Hacker News: Fethbita

New comment by Fethbita in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

Fethbita — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:12:03 +0000

Thunderbolt port still supports Firewire, so if you have the correct adapters, you can connect your old Firewire camcorder to digitize cassettes, but with Tahoe, Apple removed the Firewire drivers so they no longer work.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44504994

New comment by Fethbita in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

Fethbita — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:45:15 +0000

The biggest annoyance for me is the removal of Firewire support with Tahoe. That’s why I keep Sequoia for the time being. I’ll probably create a new APFS volume and dual boot with Sequoia for the foreseeable future for Firewire support.

New comment by Fethbita in "macOS 26's Cut Corners"

Fethbita — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:46:16 +0000

I updated but then regretted since I learned that Firewire support is now removed. I shoot retro videos with an old Firewire camera so to be able to get footage out of it, I had to stop whatever I was doing and figure out how to create a dual boot system.

Apple doing things like this is quite annoying where the hardware has support for Firewire but software removes it.

Troy: Turkish Payment Method Alternative

Fethbita — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:48:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.troyodeme.com/en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437190

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Fethbita in "Proton Launches Proton Sheets"

Fethbita — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:04:44 +0000

I wish Proton instead focused on its core products, Mail and Calendar instead of introducing more office products.

New comment by Fethbita in "I have high levels of forever chemicals in my blood – what can I do about it?"

Fethbita — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:20:46 +0000

Sauna is really helpful for getting rid of them, also the usuals, use clothing made from natural materials, wool, cotton, linen, replace your teflon pans with stainless steel or cast iron, replace plastic utensils with wood or metal, replace your plastic food storage boxes with glass or metal, use a reverse osmosis water filter for your drinking water etc. Having them in your blood is bad but passing them to your children might be called negligence. I’m glad to see that the public awareness is increasing for this issue.

New comment by Fethbita in "Ripgrep 15.0"

Fethbita — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:30:30 +0000

Just like fd, I actually enjoy using rg and like these new set of command line tools.

New comment by Fethbita in "Proton Mail suspended journalist accounts at request of cybersecurity agency"

Fethbita — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 09:28:27 +0000

Not the parent but you can set up Dynamic DNS at home and Wireguard in your router and later use the Wireguard connection to connect to your home network and have a safe tunnel.

It’s quite easy to do with openwrt routers.

New comment by Fethbita in "TikTok, AliExpress and WeChat ignore your GDPR rights"

Fethbita — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:40:54 +0000

How does this show EU tech regulation being out of touch and not these companies operating in countries and not following the laws in those companies? Requesting user data is a good way to make sure there’s not more data than is required and it’s a feature most tech companies have already implemented.

New comment by Fethbita in "OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google"

Fethbita — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:22:40 +0000

Windsurf was also used by enterprises because of their on-prem plan. They gutted that after OpenAI acquisition was announced and since then I am sure none of those enterprises that used it will switch to their cloud offering and look for other venues.

New comment by Fethbita in "ESIM Security"

Fethbita — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:58:06 +0000

It does not use on-card verification, because if it would have, the problem would not be present. You can check out their FAQ on the 2019 report[1].

[1]: https://security-explorations.com/java-card.html#faq

New comment by Fethbita in "ESIM Security"

Fethbita — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:31:49 +0000

In this case if you read the last few sections, they reported several issues to Oracle regarding their JavaCard Reference Implementation, but these have not been fixed stating that they are not supposed to be used in production. Oracle has the responsibility to fix these issues as they are the primary source for everything related to JavaCard’s and other vendors take their reference implementation as a reference.

Also see their previous reply[1] to the findings this company had from 2019 and I can’t help but agree with the article that if those issues were fixed back then, there is a chance that this wouldn’t have happened today.

[1]: https://www.securityweek.com/oracle-gemalto-downplay-java-ca...

New comment by Fethbita in "ESIM Security"

Fethbita — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:43:04 +0000

This is completely irresponsible behavior from Oracle as they put the whole eSIM ecosystem in danger by not fixing the issue.

New comment by Fethbita in "Charles Babbage and deciphering codes (1864)"

Fethbita — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:04:08 +0000

Very interesting to read Babbage’s thoughts on cryptanalysis of a cipher. I wish we could have read his thoughts on modern ciphers and what he would think of them.

The State of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) on the Web

Fethbita — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:07:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/the-state-of-pqc-on-the-web

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490001

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Self-Hosted Deployment Maintenance Mode

Fethbita — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:18:38 +0000

Article URL: https://windsurf.com/blog/self-hosted-deployment-maintenance-mode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44004534

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Post-quantum cryptography: migration and future [video]

Fethbita — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 07:11:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVcEiuCa6PI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43554348

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Fethbita in "Ente Photos v1"

Fethbita — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:33:24 +0000

First time hearing of Ente but it looks really nice. I love that there is a self-hosting option, I will try my hand at it as soon as possible.

New comment by Fethbita in "LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs"

Fethbita — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:17:29 +0000

Also Capture One, they have a perpetual license but the changes they made in 2023 to the perpetual license was quite bad. Now if you buy that version, you’re locked to the version you purchased and don’t get new features.

Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia

Fethbita — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 12:05:53 +0000

Article URL: https://news.err.ee/1609634600/muons-used-to-test-the-condition-of-a-road-bridge-in-estonia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378358

Points: 229

# Comments: 51