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Re:New gTLD Application for .lan on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:26PM (#50007871)
I've been using a single letter "fake" tld for my internal LAN DNS zone. Looks like ICANN requires 3+ letters in tld applications, so hopefully should be safe for quite a while.
Re:The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:34AM (#49943718)
Blocked here too, never visited the site before. Should we "flag" the story for this, or?
Re:AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0? on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @04:06PM (#49807351)
I remember setting up a new git CI build server many years ago, which at the time rather quickly started failing build pipelines in a nodejs css frontend build script, turns out there was something funky with the AMD processor's RDRAND. A motherboard BIOS flash update fixed it.

https://github.com/sass/libsass/issues/3151

Re:Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc) on Saturday July 04, 2026 @04:08PM (#48788511)
I find it's a shame the article is absolutely littered with AI-isms, again, like another cool hack project the other day here on HN. It is incredibly jarring to read a line like "No Platform Builder, no SDK install, no CD key.".

Sounds like a cool project but I find it a bit offensive that the article author doesn't value the article reader's time enough to edit the AI-isms out.

On the other hand, trying to point this out usually results in downvotes, so maybe it's useless to complain about this trend?

Re:Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL on Friday July 03, 2026 @07:43AM (#48773866)
Shame the article is absolutely littered with AI-isms.
Re:Half-Life 2 in a Browser on Thursday June 25, 2026 @03:28AM (#48670123)
I just wish Valve could add official macos-arm64 builds of the various hl2 games on Steam :-/
Re:Dav2d on Saturday May 02, 2026 @04:30PM (#47990175)
Just recently noticed this got posted to deb-multimedia, although I think there is a typo in the package description....

https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-am...

... it says "fast and small AV1 video stream decoder"

... should probably be "AV2" ?

Such a shame that macOS lost all its built-in postscript support including Preview.app in recent versions :(
Re:CopyFail was not disclosed to Gentoo developer on Thursday April 30, 2026 @06:19PM (#47968993)
I find it curious to call someone dropping a weaponized root exploit before major distros or even LTS kernel git branches have patches ready "good guys". This could have been handled with much more grace.
Re:CopyFail was not disclosed to Gentoo developer on Thursday April 30, 2026 @03:49PM (#47967367)
The disclosure doesn't appear very "full". Looks like this was slipped into mainline linux among dozens of other mostly-irrelevant "CVEs" with nobody highlighting the fact that it is in fact dirty-cow-on-steroids.

https://x.com/spendergrsec/status/2049566830771970483

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026042214-CVE-20...

Or is everyone expected to upgrade and reboot every 48 hours for all eternity and just deal with potential regressions all the time?

I think this reflects poorly on the original reporters. If you have a weaponized 700-byte universal local root exploit script ready to go, perhaps you should coordinate with major distros for patches to be available before unleashing it on the world. No matter how "veteran" you are.

Re:Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:44PM (#47954341)
Dropping a public exploit on github before distros have patches available isn't very cool, or is that just how veterans roll these days?
Re:21,864 Yugoslavian .yu Domains on Friday March 27, 2026 @05:09AM (#47540481)
Enumeration of the entire DNS space is not available in general, but it does appear that some TLDs offer complete zone files for legitimate research purposes, see for example https://czds.icann.org/help#zone-files
Re:Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data on Saturday February 28, 2026 @06:18AM (#47193781)
> "they can't be provisioned by the website itself."

It's funny, we used to have a html tag that would exactly that: <keygen />

Re:10 Years of Let's Encrypt on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @03:44PM (#46210387)
They were great in the beginning, and then when you issued a few more certs than they liked you were asked to pony up some $$$, and then when you did that and actually "verified" who you were on a personal international phone call, you got a grace, and then issued a few more, they decided they didn't like you so they would randomly reject your renewals close to the expiration date, and then they got bought out by some scummy foreign outfit which apparently caused the entire CA to be de-listed as untrustworthy in all major browsers. Quite the ride.

Also, the only website I've ever encountered that actually used the HTML <keygen> tag.

Re:Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @05:58AM (#46133003)
Same here, and the worst part is the duplicates appear to reuse the same Message-id, which confuses macOS Mail.app to no end :-/
Re:Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices on Thursday November 27, 2025 @01:18AM (#46066288)
It's actually a requirement by app store connect to use a modern sdk for uploading binaries, and modern sdk versions will often raise the minimum supported ios version, so this is not always the developer's fault. See for example https://developer.apple.com/news/upcoming-requirements/?id=0...
Re:Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @06:03AM (#45744744)
I'm sure there's lots of x86_64 specific code in the macOS userland that is much more than just a recompile - things like safari/javascriptcore JIT, various quartz composer core animation graphics stack and video encoder decoder stack libraries, as well as various objective-c low level pointer tagging and message passing ABI shenanigans and so on. This is probably why 32bit intel mac app support was dropped pretty hard pretty fast, as the entire runtime and userland probably required a lot of upkeep. As just one example, 32bit intel objective-c had "fragile instance variables" which was a can of worms.
Re:Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @03:14AM (#45743608)
I'm guessing they don't want to maintain and build and test x86_64 versions of all the macos libraries like Appkit and UIKit (including large changes like liquid glass) when they are no longer shipping x86_64 macOS versions. Which in not entirely unreasonable as I'm sure it takes a lot of effort to keep the whole ui library stack working properly on multiple archs.

Perhaps that's what they're hinting about with the note about a "subset of Rosetta". So maybe there is hope that the core x86_64 binary translator will stick around for things like VM and emulation of generic (linux? wine?) binaries, but they don't want to maintain a whole x86_64 macOS userspace going forward.

Surprised to see no patch available for watchOS, which can also receive images via iMessage. Not important enough to patch, or not vulnerable, or just not exploited in the wild yet?
I was hoping this would work over ssh in a macOS Terminal.app, but last I tried it was inserting all kinds of weird characters into the edited text files.

Windows ships an official OpenSSH server these days, but so far there haven't been any good official text editors that work over OpenSSH, as far as I know.

I've had to resort to "copy con output.txt" the few times I needed to put things into a text file over windows-opensshd...

Re:Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512 on Friday May 30, 2025 @03:22PM (#44139167)
If linux kernel security really is so bad that google had to add a proof-of-work to introduce a 4 second race for 0day submissions, I'm surprised they're ok with still using the Linux kernel as the base for Android.
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:36PM (#44066644)
> Safari only exist on Apple devices

Webkit, at least, builds on a lot more platforms than you think. Take a look at https://build.webkit.org/#/builders

I'm seeing at least three other MAJOR platforms:

  • GTK-Linux-64-bit-Release-Build
  • PlayStation-Release-Build
  • Windows-64-bit-Release-Build
So I guess you couldn't get certificates for any random (MX) domain, only for those where you can obtain an inbox / user account. Still really bad, especially for things like gmail.com, but also larger enterprises. Intense.
Re:Busy Bar on Thursday April 10, 2025 @03:11PM (#43647133)
I saw this on twitter a few hours ago on my phone, and misread the price as $25, so I was considering maybe putting in an order or even two, but when I revisited the site on my laptop and discovered it was $250, my curiosity hit a wall. Looks like a super neat product but unfortunately a bit overpriced for a gimmick.
Re:Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia on Monday April 07, 2025 @05:11AM (#43609392)
I recently ran into an issue with this because building an iOS .ipa from the command line with xcodebuild apparently ends up shelling out to call rsync to copy some files between local directories, and because I had homebrew rsync earlier in $PATH, it would end up running homebrew rsync, but xcodebuild passed an openrsync-only command line argument "--extended-attributes" that homebrew rsync doesn't understand and would exit with a failure.

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