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ohufon Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds

it doesn't have to be and it actually never is: this isn't RSA, it's an elliptic curve algorithm. if you'd have read the article, you'd have understood this

ohufon Timestamping a Giant Record of the Web

Wait. If I want to save a web snippet as a part of a bookmark or a note to self, does this mean, instead of saving it locally, I can instead have them create a snapshot of that site and just link to it permanently in my notebook or app??

ohufon More random home lab things I've recently learned

> Turns out, you don’t need an SD card at all↑ > What I didn’t know, however, is that Raspberry Pi 5s can actually support NVME drives!

...turns out you don't need local storage at all: if you already run a NAS you can bootp the RasPi over the network!

This also makes backups super easy.

ohufon Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus

Thank you for making this, @usernameis42: I was still looking for my 2025 "to sponsor" project. I'm donating to SomaFM now!

ohufon Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus

Question: any chance I can have this as a radio station in my Alexa??

ohufon Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party Lose EU Parliament Seats

As a German citizen, the amount of times I heard from the "Piratenpartei" can be counted on one hand. In the early 2000s that party suffered immensely from being hijacked by Neo Nazis, losing a lot of support from voters. Since the Nazis went off and joined the AFD, the Pirate Party is more or less silent.

The worst part was when they hardly commented on Edward Snowden and the NSA leaks!

ohufon Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating

I must have missed the Blockchain/Bitcoin printers

ohufon Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain

The subdomain explorer may be fun, but their Exploit Observer is really useful: https://www.exploit.observer/

ohufon Thunderbird 115

The only issue I have with TB search is the setting for the results presentation: why is there not a preferences option to set if the results show as list or in the current default 'verbose' view?

switching to list view manually seems so inefficient

ohufon A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video]

...that would void the warranty! ;)

ohufon Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?

...only in big cities. Rural areas including the suburbs of the 100k's still depend heavily on individual transport...

ohufon Adventure game graphics with DALL-E 2

I'm wondering what DALL-E would make out of the descriptions in classic text adventure games from the 1970s-90s like, for example the ZORK series?

ohufon Car Seats as Contraception (2020)

View it like this: 8000 happy parents vs 57 grieving ones.

ohufon SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way

The question is: what good is a security system that tells me to "just allow whatever the problem is", once a problem comes up? Without being able to see the specifics of a request and blindly following the whitelisting I could end up allowing some hacked module access to critical files without knowing. Opening the system to exactly the dangers I'm seeking to stop.

ohufon Tried to charge my phone (with USB-C), but my laptop started getting charged

What do you mean by "first device plugged in"? If I connect two devices with an USB-C cable, which one is the "first device" then?

ohufon Ask HN: Alternatives to 1Password

I keep my password database in a Google Drive directory. Clients exist on Windows, Mac, Android, IOS.

ohufon A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

I don't think this is a good idea: when I'm searching on the web I want to get results with a high relevance to my search query. I don't care a lot about the presentation.

ohufon Show HN: Forlater.email – an email-based bookmarking service

Read about forlater.email and learned about Ko.Fi. I love the web.

ohufon A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All over the Universe (2019)

I just read "Black Ice" and it comes to my mind that William Gibson once more was way ahead of his time in 1984, writing "Neuromancer" ;)

ohufon In 2012, 59% of British MPs Flunked Probability of Flipping Two Heads in a Row

apologies: I was watching the YouTube video that's in the bottom of this article, where graduates were asked "what causes summer and winter" that's what my comment above is about!.

ohufon In 2012, 59% of British MPs Flunked Probability of Flipping Two Heads in a Row

But that's the problem with these students as well: their intuition tells them that when it's warmer the sun has to be nearer. the fact that the amount of sunlight throughout the day (timespan) causes warmer seasons is an indirection in thinking.

Of course they should know what causes seasons if they had payed attention in class.

I wonder how they reacted if you'd ask them about the hemispherical difference in summer/winter, e.g. how can the southern hemisphere have winter when the whole earth is nearer to the sun...

ohufon TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability

... which is pretty convenient for you and guys, because if you look at it that long-term way, nobody can tell that your whole product is a useless scam

ohufon Ask HN: What would you choose today as your note taking device and app

Microsoft OneNote on various devices (iOS, macOS, Android, Win) and a common sync via Cloud.

I used various apps and paper based means in the past. OneNote is the tool I use for 5(?) years now.

ohufon Wikipedia is up (2001)

It's still way better than the old times when lexica were a thing and you needed a printing press to convey knowledge.

ohufon Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters

Take my uppestvote and Happy Easter for a while, Sir!

ohufon Shitty Software Kills People

Shitty Infrastructure kills people eventually.

ohufon The tree-based approach to organizing documentation sucks

I don't get the author's dislike of Confluence, when it is just a different representation of.a Wiki. I actually like the way Confluence implements draw.io so I can quickly scribble an architecture or A flow.

What am I missing here?

ohufon Ask HN: Always on low power home server

I left the RasPi behind for a 2nd hand Lenovo m93p tiny for about $100. (An alternative HW would be the Dell Optiplex 9020 micro). You can upgrade the RAM on these and they use standard SSDs.

I'm booting the Proxmox VM environment and it's currently running a VM and a LXC container, with lots of future opportunities.

Proxmox allows you to reserve a vm's access to the USB ports, which comes in handy if you want to attach a Zigbee stick to a virtualized home automation server.