Hacker News: Hoodedcrow

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see"

Hoodedcrow — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:48:39 +0000

Profiles are a thing in "stock" Android too, they just don't have the toggle to disallow them working in the background, the "Install available apps" option and Google services also keep working across profiles.

If you want something less disruptive for isolation, there's Private Space. What I like is that this can stop apps there from working in the background on stock Android as well.

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see"

Hoodedcrow — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:58:24 +0000

Can confirm Graphene also has it

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "The AirPods Effect"

Hoodedcrow — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:21:20 +0000

I see nobody saying "good afternoon" in a grocery store, that's the one place where you keep interactions to a minimum. Also, self-checkouts are not always an option because at least the ones at grocery stores here never accept cash.

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "The AirPods Effect"

Hoodedcrow — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:44:40 +0000

Also "Father hiding behind his newspaper at the dinner table" has been a meme since forever.

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "The AirPods Effect"

Hoodedcrow — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:41:00 +0000

> > They keep them in while ordering and paying for things in stores and supermarkets.

> As a GenYer I find this rude and I'll take them out any time I interact with someone.

I don't take my headphones off while paying for things in a supermarket - because you aren't really expected to talk or listen in this scenario, and the cashier doesn't want to interact with you either. But for anything more involved, like ordering something in a coffeeshop - yeah, absolutely.

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

Hoodedcrow — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:18:04 +0000

I know Chrome has some additional limitations, and in a vacuum MV3 doesn't break UBO as hard - but is blocking of the "Element picker" part of that or inherent to MV3? I rely on that a lot.

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

Hoodedcrow — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:53:05 +0000

Yeah, it did shut down :( Ever since, I haven't really found an English-speaking replacement. Rutracker has the absolute majority of what I need but doesn't have some newer American children's cartoons that I used to get from Rarbg. For example, one show had full seasons on Rarbg, but only individual episodes on 1337 (of which none are from the newest season), and Rutracker only has the first two seasons, only with a TV dub and in a horrific quality :/

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

Hoodedcrow — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:16:46 +0000

I only used Rutracker and Rarbg (rip), TPB felt sketchier. I wonder what's the "prime" English-language public tracker now? 1337?

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

Hoodedcrow — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:19:00 +0000

I don't think I'd prefer this, tbh. I would want to see the whole topic information when choosing what exact torrent to download. Is it marked "verified" or "questionable"? If it's "questionable", is it for some arbitrary formality, or something like "the audio is desynced"? Are there many different dubs (because I'd rather prefer not to have them, as they're bloating the files?)...

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

Hoodedcrow — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:48:37 +0000

Eh, not really. Using EOL devices is genuinely a bad idea, it's just that with phones you have no choice due to the updates usually being only like 2-3 years and alternative OSes not being as accessible as Linux. And most people don't even care or know anyway.

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

Hoodedcrow — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:52:43 +0000

> Seems to me that if we want this at all, it should be an independent body that approves signing keys of vetted vendors (e.g. vendors roll out security updates timely, etc.).

This is also a horrible idea. If an OS can be vetoed for untimely security updates, it can also be vetoed for not having something like clientside scanning.

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

Hoodedcrow — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:50:25 +0000

> The attestation API in AOSP allows companies to trust signing key fingerprints (such as those of GrapheneOS), which means that the attestation system is not controlled by a single company (Google).

I wonder if this would exclude rooted OSes, non-relocked bootloaders and things like that? Sorry for stupid question, still not quite understanding how this works.

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

Hoodedcrow — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:47:40 +0000

I feel like the complaint about this not adding to security could be read in a really wrong way. Instead of "this is some hypocritical BS", could be interpreted as "lol let's lock EOL devices from even lower integrity tiers". Doubt this is possible because so, so many people use EOL phones, but still.

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

Hoodedcrow — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:44:53 +0000

Would like to read a writeup on this, I was certain it was going to be something like this from the app's announcement.

Also I recall a discussion on Graphene's forums that DRM ID is not only retained there, but stays the same across profiles.

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem"

Hoodedcrow — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:27:46 +0000

I don't have hearing problems, but I have noticed I arrive at places quicker when I don't have headphones on. Sadly this doesn't happen often because I'm low-key addicted.

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem"

Hoodedcrow — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:25:52 +0000

I chose aerial gymnastics because that seems to be a combination of ALL you mentioned.

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache"

Hoodedcrow — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:09:31 +0000

IDK about "most", there are plenty of kids on the streets. Like, just going to and from school and extracurriculars gives opportunities.

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache"

Hoodedcrow — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:04:13 +0000

How so? You never see kids outdoors?

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

Hoodedcrow — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:00:01 +0000

If we're talking about people having a hard time affording a phone - why tf are you bringing up high-end phones at all? I'm in no way poor and my $300 phone was already a pretty painful expense. In those cases, we'd be talking about a <$200 Chinaphone. Also yeah, indeed, there are affordable laptop options given how much of a necessity it feels like. That tends to be more value per dollar in a laptop too. Personally not comfortable buying secondhand though because I can't risk money on that scale, and there are much less guarantees on the state of the hardware, although would like to eventually learn how to do it as safely as buying new.

New comment by Hoodedcrow in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

Hoodedcrow — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:50:12 +0000

For me, a phone is mostly less distracting because it's not very comfortable to use compared to a laptop. It's much less likely to get sucked into doing unrelated things when the experience is actively not that pleasant (especially when it comes to anything with typing).