Tell HN: Merry Christmas

92 points by franze ↗ HN
And what IT issue will you (probably) fix today?

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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.
okay, that did not work as well as I hoped. TODO: full engine re-write
Merry Christmas all! My technical fix is to try and stop a leaking pipe which so far is going very badly.
No IT issues thank god! Some work on my side proj maybe to unwind.

Merry xmas everyone!

Merry Christmas and my condolences to everyone who has to deal with iCloud setup / password recovery this holiday season
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!
Does anyone here know my mother's wifi password.... because she surely doesn't ;-)
Merry Christmas to HN
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Merry Christmas! I’ll be installing NextDNS profile on both my parents iPhones!
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.

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.

Merry Christmas, HN! Christ is King.
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.

Merry Christmas HN!
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 :)

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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Ukrainian, will be celebrating it in January, but Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it today!
Merry Christmas from Kurdistan