Hacker News: AAAAaccountAAAA

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:08:08 +0000

If that really is the case, why not stay on Windows?

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:56:10 +0000

The new "Terminal" app might eventually evolve into something like that.

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "Keep Android Open"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:37:29 +0000

Why would F-Droid be any or more less "absolved of responsibility" than Play Store?

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:03:10 +0000

He's not a hacktivist at all, just a common extortionist.

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "The 2025 Matrix Holiday Special"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:40:39 +0000

At least a while ago Element X broke bridging in a pretty annoying way, since all chats with more than 2 members were classified as groups, even if they were marked as DMs.

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "Finland gave two groups identical payments – one saw better mental health"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:08:06 +0000

I think it's the conventional unemployment benefit system that should show measurable benefits, not other way around. All the tracking, surveillance, reporting and interviewing costs money, and should not be done for the sake of it.

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:43:49 +0000

Looks nice. Reminds me of MessagEase[1] and clones, such as ThumbKey[2]. I use the latter for my mobile text input needs. However, that method is sometimes prone to typos, since one key may have up to 9 different characters assigned to it, and it is easy to swipe slightly wrong way. QWERTYmini could be better in that aspect, since there are only 2 characters per key.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagEase

2. https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "School cell phone bans and student achievement"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:54:50 +0000

I think it is precisely because they are more distracting. When the most addictive thing in phones was the snake game, kids did not bother to insist in using their phones all the time. Now, when you try to tell a pupil to put the phone away, it often results in a huge arguments, so eventually teachers gave up.

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:28:59 +0000

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ULOptq2vk&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5t...

They seem to plan to rewrite the desktop client next.

What Is Going on with Telnyx?

AAAAaccountAAAA — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:21:15 +0000

Recently, Telnyx has locked up my account, demanding a biometric KYC procedure, outsourced to a company called Onfido.

I contacted their customer service. They explained that they require to re-KYC every account that has been inactive for 60 days. It is a rather short period, but more or less understandable for an enterprise-oriented provider. However, they declined to answer why they have choosen such an invasive KYC method, citing unspecified "security reasons".

Following my own research, I suppose it might be due to a certain FCC case[1], in which a scam caller used Telnyx services. It would explain why the KYC procedure is required in order to place calls, but does not explain it as a condition of logging in to the service.

I'd rather not upload my biometric data to who-knows-where, both because I find the whole recent AI-powered surveillance boom distasteful, and also because that specific company has suffered a major data breach[2].

1. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/robocallers-posing-as-fcc-fraud-prevention-team-call-fcc-staff/ 2. https://cybernews.com/security/popular-apps-left-biometric-data-ids-of-millions-of-users-in-danger/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836229

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New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "What we talk about when we talk about sideloading"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:01:40 +0000

If that "disaster" was so "inevitable", it would have happened ages ago.

It's not like it was somehow possible to accidentally sideload apps. You have to first find the correct option from the system settings to enable sideloading, and then approve the specific app source you want to install from.

It is not like how things are/were on Windows. Back in the turn of the millennium, it was easier to catch malware than it was to install useful apps. For former, you only needed to double-click on an email attachment, for the latter, you needed to actively to go look for the website of the app developer, and download it from there.

Android already was pretty much at the sweet spot between security and freedom, what it came to sideloading. What Google should have done was to crack down on the scam apps in Play Store. However, they are not going to do that, since it would cut their profits.

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "Keep Android Open"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:04:26 +0000

What those "people-who-don't-understand-the-risks" will do then, with more money left? I think they will give their money to all sorts of political populists, who will cause danger not only to themselves, but everyone.

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "Typst 0.14"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:31:50 +0000

One of my biggest grievances with typst is that it still does not natively support locale-aware decimal separator formatting[1], and thus requires various kludges to present decimal numbers properly in non-English languages. Not that LaTeX is any better in that, though.

I think this should be solved quicker, because if it requires some sort of changes to syntax, we will have problems if the "legacy" syntax becomes entrenched, so this sort of decisions are better to be made sooner than later.

However, most my experiences with typst have been highly positive. It is much, much faster than LaTeX, and way easier. I am looking forward to see it to become more common.

1) https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/1093

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:14:20 +0000

Has a single website security incident ever brought an end to any software project, proprietary or otherwise?

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 20:28:06 +0000

It is an official flavor[1], that is, maintained as a community effort, but endorsed by Ubuntu. The related packages are hosted in Ubuntu's universe repository[2]. There is indeed a risk of reputation damage.

1. https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavors

2. https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=xubuntu-desktop

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:40:28 +0000

Even if Typst was going to replace TeX everywhere right now, about half a century would still be a respectable lifespan for a software project.

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:07:55 +0000

I did use it some time ago, but I remember the user experience being somewhat confusing, since there are multiple similarly named tools around, which don't seem to be interoperable. Still, a cool concept.

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:05:05 +0000

In addition to the issue of microchips being inherently difficult to tamper with, smartcards have various hardware and software based anti-tampering measures, that are designed to destroy the chip, if someone attempts to extract the keys from the chip. That kind of security measures are never totally impermeable, but defeating them requires advanced equipment and skilled labour, and the R&D costs of the cracking devices need to be offset, too.

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:37:26 +0000

I primarily meant that I haven't really encountered the belief that it was somehow EU specific

New comment by AAAAaccountAAAA in "Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]"

AAAAaccountAAAA — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:14:04 +0000

I don't think those issues are necessarily interconnected. If I have understood it correctly, many Germans view both hateful propaganda and surveillance as tools of dictators.

Surveillance of private communications obviously has a chilling effect on free speech as well, but freedom from surveillance does not imply a freedom to openly spread hate speech in public.