Hacker News: apopapo

New comment by apopapo in "E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May"

apopapo — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:13:04 +0000

It's not only the united states of America. These tyrannical views have been brewing everywhere for years, and there was not enough public counter-narrative to these ideologies.

New comment by apopapo in "UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s"

apopapo — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:40:02 +0000

If "dis-information" is the core of the issue, then perhaps we ought to start banning religions? Despite doing that, China is a champion of spreading "dis-information" within their own walls. Hostile actors are not foreign, most often they are domestic. The biggest offenders are governments. Only freedom opposes their power, which is why they want to restrict it.

New comment by apopapo in "UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s"

apopapo — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:37:36 +0000

Sadly it's not only the UK. There is a global push to restrict communication world-wide. The future is very bleak for fundamental freedoms.

New comment by apopapo in "CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements"

apopapo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:20:32 +0000

Taxpayers' money used to track taxpayers and finance the advertising industry.

New comment by apopapo in "Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood"

apopapo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:44:56 +0000

It makes us dumber and dumber.

New comment by apopapo in "Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw"

apopapo — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:36:56 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Can you share an estimate of how many tokens it uses over time? Would love to know how much it costs in terms of money.

New comment by apopapo in "Discord just killed anonymity"

apopapo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:51:33 +0000

That does not mean everybody systematically is "hurt" like you were. That is a very dangerous extrapolation.

New comment by apopapo in "Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification"

apopapo — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:28:26 +0000

Has anyone managed to run Matrix over I2P or other similar overlay network technologies?

New comment by apopapo in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

apopapo — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:54:42 +0000

Why would Slack not be affected by the same stupid laws?

New comment by apopapo in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

apopapo — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:25:31 +0000

All these players will never dethrone DeadBeeF's interface. Foobar2000 simply has the perfect layout - and it's customizable.

New comment by apopapo in "psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context"

apopapo — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:33:40 +0000

> psc uses eBPF iterators to read process and file descriptor information directly from kernel data structures. This bypasses the /proc filesystem entirely, providing visibility that cannot be subverted by userland rootkits or LD_PRELOAD tricks.

Is there a trade off here?

New comment by apopapo in "EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance"

apopapo — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:43:52 +0000

Overlay networks + libre and open-source software only (preferrably with reproducible builds).

New comment by apopapo in "Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members"

apopapo — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 20:33:01 +0000

It's not even about "piracy". It's about "unauthorized copying".

New comment by apopapo in "Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy"

apopapo — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:21:58 +0000

Tor is nice, but I still prefer i2p.

New comment by apopapo in "SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management"

apopapo — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:43:38 +0000

What's wrong with committing encrypted secrets? That's how I use `sops`.

New comment by apopapo in "Show HN: Linux CLI tool to provide mutex locks for long running bash ops"

apopapo — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:52:03 +0000

A for loop in a shell script may sometimes look like this:

`for ((i = 0 ; i < max ; i++ )); do echo "$i"; done`

Here this is essentially a "while" loop, meaning it will keep executing the commands as long as we don't reach `exit 1`.

(; flock -n 9 || exit 1; # ... commands executed under lock ...; )

New comment by apopapo in "Show HN: Linux CLI tool to provide mutex locks for long running bash ops"

apopapo — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:23:00 +0000

It's a "for" loop.

New comment by apopapo in "Zorin OS"

apopapo — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:33:13 +0000

Strongly disagree on the "unethical" part. Maintaining a distribution is a lot of work, and the infrastructure also costs money. Paying for the distribution of software is totally fine. You are not even forced to pay anyway.

New comment by apopapo in "Ask HN: Why are dating apps so bad? Why hasn't anyone made a good one?"

apopapo — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 01:19:06 +0000

If we managed to have decentralized social networks based on ActivityPub (Mastodon, Pleroma, etc.) why can't we have a dating app based on the same protocols?

New comment by apopapo in "From Hosts.txt to Modern Internet Infrastructure"

apopapo — Sun, 25 May 2025 13:33:10 +0000

Pointing out precisely what you think could be mistakes would be useful.