Hacker News: 0x073

New comment by 0x073 in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

0x073 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:56:52 +0000

I would call github a social media platform. So yes that would be a problem, even if my own projects are somewhere else.

New comment by 0x073 in "Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail gateway"

0x073 — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:54:22 +0000

The links shows: gem "rails", "= 7.1.5.2"

I don't know rails well, but that sounds like 7.1 (that is unsupported) and not 7.2?

New comment by 0x073 in "Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail without the mail server"

0x073 — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:45:27 +0000

Does postal still use outdated rails? That's the biggest issue I have with this project as a exposed web service and mail server is for me high risk especially with outdated software.

New comment by 0x073 in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

0x073 — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:40:14 +0000

As Linux moves faster than windows I disagree. Systemd, wayland and flatpak resetting my skills in this areas completely windows 11 is still more or less the same.

Additional the UI behavior also more often changed than windows e.g gnome 2 to newer versions many core apps are more minimal/less functions and yes I just can fork and use the old behavior as open source but then my pc is more about fixing issues like under windows.

New comment by 0x073 in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

0x073 — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:22:05 +0000

AppContainer (e.g. used in uwp or msix)

New comment by 0x073 in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

0x073 — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:32:21 +0000

There was a time that parents control what websites children can access.

Now there is a time politicians control what websites we can access.

New comment by 0x073 in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

0x073 — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:02:34 +0000

I know bullies that claim that they get bullied by the person they bully. The bully stopped in the end, but the wrong person got pushed.

New comment by 0x073 in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

0x073 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:51:37 +0000

"they must be allowed to fail organically so that they don't have any excuse."

Didn't work for a german political party some centuries ago, don't work for this.

But violence is false.

New comment by 0x073 in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

0x073 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:25:09 +0000

At least it's no discord or ms teams.

New comment by 0x073 in "Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default at Windows 11 boot"

0x073 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:08:08 +0000

I mean open the most used software automatically can be user friendly. It's like a Chromebook. ;)

New comment by 0x073 in "You can run a DNS server (2025)"

0x073 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:09:10 +0000

If you mean MITM between DNS Server and CA (e.g. letsencrypt), thats on a level of BGP hacking (means for me government involved) and means they can just use a CA (e.g. Fina CA 2025 with cloudflare).

I think the risk didn't change much (except for big corp/bank).

New comment by 0x073 in "Why I forked httpx"

0x073 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:42:54 +0000

If this would be a tv show I probably would view it, but wow what a drama.

New comment by 0x073 in "You can run a DNS server (2025)"

0x073 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:17:16 +0000

"Otherwise any MitM can easily redirect users to a phishing resource."

Yes, but with nowadays https/tls usage it's almost irrelevant for normal websites.

If bad actors can create valid tls certs they can solve the dnssec problem.

New comment by 0x073 in "Show HN: Web-based ANSI art viewer"

0x073 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:58:52 +0000

Impossible to touch esc on mobile, maybe fat finger but it just start showing the image.

New comment by 0x073 in "Show HN: Web-based ANSI art viewer"

0x073 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:13:28 +0000

Wow nice. Is there a fastscroll in mobile?

New comment by 0x073 in "Way-Shell: A GNOME-like shell for Wayland compositors"

0x073 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:07:51 +0000

"A Gnome-like shell for wayland compositors" Dont understand it gnome shell already has wayland support?

Are there any things that diff or is it just for fun?

New comment by 0x073 in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

0x073 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:45:10 +0000

It's as dumb as the german Pauschalabgabe, where everyone is forced to pay a specific amount of money for technical devices, because there is the possibility of private copies for licenced media.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauschalabgabe

New comment by 0x073 in "Kodbox: Open-source cloud desktop with multi-storage fusion and web IDE"

0x073 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:32:42 +0000

Most of the apps where developed for php 5.2-5.3 , as many things that you wrote where already bad code in this time. Spl autoloader, MySQLi, __construct was already available.

The apps are internal legacy apps so I can't share the codebase.

Because of this there was no big rewrite like types etc.

New comment by 0x073 in "Kodbox: Open-source cloud desktop with multi-storage fusion and web IDE"

0x073 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:07:37 +0000

I have some apps that works from 5.3 to 8.5. php has great compatibility, if you don't rely on external libraries or framework and don't use types.

New comment by 0x073 in "Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023)"

0x073 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:25:17 +0000

> Videos take forever to get to the point.

I feel the same with this article.