Hacker News: ale42

New comment by ale42 in "Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS"

ale42 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:25:46 +0000

Especially if it's not even cross-platform...

New comment by ale42 in "The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism"

ale42 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:30:48 +0000

It's interesting, but it sounds more like a political/societal theory rather than actual events or state of the society. It would be much more interesting and largely shareable if it contained more documented facts rather than generic affirmations.

New comment by ale42 in "Australian Data Centres forced to generate more power than they use"

ale42 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:46:20 +0000

https://archive.is/i6PKK

New comment by ale42 in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

ale42 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:11:56 +0000

> the admin password to be 'admin'. They'd often even print it on the device itself.

Yes but aren't you supposed to change that one? The problem with the rzadmin is that it will continue to work even after you change the regular admin one...

New comment by ale42 in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

ale42 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:58:06 +0000

Possibly the same but done by Edge?

New comment by ale42 in "Organic Maps"

ale42 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:15:38 +0000

In some places it always was better (it's OpenStreetMap data) e.g. in the Puna de Atacama desert in Argentina/Chile, Google Maps is years behind in therms of map precision. Lots of roads are missing from Google Maps. Plus, OrganicMaps working totally offline, it's perfect for such a place where the only Internet would be by satellite.

New comment by ale42 in "AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news"

ale42 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:11:07 +0000

Why do you even need GA? (not sure if it's bot friendly btw) One could just run a local traffic analysis and feed that back into the bot

New comment by ale42 in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection"

ale42 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:26:24 +0000

It all depends on how you define malware. If malware is software doing something that is contrary to the user's interests, then for many users it is indeed malware.

New comment by ale42 in "One million passports leaked online"

ale42 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:07:41 +0000

> how did you come to this conclusion

I didn't see any reference to the possibility of using anything else on their website. And yes I was only speaking of authbound.

New comment by ale42 in "One million passports leaked online"

ale42 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:22:04 +0000

Looks like this only works on smartphones? Well... no thanks.

New comment by ale42 in "Libre Barcode Project"

ale42 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:37:57 +0000

Code 128 supports some ISO-8859-1 indeed, but it requires switching between encodings (there are 3 of them), and couldn't work with 128B (I guess the one used by the font, as it supports ASCII). See the table on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_128

New comment by ale42 in "A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding"

ale42 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:33:26 +0000

I think that the start of the article is at least a bit exaggerated:

    SSH is yet another example of an ancient technology that is still in wide use today.

Ancient technology? If it was telnet or FTP... But SSH is much younger than, let's say, IPv4, which is _maybe_ ancient technology still in wide use today.

New comment by ale42 in "UTFS: A Tar-Like File System for Embedded Systems (2025)"

ale42 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:24:10 +0000

On which OS? On Windows, with the Swiss German layout AltGr+m does nothing. Probably the same on US ones.

New comment by ale42 in "UTFS: A Tar-Like File System for Embedded Systems (2025)"

ale42 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:28:13 +0000

Might be AltGr-m on Linux (didn't try).

New comment by ale42 in "UTFS: A Tar-Like File System for Embedded Systems (2025)"

ale42 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:26:03 +0000

That's what I do, actually, although I use Alt+230 because I remember the code from CP437.

New comment by ale42 in "UTFS: A Tar-Like File System for Embedded Systems (2025)"

ale42 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:47:48 +0000

The problem is that µ is usually hard to type (unless you have a Greek keyboard or a custom keyboard mapping). This said, although I tolerate stuff like "47 uF" in electronic schematics (also because legacy software didn't even allow the µ symbol), I definitely find horrible to see stuff like "us" instead of "µs" in an article.

New comment by ale42 in "UTFS: A Tar-Like File System for Embedded Systems (2025)"

ale42 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:42:50 +0000

Interesting. The header size seems big for low-resources embedded systems (e.g. with only 256 bytes of EEPROM). I'd rather use a file identifier (e.g. a 8-bit number) to identify what a file is doing instead of arbitrary names.

New comment by ale42 in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

ale42 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:34:09 +0000

How did he get the videos out of the cameras that were seized if the recording was also not uploaded? Can Nest cameras upload/stream to private servers? (never had one so I have no idea)

New comment by ale42 in "Show HN: Modeloop – From visual algorithms to microcontroller C code"

ale42 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:27:35 +0000

Someone already mentioned the mouse cursor... is it supposed to be solved? Now I see... none, which is kind of pointless on desktop.

New comment by ale42 in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

ale42 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:23:09 +0000

> Everybody I know uses IM systems like Wechat, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal.

Great, instead of having a single, standard and interoperable way to communicate (albeit with its defaults), now we need to have 5, 6, 7 different closed systems that can't speak with each other, most of which require a working smartphone in order to even have an "address". What a wonderful evolution...