LikesPwsh (u/LikesPwsh)

LikesPwsh commented on RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode tbray.org/ongoing/When/20... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

develatio · 4 days ago

and "that's it"? I mean, it does sound like it might introduce unexpected UI behaviour, but are there any other more serious / dangerous consequences?

LikesPwsh · 4 days ago

RTL lets you obfuscate file extensions.

E.g. Annexe.txt (that you might assume would be safely opened by a text editor) could actually be Ann\u202Etxt.exe, a dangerous executable.

LikesPwsh commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac

sunrunner · 13 days ago

And I thought the problem was (just) limited to fragmentation of complete IPs between services. I'd love for someone in the know to explain how you get to this stage.

It it some kind of hedging strategy by The Pokémon Company to account for the number of different streaming services (thereby actually making the problem worse)? Was there some kind of timed exclusivity deal that's forced them to put different things in different places? Did one of the streaming services come along at a later time to try to undercut the earlier ones but the earlier licencing deals haven't expired? Anything else?

LikesPwsh · 12 days ago

Another possibility is that every streaming service wants "Pokémon" and parents don't care which season.

So each service buys a single season to tick that box.

LikesPwsh commented on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack twitter.com/p3b7_/status/... · Posted by u/treyd

SamPatt · 15 days ago

More or less, but the private chain doesn't need to contain empty blocks.

A more sophisticated attack would include all the legitimate transactions on the network except for their own transaction(s) which they're trying to double spend. That way the network isn't disrupted apart from the parties you're double spending against.

LikesPwsh · 15 days ago

That way you can also claim 100% of mining rewards with 51% hash rate.

LikesPwsh commented on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack twitter.com/p3b7_/status/... · Posted by u/treyd

idiotsecant · 15 days ago

That's not at all relevant to parent post's point. BTC mining is famously centralized, and continues to get more so. It is inevitable that a manufacturer of BTC asics with access to cheap power will become large enough to control 51% of the hash. It's inevitable. It's bad system design - it makes being able to manufacture your own custom silicon table stakes to run a financial system for some reason.

BTC will have to move to a proof of stake design to survive. It's unavoidable.

LikesPwsh · 15 days ago

BTC can't move to proof of stake because religious zealots would keep their money in the old fork.

It's doomed in general, see the cash fork.

LikesPwsh commented on Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev blog.kilocode.ai/p/future... · Posted by u/twapi

OfficialTurkey · 16 days ago

Couldn't you also make this argument about cloud infrastructure from the standard hyperscaler cloud providers (AWS, GCP, ...)? For that matter, couldn't you make this argument about dependency your business has which it purchases from other businesses which are competing against each other to provide it?

LikesPwsh · 15 days ago

AWS/GCP are at least making money with their current pricing model.

When your provider is dumping at a loss, it's their way of saying that the business plan is to maximize lock-in/monopoly effects followed by the infamous "enshittification".

LikesPwsh commented on Show HN: A GitHub Action that quizzes you on a pull request github.com/dkamm/pr-quiz... · Posted by u/dkamm

xmprt · a month ago

You could set up some hardcoded rules so that the PR is never merged without human review if it touches the github actions.

LikesPwsh · a month ago

You could, but it would be mad to skip the code review because it "only" touches customer-facing code rather than GHA.

LikesPwsh commented on SQL Injection as a Feature idiallo.com/blog/sql-inje... · Posted by u/foxfired

LikesPwsh · a month ago

Giving analysts direct SQL access can be great, but you should tell them to use an IDE rather than trying to build your own IDE in a text box.

LikesPwsh commented on Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft securelist.com/open-sourc... · Posted by u/Daviey

joelthelion · a month ago

So that guy used the same machine for development and holding 500,000$ in cryptos?

LikesPwsh · a month ago

Cryptocurrency contracts are going to touch actual tokens at some point.

Even if the compromise wasn't on the developer's machine, it could have enabled a supply chain attack post-deployment.

LikesPwsh commented on Most people who buy games on Steam never play them howtomarketagame.com/2025... · Posted by u/3Samourai

xandrius · a month ago

I re-read your comment 5 times and I still don't see the difference you're trying to highlight.

What I got is: people buy games and they don't play most of them. Is it wrong?

LikesPwsh · a month ago

% of people vs % of games.

A single person who "collects" games or buys them because it seems like good value can have thousands of titles in their steam library. Someone who actually plays all of them will have a much smaller number.

LikesPwsh commented on The day someone created 184 billion Bitcoin (2020) decrypt.co/39750/184-bill... · Posted by u/lawrenceyan

FatalLogic · 2 months ago

I think it's US$21.7 trillion? That's now about 15% of the total global money supply.

So, it's good that the transaction was undone, or 15% of our planet would now be owned by some hacker.

(To be real: if they had not undone the transaction immediately, then the price of Bitcoin would have collapsed, and probably that would have been the end of Bitcoin)

LikesPwsh · 2 months ago

At a certain scale, face value is meaningless and all that matters is liquidity.

$21tn in bitcoin isn't going to get you any more money than $1tn would.

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