Hacker News: 0x49d1

New comment by 0x49d1 in "De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes"

0x49d1 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:18:36 +0000

Or Ente Auth: https://ente.io/auth. Opensource, encrypted, can be used on any OS, has sync/backup. The problem with using same password manager for OTP is that you kind of loose 2nd factor: 1 app compromised - passwords and OTP are compromised too. My approach is to use password manager's OTP generator for non critical services and dedicated app for the critical ones..

New comment by 0x49d1 in "Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update"

0x49d1 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:52:37 +0000

They did interesting things with priorities of keyboard shortcuts for the browser and changing the addressbar. Discussions: https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/1jdzoyv/viv...

Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update

0x49d1 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:52:37 +0000

Article URL: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43396995

Points: 26

# Comments: 4

Commitments and zero-knowledge attestations over TLS 1.3: DiStefano protocol

0x49d1 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:31:38 +0000

Article URL: https://brave.com/blog/distefano/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42325560

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Vivaldi 7.0 on Android

0x49d1 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 07:47:11 +0000

Article URL: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-android-7-0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42004349

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Redesigned Vivaldi 7.0

0x49d1 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:10:11 +0000

Article URL: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932814

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by 0x49d1 in "KOReader Document Viewer for E Ink devices"

0x49d1 — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:32:39 +0000

Nice list! May I ask what dictionaries do you use (I've just chosen from the internal list, but they seem not that "ideal" after Oxford)? By the way about backlight - on Android there is a bug with that feature: warm light can't be used and also if you start using automatic lighting it does not actually work. Not a big deal: just using system presets from device lighting menu.

New comment by 0x49d1 in "KOReader Document Viewer for E Ink devices"

0x49d1 — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:09:28 +0000

Great opensource reader! Lots of options. I'd even like someone to make OS with ONLY this program + something to sync books easily. Without that additional bloat like Android readers have nowadays.

New comment by 0x49d1 in "Framework Laptop 16 Review"

0x49d1 — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 05:25:00 +0000

The owner of DIY FW13 12 Gen here. The only problem I've faced was fingerprint scanner: it just fell off (I don't know why, I've not done anything crazy to the machine, worked almost stationary). I've just replaced the button with sticky plastic rectangle and that's it: button works, fingerprint - no. But this is a minor issue really: overall this is the best laptop I've had considering that I also can upgrade it more cheaply in the future, I suggest almost everyone to consider this brand when searching for new machine.

New comment by 0x49d1 in "Threads Is Testing ActivityPup Integration"

0x49d1 — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:12:10 +0000

Wow, this was a pleasant surprise. Now need 2way integration, so that Threads can see posts from Mastodon instances too. But what's the real reason for Meta to do that? Other clients will not show their ads like the official Threads client in the future... Maybe they just need to be "good guys" now, 3rd party with "< 0.1%" share are "OK". Anyway: good to see distribution here.

Vivaldi gets more powerful and works across all devices

0x49d1 — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:27:54 +0000

Article URL: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-6-4/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38023492

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

New comment by 0x49d1 in "Anna's Archive – LLM Training Data from Shadow Libraries"

0x49d1 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 06:07:39 +0000

Just went and donated them. Nice to have such products: science research papers are always under paywalls, but sometimes just "ordinary" people want to read that to wide their scope and knowledge. Knowledge should not be paywalled like that. Also there are some situations sometimes that some books are just not available in some countries. In that cases such products can be used I think. In other cases - sure we need to support authors(sometimes publishers/resellers) directly if we can.

New comment by 0x49d1 in "Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers"

0x49d1 — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:36:34 +0000

Vivaldi's team made a statement on the matter:

https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no-google-topics-in-viva...

Shortly: they disable the tracking forcibly, even if "someone" tries to enable it remotely or via flags.

Privacy issues with SponsorLink, starting from version 4.20

0x49d1 — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 05:32:31 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/moq/moq/issues/1372

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37059034

Points: 12

# Comments: 3

New comment by 0x49d1 in "Block Adware and Malware with /etc/hosts"

0x49d1 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 05:32:23 +0000

hosts file will grow with records + you need to run specific scripts to update it. One of the similar options will be to use DNS resolver with built in filters (like pi-hole, but "cloud"), for example: https://nextdns.io, even free version is OK.

New comment by 0x49d1 in "Vivaldi on Android bypasses restrictions to let users access Bing Chat"

0x49d1 — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 08:57:13 +0000

As I see right now - no: tried to open bing chat in Chrome Incognito and saw suggestion to install Edge. Same in Vivaldi just works.

Rider 2023.1: Enhanced C# Support, Best-in-Class GameDev Features, and Much More

0x49d1 — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 16:13:46 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2023/04/05/rider-2023-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35456506

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by 0x49d1 in "Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more"

0x49d1 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 05:30:50 +0000

They already shipped 2 generations of mainboards and more or less everything is really fine. They have good support + upgradability (former Thinkpad user, took Framework with 32RAM, but in the process realized that I need 64 -> not a problem at all), had 0 problems with drivers on Windows 11(but had some on Linux Mint). As about keyboard: just buy transparent stickers with your language, no need to wait for them to prepare engraved keyboards with "all layouts".

New comment by 0x49d1 in "Vivaldi takes the Window Panel to another level"

0x49d1 — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:07:49 +0000

Impressive list of bugfixes along with long awaited address bar algorithm changes!

New comment by 0x49d1 in "Multi-Account Containers"

0x49d1 — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 05:15:40 +0000

With different profiles you have different settings -> completely independent connection settings, if you want. What's the difference here with Chromium profiles for example?