proactivesvcs (u/proactivesvcs)

proactivesvcs commented on LG ordered to pay £150k after phone defect caused Scotland house fire theregister.com/2025/08/0... · Posted by u/rntn

42lux · 22 days ago

How are you not switching blame here? The device was faulty a non faulty device would not have started the fire. You are now telling everyone to not charge their devices on a sofa. That's FUD based on nothing.

proactivesvcs · 22 days ago

If a device with a combustible battery has been damaged, or if there is an electrical surge, the same thing could have happened. Whilst in this case it's not the victim's fault, leaving such devices charging unattended is dangerous, just as running white goods whilst not attended.

proactivesvcs commented on Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys ergaster.org/til/base64-e... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie

mmastrac · 24 days ago

I built a JWT support library at work (https://github.com/geldata/gel-rust/tree/master/gel-jwt) and I can confirm that JWTs all sound like "eyyyyyy" in my head.

proactivesvcs · 24 days ago

"Is that you again, punk zip?" when seeing the first few bytes of a zip file.

proactivesvcs commented on When we get Komooted bikepacking.com/plog/when... · Posted by u/atakan_gurkan

proactivesvcs · a month ago

I was also Komooted - by Komoot. They brought out ViewRanger, who I had paid money to provide a service. Month by month they removed the features and access that I had paid for, and made the app less useful. I am not sure I can feel any pity for Komoot, an organisation that met a fate down a path it seemed to choose.

proactivesvcs commented on Death by a Thousand Slops daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/robin_reala

lysace · 2 months ago

Sort of separate but perhaps also relevant to the thousands cuts/slops: Isn't the scope of curl/libcurl a bit too big?

It supports almost every file-related networking protocol under the sun and a few more just for fun. (https://everything.curl.dev/protocols/curl.html)

Meanwhile 99.8% of users (assuming) just use it for HTTP.

Here's a few complex protocols I bet many do not know that curl supports:

- SMB

- IMAP

- LDAP

- RTMP

- RTSP

- SFTP

- SMTP

At the very least, this magnifies the cost of dealing with AI slop security reports and sometimes also the risk for users.

proactivesvcs · 2 months ago

From this year's curl user survey, whilst HTTP/S is the majority use, more than 10% of users are using FTP and WebSockets and 5% still using telnet!

https://curl.se/docs/survey/2025-1.1/

proactivesvcs commented on Removal of unwanted drivers from Windows Update techcommunity.microsoft.c... · Posted by u/zdw

proactivesvcs · 2 months ago

"What category of drivers are targeted in the first cut of the cleanup?

The first phase targets legacy drivers that have newer replacements already on Windows Update."

It'd be useful if they listed information about the other phases; the proposal for this phase seems pretty sensible and I'm surprised they have only now started thinking about it.

proactivesvcs commented on Show HN: Most users won't report bugs unless you make it stupidly easy · Posted by u/lakshikag

unclad5968 · 3 months ago

The devs for the game factorio encourage players to post bugs on the forums. The devs use forums as a issue tracker and respond to bugs with fixes. I have no idea if that makes it more satisfying to report bugs or not, but I always thought it was cool.

proactivesvcs · 3 months ago

In contrast, I stopped submitting bugs there because a forum is a terrible place to find and track bugs. Shame because I knew they'd be fixed by an outfit such as Wube.

proactivesvcs commented on Merlin Bird ID merlin.allaboutbirds.org/... · Posted by u/twitchard

proactivesvcs · 3 months ago

It's worth being aware that the developer of the Android app asserts that "...this app doesn't share user data with other companies or organizations" but according to Exodus Privacy this is not true: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.labs.me...

proactivesvcs commented on The cryptography behind passkeys blog.trailofbits.com/2025... · Posted by u/tatersolid

lxgr · 3 months ago

None of the common passkey implementations support attestation.

Apple doesn't support it at all anymore; Google only supports it for non-synchronized credentials (which are arguably not passkeys). Bitwarden obviously doesn't either (it can't, as a pure software implementation).

> One of the developers already threatened to use it against keepass when they built an export feature he didn't agree with.

Developer of what? There's no competing software solution that supports attestation, and hardware authenticators complement software ones, rather than compete with them.

proactivesvcs · 3 months ago

https://github.com/timcappalli, "passkeys, FIDO2/WebAuthn, and digital credentials @ okta"

Not directly threatening but within that frame of mind:

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407#iss...

proactivesvcs commented on TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs micahflee.com/despite-mis... · Posted by u/micahflee

XorNot · 4 months ago

It'd also be useful if backups on Android actually streamed somewhere off the phone so they could be meaningfully appended to, kept. Or handled per channel (i.e. my baby pictures channel with family).

proactivesvcs · 4 months ago

...and if the restore process wasn't so fragile. The only time I needed to backup and restore it just crashed part-way through, so the backup process wasn't even doing any validation.

proactivesvcs commented on TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs micahflee.com/despite-mis... · Posted by u/micahflee

proactivesvcs · 4 months ago

I'd find it useful if I could access my Signal chat logs in plaintext. The software offers no facility to do this on any platform, and on Desktop the programs that have allowed me to take proper backups are (by necessity) a moving target because of changes to the database, so I am constantly having to get around to updating them and occasionally even that's a pain.

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