Hacker News: CPAhem

Thomas North Wrote the Plays That Shakespeare Later Adapted

CPAhem — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:51:46 +0000

Article URL: https://dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/how-we-know-thomas-north-wrote-the

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386375

Points: 1

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New comment by CPAhem in "HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls"

CPAhem — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:21:43 +0000

Not only insurance companies, but many others.

Airlines do it too. One dark pattern I experienced during Covid was that the airline call system was automatically set to hang up after 30 minutes. If you were lucky you'd get to speak to a representative at around minute 25, but never get your ticket rebooked.

New comment by CPAhem in "End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage in the Wild: A Broken Ecosystem"

CPAhem — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 22:37:57 +0000

We use Syncdocs (https://syncdocs.com) to do end-to-end Google Drive encryption.

The keys stay on the client. It is secure, but means the files are only decryptable on the client, so keys need to be shared manually. I guess security means extra hassle.

An Ode to My 5-Year-Old Samsung Galaxy S10e

CPAhem — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 22:47:36 +0000

Article URL: https://mbrizic.com/blog/samsung-galaxy-s10e/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41412623

Points: 23

# Comments: 15

New comment by CPAhem in "Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border"

CPAhem — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 06:28:20 +0000

It is a pity it does not apply in Australia. They search 40,000 devices a year there, and consfiscate your device if you refuse.

New comment by CPAhem in "Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?"

CPAhem — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 06:54:17 +0000

Many of the technical and science stuff is still pretty good. Not like it used to be, but it's a recurring theme, when the Internet expanded, UseNet also became rubbish, "infested by AOL'ers and spam" was the complaint in 1996.

New comment by CPAhem in "Google Drive files suddenly disappeared"

CPAhem — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 06:25:58 +0000

You can use Rsync to copy everything from Google Drive as a cron job. If you want copies of your Google Docs and Sheets you'll need something like SyncDocs to download and convert them to MS Office format.

New comment by CPAhem in "Australian customs searched more than 40k devices in 5 years"

CPAhem — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 06:17:49 +0000

And while they've got your device, in Australia, the government can legally install rootkits on your phone or laptop without informing you.

Australian customs searched more than 40k devices in 5 years

CPAhem — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 04:04:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/border-force-searched-more-than-40000-devices-without-a-warrant-580839

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31774001

Points: 39

# Comments: 12

New comment by CPAhem in "Microsoft Purview: Additional classifiers for Communication Compliance (preview)"

CPAhem — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:36:36 +0000

OK, I will so in future.

I tried to summarize the article in the title. Will follow the guidelines from now on.

Microsoft Purview: Additional classifiers for Communication Compliance (preview)

CPAhem — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 21:39:39 +0000

Article URL: https://pupuweb.com/mc387035-microsoft-purview-additional-classifiers-communication-compliance-preview/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600848

Points: 325

# Comments: 307

China Orders Government, State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs

CPAhem — Sat, 07 May 2022 00:46:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?vid=&uuid=172ad114-cd9f-11ec-b287-6a5049464157&url=L25ld3MvYXJ0aWNsZXMvMjAyMi0wNS0wNi9jaGluYS1vcmRlcnMtZ292ZXJubWVudC1zdGF0ZS1maXJtcy10by1kdW1wLWZvcmVpZ24tcGNz

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31291148

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Pop _OS 22.04: New kid on the Ubuntu block starting to show real muscle

CPAhem — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 22:57:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/28/pop_os_2204_is_here/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31199269

Points: 16

# Comments: 6

Plastic Grocery Bag Bans Boost Sales of Small Plastic Bags

CPAhem — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:37:51 +0000

Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-022-00646-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31187536

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by CPAhem in "10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive"

CPAhem — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:46:18 +0000

There are quite a few clients for Linux, I use Syncdocs https://www.syncdocs.com/ as it has built in encryption.

Non I've seen do a proper job of mounting as a drive, NFS or SMB would be nice.

New comment by CPAhem in "BBEdit is 30 years old today"

CPAhem — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 23:45:18 +0000

Ah world.std.com, the first ever ISP.

New comment by CPAhem in "WireGuard multihop available in the Mullvad app"

CPAhem — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:33:19 +0000

The Mullvad app is huge ~100MB which is odd for what it needs to do.

New comment by CPAhem in "Google Drive: Shortcuts replacing files and folders stored in multiple locations"

CPAhem — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:32:21 +0000

Unless it happens on the backend - which is what the article appears to say.

I'm on Linux with Syncdocs for syncing Google Drive so will wait and see how it handles things.

Atlassian Jira, Confluence outage persists two days on

CPAhem — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:41:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/06/atlassian_jira_confluence_outage/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30952047

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by CPAhem in "AMD Confirms Its GPU Drivers Are Overclocking CPUs Without Asking"

CPAhem — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 01:41:25 +0000

Yes, it's odd, that a driver which should be small enough to fit in kernel memory comes in such a package (for Windows at least) that is a few hundred mega-bytes.