Hacker News: bdibs

New comment by bdibs in "Ask HN: How to preserve privacy while using smartphones?"

bdibs — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 23:50:55 +0000

I recently switched from an iPhone to a Pixel with GrapheneOS and it's been great so far (a couple months now or so).

It's extremely usable, with only minor hiccups if you're trying to use any apps that require Google Play Services. GrapheneOS does allow you to install play services sandboxed without any special system access (just like any other app). I've replaced a couple of apps that required those to FOSS alternatives without much hassle at all.

Install via WebUSB[0] was very simple and went without a hitch, and at the end of the day is basically just a normal Android experience, just much more secure and private by default.

0: https://grapheneos.org/install/web

New comment by bdibs in "4Privacy App"

bdibs — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:18:49 +0000

Smarter Every Day made a video today about something he's been a part of, here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMtrY6lbjcY

4Privacy App

bdibs — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/4privacyapp/4privacy-app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28952435

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by bdibs in "Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds"

bdibs — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 23:16:59 +0000

The CDC[0] links to a report[1] mentioning estimates of anywhere from 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses per year. I’m not necessarily agreeing with the previous comment, just adding some context.

0: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/firearms/fastfact.htm... 1: http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2013/Priorities...

New comment by bdibs in "Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts"

bdibs — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:50:31 +0000

It’s certainly healthier I’d bet.

New comment by bdibs in "Unvaccinated Covid patients cost the U.S. health system billions of dollars"

bdibs — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 22:09:14 +0000

Triage exists for a reason, and it seems reasonable to apply that here. If you want to accept the risks of your “lifestyle choice”, you should be the one who faces the consequences by being lower in priority for healthcare. If I exercise and eat right, when I need an ICU bed I should be given priority over someone who accepted the risk of eating fast food three times a day, surely?

New comment by bdibs in "Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address"

bdibs — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 21:16:18 +0000

Wouldn't "any" include authority compelled logging?

New comment by bdibs in "Making a Scam Mmorpg – The Story of Dreamworld"

bdibs — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 19:30:04 +0000

Thought this was interesting since they’re actually a YC company: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dreamworld

Making a Scam Mmorpg – The Story of Dreamworld

bdibs — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 19:29:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnYY9HhWRUI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28427048

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by bdibs in "U.S. Covid death toll hits 1,500 a day amid delta scourge"

bdibs — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 21:23:27 +0000

Has something like this happened before in history? Where we have the tools to avoid deaths both caused by COVID and the indirect deaths caused by a lack of healthcare capacity, but the people refuse to use them?

New comment by bdibs in "Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53"

bdibs — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 19:32:28 +0000

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/tag/audits/

New comment by bdibs in "Colorado county's voting machines banned after security breach"

bdibs — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 00:16:48 +0000

There's no number of audits they'll accept. Where they're currently "auditing" there have already been multiple audits already completed. The whole thing is a joke, it's endless by design for fundraising and that's it.

New comment by bdibs in "FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent"

bdibs — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 00:00:27 +0000

Probably the flavor that leads to burning black churches and attempting to overthrow US democracy?

New comment by bdibs in "K/V Benchmark: PostgreSQL vs. Redis vs. Memcached"

bdibs — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:43:50 +0000

Well the site does seem to be some sort of PostgreSQL consultancy.

New comment by bdibs in "Jabs mostly fend off the Delta strain but breakthroughs are infectious"

bdibs — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:28:49 +0000

CDC has this[0] which is fairly recent, and just as a layman it appears the vaccines are doing well against delta.

0: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e1.htm

New comment by bdibs in "Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of collapse"

bdibs — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 09:30:09 +0000

I would consider getting out of this boondoggle as soon as possible an example of competence.

New comment by bdibs in "R/NoNewNormal has been quarantined"

bdibs — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:02:49 +0000

Which policies in particular do they find 1984-esque?

Also I'm not sure where 99.97% is coming from, I'm getting ~98.3% from the CDC's Data Tracker page. Of course unreported cases could increase that, but it still seems significantly different from whatever source that's from.

New comment by bdibs in "WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan"

bdibs — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 20:50:21 +0000

My (limited) understanding so far is that Calyx is a "looser" Graphene security wise to make it a bit more user friendly, I'm wanting to just jump in with both feet. I don't use a ton of apps anyways so I don't think I'll be missing anything.

New comment by bdibs in "WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan"

bdibs — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 10:25:20 +0000

I’m considering a switch to GrapheneOS on a Pixel. I’m not sure if it’s an overreaction but I feel like I’ve lost what little trust I had remaining in Apple. It’s really unfortunate as they make quality products, but I guess everything sours eventually.

New comment by bdibs in "Expanded Protections for Children"

bdibs — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:34:31 +0000

I took that to mean further protections for children, not expanding the overall scanning. Also isn't it you not caring about their property rights? Should Apple be forced to host CSAM on their servers? Should all businesses be required to?