mkopinsky (u/mkopinsky)

mkopinsky commented on Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room clientserver.dev/p/malici... · Posted by u/jakevoytko

mandevil · 9 months ago

A scoutmaster of mine had a theory. Everyone has their own different version of what "9:30" means- to some it's 9:25, to others 9:45. But there is only one 9:32. So he would use weird times like that, we're meeting at 6:07 today.

mkopinsky · 9 months ago

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.

mkopinsky commented on Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions wordpress.org/news/2024/1... · Posted by u/PuffinBlue

josefresco · a year ago

Yes, and as a result of that public shaming effort Automattic increased their contributions to the PHP Foundation by 2.5x: https://x.com/ThePHPF/status/1853390265429508427

mkopinsky · a year ago

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

mkopinsky commented on Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science reason.com/2024/11/18/how... · Posted by u/Bostonian

nyeah · a year ago

The Reason article blurs the distinction between SciAm's opinion pieces and its factual (or putatively factual) reporting. That's disconcerting. "Opinion piece" objectively means "free bullshit zone". Reason is usually much more responsible than this.

SciAm has of course fallen into terrible disrepair. But that happened long ago and the cause wasn't BS in the editorials. Who even reads editorials in a science magazine?

I was a Young Libertarian in my day and I recognize the urge to blame lunatics who disagree with my politics for everything wrong in the world. But this particular case isn't convincing. It died and then the loonies moved in, not the other way around.

mkopinsky · a year ago

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.

mkopinsky commented on I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox jackkelly.name/blog/archi... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

lkdfjlkdfjlg · 2 years ago

Do you know that memory safety is relevant for security, compared to other causes of exploits? Or are you just guessing?

mkopinsky · 2 years ago

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.

mkopinsky commented on Show HN: Whataaabout.com – unique activity ideas for the holiday break whataaabout.com/... · Posted by u/erkjs

erkjs · 2 years ago

Seriously or are you trolling? If so, it's some strange bug, Kids friendly is not a category assigned to that activity

mkopinsky · 2 years ago

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.

mkopinsky commented on SSH-audit: SSH server and client security auditing github.com/jtesta/ssh-aud... · Posted by u/thunderbong

mkopinsky · 2 years ago

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.

mkopinsky commented on Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile reason.com/2022/11/16/sub... · Posted by u/leephillips

jakewins · 3 years ago

We just moved to Sweden from Missouri; yesterday I picked up our 3yo from daycare and had this exchange:

Kid: <Happily playing with clay>

Teacher: Oh, by the way, he fell out of a small tree today, he was climbing and fell, so he may have a small bruise, just so you are aware

Me: Oh ok. What tree?

Teacher: Oh we took them to <forest 5 miles from daycare> and grilled hot dogs today!

Kid: I found a snail!

mkopinsky · 3 years ago

How did they get to that forest 5 miles away?

mkopinsky commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2022) · Posted by u/whoishiring

madmonk · 3 years ago

  Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  Remote: Preferred
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typescript, Angular, PHP, Node
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13n9HJFQU1DfVIcwFbK_2y8VrgXwKO8au/view?usp=sharing
  Email: jeff.ulicny@gmail.com

mkopinsky · 3 years ago

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

mkopinsky commented on Ask HN: Why is the printer industry so scammy? · Posted by u/sbszllr

sgjohnson · 3 years ago

Hook it up to a Raspberry Pi and expose the printer over network

There you go, DIY AirPrint

mkopinsky · 3 years ago

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.

mkopinsky commented on Type of Barcodes and Their Usage scanbot.io/blog/types-of-... · Posted by u/arthurscan

lazulicurio · 3 years ago

If you're entering into a webpage, your best bet may be a different scanner. Virtual COM generally ties it to native applications (website COM interfaces are possible, but I'm assuming the website isn't yours to modify).

Another possibility is writing a native app that works like a shim: reading from the COM port and using APIs (e.g. SendKeys on Windows) to re-transmit the characters as keystrokes. But the most robust solution is probably a different scanner.

mkopinsky · 3 years ago

The website is mine to modify. I wouldn't go to great lengths to change things to support virtual COM, but if it's just a question of adding a few lines of javascript to listen to virtual COM and map to keypress events that would be possible.