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Re:CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised on Saturday April 11, 2026 @12:08PM (#47731735)
So strange to see you commenting on HN, I was an avid reader of Joystick back in the day !
Re:Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:50AM (#47163156)
Windows had wordpad but it was discontinued two years ago : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad
Re:Fastmail – stick private notes on your email on Thursday August 29, 2024 @03:59PM (#41394709)
You made me check but there is a "birthday" field on the contact form and I can display a "Birthdays" calendar with events for the birthdays of my contacts.
Re:Cosmopolitan v3.5.0 on Monday June 24, 2024 @10:35AM (#40776572)
There is a complete super metroid walkthrough using this technique : https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588741-super-metroid/faqs...
I don't know exactly why this bug would still be open, but you can use x86-64 images on an ARM64 Mac :

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/#4250

I have been using it for a few months (in beta) and it works great !

Re:Lightweight SQLite Editor for Windows on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @07:44AM (#35626963)
Can't you just put the image as a file inside your repo and reference it from the README.md file ?
Re:Your.Online: Gandi continues its development on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:04AM (#35598743)
I've been using Gandi for years and I'm looking for a new registrar. Which one(s) are you recommending ?
Re:We updated our RSA SSH host key on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:16AM (#35286011)
The fact that users have to delete the old Github key from their systems and accept a new one is what could lead to a MITM attack.

If your system doesn't know the public key of an SSH server, when you connect the first time, the SSH client will display a warning and ask you if you accept the server key. An attacker could be between you and Github and if you accept without checking it's the correct key, you would be toast.

Re:Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @02:21PM (#34986983)
I guess that would be Doom.
On Instagram, when you create an account, you now need to submit a selfie picture while holding a code given to you while registering. For suspicious account, it can even be a video selfie. I know bots are an issue but they should ask for this only when posting/commenting, not for browsing. No way I'll send a picture or video to facebook linked to my email/phone number.
Re:Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:20AM (#33653115)
I think asymmetric encryption is not usable for large amount of data, the only thing it is good for is to encrypt a passphrase or a binary signature (like a hash). If you can catch the process of encryption while it is running, it is likely that the passphrase is in memory (or used as a command line argument).
I think you're talking about Bryan Cantrill : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m
Re:The Reason Java Is Still Popular on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:44PM (#32942961)
This was code from another article, linked in the introduction.
As the sibling comment is saying, I never set up 2FA on my account. When I do, I'm using totp and store backup codes. Apple decided to force 2FA and use security questions as the second factor on my behalf.

On top of this, many companies provide customer support to reset 2FA with an other way to verify who you are.

But I never set up 2FA on my Apple account, security questions were meant to be used as an account recovery procedure if you lost access to your account email. THEY set it up as 2FA and as a result I can't log in. I have accounts on numerous website and this is the first time I'm completeoy lockout. I would gladly send my ID card to Apple but apparently this is not an option.
I'm not in the US, there is no Apple Store near me, only resellers. I never had to answer security questions up to now, and never stored the answers in my password manager. I thought that a reset by email was possible, but apparently not ...
I can reset the password myself, what they won't do is reset the security questions through an email for example. They told me that if I don't have the answers, there is no way to recover my account.

Tell HN: Lost access to my Apple account even though I have the password

Hi HN,I'm trying to access my Apple account for the first time in years. I have the email and password in my password manager, but apparently Apple recently got 2 factor authentication mandatory. Problem is, right now, the second factor is security questions to which I don't have the answers (I probably entered random gibberish years ago).I tried to reset them, but Apple asks me for at least...

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Re:Ask HN: Co-Founder pivoting, what are my options? on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @12:12PM (#31669538)
Is there any way you could offer to _buy_ the code from your cofounder ? If he/she believes there is no value in it (hence the pivoting), there shouldn't be any problem.
Re:Show HN: A daily math puzzle inspired by Wordle on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:14AM (#30177021)
I was a little confused at first but seeing your comment makes it clear, thank you.
Re:Show HN: A daily math puzzle inspired by Wordle on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @07:32AM (#30176637)
I think I have a valid solution but it's not marked as green.

Find the solution that equals 23 :

5*9-22

Re:Docker Business/Docker Desktop FAQs on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @12:42PM (#28370282)
I got an email from Docker stating that Docker Desktop is no longer free for business use when exceeding 250 employees and $10M annual revenue. I guess they need more revenue streams.
I think it's because of echo cancelling technology. In software like discord you can disable it and it's way better when people are talking simultaneously.
Re:Git for Computer Scientists (2010) on Sunday June 13, 2021 @02:52PM (#27495181)
I don't think this is even possible with SVN or CVS, is it ?
I get what you're saying, it's not strictly income tax, but the end result is the same : it's a mandatory tax, based on what you earn. As for getting these expenses back, I hope I will have work and be healthy for as long as possible, and I'm happy to pay these taxes for poorer people to get access to healthcare or unemployment benefits. But I sure feel ~50% of my income is going into taxes without being a millionaire.
Here in France, as a contractor, if I bill a client 100 000€ annually and decide to get as much as possible in personal income, 30 000€ will go as social taxes (health, retirement ...) and for the remaining 70 000€ you will have to pay around 25% as income tax (if you don't have any children).

You will have an income of ~52 000€ for 100 000€ billed during the year. You're not earning millions and yet around 50% of revenue was paid for tax purposes.

Re:Slidev – Presentation Slides for Developers on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @03:47PM (#27054761)
Missing from markdown/web based slides is a way to auto resize text content to fit on a page, like powerpoint does. I didn't find a way to manage this correctly with reveal, remark or marp and from what I'm seeing, slidevjs won't do it either.
Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:04PM (#26880763)
IANAL

a) postgres is not user facing, so no

b) there is no linking (as in compiler linking) between your application and postgres, so no

Re:Zenreader: A 4.7" E-Ink RSS Reader on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:42AM (#26872204)
Chming in to to say thank you for the tools you created for sending articles to the kindle. I recently became a patreon member to support your work.

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