0] https://javascript.plainenglish.io/an-easy-way-of-accessing-...

cuttysnark··on Show HN: Create animations by dragging an element with your mouse
This is great. Do you have plans to expand the controls or animation options? For example, adding pauses, or additional animation types like scale or rotate. Thanks for sharing this project.
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