Hacker News: avra

New comment by avra in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

avra — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:15:18 +0000

> We need to resist this!

I agree. What do you suggest? How can we contribute to the resistance?

New comment by avra in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

avra — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:32:59 +0000

Yeah, Lidl and Kaufland are store chains, with 14200 stores combined. 7500 employees is just Schwarz Digits, the digital services division.

New comment by avra in "Germany Mandates ODF for Public Administration"

avra — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:45:40 +0000

Exchanging files in ODF seems much more frictionless to me than in DOCX. Thankfully, there is much better support nowadays for both formats.

New comment by avra in "GrapheneOS: Duress Pin/Password"

avra — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:44:36 +0000

Is the wiping functionality implemented so inconspicuously that you can't tell the device has been wiped?

New comment by avra in "Ask HN: Is Claude Down Again?"

avra — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:47:17 +0000

I was wondering the same. They just updated the status page but it was showing green for a while and I couldn't login.

https://status.claude.com/

New comment by avra in "Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet"

avra — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:12:29 +0000

How can a satellite connection be more weather independent than a landline? Not questioning your statement. Just wondering what could be the reason. A segment with a long distance directional antenna?

MacPacker: Preview archives on macOS without extracting. Extract single files

avra — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:38:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sarensw/MacPacker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671362

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by avra in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

avra — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:07:04 +0000

The snowflakes are a clever engagement hack. They doubled the amount of comments here. I find it funny for the moment, but I hope this will not become the norm for hn posts.

New comment by avra in "I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week"

avra — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:54:34 +0000

In the EU we have 116117 which is not (yet?) implemented in all countries. It's part of the "harmonised service of social value" which uses 116 as a prefix and has also other helpline numbers like hotlines for missing children or emotional support.

New comment by avra in "I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week"

avra — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:45:19 +0000

> All without a co-pay

The author of the blog post also mentioned they tried to avoid paying for an unnecessary visit to the doctor. I think the issue is somewhere else. As a European, personally I would go to the doctor and while sitting in the waiting room I would ask an LLM out of curiosity.

New comment by avra in "Keep Android Open"

avra — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:53:04 +0000

from the Play Store

This is not about the Play Store. This is about the whole Android platform. It's about running what you want on your own machine.

New comment by avra in "EU age verification app not planning desktop support"

avra — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:08:02 +0000

Most of the times the user prioritizes more convenient options over privacy. "Pressure for competing options" will mean that options compete for the most convenient way, not most secure or most private.

New comment by avra in "Librarian's Letter to Google Security"

avra — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:16:29 +0000

> This elderly woman, looked to be in her 70s, might lose the roof over her head, due to being unable to log into her Google account, because she lost her old phone and with it, her phone number.

I think the real issue is outside of Google's reach. You shouldn't have to lose the roof over your head just because you don't have access to your emails. Sure, it sucks that Google doesn't care if these people lose their access to Gmail. But I don't see how Google has a greater responsibility than the state/government in this.

New comment by avra in "Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minute from $100 to $1k"

avra — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 17:12:41 +0000

If you think about it, that's more or less the original idea. Affordable accommodation for young solo travelers. People that do not have the time and energy to face the inconveniences of Airbnb's are better off in a hotel after all. When I book an airbnb I do not expect to get hotel like service.

Edit: maybe drop the "solo", it's probably not worth it if you don't travel in a group.

New comment by avra in "Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default"

avra — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:42:26 +0000

In Chrome you can right click the address bar and select "Always show full URLs". I prefer how Firefox highlights the most important part and still shows the full URL.

New comment by avra in "Signal increased limits for group calls"

avra — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:52:47 +0000

Stories are implemented to keep the user engaged. I think the fact that people are even asking for them in other apps could be interpreted as clearly working or even as being addictive.

New comment by avra in "Signal increased limits for group calls"

avra — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:40:50 +0000

While this does still mean you have to trust your keyboard app, you can tell Signal to trigger your keyboards incognito mode. I don't think it should include its own keyboard. But this could be an extra app in general.

New comment by avra in "Roblox S-1"

avra — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:46:25 +0000

And mdemare was the loader.

New comment by avra in "Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform"

avra — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 11:16:03 +0000

I'm afraid someone has to tell the author that what is already possible is worse than the concerns raised here. This technology is actually an effort to not use the available methods that would ignore privacy.

New comment by avra in "What's SAP?"

avra — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:29:13 +0000

This is exactly the experience I had with MS Dynamics. Hideous. So hideous I refuse to work in that field anymore.