davenull's comments

davenull | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where can I find stable employment without a degree?

Moral support doesn't sound too bad haha. I have found meager wages working at a local repair shop, and have taken that time to hone my skillset into something useful. I have a firm handle on async Nodejs as a result, but it's hard to look at the applications I can make as useful when I struggle to put gas in the tank to get to the shop in the morning.

I'll get 99% of the way to 'completing' something, like the react-native app I am developing, and spend two weeks asking myself "Why don't you just watch Deep Space Nine on Netflix? It's not like anything is going to make paying rent this month any easier." and wind up like I am today, on the verge of tears instead of learning redux. From my perspective, I have been chasing a dream that will forever reward me with not-enough-money for my efforts.

davenull | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where can I find stable employment without a degree?

I tried to go to college, wound up homeless, living in a van trying to pay for it. Now that I have a family, it just crushes me that I couldn't complete it.

davenull | 9 years ago | on: PrivateKeys – SSH Keys as a Service

What? Why would I ever pay someone else to generate crypto tokens for me? This is a slap in the face to every safety procedure surrounding private keys. A key escrow is bad juju.

davenull | 9 years ago | on: Stripe opens its Atlas program to US-based startups

How does the AWS credit work? This, for me, is the biggest selling point of the whole shabang.

davenull | 10 years ago | on: StartCom will log all issued SSL certificates to public CT log servers

I've always enforced a strict policy of every certificate request be asked for in person by someone with authority to ask us for one, and then a second person actually issues the certs after an hour, just in case. Nobody likes being responsible for data breaches, and I for one am a sadist and a masochist when it comes to keeping control of my systems.

davenull | 10 years ago | on: Backdoor in DVR firmware sends CCTV camera snapshots to email address in China

I surely hope that somebody can figure out how to make firmware images for these, and use this code as a base to fix these flaws. A kind DD-DVR project, if you would.

davenull | 12 years ago | on: Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ (2012)

Unfortunate they chose that name for a project involving spanning datacenters with high-speed fiber connection.

davenull | 12 years ago | on: The FuqIt Web Framework

This looks cool. BTW, thanks for helping me not feel like a total moron while learning Python, the hard way was the right way.

davenull | 12 years ago | on: Iranian Hackers Post Images Over JFK Airport From UAV That Was Hijacked In March

I call bullshit. There are numerous "funny bits" in this thread, number one, they display the info page for a "UAV Imager system" which in no way offers control of a drone. Second, the very generalized schematic for a nuclear power station, most likely a mid-60's design BWR, means nothing to anyone.

davenull | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Self Hosted Webmail IMAP Client?

I use roundcube, it's actually fairly well-featured, and has worked reliably for years.

davenull | 12 years ago | on: How the NSA taps fiber at the bottom of the oceans

The massive amount of computing power needed to encrypt that much data is hard to buy, unless you are the NSA.

davenull | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Responding to NSA spying with a simple consumer VPN service

How about one of those tryout codes?

davenull | 12 years ago | on: Live: Head of NSA meets with House Intelligence Committee

That was the largest gathering of nervous looking politicians and military brass I have ever witnessed. I don't think a lot of them were comfortable talking about information that became declassified immediately before they were to discuss them with the public.