wcip's comments

On: N.J.’S Largest Hospital System Pays Up in Ransomware Attack

[wcip]

I work in this space. Its probably not a matter of kill people, doctors in ER's don't really need a EHR to function and sometimes do without due to technical issues. The issue is that the hospital won't be able to bill without documentation.

On: 49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change

[wcip]

Would you sue me if I tried to implement this? That is a amazing idea.

[freehunter → wcip]

This has been done already, so no. There’s prior art. Look up Clef for one example.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef_(app)

[flurdy → freehunter]

I had high hopes for Clef, but unfortunately, it never got the traction it needed.

That would require each site to implement server-side components to talk to Clef, and most sites have been ice age slow to implement basic TOTP never mind yet another method.

Now, if the big existing OAuth sites, your Google, Facebook, Okta, etc implemented a QR code method like Clef then it might work.

[peteretep → wcip]

I already need to do this to login to LINE on my computer, so no

[dapperAF → wcip]

do it. no one's going to sue for you implementing a random comment brainstorm.

On: BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver

[wcip]

That's the Python interpreter and all the dependencies starting up. Shouldn't really matter if you are using it as a chron job.

[gouggoug → wcip]

I see. The screencast on their website made it seem very fast (which it may have been on a beefier machine than mine?), so I was surprised.

[blattimwind → gouggoug]

It's edited.

[alpaca128 → blattimwind]

Pretty sure it's not.

I've never seen borg take 5+ seconds for anything except creating backups. The same `borg --help` command finishes in 0.4s on my machine. That's not blazing fast either but I'm okay with it.

[blattimwind → alpaca128]

They have been updated; the old screencasts were edited.

On: How to run your own mail server (2017)

[wcip]

I have a .help domain for handing out to services and it works without issue.

On: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

[wcip]

I had to go to Ebay to obtain a license.

On: Quiet.js – Transmit and receive data in the browser at 44.1kHz

[wcip]

Surely they'd use something like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environmen...

On: Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard

[wcip]

I use a jump box. RDP to the box and access everything else from there.

On: Ask HN: What are some resources to improve speaking skills?

[wcip]

I found this YouTube channel yesterday and it appears helpful: https://www.youtube.com/user/charismaoncommand?itct=CCcQ6p4E...

On: Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry

[wcip]

That makes sense but I don't think any third party would pay to be included in a iframe and fed such a limited amount of data, and if you aren't paid for it why bother making all of your users mad in order to do it?

[varenc → wcip]

I think we have different use cases in mind. I'm thinking of services which are free or which companies pay for to gain access to. Things like Facebook/DoubleClick for ad-retargeting and Google Analytics.

Agreed that this does nothing for users that don't want to be tracked, but at least it reduces the risk of the site being compromised by untrusted JS.

On: Rotary Jails

[wcip]

I'm curious as to how the plumbing worked in this system. Would seem difficult to pipe water in a manner that can rotate like this.