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HackerThemAll • yesterday at 10:41 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

> appearance-wise it looks very noisy/distorted with some crooked elements (especially window buttons) and missing visual parts (mainly bevel edges).

Nitpicking. Let me reflect - runtimeterror.com has no https which is available for free, so I'm not entering it.


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swiftcoder • yesterday at 1:05 PM

> runtimeterror.com has no https which is available for free, so I'm not entering it

I think your threat model needs some work here. What exactly does https guard against when downloading a jpeg? A intermediary swapping it out for a different jpeg?

Downloading things from an unknown domain over https still carries the risk of the site itself vending you malware...

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badsectoracula • yesterday at 12:08 PM

> runtimeterror.com has no https which is available for free, so I'm not entering it.

It is a direct image link, it wont ask your password.

Also, https is not available for free even if some solutions are available without asking money for it. In this case: the site is on a shared host so the only option is the paid one from the host (so it isn't free-as-in-money) while the alternative is having a VPS and installing something like let's encrypt (which is more expensive than the shared host and requires me to play sysadmin for it, so not only it isn't free-as-in-money but also free-as-in-time).

HanClinto • yesterday at 4:18 PM

I mirrored the bug report on the author's Github project [0], so if it helps, you can view the screenshot there.

[0] - https://github.com/wieslawsoltes/VB6/issues/39