Hacker News: armsaw

New comment by armsaw in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

armsaw — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:04:44 +0000

Is there a way to follow inline links from a mobile device? Doesn’t seem to work for me in mobile Safari.

New comment by armsaw in "DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership"

armsaw — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:54:59 +0000

Seems like, the kind that will award a $70 million contract to a guy with a hotmail address.

New comment by armsaw in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

armsaw — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:36:50 +0000

Preorders open tomorrow according to the store page. You can’t order the base RAM model today, either.

New comment by armsaw in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

armsaw — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:09:37 +0000

Thank you for making Obsidian! I am wondering if you have any plans to package the headless sync client up for container use in Docker or Podman?

Also, is the Obsidian CLI available when obsidian-headless is installed? Or is obsidian-headless only a sync client at this time?

New comment by armsaw in "Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release"

armsaw — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:03:29 +0000

I’ve disabled iCloud and use the PhotoSync app to move photos and videos from my phone to a file structure on my NAS, which Immich reads as an external library. Stable for over a year now - very happy with it.

New comment by armsaw in "Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA"

armsaw — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:04:23 +0000

Yes, for ~7 years now the Files app has existed. Sandboxing is still a thing.

Möbius Sync and Synctrain are the options for Syncthing. Both work, neither are official (nor is the currently-maintained Syncthing fork for Android).

New comment by armsaw in "Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure"

armsaw — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 02:36:47 +0000

Granted there are some other rows with missing or incomplete information, but Tesla appears to be the only manufacturer for which this information is withheld in every single instance without exception.

New comment by armsaw in "Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure"

armsaw — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 02:09:24 +0000

When I look at this data, I see the type of self driving in use, as well as the written narrative of every crash, along with several other fields as REDACTED FOR BUSINESS REASONS, only for Tesla vehicles, where every other manufacturer seems to have these fields populated. To me, that information would be crucial to understanding what actually happened in each case, as opposed to only being able to understand some of the ambient conditions around each accident.

New comment by armsaw in "Taking Notes with Joplin"

armsaw — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:23:46 +0000

I was using this for a while and really loving it, however the dev just recently decided to undertake a rewrite into Lua which breaks all existing scripts, and changed how the online/offline paradigm works, which made me feel a bit skittish about whether it is going to be a stable long-term solution. I am really rooting for Zef here though and hope it settles into a good place soon!

New comment by armsaw in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

armsaw — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:52:21 +0000

The Yattee client for Invidious works great on iOS, or the Vinegar/Baking Soda browser extensions that replace the YouTube player with a basic (ad-free) HTML5 player work also.

New comment by armsaw in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

armsaw — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:49:10 +0000

If you use an AppleTV, there’s also a pretty decent navidrome client called LMP.

New comment by armsaw in "The “S” in MCP Stands for Security"

armsaw — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 18:23:48 +0000

Often the issue is with mDNS device discovery across vlans or subnets, especially with IoT / home automation type devices.

What you are doing with SSIDs will not create any segmentation on your network, unless you have implemented either vlans or subnets, and corresponding firewall rules to gate traffic.

New comment by armsaw in "A story on home server security"

armsaw — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 14:08:20 +0000

Docker would punch through the host firewall by default, but the database wouldn’t be accessible to the internet unless the user opened the ports on their router firewall as well, which based on the article, it sounds like they did. Making the assumption they’re using a router firewall…

In this case, seems like Docker provided a bit of security in keeping the malware sandboxed in the container, as opposed to infecting the host (which would have been the case had the user just run the DB on bare metal and opened the same ports)

New comment by armsaw in "Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube"

armsaw — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 19:54:06 +0000

A selfhosted instance of this, combined with Yattee https://github.com/yattee/yattee as a client on iOS and tvOS is a pretty decent way to consume YT subscriptions with minimal exposure to algorithm and ads.