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Link doesn't work. Also is it "Wordpress" that's being "hacked" (very unlikely), or some crappy third party add on that has been compromised because they have no idea how to secure their codebase ?

FUD.

recrudesceon Ask HN: Has therapy helped you figure out major life conflicts?

No. I've been talking to a therapist for maybe 9 months now, and I don't think I'm getting anywhere AT ALL.

recrudesceon Google's Adsense Leak

Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21977970

Content was already posted and discussed in 2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976

recrudesceon Potential of an Indoor Plant on the Desk for Reducing Office Workers’ Stress

Yes, cos the last thing I want is the ADDED stress of trying to keep a bloody plant alive while I'm trying to work...

recrudesceon Ask HN: Alternatives to Trello?

Taiga.io - can self host it.

recrudesceon A podcast that hacks Ring camera owners live

But they are modems. Some of them are just built into routers.

VDSL and cable connections require modems to function.

recrudesceon What3Words

If you have a phone that can get your position to then determine which square you're in to provide you with 3 words to read out, you can just give out your exact co-ordinates from the map application...

I feel this is creating a problem that doesn't exist, and then shouting about fixing it.

recrudesceon Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots

Website constantly times out for me, stuff doesn't load etc. Not sure if that's because of traffic due to this post or not.

recrudesceon Ask HN: EU Banks and Their APIs

OpenBanking is what the UK implementation of PSD is. PSD, as far as I am aware, allows you to do payments, and is not limited to just PII.

recrudesceon YouTube can terminate anyone they deem “not commercially viable”

https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1193988444873060352

> The section of our Terms that you're referring to is not about terminating an account if it’s not making enough money – it's about discontinuing certain YouTube features or parts of the service, e.g. removing outdated/low usage features. This does not impact anyone in new ways!

Told ya.

recrudesceon Ask HN: EU Banks and Their APIs

Look into OpenBanking and PSD2.

recrudesceon YouTube can terminate anyone they deem “not commercially viable”

To me this means that Google are within their rights to remove access to a system that THEY deem to be not commercially viable.

Rather than "hey, you're not making us any money, you can no longer access Youtube" it's more "hey, this service we're offering you is costing us more to run than we make out of it, so we're going to shut it down".

People are reading this wrong IMHO.

recrudesceon HSTS from Top to Bottom

You're thinking of HPKP

https://raymii.org/s/blog/Chrome_68_is_deprecating_HPKP.html

recrudesceon Ask HN: Is Spotify Down?

I can't get to the "Home" view, but I can play music and use the "Browse" view. I'm using the desktop app.

So yeah, something's up.

recrudesceon Kali Linux's 8 Most used Subdomain Enumeratings finder tools

Damn, you really are posting a lot about this site.

Do Offensive Security know you're using their OS for this service, and if so did they approve you to also have ads on your site, therefore making money off their product ?

recrudesceon I Cracked 40k Passwords Using Python. Yours Might Have Been One of Them

Cracking hashes stored using a known insecure hashing method, of which a vast majority (if not all) have been cracked years ago, and making it look like something fantastic and new using some clickbait title.

Also, why use Python - just use hashcat/jtr. Makes no sense writing your own code that won't perform as well as compiled password cracking tools.

Now do it again but with a more modern password storage method, such as bcrypt, and see how far you get.

recrudesceon Show HN: Yet Another REST Client (JavaScript)

This already uses your product "name" - not sure if it'll be a problem, but worth checking.

https://yet-another-rest-client.com/

recrudesceon Hacker House Disappears

Disappears how ? Working fine for me.

recrudesceon Ask HN: Has Android 10 OTA update worked for you?

My Pixel 3 updated perfectly fine on the release day using OTA. Possibly the issue is limited to just the 3XL ?

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Nope, everything seems to be working fine in AWS for me. Status page works fine, and everything is showing as operating normally.

Likely a local issue to your internet provider.

tarsnap.com working, resolvable, and provides a website.

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It's not that men are "afraid of women", they're worried that they might do something completely innocent that is misinterpreted as harassment, and then they're dragged through the legal system for it.

So yeah, not "afraid of women" at all.

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https://server.lon.liveperson.net is for support/live chat

https://lpcdn.lpsnmedia.net is a CDN for Liveperson (above)

https://rbs.demdex.net is Adobe's tracking network

https://wup-6a1f7b653.eu.v2.we-stats.com/client/v3/web/wup?c... is We-Stats tracking network.

None of this implies that NWOLB is "down". They're also not "obscure domains".

recrudesceon The wearable device that allows you to log your mood

Google the article header, and you can click through from Google to see the article. Seems the paywall kicks in for HN referrals.

recrudesceon Ask HN: Favourite Headphones at Work

There's a split in the office I work in. I have the QC35's along with a few others, but the rest have XM3's. I don't like the XM3's as I find them to be too tight (plus I wear glasses and it pushes the frames into my temples), but the ANC on the XM3's is better than the QC35's.

So it's basically down to how they feel when you wear them - consider the fact you might be wearing them for 7+ hours.

I think both companies do ANC in ear headphones too, if you don't like massive headsets.

recrudesceon The Guardian view on female voice assistants: not OK, Google

The annoying thing about this is if the voice was default male, people would scream "PATRIARCHY", whereas if the voice was default female people would scream "STEREOTYPE" (or similar). Can't win.