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ivan888 commented on E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper   buttondown.com/blog/the-e... · Posted by u/rfarley04
jdeibele · 4 months ago
What I wanted (and still want) is a secure place to hold statements from banks for savings accounts, credit cards, etc. and brokerages.

I bank with two credit unions. Years ago, they implemented a fee of $2/month for paper statements. I get it, printing and mailing statements costs money. But it also comes to me without me having to log into an account and navigate my way to where the statement is.

I'd prefer to have them send the statement each month to an email address I specify. I get that they should take security seriously, so practically maybe that only means Gmail, Apple Mail, etc. are whitelisted.

I used to think there was a business idea here, that the banks should be willing to pay $.10/statement to save on the cost of paper. I'd be willing to use the service because the statements would automatically go to it and be retained for forever.

The reality is, I'm afraid, that the banks don't want you looking at statements because then you might find errors and dispute them and that costs the banks money.

ivan888 · 4 months ago
Yeah I’ve had this same idea for the same reasons, and came to the same conclusions that without legislation, no incentive exists to send statements as attachments in emails or to store them with a 3rd party where they can’t be tampered with when a mistake is discovered
ivan888 commented on A 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159` (2024)   blog.jacobstechtavern.com... · Posted by u/jakey_bakey
mmsc · 6 months ago
Dubs and I upvote.

>Like all recovered edgelords who came of age in the early 2010s, I somewhat miss the heyday of image-boards like 4chan. They were the final bastion of the wild-west early internet before the nazis ruined everything.

Extremely true. I don't know anywhere like those times these days. Where do the young people/trolls hang out and push to the edge of acceptance these days? Or is the culture of "getting right to the edge of getting banned but not crossing the line for lulz" and "act in a way nobody knows whether you're actually trolling or not" dead?

ivan888 · 6 months ago
> Dubs

Not sure if anyone else noticed the item id of this comment does indeed end in 88?

ivan888 commented on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'   krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/mmsc
IAmGraydon · 7 months ago
There's this thing autistic people do where they try to reduce everything down to very simple systems that they can wrap their heads around. Sometimes this can be very powerful, but it oftentimes is an incorrect model of reality. Looking at the United States like a company is exactly this, and it's deeply misguided.
ivan888 · 7 months ago
I'm interested to hear more about this. I think I have a tendency to want to do this myself. Any additional reading on this concept?
ivan888 commented on Maybe You're Not Sick of Programming   shubhamjain.co/2024/06/27... · Posted by u/LaSombra
ivan888 · a year ago
Taking real disconnect breaks (more than one week) also help a lot. Some people, including me until recently, don’t seem to do this often or at all
ivan888 commented on IBDNS: Intentionally Broken DNS server   afnic.fr/en/observatory-a... · Posted by u/patadune
ResearchAtPlay · a year ago
The purpose of this tool is testing if a domain name system follows (or does not follow) the correct specifications:

IBDNS fills a gap in the universe of DNS test tools by offering the possibility of deviating intentionally and on demand from the DNS specifications, and thus simulating incorrect behaviour of authoritative name servers.

ivan888 · a year ago
To be pedantic, its purpose is for verification testing of systems that allow for testing of the type you describe
ivan888 commented on Hotel WiFi JavaScript Injection (2012)   justinsomnia.org/2012/04/... · Posted by u/redbell
sargun · a year ago
Far less due to TLS being ubiquitous
ivan888 · a year ago
I think this is still possible with access points that require installing and trusting a custom certificate. The example in my mind is WeWork's WiFi
ivan888 commented on Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th   ycombinator.com/blog/star... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
ivan888 · a year ago
It seems like even the Startup School signup is limited to students. I applied anyway, and will comment again if I receive a response
ivan888 commented on I built an autonomous software engineer that runs in the browser   otto.engineer... · Posted by u/mgranmoe
mgranmoe · a year ago
Anyone can try Otto for free! It's available right now and requires zero setup. Just create a chat and go!

Otto currently specializes in focused (yet complex) TypeScript problems, but I plan to expand its capabilities after gathering more feedback and deciding what the next most valuable addition would be.

ivan888 · a year ago
Can it do React yet?
ivan888 commented on Show HN: Auto-generate an OpenAPI spec by listening to localhost   github.com/Adawg4/openapi... · Posted by u/adawg4
DidYaWipe · a year ago
This is probably cool and useful, but there's no way to know how much of the API you're covering, right?

I find that the real shortage of tools exists going the other way: from OpenAPI to code. The ecosystem has proven to be a huge disappointment there, comprising a janky collection of defective tools that still (years later) don't support version 3.1 (a critical update).

ivan888 · a year ago
I think going from code to OpenAPI makes a lot more sense, at least for strong typed languages. And even if not directly translated from code, at least closer to the actual code, in annotations or something. Generating the spec from code removes a step, where you simply need to update code, rather than update the spec then update the code

u/ivan888

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