HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

evulhotdog

132 karma · joined July 31, 2021

submissionscomments
evulhotdog··on Reports of Gmail security issue are inaccurate
I think it’s a lot likelier that some other company which has both your phone and email was breached, and conveniently the domain in your email tells them who you use as your email provider, which they can then pose as.
evulhotdog··on Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights
Amazon had a yes next to it.
evulhotdog··on Seedbox Lite: A lightweight torrent streaming app with instant playback
This could be integrated into Jellyfin as a source and it would stream it from the server to whatever client.
evulhotdog··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
Nothing is stopping them, but like most things in blocking free speech, it’s a game of cat and mouse.
evulhotdog··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
There are many instances of Mastodon, and due to its federated nature, you can use any of them to access it, and even host your own.
evulhotdog··on Hospital food proven bad scientifically – and may undermine health
Have to make sure that the labs are not only taken, but results provided before the attending(s) and care teams are looking at the chart to determine next steps for you. And that starts even earlier if you have a surgeon as your primary.
evulhotdog··on MacBook Pro Insomnia
Mine defaults to 24h on RouterOS 7.16.x.
evulhotdog··on What Makes NixOS Different (and Why It's Better)
Editorializing the title is against HN guidelines.
evulhotdog··on Borg – Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
Kopia is an awesome tool that checks the same boxes, and has a wonderful GUI if you need that.

Not affiliated, just a happy user.

evulhotdog··on Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 Appears to Be Down
Quad9, too.
evulhotdog··on Army will study how blasts of rifles, anti-armor and artillery impact brain
The fact that they haven’t done this at scale yet is astounding, for the sake of humanity.

I guess for them it’s better to not know, as they’d be on the hook for any harm.

evulhotdog··on Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved
They were completely unwilling to negotiate with us at all, and it forced our hand to go other open source routes so we don’t get locked in again.
evulhotdog··on Chimpanzees yawn when observing an android yawn
I yawned because I read this comment.
evulhotdog··on Find the Odd Disk
I recall playing one that had to do with making sure the kerning was aligned…
evulhotdog··on The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
ip.guide is also a great one. Provides a json payload with relevant information. I have no affiliation with it, just happy user!
evulhotdog··on Resident physicians' exam scores tied to patient survival
Forgot the link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37801560/
evulhotdog··on Resident physicians' exam scores tied to patient survival
This is a study my wife wrote regarding this exact scenario, trying to see if patients think they’re getting better care if they’re similar to the doctor (and team) treating them!
evulhotdog··on Resident physicians' exam scores tied to patient survival
It very much depends on the specialty, too.
evulhotdog··on The rise of the U.S., the rise of China
Out of pure curiosity, do you have a few examples of this that you can cite and provide indisputable information to demonstrate it?
evulhotdog··on Restic: Backups done right
You should check out Kopia. It’s absolutely wonderful, is fast, has similar features, and has a GUI if you’re into that.
evulhotdog··on Apple's new macOS Sequoia update is breaking some cybersecurity tools
I read somewhere about old ESET rules being in the macOS firewall blocked various udp traffic. Quick Google might get you more information.
evulhotdog··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
I suspect it’s because they don’t have a lot to brag about this year feature wise.

It feels like a “off” or “s” year. Some minor improvements and technically a new phone but nothing to write home about.

evulhotdog··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
Agreed. Normally Apple finds genuine uses of their features they’re intending to market. The guy ended up talking to the person with the dog after, which made the use of the AI a bit of a miss.

It honestly felt like Apple didn’t do that scene because normally everything is well thought out.

evulhotdog··on Firewall rules: not as secure as you think
I’ve had these types of conversations hundreds of times due to some architecture of various systems that I’ve worked on over the years. Mostly from the vendor side.

The only real way to combat this is to do Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and then to look at all the data that’s being passed within that encrypted connection. The problem with this, is that at this point, the vendor has to trust that the customer is doing their due diligence to protect anything that they find within that associated connection with the same diligence that the vendor would be.

As a vendor specifically in the healthcare space, I can tell you that there is no way in hell that I am going to trust any of our customers to secure our data, more than ourselves. They will never know or understand all of the components and know where the risks lie better than the vendor.

For example, in the infancy of one of the companies that I worked at, I agreed with one of our customers to allow certificate pinning, and we would install their certificate on our servers which would allow them to inspect the traffic. Wouldn’t you know it, there was an issue where they were blocking some of our traffic that needed to go outbound, because of their deep packet inspection triggered some rule that they had enabled. Conveniently while they were pilfering through the data to troubleshoot the issue, they sent a bunch of the payloads that contained various API keys, tokens, etc. which were now just out there in the wild, that under our watch would never see the light of day.

Who knows where else those things are logged or what other places besides the 30 or so recipients that were on that email thread. As soon as we found out that they were not handling it appropriately, we took corrective actions, not only to replace the keys, but also to disallow that going forward. And this for context, is one of the biggest healthcare institutions in the United States.

I can confidently say that I have a strong security mindset and anything that gets built has security at the forefront of every release. You can’t trust people who aren’t liable for your systems, with your data, or even to protect their own data.

Maybe I am jaded, but the lesson I learned is that you shouldn’t trust anybody, and that chances are other people will not treat sensitive information with the same sensitivity that you will.

evulhotdog··on Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA
So basically there’s no reason to use this over something with a bit more trust, like Bitwarden’s 2FA app.
evulhotdog··on Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries
I don’t know if I necessarily agree with eye for an eye mentality, but risk of prison or enough money that it makes you actually consider your decisions, seems like a better path. The goal being that it is enough so that it cannot and should not be planned for and can’t be covered by insurance or similar.
evulhotdog··on Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries
Of course it’s not nearly as much as it should be, but it is certainly a step in the right direction.
evulhotdog··on Zoraxy: Open-Source, All in one homelab network routing solution
Judging by the features, it doesn’t seem predominantly focused on routing and acting as a tool or server you can deploy to operate a network and allow other devices to leverage it to route between networks.
evulhotdog··on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat
HACK on iOS handles it appropriately.
evulhotdog··on Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
It is pretty common for open source distribution of operating systems, and it works well.
← PreviousPage 2 of 5Next →