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Re:A Markdown File Should Just Open on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:53PM (#50198829)
I've been asking for this for many years. Native browser support in markdown will also give us a way to set our browser agents to prefer text/markdown over text/html, and thus opt-in to a cleaner web. Yes, I know you can embed HTML in markdown, but I would can hope it would work much like AMP except more open - with browsers deciding on what commonmark extensions they enable by default.
Re:Railway builds are temporarily paused on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:19PM (#50188457)
The status page is more updated than the sparse blog post about the incident, worth merging the other thread here.

> We are rotating all Railway bucket credentials in response to the security incident. New credentials will appear in your dashboard automatically.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50188228, https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-oct...

Re:PHP web runtimes (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:52PM (#50188177)
Bottlerocket's changelog through the storm of Linux CVEs these last year has been bad as well: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...

Roughly one release every 15-20 days.

Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:37PM (#50185533)
Running a parallel PHP-filc deployment at such times at even 2x costs would 100% be worth it. Especially that you'd only be focusing on web-facing deployments (and not background processors).
Re:Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains on Sunday October 18, 2026 @04:13PM (#50145004)
A namecheap bug got my domain suspended: https://captnemo.in/blog/2026/05/05/namecheap-whois/

I'm planning to migrate out.

I mostly saw the tomshardware.com link being the cause:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russ...

The word "disinformation" doesn't show up in the post, only in the URL.

Re:Theranos.World on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:32PM (#50012635)
Took me a while to figure out why, till I opened Safari read "document processing" and it clicked. Good job.
Re:Make Tmux the OS on Saturday October 03, 2026 @06:20AM (#49942934)
s/recursive/nested? I don’t remember Tree style tabs supporting recursion.
Re:RSS Feeds for Last.fm on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:58AM (#49907625)
Is the code public? I'd like to port this to https://rss-bridge.org/
Re:What I did at Recurse Center on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:47AM (#49874439)
I did during the pandemic. Drop me a message if you wanna chat.
Re:Make Math Automatic with Mathy on Friday September 25, 2026 @05:06PM (#49849949)
I made something similar for my partner a while ago for math drills but this is way better (and more comprehensive). I gave up after 3-5 modules. Kudos.
Re:Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @06:37AM (#49814023)
RLHF. The reviewers that rated the models preferred it.
Re:ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:16PM (#49794198)
They could, by incorporating recent research: https://www.core77.com/posts/145408/KAIST-Develops-a-Way-to-...
Re:ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room on Monday September 21, 2026 @07:05AM (#49785661)
Does it beep louder as the BT signal strength changes and the camera comes closer?
Re:LG Says We're Fake News [video] on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:22AM (#49709386)
Basic mode is a feature across Google TV: https://support.google.com/googletv/answer/10408998?hl=en

So lots of manufacturers support this.

Re:ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs on Sunday August 23, 2026 @01:37AM (#49406282)
I run a reverse engineering collective that is called 52 Labs: https://52-1ab.github.io/.

> 52 1ab (Pronounced 52 Lab) is a Software Research group dedicated to interoperabilty research in India. It is named after the Section 52(1) (ab) of The Copyright Act which states:

>> The following act shall not constitute an infringement of copyright:

>> the doing of any act necessary to obtain information essential for operating inter-operability of an independently created computer programme with other programmes by a lawful possessor of a computer programme provided that such information is not otherwise readily available.

Re:Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature on Friday August 14, 2026 @04:36AM (#49296077)
iOS has a hidden album but the UX isn't great: https://support.apple.com/en-us/104987
I am guessing you are approved for the Cyber Verification Program. I also applied and got approved in an hour (on a Saturday!), but it only applies to Opus and Sonnet: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14604842-real-time-cy.... It let me use Opus for cybersecurity work, pretty much everything except for Ransomware development. It would occasionally still trip and start saying no till I added a note about CVP in my claude.md.

No one gets to use Fable for Cybersecurity work, and Mythos is not available under CVP. Only for select few customers, and there isn't an application form?

Namecheap also suspended my primary domain because of a bug at their end: https://captnemo.in/blog/2026/05/05/namecheap-whois/

tl;dr: Namecheap configured Domain Privacy on my domain, which isn't allowed by my Registry (.in), and then suspended my domain coz the whois info was redacted.

I know a few other people that were impacted.

Re:Reverse-engineering is cheap now on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:58AM (#48988985)
I reversed Super Hexagon these last few weeks and ported it to the Playdate (the yellow console from Panic with a crank): https://old.reddit.com/r/PlaydateConsole/comments/1v1zxmt/i_...

The multiplier comes from being able to design arbitrary fast feedback loops - Claude wrote Python scripts to do decompilation matching for itself, and then use Frida traces from the original as a verification harness.

Re:Web-based cryptography is always snake oil on Sunday July 05, 2026 @06:05AM (#48792831)
There are a lot of other implementations of this idea that don't necessarily rely on trust-on-first-use. The securedrop team explicitly includes malicious JS served by the primary-domain in the threat-model and made WEBCAT[0] as an outcome of that research. Their article on webcrypto is much better than this one.

The solution obviously is to go out-of-band:

> When a user visits a website that has enrolled in WEBCAT, before the site can load the content is checked against a signed manifest to ensure that it has not been tampered with (more on enrollment later). If everything checks out, the page loads normally. If, however, any content does not match what’s expected, the page load is aborted and a warning is displayed, protecting the user from potentially malicious content before it can execute.

[0]: https://securedrop.org/news/introducing-webcat-web-based-cod...

[1]: https://securedrop.org/news/browser-based-cryptography/

This is a OS port (iOS) of an existing functional and maintained fork (MacOS) of the official release (Windows).

Most of these low-hanging bugs would have been caught upstream by now.

upstream is a MacOS+linux build. https://github.com/fbraz3/GeneralsX.
Re:Espionage Against the European Parliament on Friday July 03, 2026 @05:34PM (#48780270)
Do we know how Apple sends these? Is it just a notification, or also email?
There are 2 complete folds in the Isaac 0 video around 0:40, but speeded up: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KhImSR8GuCE

The about page claims 1000+ lbs of laundry folded every week.

10% apparently for .tk. I also remember .tv windfall, which is 8-9% of their GDP.

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