Hacker News: closeneough

New comment by closeneough in "FSF announces Librephone project"

closeneough — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:30:49 +0000

This project is about reverse engineering the firmware blobs. It states that they do not want to create a distribution like postmarketOS or other projects do.

New comment by closeneough in "Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face"

closeneough — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:54:55 +0000

why is this story with 200 votes not on the front page?

New comment by closeneough in "Ask HN: Any update on Sourcehut outage?"

closeneough — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:53:54 +0000

Drew DeVault posts also regular updates on mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/111738819188358936

New comment by closeneough in "Hare aims to become a 100-year programming language"

closeneough — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 15:26:52 +0000

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38189817

New comment by closeneough in "Standard Ebooks"

closeneough — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 06:40:33 +0000

If you wanted to create an ebook from scratch, how would you do this? Would you write plain html. Would you write markdown, and convert it? What tools would you use?

New comment by closeneough in "Thoughts on Hare"

closeneough — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 06:59:26 +0000

Nope, it just has been announced. There is no release yet.

New comment by closeneough in "The Hare programming language"

closeneough — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:51:59 +0000

There is one. The first link when you open the blog.

https://harelang.org/blog/index.xml

New comment by closeneough in "The Hare programming language"

closeneough — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 08:54:08 +0000

Imho as everywhere in this field there are tradeoffs to choose for improving this problem: Complexity (rust, formal proofs), runtime overhead (GC), etc.

Hare tries to be simple, so that it's easier to reason about the code and hence maybe find/avoid such bugs more easily.

New comment by closeneough in "Elden Ring figured out the anti-piracy SEO game"

closeneough — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 14:59:31 +0000

It's the name of the players horse.

New comment by closeneough in "Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same language (2017)"

closeneough — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:11:06 +0000

Isn't this true for every culture?

New comment by closeneough in "Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole"

closeneough — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 17:38:24 +0000

Ah yes, it's cloudflare of course. On of the other contesters.

New comment by closeneough in "Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole"

closeneough — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 08:52:39 +0000

Yes, send more data to big companies like cloud front and google. They need it.

New comment by closeneough in "Password Managers"

closeneough — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 16:40:00 +0000

Yes you need to trust the software. But unless you don't store it on your computer, you need to trust software. The hard part is to figure out which software and whom to trust.

I would definitely use the browser password manager, if I could choose where to sync the data to. I think it's possible with firefox, but it's not straight forward.

I personally trust pfp, because the creator is doing audits of browser addons and publishes them on his blog. They are very well explained.

Also the code is quite compact compared to the other password managers. LastPass, 1Password and Bitwarden have more than 100,000 lines of code, including many third party dependencies. So an audit of PfP is more feasible.

New comment by closeneough in "Password Managers"

closeneough — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 16:16:57 +0000

It's still in the works and unfortunately I've written it in German. If you're still interested I'll share a link as soon as it's released. Should be sometime this summer.

New comment by closeneough in "Password Managers"

closeneough — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 16:14:53 +0000

Pfp puts the icon in the browser bar, to counter such action. So the pop-up can only be opened this way and the pop up is in a different context than the website itself.

Yes the pop-up could be faked, but not the button.

Actually Tavis Ormandy found a lot of security breaches in password managers that loaded GUI elements into the website. Not only that you can fake it, but also they are susceptible to clickjacking.

New comment by closeneough in "Password Managers"

closeneough — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 07:18:58 +0000

I would NOT recommend the chrome password manager. If you sync your passwords, they will not be stored encrypted at the google side. You need to specifically set password encryption in the settings.

I've also spend a lot of time with understanding password managers in my master thesis. What I can recommend is: https://pfp.works/

The creator was auditing password managers like LastPass, found a lot of issues, and used his knowledge to create pfp, which does it right imho.

New comment by closeneough in ".org doesn't mean credible"

closeneough — Tue, 04 May 2021 08:46:36 +0000

Why should I believe this site?

A new service manager for Linux distributions

closeneough — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:33:44 +0000

Article URL: https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26955586

Points: 20

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New comment by closeneough in "The French armed forces are planning for high-intensity war"

closeneough — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:44:11 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard

New comment by closeneough in "E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and online services"

closeneough — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:35:19 +0000

I'm using e.foundation for a while now on my Moto G3 (osprey) and it's working ok despite a few camera/gallery crashes here and there.

The only thing I'm not really fond of, is that the apps come from an opaque source (https://info.cleanapk.org/). I also found no information on how those apps are signed, and how this is checked. Upon asking them, someone pointed me to a git commit where an outdated public key of F-Droid was used.