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Re:My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time on Sunday April 24, 2022 @11:48AM (#31145184)
Roate

Pulis

Chynd

This does more than half of the alphabet for the most frequently used letters.

https://slc.is/posts/bestwordlestrategy.html

Re:I'm a security engineer and I still almost got scammed on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:10AM (#31120239)
This post was second-chanced and the timestamp was moved ahead, so this was the first post, the second post arrived, then this one got the timestamp moved forward from the second chance pool.
Missed opportunity with "butt fingerprint" to be "ButtPrint (tm)"
Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @06:04PM (#30938030)
It might get buried under all of the other comments, but I write stuff occasionally on my website

https://ersei.saggis.com

Some of the articles are on HN and have gotten a pretty good reception.

I used Oracle free tier VPS and threw Rathole on it. I haven't noticed any latency or performance issues.

https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole

I remember for a CTF (I think PicoCTF?) we had to demodulate an image from sound using SSTV. This gave me a little more understanding of how that worked!
Re:I don't need a VPS anymore on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @07:39AM (#30777414)
Cool blog, is there an RSS feed available anywhere?
I didn't realize the timestamps change for second chance posts. Thanks!

Ask HN: Is HN changing the submission dates of certain posts?

Noticed something strange with HN. I got an article from the pool in my reader a while back (19th) but saw the timestamp of that submission and my comment that I made of it was pushed forward to just now. Is this intended? I was tipped off when there was a reply to my comment which showed me the wrong timestamp.Pictures: https://mastodon.social/@84b08ef8/108000554816373410Article in question:...

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Re:Argbash: Bash argument parsing code generator on Monday March 21, 2022 @08:21PM (#30761458)
Is this project still maintained?
Re:Photography is not Objective, Art is a Set of Choices on Thursday March 17, 2022 @06:17PM (#30716478)
I would recommend subscribing to the RSS feed: all of the articles are frankly superb.

https://aaronhertzmann.com/feed.xml

Re:Photography is not Objective, Art is a Set of Choices on Thursday March 17, 2022 @06:16PM (#30716465)
It's been the same argument for more than a hundred years now. Just because art is more accessible to create doesn't mean it's worse.
Re:How to pay professional maintainers on Thursday March 17, 2022 @05:40PM (#30716184)
I think you submitted this twice by mistake: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30709890
Re:Fermat Attack on RSA on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:56PM (#30678191)
> For security purposes, the integers p and q should be chosen at random and should be similar in magnitude but differ in length by a few digits to make factoring harder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)

Re:Charles Csuri, ‘Father of Computer Art,’ Dies at 99 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @05:28PM (#30608139)
Check out some of his historic work

https://www.charlescsuri.com/historic

Re:Escaping privileged containers for fun on Sunday March 06, 2022 @10:50PM (#30584051)
I use AppArmour and use Podman rootless for everything that needs to be containerized so it's all good for me anyway :)

Fun read! Maybe put an RSS button somewhere so it's easier to subscribe to?

Paraphrased from the original to fit under the character count.

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