mkopinsky's comments

On: Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room

[mkopinsky]

Initially I was sure you were talking about my Scoutmaster. (The details diverged in the end.) The expected arrival time for camping trips was always something like 9:59am - that way people would hopefully show up at 9-something or maybe just a few minutes late like 10:10. If the expected arrival time was 10:00, people would interpret it as 10-something and show up at 10:45.

On: Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions

[mkopinsky]

$250k is a respectable amount, but shouldn't it be based on a percentage of their revenue? /s

[nchmy → mkopinsky]

8%, to be exact.

On: Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science

[mkopinsky]

Most of the Reason article's criticism is of its factual reporting. The JEDI thing is indeed an opinion piece (and it's legitimate to criticize a magazine for its opinion pieces being stupid), but the puberty blocker stuff (not linked directly from the article, but it's at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-are-puberty-... ) was an article, not an opinion piece.

On: I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox

[mkopinsky]

The developer of curl has done an analysis of what percent of his CVEs would have been avoided in a memory safe language. I think the answer was a bare majority.

On: Show HN: Whataaabout.com – unique activity ideas for the holiday break

[mkopinsky]

The issue may be that your filters act as ORs whereas someone might interpret them as ANDs. If I filter for Social+Kids and Culinary, the CBD/space cake ones come up.

[erkjs → mkopinsky]

Oh right, makes sense, that must be it!

On: SSH-audit: SSH server and client security auditing

[mkopinsky]

Is this basically https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ but for SSH? If so, that is great. In the past, it has been great to point my sysadmin team at that site and say "My goal is get to an A+ on SSLLabs, the site will tell us what settings to tweak to get there" or to tell external stakeholders "SSLLabs gives us an A+, now stop telling me that LetsEncrypt is somehow not good enough". I'd love to have a simple tool I can point at my internal SSH servers and get a single letter grade like that.

On: Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile

[mkopinsky]

How did they get to that forest 5 miles away?

[jakewins → mkopinsky]

The city has buses specifically equipped for small kids / toddlers, which the various daycares take turns using

On: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2022)

[mkopinsky]

Heads up, your resume link isn't publicly viewable.

On: Ask HN: Why is the printer industry so scammy?

[mkopinsky]

I tried this with a Brother HL-L23200 printer and an old raspberry pi, and couldn't get it to work. Seemed like something in the stack was OOM'ing - it worked fine for just a page or two, but when I tried to print a longer document it would crap out. I gave up and now on the rare occasion when I need to print something I carry my laptop over and physically plug in the USB cord like a neanderthal.

On: Type of Barcodes and Their Usage

[mkopinsky]

What do you mean by barcode numbers? UPCs? Barcodes can encode many many different things, some of which are internal, some are proprietary datasets you can buy/license for $$$, and so on.