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eugenekolo2

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eugenekolo2··on Thunderbird’s New Home
Can you cite these millions paid to execs at Mozilla?
eugenekolo2··on Leading Projects – As a Software Engineer
Amazingly well stated. I lived this exact life as the task-lead a few years ago on one of my projects.

I was told to keep the project running, but had no power on hiring, firing, performance reviews, or anything.

The project fulfilled the few requirements that we had, but failed to gain any real traction due to lack of feedback from the customer, for which the actual project lead was responsible for.

eugenekolo2··on Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
* Filing taxes if in the US.

* CPR

* Cooking a couple of meals

eugenekolo2··on Vulnx – bot that detect vulnerabilities in multiple types of CMS
There's a new one of these every week. How is this one any better/different? Does it perform any better than a simple curl loop looking for the existence of a plugin? Or grep?
eugenekolo2··on WordPress usage worldwide
Performing a web request to 1M targets takes a long time.

However, this is an [embarassingly parallel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel) problem, and renting out some machines would speed it up.

eugenekolo2··on WordPress usage worldwide
It'd be interesting to do all that you said (and more) and then determine what's the combined amount, as well as what % of sites do some sort of obfuscation... and why?
eugenekolo2··on Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
My issue with notion is that it doesn't support sharing PDFs/PPTs besides sharing the entire page. I'd like for it to backup my PDFs which is does onto AWS... but the links are gigantic (2k characters) and expire.
eugenekolo2··on Shenanigans in the Microkitchen
Free snacks is all fun until somebody ruins it by deciding they can take an exorbitant amount of them home.
eugenekolo2··on Apple Factory Thefts: Secret Tunnels, Hidden Crawl Spaces
Reproduced. The error page contains malware. Appears to be some sort of keylogger, but I didn't actually analyze it.

https://gist.github.com/eugenekolo/81c1e7ff1c699cfbb584fdd6b...

eugenekolo2··on Apple Factory Thefts: Secret Tunnels, Hidden Crawl Spaces
Don't know what happened but the first time I clicked this link it brought me to unrendered HTML and obfuscated JS. Can't reproduce... but perhaps beware of malware.
eugenekolo2··on My First Year as a Solo Developer
I'm sorry, but how is your website worth $4000? It's a static Jekyll website. This website is 3 to 10 man hours of work. Are you seriously paying people $500/hr to `gem install jekyll` and pick a theme for you?

Honest question, because I'm either missing something here, or you're throwing money out the window and in which case: message me about developing something for you.

eugenekolo2··on Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
I recently set up pi-hole in a couple of hours on a raspberry pi I have at home. Works fairly well - it can't block as many things as ublock origin can, but it gets the job mostly done while still providing some sort of revenue to content creators.

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

eugenekolo2··on [dead]
Is this interesting? The game's probably equally popular among the entire world population.
eugenekolo2··on Coolest Things I Learned in 2018
The photo for "There is a restaurant in Los Angeles called Brunch Near Me, presumably to trick Googlers." is showing Brooklyn, not Los Angeles. I don't know if this restaurant is in LA or in Brooklyn.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55576406e4b02e4679105... That's Sheepshead Bay near Coney Island in Brooklyn.

eugenekolo2··on XSStrike: XSS detection suite
Sarcastic?

Not sure testimonials from the dev themselves mean anything.

eugenekolo2··on Google Home (in)Security
Yeah, my bad, my networks not 192.168.1.x
eugenekolo2··on Google Home (in)Security
~Doesn't seem to work on my Google Home Speaker (non-hub) as of 8:40PM EST. Tried the nmap restart payload. `nmap --open -p 8008 192.168.1.0/24 | awk '/is up/ {print up}; {gsub (/\(|\)/,""); up = $NF}' | xargs -I % curl -Lv -H Content-Type:application/json --data-raw '{"params":"now"}' http://%:8008/setup/reboot`~

Works after I changed to the right ip range.

eugenekolo2··on So You Want to Compete with Steam
Never thought about it like that, but you're right about it being a pretty decent package manager.
eugenekolo2··on Free static websites with SSL for hackers
I've done similar setups. I highly recommend just using Cloudflare or Netlify instead. Unless you have an actual business reason, or love owning everything in the stack.

The headache of managing this yourself adds up, things break, things update, etc.

eugenekolo2··on Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime
I don't think it has anything to do w/ age. I believe that most people just see rules and laws as very firm, and unquestionable.
eugenekolo2··on Ask HN: What's the State of the Art in Fake Amazon Reviews?
I reported these (and similar): https://www.amazon.com/Hiearcool-Canceling-Bluetooth-Headpho... a couple weeks ago.

Got a support response telling me to look at verified reviews, and that basically they don't care and verified is considered legit.

Take a look at the reviews. Every single one is 1 paragraph, from "Firstname Lastname" names, within last 3months, 5/5 to every review they ever gave, etc.

I dug into this problem, and it seems that they really are verified reviews. Getting these kind of reviews is costly, the vendor really does suffer an item loss, but having such positive reviews is worth losing 1000 units or so. I won't get into details where to buy these fraud reviews, but essentially there's groups out there on social media websites and specialized websites that work similarly to those discount click ads for us to get an item sites, but instead, it's leave positive fake reviews for us and you get the items for free.

Three weeks now, still nothing done, and still scamming. Good work Amazon fraud dept.

eugenekolo2··on Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising
There's a difference between having strong opinions, and actually conspiring to have somebody elected. One is posting news, the other is creating news (see entire Facebook groups from Russia posting fake news).

There is still the question though: have other nations participated in this creation of news? Probably so, so perhaps the spot light shouldn't be on Russia only, but more generalized into this problem. But, the problem exists nonetheless and taking action is reasonable.

eugenekolo2··on Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
Disregarding the actual contents of the article:

How is this article #1 on HN being up for 30min w/o any comments?

eugenekolo2··on Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 Is Now Available
I have. And a whole onslaught of numerous other issues. Most of them seem to be documented in bugs 5+ years old that never get fixed.

I was once a Virtualbox fan boy. But, I'm going with KVM and Vmware moving forward.

eugenekolo2··on Apple Watch Series 3
Interesting. Thanks for the tip.
eugenekolo2··on Apple Watch Series 3
Do you guys actually read this website at the default size? The sites much more enjoyable at 150%...
eugenekolo2··on GitHub Desktop 1.0
Oh, I always wanted to use 4gb of RAM to add files to Git.
eugenekolo2··on Login.gov encryption is badly designed
Scrypt isn't battle tested enough tbh.

When it's something as important as this, the proper choice is to use something that's been analyzed, and attacked for numerous years.

eugenekolo2··on Writing a Service Worker
20 lines of JS top on HN. Slow news day I guess...
eugenekolo2··on My Hackintosh Hardware Spec
Have you used an IDE besides Xcode? I've found Xcode to be one of the worst IDEs I've ever used. And in fact, a bunch of xterms is even better.
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