Hacker News: dblitt

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

dblitt — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:50:38 +0000

Make sure to keep a backup of your Sequoia install

New comment by dblitt in "You Are in a Box"

dblitt — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:14:30 +0000

Looks like it checks for the referrer in main.js and adds the uppercase text-transform if you come from HN:

  let host;
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  if (host === "news.ycombinator.com" || host === "lobste.rs") {
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    // let transform = host === "lobste.rs" ? 
    style.textContent = `
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      pre, code { text-transform: none; }
    `;
    document.head.appendChild(style);
    console.log("HN readers clearly can't handle the typing habits of the average trans girl.");
    return;
  }

New comment by dblitt in "BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore"

dblitt — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 19:47:12 +0000

It seems the suggested solution is to use server credentials that lack delete permissions (and use credentials that have delete for compacting the repo), but does that protect against a compromised client simply overriding files without deleting them?

TikTok Is Down in the US

dblitt — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 03:40:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/18/24346961/tiktok-shut-down-banned-in-the-us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753353

Points: 23

# Comments: 7

New comment by dblitt in "Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users"

dblitt — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 19:17:50 +0000

Yes, its called "hybrid transport", and its a flow where a laptop presents a QR code to a mobile phone, who then sets up a BLE connection for one time use of the passkey.

https://www.corbado.com/blog/webauthn-passkey-qr-code

(Not sure how the "cloud assisted" part of caBLE works)

New comment by dblitt in "Apple Releases iCloud Passwords Add-On for Firefox"

dblitt — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:19:22 +0000

Note that this requires native iCloud support on the host machine, so macOS or the iCloud app on Windows (no Linux support)

New comment by dblitt in "Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot"

dblitt — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:31:19 +0000

Does anyone have insight into why Apple encrypts SEP firmware? Clearly it’s not critical to their security model so maybe just for IP protection?

Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

dblitt — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:00:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/policy/2024/10/7/24243316/epic-google-permanent-injunction-ruling-third-party-stores

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41769657

Points: 787

# Comments: 580

Microsoft's largest ever security transformation detailed in new report

dblitt — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:13:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24251945/microsoft-security-report-secure-future-initiative

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41627649

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dblitt in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

dblitt — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:50:33 +0000

Notably, only the pro models support USB 3. The base 16/16 plus are still on USB 2. This hasn't changed from the 15 lineup when they switched to USB-C.

New comment by dblitt in "FCast: Casting Made Open Source"

dblitt — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:18:11 +0000

Could this end up on an embedded smart tv device, like a Roku?

Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming from 737 MAX crashes

dblitt — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 05:06:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/08/boeing-to-plead-guilty-to-criminal-fraud-charge-stemming-from-737-max-crashes.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40902749

Points: 569

# Comments: 590

Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite

dblitt — Tue, 14 May 2024 00:56:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-linux-kernel-support-for-the-snapdragon-x-elite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40350408

Points: 174

# Comments: 67

System76 Introduces Ultraportable Laptops with Intel Core Ultra Processors

dblitt — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:09:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.system76.com/post/lemur-pro-ultraportable-laptops/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39780460

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dblitt in "US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones"

dblitt — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:18:23 +0000

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778999

New comment by dblitt in ".NET on Linux: What a Contrast"

dblitt — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 02:26:33 +0000

What extensions are you using for C# on code-server? AFAIK the official C# extensions from Microsoft (C# base and dev kit) aren’t licensed for non-vscode use.

New comment by dblitt in "My favourite Git commit (2019)"

dblitt — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:48:32 +0000

IIRC TextEdit.app has options like smart quotes, auto capitalize, and spell check turned on (in addition to being rich text by default), so you have to change all those to be a dumb plain text editor.

New comment by dblitt in "Law for Computer Scientists (2020)"

dblitt — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 20:40:13 +0000

Does anyone know of any similar works that instead focus on a common law background (US/UK/others) vs civil law (EU/most of the world), that I am understanding this book focuses on?

This is a topic I am very interested in, but since I am from the US I would prefer to start with law as practiced here.

Edit: only skimmed and it seems this book may be both EU and UK focused. Seems to be funded by the EU European Research Council but published by Oxford?

New comment by dblitt in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

dblitt — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:58:18 +0000

$45k per month. Annually it's > $540,000

Also, updates do count.

"A first annual install may result from an app’s first-time install, a reinstall, or an update from any iOS app distribution option — including the App Store, an alternative app marketplace, TestFlight, an App Clip, volume purchases through Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager, and/or a custom app."

New comment by dblitt in "Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel"

dblitt — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:38:39 +0000

His original letter to Hans is published here: https://ftp.mfek.org/Reiser/Letters/%E2%84%961%20Fred%E2%86%...