Hacker News: Nightshaxx

New comment by Nightshaxx in "End to End Encrypted, Private Search"

Nightshaxx — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:59:04 +0000

The whole idea of the product is it strips your IP address.

New comment by Nightshaxx in "I Miss My Bar"

Nightshaxx — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 04:41:03 +0000

This is amazing! The playlist is really great!

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Notion Is Down"

Nightshaxx — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:30:05 +0000

I think their tweet got posted here already. Some issues with DNS apparently.

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit"

Nightshaxx — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 02:36:31 +0000

The doctor did not have the _potential_ to fake evidence. He _did_ fake evidence.

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update"

Nightshaxx — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 17:37:03 +0000

I have a pixel but i don't have qr scanning built in to the camera. It was at one point built into the "google vision" thing, but i haven't seen it in the ui for a while.

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit"

Nightshaxx — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:07:54 +0000

A murderer kills less than 1% of all the people they meet. Does that mean we should just accept their behavior?

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Delicious back online in read-only mode"

Nightshaxx — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 03:33:32 +0000

Computers don't act with malicious intent.

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Delicious back online in read-only mode"

Nightshaxx — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 03:33:16 +0000

I should clarify I meant with random internet people. There are security concerns. Sister comment explains

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Delicious back online in read-only mode"

Nightshaxx — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 03:32:40 +0000

ok let me clarify. It is really not a good idea to give your password out on the internet, even if the person says they are an employee. When I worked at a company handling user data they had strict rules around this because employees had to be accountable for what user data they looked at and how that data was handled. Someone could use your password, do something harmful, and then blame it on you. It would be hard to prove innocence.

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Delicious back online in read-only mode"

Nightshaxx — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:18:48 +0000

You shouldn't ask for someone's password, no matter what the context is. There should be other ways to duplicate or identify the issue, no?

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone"

Nightshaxx — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:27:11 +0000

What if the person is using an Android phone connected to a monitor? As someone said in another thread: you design a view for a screen size not a device.

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours"

Nightshaxx — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:16:14 +0000

I am a real user of the app and I can confirm my review was reviewed without my consent.

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants"

Nightshaxx — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:34:14 +0000

I disagree. In a pandemic it's important to get solid and clear information to the population. If you start saying things that don't go through the proper channels to be verified as reasonably true, then you create massive confusion when you potentially have to go back on that information. Scientists can and do make mistakes. A lay person might not understand what "preprint" or "not peer reviewed" mean yet this article is on the BBC which the average lay person does trust as a source for reasonably true information.

New comment by Nightshaxx in "WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update"

Nightshaxx — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 03:31:44 +0000

You are looking at it merely from a percentage point of view. 1.24% at Facebook's scale is _massive_. It is not a drop in the bucket, and Facebook is especially worried because it could be a trend. Today it's 1.24% but how many people would switch tommorow?

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature"

Nightshaxx — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:28:40 +0000

I disagree. This is an extremely important feature. If something happens to me, I wouldn't want my family to have to jump through insane hoops to get access to my accounts for a bit of extra theoretical security. At this point something traumatic has already happened to them and this would just be another emotion burden. This could be for financial reasons, or say if I were missing, to communicate with my friends.

Let people who don't need it and don't want it turn it off, but for me I'd definitely have it on.

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler"

Nightshaxx — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 03:43:29 +0000

The brave browser already has tor integrated into it. Is it really that much of a stretch?

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store"

Nightshaxx — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 00:36:26 +0000

But there are some suspicious looking numbers and events that happened. I personally don't believe that they are true, but why not just investigate them? People distrust dominion voting systems; Just allow a bipartisan audit. People think certain votes were counted without both parties present; just recount those votes. Where is the harm in just being absolutely sure of things? If you just shut down people because there is no absolutely solid, undisputed evidence, they just think you are hiding something.

New comment by Nightshaxx in "NSA Wanted Backdoor Access in Linux, Says Linus Torvalds’ Father"

Nightshaxx — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 20:50:10 +0000

Everyone knows the Pulseaudio backdoor to gain root access can be activated by playing "Party in the CIA" by Werid Al, yelling George Washington's name 6 times and then typing in a valid .gov email.

New comment by Nightshaxx in "Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?"

Nightshaxx — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 15:58:33 +0000

Python has a few cool things like that. List comprehension blows my mind at how elegant it is.

New comment by Nightshaxx in "U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise"

Nightshaxx — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:30:06 +0000

LOL that last one. Why bother having the checksum at all in this case....