Hacker News: d4a

Breaking the New EA Launcher's Encryption

d4a — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:18:49 +0000

Article URL: https://erri120.github.io/posts/2023-01-18/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34428667

Points: 43

# Comments: 2

Dream Submarine

d4a — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 03:39:19 +0000

Article URL: https://dreamsubmarine.vercel.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34408859

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by d4a in "My list of favorite secure messaging apps"

d4a — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 05:04:56 +0000

For Session:

> Accounts can only be used on a single device, multi-device support is planned for the future

Can confirm that this is not true. I have multi device set up and it works just fine.

> Files are temporarily stored on a central server (encrypted) until the recipients retrieve them

Not just files, but also your messages. However, it's not as "centralized" as you think. The messages are stored across the Loki network, not just on one centralized server.

> Still new, bugs exists and features may change

Another con I would add is that it is painfully slow. There's often a delay of 10-15 or more seconds between sending a text message and receiving it. Interestingly, media files have about the same "lag". This makes faster conversations difficult, since I would send a message and an older message would backfill in making my message irrelevant. For example, I would receive "I have an idea", send back "what is the idea", but then a few seconds later a message would backfill in and appear before the message I just sent with clarification on the idea.

But that being said, I still think Session is one of the best truly-secure messengers out there. It's bug-free enough for daily use, very decentralized, solves the "offline message" issue. The only concern I have left is their weird crypto integration. The nodes in the Loki network are crypto nodes and it requires staking some $LOKI to join the pool. You do get rewarded for participating in some ways, however.

Swiftfin (Native Jellyfin Client for iOS/AppleTV) in App Store

d4a — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:39:19 +0000

Article URL: https://jellyfin.org/posts/2022/12/29/swiftfin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34180125

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Visually symmetric words

d4a — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 15:02:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/12/27/visually-symmetric-words/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34149239

Points: 108

# Comments: 49

New comment by d4a in "Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?"

d4a — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 23:27:25 +0000

FreshRSS for sync and on my computer, with NetNewsWire on my phone

New comment by d4a in "A 47-degree drop in Denver in 2 hours. Here are some of other dramatic changes"

d4a — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 14:31:33 +0000

The power went out where I am right as the temps dropped. That means no heating. Luckily, I was able to get my fireplace running, despite it being fully electric-controlled and we were out of batteries (I just wired together a bunch of triple A's and it happened to work)

New comment by d4a in "Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately"

d4a — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:50:43 +0000

I made something similar a few years back when I was learning web dev. It's not nearly as polished, but I'd love to pick apart your code and see what design decisions we did similarly/differently

https://9p4.github.io/hackna/

The big difference is that your project is self-contained in an HTML file, which I think is a much better design

The Mother Who Lost Her Daughter Twice

d4a — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:08:30 +0000

Article URL: https://siraben.dev/2022/12/13/returnai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33966394

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by d4a in "Digital books wear out faster than physical books"

d4a — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 03:41:26 +0000

Not for a lack of trying

http://blog.archive.org/2022/07/08/internet-archive-seeks-su...

The Perils of Running Your Own Mastodon Instance

d4a — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:33:32 +0000

Article URL: https://ersei.net/en/blog/fedi-perils

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33534008

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Becoming Fasterthanlime Full-Time

d4a — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:35:11 +0000

Article URL: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/becoming-fasterthanlime-full-time

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33466422

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by d4a in "Amazon’s cloud business just recorded its weakest growth to date"

d4a — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 04:32:31 +0000

It's gotta grow at a rate of e^x so that the rate of growth is also the rate of the rate of growth and also is the rate of the rate of the rate of the rate of the rate...

Open letter to Gitea

d4a — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:18:09 +0000

Article URL: https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33372471

Points: 321

# Comments: 134

New comment by d4a in "Food delivery robot crushed by train. [video]"

d4a — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:10:50 +0000

That's a Starship robot. We have them around my college campus. They're typically super safe when crossing roads, but sometimes they just decide to wander out in front of a car.