Hacker News: Suffocate5100

New comment by Suffocate5100 in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

Suffocate5100 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:00:25 +0000

Anything that leads off with how much money you've raised is automatically disqualifying.

New comment by Suffocate5100 in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

Suffocate5100 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:29:26 +0000

I'm glad people are building stuff for Linux, but the people who actually want something like this have likely already been using Opensnitch for years. I'm certainly not going to spend $60 for something that has been doing the job for free.

New comment by Suffocate5100 in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

Suffocate5100 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:12:03 +0000

You're assuming tech will ever be removed.

New comment by Suffocate5100 in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

Suffocate5100 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:08:44 +0000

Nebula is what we use. It's definitely not as convenient, but it's 100% self-ownable.

New comment by Suffocate5100 in "Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin"

Suffocate5100 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:23:24 +0000

I would've been happy with the picture of Steve and Woz in the garage.

New comment by Suffocate5100 in "GrapheneOS finds Bluetooth memory corruption via ARM MTE"

Suffocate5100 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:24:41 +0000

It does not work on the phone, but I was able to use NFC payments with Google Wallet through my Pixel Watch.

New comment by Suffocate5100 in "How to learn chess as an adult (2021)"

Suffocate5100 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 15:28:08 +0000

"unless you’re very young."

You mean, "unless you have unlimited time."

New comment by Suffocate5100 in "How to learn chess as an adult (2021)"

Suffocate5100 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 15:21:07 +0000

Wow, thanks for this recommendation!

New comment by Suffocate5100 in "SSH protects the most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker"

Suffocate5100 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 15:17:57 +0000

Exactly. I keep everything off the public internet unless it's a website meant to be accessed by millions of people. Nebula is all I use now.

New comment by Suffocate5100 in "Building end-to-end security for Messenger"

Suffocate5100 — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:59:22 +0000

I think you're right insofar as they are trying to reposition themselves as more trustworthy. I think they see the writing on the walls.

But at the end of the day, their ultimate end is to make more money. If they do the right thing it isn't out of some altruistic motive. It's because they think that by doing so will make them more money.

New comment by Suffocate5100 in "Quantum particles can feel the influence of gravitational fields"

Suffocate5100 — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:44:54 +0000

Now, how do they know? Have they interviewed any quantum particles?

New comment by Suffocate5100 in "VMware is now part of Broadcom"

Suffocate5100 — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 02:05:05 +0000

It's ok, I've already migrated all of our VMware clusters over to XCP-ng.