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proactivesvcson Chrome's Response to Recent ccTLD Registry Hijacks

I'm also surprised that none of the ccTLDs mention this on their sites.

proactivesvcson Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services

If I received a link to google.co.uk I would, because I'm in the UK. Why would I think otherwise if I were in Ghana and saw a link to google.gh?

proactivesvcson Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services

Other recent submissions include the link to google's blog at https://blog.google/security/chromes-response-to-recent-cctl... :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988253

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981886

proactivesvcson Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

In the last month, excluding this post, three of your five submissions were AI focused, and one was part-AI. For the past two months, it's five of 11. Certainly not "explicitly AI" but it's about half, which in the context of this overall discussion is towards "too much", IYAM. Half of HN being AI is still a poor signal-to-noise ratio.

proactivesvcson Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

Perhaps you could lead the change you wish to see?

proactivesvcson Peter Cullen has died

From BBC News' article:

His Optimus Prime voice was inspired by his older brother, a decorated US Marine and Vietnam War veteran, who suggested he should play the character as "a real hero, don't be a Hollywood hero".

"He said, 'Don't go yelling and screaming. He's strong enough to be gentle.'

"And that resonated with me, and I could hear his voice all the way to the audition. When he drops down, when he gets serious, is where I found Optimus Prime."

Cullen gave his brother a cut of the wages he received for playing Optimus Prime until his death.

proactivesvcson Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

I have a feeling I used that, either on my A3010 or my Risc PC. Thank you!

proactivesvcson Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word

Except turning off macros means losing our precious slop generators! Won't someone think of the fossil fuel industry?

proactivesvcson About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

One of them lists an anonymous person!

CVE-2026-43744: Mathis Mansière, an anonymous researcher

proactivesvcson EU Commission Response to 'Stop Destroying Videogames'

Link to article: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_...

proactivesvcson My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem

I've known a fair few drives with uncorrectable sectors or adaptor warnings that continue to work but a lot more that have degraded or just outright failed.

proactivesvcson My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem

Well I don't see why you'd want to keep running a drive that is showing warning signs, it's just asking for trouble. But even if one doesn't replace them from this data, if you start seeing alerts and at the same time your database suffers from corruption, that also shows the use of SMART.

proactivesvcson My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem

I'm surprised to have read to the end and found that they're still not performing any hardware monitoring and alerting. SMART may not always show up pre-failure warnings but when it does they can usually be trusted.

proactivesvcson Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16

With this change of policy the foundation does not "have any control or influence over what WinGet does", one of the first class methods to install python.

https://github.com/python/pymanager/issues/287

proactivesvcson Backblaze has stopped backing up your data

The article links to a statement made by Backblaze:

"The Backup Client now excludes popular cloud storage providers [...] this change aligns with Backblaze’s policy to back up only local and directly connected storage."

I guess windows 10 and 11 users aren't backing up much to Backblaze, since microsoft is tricking so many into moving all of their data to onedrive.

proactivesvcson Installing every* Firefox extension

"In terms of implementation, the most interesting one is “Іron Wаllеt” (the I, a, and e are Cyrillic). Three seconds after install, it fetches the phishing page’s URL from the first record of a NocoDB spreadsheet and opens it [...] The API key had write access, so I wiped the spreadsheet."

proactivesvcson Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why

We could have said that for publisher a few years back. Its death knell has been sounded and microsoft aren't even offering any way for people to properly view or print their publisher files, let alone edit them.

proactivesvcson Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

I saw this on restic's main repository the other day.

proactivesvcson SSH Secret Menu

Not as much as they hate Enter ~ .

See "escape characters" under man ssh.

proactivesvcson Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers

It recently popped up on the HIBP feed; they tend to be pretty careful when checking the veracity of claims.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Substack

proactivesvcson Starlink users must opt out of all browsing data being used to train xAI models

The UK's BT Broadband did this around 2007 via Phorm. Actually they did worse - used the data to inject custom advertising. Not only were their customers chill with it, so was the Information Commissioner's Office, the government arm that ostensibly protects our privacy.

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

proactivesvcson Show HN: Chat with people who share the same Internet connection (= IP address)

  i netted six
  alone in a scope of the entire globe,
  temporary,
  dynamic.

proactivesvcson PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance

ursinewave@tv.gravitons.org : https://tv.gravitons.org/a/ursinewave/video-channels "Roberta Fidora is a genre-bender from the Isle of Wight, UK, hopping between field recordings in space, industrial-tinged electroclash, guerrilla puppeteering and wildly maximalist, mildly-anarchic pop music."

meljoann@tv.gravitons.org : https://tv.gravitons.org/c/meljoann/ "Meljoann is an extremely physically attractive Irish multidisciplinary artist. They’ve been supported by Pitchfork, Beats Per Minute, XLR8, KEXP, Dan Hegarty, Cian Ó Cíobháin, Jenny Greene and Tara Stewart of RTÉ radio, Irish Times, Nialler9, Hot Press, BBC’s Gemma Bradley, Dummy Mag, HMUK and the Arts Council of England. She’s currently releasing a series of self-directed video singles. ‘HR’, their anti-capital concept album, is out now. Their third album, ‘Status’, releases in 2025"

proactivesvcson ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse

There's a lot of it on the Fediverse tech circles. I find a lot of it through following the #Fediverse tag on Mastodon.

Bandwagon.fm: A federated platform for musicians and fans: https://bandwagon.fm/

Bonfire: A modular server for building communities with a wide variety of services: https://bonfirenetworks.org/

write.as: "Type words, put them on the internet." https://write.as/

proactivesvcson A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure

In the context of UK infrastructure, "OR" is an abbreviation of "Openreach", part of the BT Group that is responsible for the infrastructure from ducts and poles to street cabinets and exchange buildings. It is not an organisation that an end user can access for support and is charged by ISPs to repair, upgrade and install additions to large parts the telecommunications network. It can be difficult to convince one's ISP to have Openreach investigate a physical fault or bottleneck, unless that ISP is the aforementioned Andrews and Arnold who literally implemented automated methods to repeatedly bounce faults back to Openreach when the latter insists on erroneously rejecting faults. Makes for entertaining reading :-)

proactivesvcson The Rust version of `du` outputs wrong sizes in Ubuntu 25.10

Someone's already made a pull request to resolve the bug: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9202

proactivesvcson Blue Origin Launches NASA's Escapade Mission to Mars: How to Watch

I think the webcast will be hosted here: https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2

proactivesvcson 3M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf]

At 1,685,278 bytes this almost fits on within the hallowed 1.44 megabytes. Maybe the front and rear covers can be discarded?

proactivesvcson Jeep wrangler owners waiting for answers week after an update bricked their cars

"So, if you’re a Wrangler 4xe owner, here’s your order of operations for the time being:"

Do not use the vehicle under any circumstances and have the dealer take it away and keep it until it is safe to drive again.

proactivesvcson No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

Ironically File History silently ignores all the contents of any onedrive folders when backing up.