Tell HN: Merry Christmas
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And what IT issue will you (probably) fix today?
vivzkestrel
6 hours ago
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daemonologist
4 hours ago
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ezekg
6 hours ago
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I spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out what this says in what I assumed was Braille, only to realize it's a badly formatted ASCII Christmas tree. :)
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wattzee
7 hours ago
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Does anyone here know my mother's wifi password.... because she surely doesn't ;-)
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teknoxjon
5 hours ago
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always check what it says on the router. she hasn't changed it from the default :P
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franze
7 hours ago
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the usual suspects

  - your birthday
  - your sisters birthday
  - her dogs birthday
usually the third guess is correct
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fancy_pantser
6 hours ago
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my relatives' is always on a sticker under the AP
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andyjohnson0
6 hours ago
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Merry Christmas HN!

Today I've bought food and drink, prepped a nut roast to cook tomorrow, watched the sky get dark, and am now enjoying a small glass of chilled fino and a chat with my children before I wrap some gifts. I'm looking forward to a tech-light day tomorrow.

For another year you've been the place I've gone to for interest and enlightenment and curiosity. Thank you all, however you choose to spend this time of year.

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nmaleki
8 hours ago
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Merry Christmas to you too! I'll be adding a plugin extension to Large World Coordinates in Unreal Engine inspired by Constructive Reals. It should let me use arbitrary precision, meaning I can make objects excessively small or large at distances excessively large or small in the engine.
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tetris11
6 hours ago
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Happy Christmas! If an Uber delivery driver loses your order somehow; no he didn't.

If you spot someone with a trolley full of food sprinting out of the supermarket; no you didn't.

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hiprob
4 hours ago
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Ukrainian, will be celebrating it in January, but Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it today!
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hiAndrewQuinn
7 hours ago
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Merry Christmas to you too! I'm fixing an issue in /etc/networking caused by a non atomic write process. Friends don't let friends copy unguarded!
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ramon156
5 hours ago
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Merry Christmas!

Finally got some me-time, so I hacked together a pub quiz app for a friend and me. We'll be hosting the yearly pub quiz for friends and family

Last year I was thinking of a complex authorization mess for persistence, but I realized a team code is 100x easier. I just store everything locally, no one is smart enough to hack it (I'd be happy if they can even enter the 4 digits)

Normally we do it on PowerPoints, but now I want to see if I can get any cool animations in pure css going :)

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firefax
2 hours ago
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None, I was laid off and I'm working something completely unrelated to pay the bills. About to crack a beer and have some Chinese while watching pirated movies because I canceled my Netflix to cut costs.

Gonna watch Die Hard, eat a beef chow fun, and try to teach my bird some new curse words.

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joewhale
6 hours ago
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Merry Christmas! I’ll be installing NextDNS profile on both my parents iPhones!
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Imustaskforhelp
4 hours ago
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I was gonna say to install ublock origin on an Iphone but it turns out its not that simple

Now I searched and it seems that https://orionbrowser.com/ is available on iphones and you can install firefox extensions on it and thus ublock origin :)

Have an ad-free year :)

(Ps: I don't own an iphone and for every device, my setup is Ublock Origin + firefox/zen on android/linux/mac etc but Iphone forces its own engine so you cant install addons in firefox on Iphone but you can if you use orion which is created by kagi)

Edit: Oops haha forgot to say the most important thing at this time of year

merry christmas!

Edit2: Looks like orion supports ad blocking by default and in my experience it feels as good as ublock origin (I tested it on my mac on this website https://adblock-tester.com/ and got 100/100 on both zen + ubo and orion ootb

I am loving orion honestly too. I was writing this comment and then I was installing orion and suddenly the whole screen turned into a mini video/documentary about space for 1 minute for orion and man I really loved it.

I also get 200 free searches of kagi which is awesome, I have heard a lot about kagi so we will see but credit where's its due, the video was really good and its ootb ad blocking feels pretty good.

TLDR: try out orion browser :) (But I think you can try out brave too but honestly ubo is better / comparable than brave so you can try out both, I don't think orion's source code is available but yeah, it does have a premium feel to it.

Once again merry christmas! Hope it helps

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deafpolygon
4 hours ago
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I use Wipr for Safari- works great.
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marginalia_nu
6 hours ago
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Merry Christmas, God Jul, and good tidings! May Bruce Willis find shoes that fit as Nakatomi Plaza is yet again beseiged by Severus Snape.

No issues.

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ianwinter
8 hours ago
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Merry Christmas all! My technical fix is to try and stop a leaking pipe which so far is going very badly.
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supersaw
2 hours ago
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Merry Christmas and God Jul to all from Oslo, Norway! No issues to fix, other than helping with food.
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mdavid626
5 hours ago
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In the morning I finished figuring out how Vivotek cameras store private keys for AWS KVS streaming. They are encrypted on disk. Disassembling some executables I managed to reverse engineer the encryption keys. Apparently Vivotek things obscurity is security… With the encryption keys we can switch to a custom made solution, while reusing the same certificates as before.
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notmyrealnym
2 hours ago
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mdavid626 3 hours ago | prev | next [–]

In the morning I finished figuring out

  how Vivotek cameras store private keys for AWS KVS streaming.
They are encrypted on disk.

  Disassembling some executables I managed to reverse engineer the encryption keys.
Apparently Vivotek things obscurity is security…

   With the encryption keys we can switch
to a custom made solution,

  while reusing the same certificates as before.

You go back, Jack. Do it again.

World spinning round and round.

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halJordan
5 hours ago
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You're upset that an encrypted stream needs encryption keys? And that you need physical access, the binaries themselves, and reverse engineering tools to get them?

I think you'll be surprised to learn you can do the same thing to any program which encrypts data

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mdavid626
4 hours ago
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No, I’m not upset. Private keys are necessary, that’s fine. Vivotek encrypts them additionaly, but stores the encryption keys right next to the encypted data.

One could use TPM chip to store the keys, rather than such useless obscure encryption, which looks secure, but it’s not.

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mrburns85
3 hours ago
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Wishing you all a Merry Christmas from Connecticut
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ezekg
6 hours ago
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Merry Christmas, HN! Christ is King.
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stuffn
4 hours ago
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Getting downvoted for saying Christ is king on a Christian holiday is an absolutely wild HN take. The “happy holidays” people seem to be a little upset.
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err4nt
3 hours ago
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Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all from Toronto!
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uhfraid
6 hours ago
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Merry Christmas!
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Imustaskforhelp
4 hours ago
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Merry christmas from India.
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samyar
4 hours ago
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Merry Christmas from Kurdistan
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tomashubelbauer
7 hours ago
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Merry Christmas and my condolences to everyone who has to deal with iCloud setup / password recovery this holiday season
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virilissimitude
6 hours ago
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So far in past year:

- 2 Google password recoveries

- Out of disk space

I think that will probably be all for the year, but will see.

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joshuanapoli
3 hours ago
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Merry Christmas from Rhode Island!
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levysoft
3 hours ago
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Merry Christmas from Italy!!!
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Narciss
7 hours ago
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No IT issues thank god! Some work on my side proj maybe to unwind.

Merry xmas everyone!

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deafpolygon
4 hours ago
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Merry Christmas to you all
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silexia
2 hours ago
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Merry Christmas! Remember family, especially your kids are the reason for the season. Enjoy them!
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fwsgonzo
8 hours ago
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Merry Christmas to all
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itisme_b
4 hours ago
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What is someone is hiding something from your religion? Have a good read:

قَالَ إِنِّی عَبۡدُ ٱللَّهِ ءَاتَىٰنِیَ ٱلۡكِتَـٰبَ وَجَعَلَنِی نَبِیࣰّا﴿ ٣٠ ﴾‬ ‫وَجَعَلَنِی مُبَارَكًا أَیۡنَ مَا كُنتُ وَأَوۡصَـٰنِی بِٱلصَّلَوٰةِ وَٱلزَّكَوٰةِ مَا دُمۡتُ حَیࣰّا﴿ ٣١ ﴾‬ ‫وَبَرَّۢا بِوَ ٰ لِدَتِی وَلَمۡ یَجۡعَلۡنِی جَبَّارࣰا شَقِیࣰّا﴿ ٣٢ ﴾‬ ‫وَٱلسَّلَـٰمُ عَلَیَّ یَوۡمَ وُلِدتُّ وَیَوۡمَ أَمُوتُ وَیَوۡمَ أُبۡعَثُ حَیࣰّا﴿ ٣٣ ﴾‬ ‫ذَ ٰ لِكَ عِیسَى ٱبۡنُ مَرۡیَمَۖ قَوۡلَ ٱلۡحَقِّ ٱلَّذِی فِیهِ یَمۡتَرُونَ﴿ ٣٤ ﴾‬‫[But] he said: ‘I am a servant of God. He has granted me the Scripture; made me a prophet; made me blessed wherever I may be. He commanded me to pray, to give alms as long as I live, to cherish my mother. He did not make me domineering or graceless. Peace was on me the day I was born, and will be on me the day I die and the day I am raised to life again.’ Such was Jesus, son of Mary. [This is] a statement of the Truth about which they are in doubt:

‫مَا كَانَ لِلَّهِ أَن یَتَّخِذَ مِن وَلَدࣲۖ سُبۡحَـٰنَهُۥۤۚ إِذَا قَضَىٰۤ أَمۡرࣰا فَإِنَّمَا یَقُولُ لَهُۥ كُن فَیَكُونُ﴿ ٣٥ ﴾‬ ‫وَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ رَبِّی وَرَبُّكُمۡ فَٱعۡبُدُوهُۚ هَـٰذَا صِرَ ٰ طࣱ مُّسۡتَقِیمࣱ﴿ ٣٦ ﴾‬ ‫فَٱخۡتَلَفَ ٱلۡأَحۡزَابُ مِنۢ بَیۡنِهِمۡۖ فَوَیۡلࣱ لِّلَّذِینَ كَفَرُوا۟ مِن مَّشۡهَدِ یَوۡمٍ عَظِیمٍ﴿ ٣٧ ﴾‬

it would not befit God to have a child. He is far above that: when He decrees something, He says only, ‘Be,’ and it is. ‘God is my Lord and your Lord, so serve Him: that is a straight path.’ But factions have differed among themselves. What suffering will come to those who obscure the truth when a dreadful Day arrives!

Surah Maryam

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aristofun
4 hours ago
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Ho ho ho!
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throwaway5465
8 hours ago
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Merry Christmas!
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sieep
6 hours ago
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Merry Christmas to HN
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moomoo11
12 hours ago
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Merry Christmas!
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thala
5 hours ago
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Merry Christmas HN!
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