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coldfoundry | 6 days ago | on: How to talk to anyone and why you should

This was also my observation after growing up in New England and then moving to Denver, Colorado. People were much more open to conversation than I was previously used to which felt like a breath of fresh air. I realized people in New England seemingly default to a “defensive” interaction mode when conversed with without a pre-shared common ground, such as a task or moment. Its quite apparent when visiting family back east.

coldfoundry | 2 months ago | on: Doxers posing as cops are tricking big tech firms into sharing people's data

This brings me back, I had this happen to me on comcast back in ~2014 - reset the master key on the account and attacker gained access into all my parents emails as well since they were also via comcast. I’ll never forget waking up to that one! Always wondered what SE happened behind the scenes to make it happen - thanks for sharing.

coldfoundry | 2 months ago | on: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

I deal with the exact same mental model. I think for me, while actively gaming I do have fun. It’s only after the fact I look back on the time wasted gaming and think “wow, I really should have worked on that project I want to build instead of playing a game”. It’s also hard to rationalize time spent gaming when you have nothing to show for it afterwards.

If you ever figure out the solution to this negative thought-loop, let me know please!

coldfoundry | 3 months ago | on: Measuring the impact of AI scams on the elderly

My mom does the same thing regarding “sales”, even after explaining to her the marketing/reasoning aspects of them. If she sees something on sale that was “originally $900” but on sale for $80, shes excited to buy it. It quite literally doesn't matter what it is. It’s nice to see I’m not alone in this situation with her. I can’t wrap my head around it!

coldfoundry | 4 months ago | on: Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors

This might be the first time I felt disappointed and sad reading an article like this. The commented username and password felt like something from an early 2000s tv show with the tech guy doing “hacking”.

Wonder how many others stumbled upon this prior, and makes me also wonder how many other sites have things like this hidden in plain sight. Insane.

coldfoundry | 4 months ago | on: Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication

I’m confused. Isn't this more or less just listening to someone when they speak? I guess seeing it from their perspective isn’t a default for some people?

I usually work in analogies when trying to share my understanding of what they said, whether it is a story or a question.

I may be misunderstanding this a bit, but the inverse or active listening seems to be someone who is distracted and not actually listening to another person? For example: “Wow, yeah, thats crazy” when someone is rambling.

coldfoundry | 5 months ago

Instantly spammed with fake android security breach popup ads on mobile, absolutely will not be trying this. This is probably why .xyz TLD is blacklisted from so many places.

coldfoundry | 5 months ago | on: Crates.io phishing attempt

Wow, thats pretty bad. Reminds me of the old Paypal Invoice scams where scammers would upload the paypal logo as the invoice logo (which appears top left) and essentially “bill” the user. The scammer the adds inside the invoice note a paragraph explaining “Your money is being held due to currency exchange issues”, which gives basic reason to the “monetary deduction”. It got me as a kid, was quite slick for the time. Thought these scam-methods would be at least flagged these days before going out.

coldfoundry | 5 months ago | on: 3D modeling with paper

Oh wow, this brought me back! I used to be obsessed with papercraft back in the day as a kid, specifically “pepakura”. I used to print out halo 3 helmets and build them and wear them. It was like a puzzle on steroids in the cool department!

There used to be an entire finishing process with this yellow and blue bottled smooth-cast resin and sanding before painting, but they always stayed paper for me.

Was a cheap way for me to have fun, and definitely holds a special place in my heart forever. Great share and thank you for posting! Brought me through memory lane.

coldfoundry | 5 months ago | on: Crates.io phishing attempt

Why does it seem like phishing is popular again? Maybe bad actors forgot how gullible humans were? I get phishing attempts nearly daily via email or sms and I honestly thought “Who would fall for this?” every time one came in.

The only phishing I can see that would be extremely hard to detect are browser extension injections (either in extension window or page replacement) so the domain is legitimate.

coldfoundry | 6 months ago | on: Static sites enable a good time travel experience

Wow, to be honest I never knew that was there - just got back from the 2017s. Such a cool feature to support on-site without going through third parties, more sites should have official archival support like this!

Thanks for the share.

coldfoundry | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: I Built a Telegraph Simulator

Yeah, there was no hijacking of a server-side websocket at all, just sending client socket messages to the server since there is no auth or ratelimiting. Sucks thats it’s so frequent, ruins the experience. You can essentially do this to any websocket you’re connected to.

coldfoundry | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent

This sounds great. In a sea of paid ad placements and algo-recommended content, it’s hard to “surf the web” like I did in the early 2000s. It was a challenge to sit on googles homepage and think to myself “Hmm, what do I want to look up today?”. It required forethought of what I wanted to be served for content, and I always received proper content back to me after a search.

Anything that gets me closer to that original intention requirement before getting served content is a must-have in my books! Sign me up!

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