HN user

d4a

2,080 karma

deactivated account

Posts58
Comments42
View on HN
erri120.github.io 3y ago

Breaking the New EA Launcher's Encryption

d4a
43pts2
dreamsubmarine.vercel.app 3y ago

Dream Submarine

d4a
1pts1
jellyfin.org 3y ago

Swiftfin (Native Jellyfin Client for iOS/AppleTV) in App Store

d4a
5pts0
www.johndcook.com 3y ago

Visually symmetric words

d4a
108pts49
siraben.dev 3y ago

The Mother Who Lost Her Daughter Twice

d4a
2pts0
ersei.net 3y ago

The Perils of Running Your Own Mastodon Instance

d4a
3pts0
fasterthanli.me 3y ago

Becoming Fasterthanlime Full-Time

d4a
1pts0
gitea-open-letter.coding.social 3y ago

Open letter to Gitea

d4a
321pts134
github.com 3y ago

CopyQ: Clipboard Manager with Advanced Features

d4a
11pts1
podman.io 3y ago

Podman 4.3.0 Released

d4a
2pts0
www.johndcook.com 3y ago

Repeat shell command replacing a word

d4a
2pts0
www.crowdsupply.com 3y ago

Bee Motion S3: A compact, open-source ESP32-S3 PIR motion sensing board

d4a
1pts0
blog.archive.org 3y ago

The CDL Lawsuit and the Future of Libraries

d4a
1pts0
aaronhertzmann.com 3y ago

Amateurs: Making Art at Technological Cutting-Edges

d4a
2pts0
pydio.com 3y ago

Pydio: Enterprise File Share and Sync Platform

d4a
3pts0
hackaday.com 3y ago

Jolly Wrencher SAO, and How KiCad 6 Made It Easy

d4a
3pts0
blog.archive.org 3y ago

New eBook Protection Software Gaining Popularity Among Publishers and Libraries

d4a
2pts0
mullvad.net 3y ago

Mullvad VPN: Android leaks connectivity check traffic

d4a
35pts3
github.com 3y ago

Knock: Convert ACSM files to PDF/EPUBs with one command on Linux

d4a
34pts6
blog.archive.org 3y ago

Archive.org Files Final Reply Brief in Lawsuit Defending Digital Lending

d4a
3pts1
github.com 3y ago

Annotate: Annotate text and publish it on the web

d4a
3pts0
ersei.net 3y ago

“Privacy”.com–Yeah Right

d4a
151pts165
purelymail.com 3y ago

Purelymail: Cheap, No-Nonsense Email

d4a
10pts4
aaronhertzmann.com 3y ago

Four Important Eras That Define Art

d4a
1pts0
www.propublica.org 3y ago

Human trafficking’s newest abuse: Forcing victims into cyberscamming

d4a
1pts0
a.exozy.me 3y ago

Sketchy Websites Save the Day

d4a
1pts0
podman.io 3y ago

Podman v4.2.0 Released

d4a
10pts0
knowledge.autodesk.com 3y ago

Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions

d4a
365pts278
pluralistic.net 3y ago

The FTC takes aim at commercial surveillance

d4a
2pts0
ersei.net 3y ago

Magic Printers and Free Energy

d4a
2pts0

For Session:

Accounts can only be used on a single device, multi-device support is planned for the future

Can confirm that this is not true. I have multi device set up and it works just fine.

Files are temporarily stored on a central server (encrypted) until the recipients retrieve them

Not just files, but also your messages. However, it's not as "centralized" as you think. The messages are stored across the Loki network, not just on one centralized server.

Still new, bugs exists and features may change

Another con I would add is that it is painfully slow. There's often a delay of 10-15 or more seconds between sending a text message and receiving it. Interestingly, media files have about the same "lag". This makes faster conversations difficult, since I would send a message and an older message would backfill in making my message irrelevant. For example, I would receive "I have an idea", send back "what is the idea", but then a few seconds later a message would backfill in and appear before the message I just sent with clarification on the idea.

But that being said, I still think Session is one of the best truly-secure messengers out there. It's bug-free enough for daily use, very decentralized, solves the "offline message" issue. The only concern I have left is their weird crypto integration. The nodes in the Loki network are crypto nodes and it requires staking some $LOKI to join the pool. You do get rewarded for participating in some ways, however.

Author here.

My concern wasn't that Privacy.com knows who is using their service, but with rather how they choose to know that information through a third party (Onfido) and how terrible Onfido's privacy policy is.

Even with those solar cars, it would be better off for them to plug into a larger grid and set of solar panels compared to the small ones built in. The purpose of those small panels is to charge when no charging is available. In this case, if enough current and charge is available (via solar canopies and mains power) then the built in panel is useless.

Virtualization is one that I frequently do. Running a VM to test out programs (especially to test out Windows compat, or macOS if you're feeling up to the challenge). 16GB can barely run an additional VM, and if you have 30-40 FF tabs open, an IDE, and so on, then running with just 16GB of memory becomes very restrictive. Allocating 8GB to the (one) VM would leave you with 8 for the host OS, of which 2GB is going to be used by the kernel/WM, and leaves only 6GB to develop with.