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karel-3d··on sshole
thanks!
karel-3d··on Goodbye from Salon
I don't know, I don't see any of the clickspam that the article describes on the frontpage now. No "your cat is a racist" or "relationship with my penis".

On the other hand, I also don't see anything else that's particularly interesting or thought provoking. Which is kind of sad for this US election season.

karel-3d··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
Congratulation you discovered prompt injection attacks
karel-3d··on sshole
does this have CVE or something?
karel-3d··on TextEdit vs. Pages
It arguably gets worse with every OS X iteration. I understand why they removed postscript support, but it still makes me sad.

But it can still do a lot.

karel-3d··on Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
Bruno Premium is some enterprise nonsense. You don't need to use it.

Voiden also has premium enterprise plans.

https://voiden.md/enterprise

edit: ah there is no "enterprise plan" but you pay for the services. nice.

karel-3d··on Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
I don't understand who would use Postman in 2026.

There are open source alternatives like Bruno (my favourite app ever).

And, if you need something advanced, just vibe-code it.

karel-3d··on Tools Hacker News keeps asking for
"Windows without the junk - never released"

...but that's literally LTSC.

karel-3d··on 'Elite North Korean hackers' blamed for $6.3B Binance hack
I have read somewhere that ISIS mostly runs on cryptocurrency now because it's harder to block.

Oh here

> They delve in weapons and human trafficking, sometimes take part in drug smuggling, more and more engage in crypto mining and frauds related to the crypto industry - the whole Islamic State is now operating by crypto, whether it’s various European countries, West or East Africa, Asia, or such weird places like Costa Rica, Brazil or Argentina.

https://saladinaldronni.substack.com/p/recent-islamic-state-...

edit:

but it seems they have mostly moved to Monero

https://gnet-research.org/2025/02/18/combating-islamic-state...

karel-3d··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
I feel sad honestly.

Yes all the bureaucracy was annoying. But when I asked on Stack Overflow, the same question is there 5 7 10 years later, queryable by everyone. Ironically by LLMs too.

While when I ask LLMs - as I do now, of course, nobody has time for SO nowadays - nothing is left, everything is ephemeral, LLM forgets, the world doesn't learn.

Oh well. They will surely bolt LLM to SO one day as Quora did already.

karel-3d··on Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale
Oh it's Minecraft! I didn't realize what is this about for the longest time. I thought it's their own game named "blocks".
karel-3d··on There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
I have no idea! I just react to the claim that this is not a real person. I have no idea if there is a PHP exploit, I have not looked that hard; but it is interesting nobody actually linked one so far, and all the write-ups people link are obviously LLM generated.

But again this is very very simple to refute by actually linking a working PoC.

karel-3d··on There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
Yeah it is this guy, trivially easy to find out

https://www.twitch.tv/zkldi/about

https://github.com/zkldi?page=2&tab=repositories

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/User_talk:Zkldi

https://tachi.ac/

edit: unless there is AI that fakes being human since 2021 and has its own Twitch channel in order to post a blog post to Hacker News.

karel-3d··on Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
There is something called "wrapping/unwrapping" - you encrypt the key, move it to the other HSM, and it unwraps it. So what moves around is encrypted. I don't know enough about HSMs to tell you if it's done using symetric or asymetric crypto, but no the key should not move around in the plaintext.

The write-up from eMudhra mentions something about wrapping/unwrapping ceremony failing.

karel-3d··on Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
Yes there was something about key names in the write-up (which I cannot find now)

oh here

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2083449#c11

karel-3d··on Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
It seems there was some issue with the ceremony with some wrapping/unwrapping scripts.

They explicitly said they wanted to export the keys from the HSM; the keys were intended for USA/Europe (for sovereignty reasons) but were never actually used.

It seems the HSM itself worked, their ceremony around wrapping/unwrapping didn't.

karel-3d··on Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
Well, if you use Brave, Tor is just one click
karel-3d··on Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
Well humans should NOT glance at private keys! That is the whole point of HSMs!
karel-3d··on Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
It has parts that are human written and parts that are generated. I couldn't tell at first, but now seeing it in Pangram, it's kind of clear.
karel-3d··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
I don't know, I just consider quitting, but the money is still keeping me here.
karel-3d··on I built a programming language that LLMs can't use
This is very obviously done as a fun experiment, not as a security measure.
karel-3d··on Jev meets the Trolley Problem
Yeah but the explicit goal of LLMs is to mimic human chains of thought.
karel-3d··on Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
Getting random scammy ads and occasional malware is what you pay for pirating. It was always like this.
karel-3d··on Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
btdigg is fine? (on tor)
karel-3d··on Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?
Crypto people keep rediscovering we live in a society.
karel-3d··on Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?
There is an eSIM with worldwide data in the device.
karel-3d··on Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?
They tracked the traffic (not the eSIMs) to some servers in Hong Kong, managed by Alibaba.
karel-3d··on Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
Not your factory, distributor, warehouses, fulfillment centers and entire supply chain, not your coins.
karel-3d··on Passkeys are a trap
The author gently notes what my current Passkey problem is. I don't know what "passkey" really is, because there is a huge array of "things" that "can be passkeys".

I still really like fido U2F. They are (relatively) obvious; they are (relatively) open - there are many third parties that support it; they can be done shareable (I know Trezor - which is mainly a crypto wallet - can be used as U2F with the same "seed" that you can share); it's much more simple to grasp. They also solve the phishing issue effectively.

I can't really grasp what Passkeys are.

karel-3d··on Bitwarden Dual License Model
But how does this lead them there? It's really badly explained. They already have a paid version that has extra features. (For years now.) Like the SSO integration. What will be different now?
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