Hacker News: RockstarSprain

Personal data leak: French document agency ANTS hit by cyberattack

RockstarSprain — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:29:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/personal-data-leak-french-document-agency-hit-by-cyberattack/784573

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846557

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?

RockstarSprain — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:08:18 +0000

Not sure how to put it better but the more I read about AI the less motivation I have to either keep up with the tech advances or to try doing new things... I wonder how others keep or even foster the kind of motivation necessary to try new things and actually stick to doing them long enough? I would appreciate input on this in the most general sense possible.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47780185

Points: 26

# Comments: 26

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

RockstarSprain — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:48:50 +0000

Personal anecdote: removing a lower wisdom tooth that was close to the jaw nerve nearly cured my tinnitus back in the day.

The surgeon dentist was really surprised by this and could not evoke any similar cases in their practice before mine.

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

RockstarSprain — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:32:32 +0000

I wish there were some updates about PWA support. Haven’t heard about progress on this since last August. Is it still in beta and only available on Windows?

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)"

RockstarSprain — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:49:31 +0000

Remarkable how by the end of the third video it really starts to resemble the Cybertruck.

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Russian Watchdog Starts Limiting Access to Telegram"

RockstarSprain — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:35:29 +0000

https://archive.is/Jv6nr

Russian Watchdog Starts Limiting Access to Telegram

RockstarSprain — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:34:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-10/russian-watchdog-starts-limiting-access-to-telegram-rbc-reports

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960189

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT"

RockstarSprain — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:20:47 +0000

One thing I heard from some of my friends as a reason why they don't like using Matrix (via Element clients) was inability to use "stickers" like one can on WhatsApp, iMessage and other messaging apps. Apparently, this was important enough for them to lose interest in the platform over it.

I guess the bar is pretty high for consumer messengers these days?

New comment by RockstarSprain in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

RockstarSprain — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:47:57 +0000

+1.

I am running a Galene instance via the YunoHost self-hosting package on a small dedicated server (2 cores, 4gb of RAM).

So far it’s much better than I expected, both in terms of latency and the overall video/audio quality. Feels better than Jitsi and even a FaceTime / WhatsApp call.

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com"

RockstarSprain — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:49:47 +0000

Was just looking for a more general extension like this, thanks!

Just a small nitpick / feature request: I try not to install extensions that require "Read and change all your data on all websites" permission, so may I ask you to change it to something less general, such as requiring access to specific websites once the corresponding new URL is added to a white list?

I saw some Chrome extensions doing this as of late.

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Telegram hit by $500M Russian bond freeze"

RockstarSprain — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:24:37 +0000

A few interesting quotes about (unaudited) financials:

> According to previously unreported half-year disclosures, Telegram had $910mn in cash and cash equivalents at June 30, up from $142mn a year prior.

> Telegram’s revenues in the first half of 2025 jumped more than 65 per cent to $870mn, compared with $525mn in the same period the previous year.

> Nearly a third of Telegram’s revenue — or $300mn — came from so-called exclusivity agreements (probably related to the toncoin cryptocurrency)

> Advertising revenue was up 5 per cent to $125mn in the first half of the year. Meanwhile, premium subscriptions jumped 88 per cent to $223mn, compared with $119mn in the same period in 2024 as the number of paying users rose.

Is it me or the remaining 25% of the revenue sources (222mn of 910mn) are not detailed at all?

The EU is finally blacklisting Russia for money laundering

RockstarSprain — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:58:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/the-eu-is-finally-blacklisting-russia-for-money-laundering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46135222

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Meadow Companion: tools of a smartphone, without any distractions

RockstarSprain — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:13:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.meadow.so/product

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448643

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Web Apps Available in Firefox Labs 142 on Windows

RockstarSprain — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:37:25 +0000

Article URL: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/firefox-labs/give-web-apps-in-firefox-a-try-on-labs-and-tell-us-what-you/m-p/101900#M4595

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44970792

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

DBQuacks: An interactive SQL tutorial powered by DuckDB

RockstarSprain — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:19:04 +0000

Article URL: https://dbquacks.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44956786

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design"

RockstarSprain — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:42:19 +0000

I am using Mailspring (0) and it’s pretty good.

(0) https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

RockstarSprain — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:29:08 +0000

Would love to give Firefox a chance but one thing that stops me (apart from occasional website loading bugs) is inability to install PWAs. Not sure why it’s not implemented like it has been for a long time in Chrome and all its forks.

I have found a 3rd party extension that claims to facilitate this (0) but still feel uncomfortable to use this for privacy reasons.

(0) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pwas-for-fire...

Lichess mobile app

RockstarSprain — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:58:10 +0000

Article URL: https://lichess.org/mobile

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44501835

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Tablecruncher - A lightweight CSV editor for macOS, Windows and Linux

RockstarSprain — Thu, 22 May 2025 16:16:44 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Tablecruncher/tablecruncher

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063521

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by RockstarSprain in "Palantir's Plan to Help ICE Deport People"

RockstarSprain — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:47:12 +0000

https://archive.is/NSFq2