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sen commented on Building the mouse Logitech won't make samwilkinson.io/posts/202... · Posted by u/sammycdubs

I never able to find a left handed version of track ball...

Who knows if there is such thing?

sen · 2 days ago

Kensington make multiple trackballs that are ambidextrous. I use both the wireless and wired (on laptop and desktop respectively) versions of their “Expert Mouse” model for a fair few years now.

sen commented on Study mode openai.com/index/chatgpt-... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

lbrito · a month ago

>big chunk of time spent studying is actually just searching.

This is a good thing in many levels.

Learning how to search is (was) a good skill to have. The process of searching itself also often leads to learning tangentially related but important things.

I'm sorry for the next generations that won't have (much of) these skills.

sen · a month ago

That was relevant when you were learning to search through “information” for the answer to your question, eg the digital version of going through the library or digging through a reference book.

I don’t think it’s so valuable now that you’re searching through piles of spam and junk just to try find anything relevant. That’s a uniquely modern-web thing created by Google in their focus of profit over user.

Unless Google takes over libraries/books next and sells spots to advertisers on the shelves and in the books.

sen commented on 16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive 16colo.rs/... · Posted by u/debo_

iamflimflam1 · a month ago

Ooh - post a gist of how you do that.

sen · a month ago

I'm just using this zsh plugin: https://github.com/yuhonas/zsh-ansimotd

sen commented on 16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive 16colo.rs/... · Posted by u/debo_

sen · a month ago

I have a folder of .ANS files I’ve collected from this site, and when my terminal opens it loads a random one from the folder. It’s a silly little things but it gives me that “connecting to a BBS” nostalgia feeling every time I open the terminal.

sen commented on Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach patchstack.com/articles/c... · Posted by u/taubek

kristianc · a month ago

Am I alone in thinking it's kind of nuts that there's a $259 extension for Web Forms in the first place. Is this WordPress being horribly broken, the WordPress ecosystem being a playground for grifters, naive non-technical WordPress users or all three?

sen · a month ago

Definitely all 3.

sen commented on Qantas says 6M customers caught up in cyberattack afr.com/companies/transpo... · Posted by u/sen

sen · 2 months ago

https://archive.is/fEQKa

The personal data of more than 6 million Qantas customers has been stolen in a cyberattack believed to be part of a co-ordinated attack on airlines globally.

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a statement this week warning airlines not to pay ransoms to a cybercriminal gang called Scattered Spider, which is thought to be responsible for the attacks.

“The threat from Scattered Spider is ongoing and rapidly evolving,” the FBI said. Qantas said a cybersecurity incident occurred in one of its contact centres, affecting customer data on Monday, when a gang targeted a call centre and gained access to a third-party customer service platform.

Although Qantas’ operations and safety remain unaffected, the airline said 6 million customers’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers were taken. The airline said credit card and payment details were stored separately. Last year, Qantas ruled out a cyberattack after an IT malfunction allowed customers to see and access frequent flyer points of other customers via the airline’s app. North America’s Hawaiian Airlines and WestJet were both hit by similar attacks in the past two weeks.

It said no frequent flyer PINs or log-in details were stolen, and it was confident no frequent flyer accounts were compromised in the attack.

The airline joins a long list of Australian companies targeted by cybercriminals, including Medibank and Optus. Experts have called for the Australian government to ban the payment of ransoms to deter hackers.

“Qantas has notified the Australian Cyber Security Centre and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Given the criminal nature of this incident, the Australian Federal Police has also been notified,” it said.

Chief executive Vanessa Hudson apologised to customers and said Qantas would provide necessary support.

“We are working closely with the federal government’s National Cyber Security Coordinator, the Australian Cyber Security Centre and independent specialised cyber-security experts,” Hudson said.

The airline is expected to bolster its cybersecurity expertise when it names a replacement for outgoing director Todd Sampson, who is set to leave the company at the end of this month.

sen commented on Show HN: IRC.com – A Scriptable Web IRC Client irc.com... · Posted by u/rasengan

sen · 2 months ago

> remember me from the privacy wars and the freenode drama

... the drama you created by doing a hostile takeover of Freenode and effectively killing it?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#Ownership_change_an...

sen commented on Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello github.com/kanbn/kan... · Posted by u/henryball

AnonC · 3 months ago

Suggestion to the OP: please consider adding a family plan at a lower monthly price point.

On this topic, I really love Kanban boards, but a hosted version (or self-hosted) is not as appealing to me as a native app with some sync.

Years ago, I used to use a closed source but free desktop app on Windows (now long discontinued though) and found that it worked very well for me to track my work.

Apple’s Reminders app has Lists that can be further divided into Sections and then viewed and used (kinda) like a Kanban board, but the UX is not great. The macOS apps, especially, are an abomination with Catalyst.

I’m still looking for a native app that has a simple sync using iCloud or Dropbox. Plus no subscriptions (a one time price per version may be ok). The usage would be for one or two users.

sen · 3 months ago

I use the KanBan plugin for Obsidian and have quite liked it. It’s basic but it does the job and lets you sync however you want (it’s just a folder with markdown files).

sen commented on Ask HN: Email Provider for Main Account? · Posted by u/agent008t

sen · 3 months ago

Fastmail + custom domain for ~15 years.

Entire extended family doing the same now and never had a single issue.