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efreak commented on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-... · Posted by u/riffraff

latexr · 18 hours ago

Something felt off about your comments, so I checked your account. You signed up almost six years ago, and in all that time made zero submissions and your only comments are these two on this thread? I’ve been seeing this more and more on HN. What exactly is going on here?

efreak · 7 hours ago

This perfectly describes my former experience with Reddit: I used to browse quite frequently without being logged in. If I wanted to post a reply badly enough to bother with logging in, I would then start commenting on other parts as well; the next day I'd likely be logged out again and not be willing to bother with signing in again for a few more months. Though this did change when the I started using mobile apps more.

efreak commented on Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number theintercept.com/2026/02/... · Posted by u/lehi

JoshTriplett · a day ago

Android.

efreak · a day ago

I'm assuming you're looking for the monthly planner view that actually shows events and not just indicators? Try calendar widgets suite or business calendar 2 planner. Unfortunately both are ad-supported (anything designed explicitly to show local personal information shouldn't go online IMHO), but there's a paid version as well. There's a couple other apps that have similar looking widgets as well, you might find more by searching for monthly planner widgets, not calendar widgets. It might also be possible to find one using a week toolkit (I used Zooper in the past, but I think it's pretty dead now; not sure what's replaced it).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joshy21.ve...https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appgenix.b...https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.komorebi.n...https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joshy21.ve...

efreak commented on Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number theintercept.com/2026/02/... · Posted by u/lehi

JoshTriplett · a day ago

Fastmail's calendar works reasonably well. My two complaints with it:

- There isn't a convenient calendar widget; Google's calendar widget only works with Google's calendar. I'd like something exactly like Google's calendar widget but working with Fastmail's calendar.

- Sites that integrate with Google Calendar but not with arbitrary CalDAV servers.

I could live without the latter, but the former is a dealbreaker; I'd switch given a functional widget that is fully self-contained and doesn't require some separate sync app.

efreak · a day ago

Widget for what? Mobile OS? Websites?

efreak commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01

sigio · 3 days ago

Gaming certainly has age-concerns, many games are rated 13/15/16+ or 18+

But yeah, leaving discord... they are not getting my ID/Photo

efreak · 2 days ago

> The first option uses AI to analyze a user’s video selfie, which Discord says never leaves the user’s device.

I'm wondering if this will work with a YouTube video...

efreak commented on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams kirkville.com/i-now-assum... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

zvqcMMV6Zcr · 6 days ago

This is a bit silly. Are there any ads that people do trust?

efreak · 5 days ago

Ads for products I already use. Probably 90% of the stuff in your house has been advertised somewhere. A good number of the books on my shelves advertise other books by the same author in the back (some of these are order forms, many are not), and I certainly do use them to see what's the next book in a series of what reviewers have had to say about other books by the author. Heck, some of the objects I own and use daily (hopefully lower than average) is itself advertising, such as the branded Crayola desk lamp I'm using.

efreak commented on Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki... · Posted by u/trms

caspar · 8 days ago

Not strictly true afaik? If you own the copyright to the entire codebase you can relicense at will to a different license. (that's what CLAs enable among other things)

Not sure whether you'd still be entitled to the source code under the previous license then.. can a copyright owner revoke a previously issued license to the code? Haven't heard of it, but wouldn't surprise me if it's legal.

efreak · 6 days ago

Sure, you can change the license, but the old license still applies to the code as it was before you changed it. Assuming you're using a legit open source license the first time around, nothing changes regarding how you can make use of the old code; all they can do is make it harder to find (close the repo) or harder to make use of (squashing/flattening the commits to make it impossible to get the correct historical version), both of which are trivially bypassed by using a third party fork or source release.

efreak commented on Don't rent the cloud, own instead blog.comma.ai/datacenter/... · Posted by u/Torq_boi

Neil44 · 7 days ago

Billing per used or not idle cpu cycle would be quite interesting. Number of cores would just effectively be your cost cap. Efficiency would be even more important. And if the provider over subscribes cores you just pay less. Actually that's probably why they don't do it...

efreak · 6 days ago

Don't most big clouds not share cores between tenants? I have a vague feeling that around spectre/meltdown this was stopped. I wouldn't be surprised to be wrong, but if you're dedicating a core to a VM, you're not going to charge less for unused CPU that nobody else can use.

efreak commented on What's up with all those equals signs anyway? lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

jandrese · 8 days ago

Email is one of those cursed standards where the committee wasn't building a protocol from scratch, but rather trying to build a universal standard by gluing together all of the independently developed existing systems in some way that might allow them to interoperate. Verifying that a string a user has typed is a valid email address is close to impossible short of just throwing up your hands and allowing anything with a @ somewhere in it.

efreak · 8 days ago

Unless you're also allowing local mails to be sent to other user accounts without leaving the system, in which case the @ is unnecessary, iirc

efreak commented on SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned haveibeenpwned.com/Breach... · Posted by u/gnabgib

alexalx666 · 15 days ago

YouTube is the domain of Satan, also the name is hilarious - you tube? really? I don't tube thaanks

efreak · 9 days ago

It's YouTube, not MeTube, so you can use it as you want and I'll stay away.

efreak commented on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/zdw

jandrese · 10 days ago

One problem is that they often couldn't be daisy chained, the connector on the back was only useful for an actual printer. So if everybody started doing it you would have to swap them constantly which is a headache. So they're mostly used for software where it's going to be the only thing running on the box.

I find it interesting that they didn't make it into the USB era where you could easily have something that does some actual processing on the device that makes it a serious challenge to reverse engineer.

efreak · 9 days ago

My dad worked for a company that had some involvement in this area. I know USB was used for dongles alongside parallel/serial, but I have a vague memory that there might actually be PCI-based authentication as well.

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