Hacker News: Itoldmyselfso

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Jolla Phone (October 2026)"

Itoldmyselfso — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:55:33 +0000

You're accusing them of ties to Russia... based on their names?

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

Itoldmyselfso — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:38:20 +0000

You can install MS store (not sure about the login though) on ltsc with one command: wsreset -i

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July"

Itoldmyselfso — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:56:24 +0000

How can you be so sure they have never been used in the wild? Surely not all uses of them get reported...

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:37:50 +0000

It's valid question for people unfamiliar with the project, but it is the AOSP in terms of looks, GrapheneOS does not customize the UI in any way beyond what their own features require as additions. Note that Pixel OS is not AOSP. The default home app of course also influences the experience quite the bit unless you replace it, which is what I'd personally recommend everyone to do as it's so incredibly barebones. Lawnchair is already a big step up as an open source alternative.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:42:57 +0000

It works exactly the same as in the original "Pixel OS", you just install the same camera app from Play store.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:31:24 +0000

Do you refer to app-accessible root or user root access? The former is absolutely inherently insecure and compromises the security model of Android/GOS.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

Itoldmyselfso — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:36:28 +0000

There's nobody gatekeeping what can be studied and what can't. You claim millions are being wasted; by who? Is the goverment funding the studies you deem as wasted? If so you'd think that rather than making up a study you'd be able to give a single example. Should be very easy if millions are being wasted on these what I'd assume you'd call "bogus" studies.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:32:42 +0000

There's also Simple tab groups which allows creation of file backups at regular intervals https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:46:36 +0000

What bugs have you found with Tresorit? Has worked great for my company so far.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

Itoldmyselfso — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:15:41 +0000

Comment you're replying to should've specified afterwards. Feature that were never there is very different than pay walling a such essential feature.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

Itoldmyselfso — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:44:11 +0000

It can be a factual statement about the commercial VPN landscape at large, but an incorrect statement about many individual VPN providers. It lacks nuance as a statement.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

Itoldmyselfso — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:44:21 +0000

A very relevant article: "On the security of plugins" (in notes app)

https://standardnotes.com/blog/on-the-security-of-plugins

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch"

Itoldmyselfso — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:36:10 +0000

It was announced a while ago to be Mororola: https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at...

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

Itoldmyselfso — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:22:06 +0000

Motorola devices that match the GrapheneOS requirements are coming next year. It's good thing they're not compromising on hardware requirements that would undermine the goals of the project. If there's anyone to blame it's the dismal state of affairs on the hardware security side of my most Android phone manufacturers.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

Itoldmyselfso — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:00:55 +0000

Their app also blocks the use of it on GrapheneOS, for no proper reason.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away"

Itoldmyselfso — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:10:33 +0000

Agreed. Sandboxed Google play really is the non-tinkerer's approach on GOS, including for Android Auto.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

Itoldmyselfso — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:21:01 +0000

Fox news, the biggest mass media in US by far, doesn't seem to drive this narrative

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

Itoldmyselfso — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:26:38 +0000

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

So far it has only gotten better over time, so risk seems minor if your bank is listed as supported.

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems"

Itoldmyselfso — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:18:01 +0000

Are you behind finnish IP? The site owner decided to ban all Finnish IPs due to a dispute with Finnish person who doesn't even seem to be living there. Also they DDoSed their blog leading to archive.is being banned from wikipedia

New comment by Itoldmyselfso in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

Itoldmyselfso — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:52:40 +0000

Pixel camera app is fully supported by GOS, you just install it from Play store (or from other sources). If you don't have Google Photos installed the last photo preview won't work, but you can install a 'shim' app that fixes it without need for Photos app: https://github.com/lukaspieper/Gcam-Services-Provider

https://grapheneos.org/usage#pixel-camera