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Notepad++ and FileSearchEX, a great addition to Windows.

pcuniteon Ask HN: Can anyone from Crowdstrike explain the back story?

An internet connected kernel level driver, with a bricking update, that passed QA, that could also be rolled out via a non-staged method, at global scale, under 24hrs? That is unthinkable.

pcuniteon GPT-4o

When AI gets to the point it can respond to AI, you do understand where you come in, don't you?

pcuniteon Ask HN: What's going on with Azure Code Signing Service?

This needs to get to the front page! $400 certs is extortion, plain and simple.

pcuniteon DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching

I literally installed Mouse without Borders this week! But hardware is better for secure login screens and the like. So, I still have a KVM switch. One thing I learned is that I don't want seamless mouse between two monitors.

So, I setup "holding" down CTRL which allows the mouse to pass. Its just a nice way to stop accidents and for when I want auto window sizing at borders. This project looks great if it can support holding down CTRL to allow the mouse to pass into the other screen.

I also love clipboard copy. That is kinda a biggie some days.

pcuniteon FCC wants to bolster amateur radio

Please allow HAM radio hardware to properly be used on GMRS frequencies and visversa.

pcuniteon Ask HN: Want to buy my software company? 20 years later

Thank you!

pcuniteon Kevin Mitnick has died

As a result we got the CFAA and the DMCA which are both some of the most ridiculous pieces of legislation after the so called "patriot" act. The damage that did to curious people growing up lost the US a significant fraction of their upcoming "innovation" talent. While not diminishing the folks who leaned in to the illegality of it.

I was escorted out of my job as a shipping clerk in 1999 for creating an entry in an NT 4.0 group with my name in it to impress the IT Admin so I could get a job in the computer department.

pcuniteon Firefox 115 can remotely disable any extension on any site

GOVT vs CORP is the same as left vs right. They are the same. Two wings on the same bird. You are being played.

pcuniteon Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?

A search tool

pcuniteon Donald Trump is unbanned from Twitter

Would someone explain to me why Trump is worse than Biden?

pcuniteon Ask HN: Alternatives to DuckDuckGo and Firefox?

mojeek is truly a totally different index.

pcuniteon Ask HN: Is it possible to be a data science “script kiddy”?

What kinds of source data and from where?

pcuniteon Ask HN: How to deal with un-agile agile development?

Sometimes, the company is right, but just goes about it the wrong way. Why not stay and help them? You'll get great experience managing what could be a disaster! I know, we like to design everything pixel perfect on our screens, but the world is not like that. Errors and mistakes are why we all have jobs.

pcuniteon Ask HN: What's your solution for SSL on internal servers?

I became my own CA. Install certs in the system/browser and issue keys that are 10 years out. Make everything with the CertManEX tool.

pcuniteon Ask HN: Best Keyboard for Programming?

Look at the Filco brand.

pcuniteon Ask HN: Has anyone here created an income by building and selling an API?

The owner of SerpApi.com posts here. The api allows for searching popular indexes and getting the data back in JSON format. Developer friendly product, of course. Not sure you'll get such detailed information about operations, but an interesting question. Perhaps the future for all of us, is APIs.

I think the secret is building an api that on its own is a true niche offering. It would fit within an app that you can imagine others might build. That is key. A given feature of this mythical app, but be solved by the api. But solving a problem so complicated on its own, that someone would venture to not do it themselves, in a weekend.

Such is the case I suspect with SerpApi and Stripe, and the like. I've used a certain SQL layer, and considered crypto api layers before. Perhaps think about those domains?

pcuniteon Facebook Escalates Attack on Socialist Left

Destroying free thought and discourse? What is new?

pcuniteon Message in whitehouse.gov HTML code: "If you're reading this [...]"

If you're reading this, why does antifa.com redirect to "if you're reading this"?

pcuniteon Misinformation dropped dramatically the week after Twitter banned Trump

When they come for you, no one will speak on your behalf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came

pcuniteon Ask HN: Hiring “Jesus lovers” for your tech/science startup

Study the life of Jesus and it'll make more sense. Working with them is great.

pcuniteon Windows 10 bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file's icon

What version of Windows 10?

pcuniteon Ask HN: What are your thoughts on Parler ban by Big techs?

I disapprove. AWS is an internet utility. The media knows nothing by themselves, they only report what sources say. After proper discovery, arbitrators can decide if a law was broken. Here's the deal. The people see through the pretext. That guilt is what is driving these type of decisions.

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It's a common occurrence here if the OP does not want a reference to their main account. Normally they are "throwaway_" and so on.

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It is interesting, no? I'd like to come here (HN) for technical and logical based thinking and discussion. I think election numbers and counting fit the wheelhouse. Something seems off with 80M votes passing Obama, and yet no analysis of the strange number spikes.

pcuniteon U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come

^ The metric I hope to get my hands on come January.

pcuniteon Covid-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data

Interesting. Can any number gurus tell us what you make of it?

Get the PDF from this link:

https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/a-closer-look-...

pcuniteon I updated to iOS 14 and I'm slowly going mad

When exercising, I mostly use the watch to tell me my real-time pace and distance. I don't have much confidence in it for much else. I don't need its faux praise.

pcuniteon On Taking Criticism

How we respond to praise and criticism is who we are at the moment. May we all head towards center, the best we can be.

pcuniteon Ask HN: Are you depressed?

Depression comes from sadness about events occurring in your life that you can not control or from when you got what you thought you always wanted and it turned out to not make you happy.

While it is possible to numb the pain with mindful thoughts or even medicine. And these have their place to lead us to an even better solution. The underlying issue will remain. But there is a master, someone in control. If you can, relinquish your life to the unseen hand. Look humbly to Jesus, who is Lord, and he won't turn you away.