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Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords

https://pbxscience.com/ubuntu-26-04-ends-46-years-of-silent-sudo-passwords/

16•akersten•1h ago

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jbverschoor•19m ago

Weird argument about the logging password forging the same in a gui. Because it certainly it not when logging in using a terminal locale or ssh for that matter

tsimionescu•15m ago

Either way, password lengths are exposed in virtually all scenarios except the Unix Terminal - and have caused 0 issues in practice. The default of hiding password inputs really is useless security theater, and always has been.

The crazier part is Ubuntu using a pre-1.0 software suite instead of software that has been around for decades. The switch to Rust coreutils is far too early.

blfr•19m ago

Just as you get used to something crazy after two decades, have kids, and are about to unleash it on them, it gets fixed. Will there be no boomer pleasures left for us millennials?

nubinetwork•11m ago

Is this really the thing we're complaining about though? There's a lot more annoying things in Linux, rather than whether or not I see dots when I login...

How about all the daemons that double log or double timestamp on systemd machines?

leni536•7m ago

sudo is not the only thing that prompts for password in the terminal. There is at least passwd and ssh.

I value ctrl+U a lot more for password prompts than the visual feedback, it's even used by GUI on Linux.

gzread•7m ago

Good. It's terrible UX.

The security argument is a red herring. It was originally built with no echo because it was easier to turn echo on and off than to echo asterisks. Not for security.

Been There, Done That – A History of Replacing Schools with AI

https://stager.tv/?p=7675

1•the-mitr•50s ago•0 comments

Democracy Is a Liability

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/03/21/democracy-liability.html

1•rvz•9m ago•0 comments

Italy, Belgium set to lose gas supply after biggest LNG plant bombed

https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-belgium-lose-gas-supply-world-biggest-lng-plant-bombed/

2•leonidasrup•10m ago•0 comments

What Is ProxyBase MPP?

https://proxybase.xyz/blog/what-is-proxybase-mpp

1•m00dy•25m ago•0 comments

Save up to 60% API costs without TOON

https://lesstokens.hive-hub.ai/

1•GuilhermeVNZ•26m ago•1 comments

Add age verification to accounts service

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge_requests/176#0b07c0cc4d49b...

3•e145bc455f1•38m ago•0 comments

Israeli startup Thermagix harvesting low grade heat

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/dfpboxzg9

2•tomerbd•39m ago•0 comments

Writing a Verified Postfix Expression Calculator in Ada/Spark

https://pyjarrett.github.io/2025/06/10/postfix-calculator.html

1•notagoodidea•39m ago•0 comments

Re:Do Workouts

https://redoworkouts.com/

1•danielauener•40m ago•0 comments

Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects from 7200-7500

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1rz2ooh/i_am_betting_my_house_that_if_you_ask_gpt_to_pick/

9•mellosouls•42m ago•6 comments

World Cup Trophy Theft: Gangsters, Spies and the Dog That Found It

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-20/the-1966-world-cup-trophy-theft-gangsters-spie...

1•helsinkiandrew•44m ago•0 comments

Google adds 24-hour wait and mandatory reboot to Android sideloading flow

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html

19•dfordp11•53m ago•9 comments

BATorrent – Torrent client that streams video while downloading

https://github.com/Mateuscruz19/BAT-Torrent

1•Mateuscruz19•54m ago•0 comments

DIY AI-powered robot arm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59JTCvpG_Ec

1•mafm•54m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Elastik – treating LLM as an HTTP client in less than 200 lines of code

https://github.com/rangersui/Elastik

1•rangersui•55m ago•0 comments

Operation Cast Thy Bread

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cast_Thy_Bread

3•throw310822•59m ago•0 comments

Oxford Time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_time

1•Tomte•1h ago•0 comments

Cursor's "in-house model" Composer 2 is Kimi K2.5 with RL on top

https://twitter.com/ns123abc/status/2035058399067435474

1•helloplanets•1h ago•0 comments

We Scaled Kimi K2.5 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwePo4847ho

1•vinhnx•1h ago•0 comments

Physics-based validation for sensor data before ML training

https://github.com/timbo4u1/S2S

1•s2sphysical•1h ago•0 comments

CalMirror – Stop copy-pasting events across Google Calendars

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calendar-auto-sync-calmirror/id6759219374

1•hmktsu•1h ago•0 comments

Double-O, agent's best friend

https://github.com/randomm/oo

1•jannniii•1h ago•1 comments

We Trust Strangers More Than Brands – What Neuroscience Tells Us

https://www.proofgateway.com

1•elufadeju•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone here lived in a war zone?

2•michaelteter•1h ago•0 comments

KuraiMusik – A 24/7 AI Radio Orchestrated with AI, Python and Liquidsoap

https://music.kuraitachi.com/

1•daviddevgt•1h ago•0 comments

Why are we eating slop? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsp2bC0Db8o

1•decimalenough•1h ago•0 comments

Manifestation Machines

https://thefuturistsage.substack.com/p/manifestation-machines

1•Archit_lal_•1h ago•0 comments

Tangled: Tightly Knit Social Coding

https://tangled.org

2•j3s•1h ago•0 comments

Is AI Making Us Stupid? Cal Newport Is Worried

https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-ai-making-us-stupid-cal-newport-is-worried

2•smugma•1h ago•1 comments

I tested every "lifetime" Mac app posted on R/macapps for 7 weeks

https://old.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1ryvdei/i_tested_every_lifetime_mac_app_posted_on/

1•saaspirant•1h ago•0 comments