Hacker News: eightys3v3n

New comment by eightys3v3n in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

eightys3v3n — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:06:40 +0000

I'm not sure I agree or understand where you're coming from. Side-loaded Android apps are still bound by all the same permission restrictions as any app installed by the Play Store. The only difference is Google didn't review it (for what little good that does) and that I didn't get the app from Google.

If I side-load a camera app, it still has to ask for camera privileges the same way any Play store app does.

Is there something in your message I missed about how it relates to this article or is this just being uninformed about side-loading?

New comment by eightys3v3n in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

eightys3v3n — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:04:23 +0000

In my case it's because the title on this post is more interesting.

New comment by eightys3v3n in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

eightys3v3n — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:00:48 +0000

I've seen half a dozen Mac users and none of them maximized the window very often. They usually had a mishmash of like 12 windows open and randomly all over the screen. Then they used the Alt-Tab to get between them. Basically wherever it opened is where it stayed.

New comment by eightys3v3n in "Meow.camera"

eightys3v3n — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:26:04 +0000

There is in the Purrr app if you install and open that.

New comment by eightys3v3n in "Kagi Small Web"

eightys3v3n — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:13:26 +0000

I have had a great experience. I can find what I'm looking for and I can block or down-rank sites that are constantly shite. I did find that Google over the past few years has sucked but my Google results were always miles better than most peoples until a couple years ago.

It's interesting to hear that you can't find what you wanted easily on Kagi.

New comment by eightys3v3n in "I put my whole life into a single database"

eightys3v3n — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:55:35 +0000

All those cases also have huge penalties or effective costs associated with them. Is there an accurate "shame first, then penalties came later" stand point?

Automobile safety in my life has only changed after fines. Sexual harrassment still happens and doesn't seem to be helped by shaming someone as much as firing them. Though we often don't have the guts or legal backing to publically shame someone.

New comment by eightys3v3n in "“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work"

eightys3v3n — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:14:34 +0000

Yes. I have started doing this with an Obsidian note for each project. Any ongoing lists go there, and each day has a heading with todos and thought process while solving the todos. Then in my main todo list or kanban I just link to the project with one sentence on where to resume the next day.

New comment by eightys3v3n in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

eightys3v3n — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 02:36:05 +0000

Buildkite also seems to have a free option but I have no concept of how the value compares to the free option for GitHub Actions.

New comment by eightys3v3n in "How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam – Camo Studio with OBS"

eightys3v3n — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:16:47 +0000

The Pixel 9 Pro has a "webcam" mode when plugging into a computer. I wish this was a thing sooner.

https://support.google.com/pixelcamera/answer/14274129?hl=en

New comment by eightys3v3n in "Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025)"

eightys3v3n — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:42:57 +0000

Well, if the majority of candidates are applying to a job where they only meet four out of five of the requirements, if the employer can add a sixth requirement they may naively think then applicants will have five out of six requirements. Alternatively, if they receive too many applications, a solution is to be more specific so they receive fewer or they can filter out more earlier. Adding additional requirements is one way to do this, even if the requirements are not necessarily connected to a successful candidate (knowing how to write in languages that aren't used in the company, for example); some recruiters don't seem to know that some of those requirements are completely irrelevant to the position.

New comment by eightys3v3n in "Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025)"

eightys3v3n — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:19:42 +0000

Plus by making that fee optionally replaced with time spent writing the letter, people who don't have the finances to pay a whole bunch of application fees can still apply for as many jobs as they're willing to put in the time.

New comment by eightys3v3n in "Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025)"

eightys3v3n — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:15:48 +0000

They get too many supposedly unqualified applications.

New comment by eightys3v3n in "Notice of collective action lawsuit against Workday, Inc."

eightys3v3n — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:52:28 +0000

Really? The US only protects age discrimination of some ages not all?

New comment by eightys3v3n in "Notice of collective action lawsuit against Workday, Inc."

eightys3v3n — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:52:05 +0000

It's illegal in Canada, but how do you prove it if they don't admin it to you.

New comment by eightys3v3n in "Notice of collective action lawsuit against Workday, Inc."

eightys3v3n — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:43:47 +0000

I've experienced the opposite where some smaller companies won't even look at a resume for someone under 30. One of the owners admitted it to me later on. :(

New comment by eightys3v3n in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

eightys3v3n — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:34:52 +0000

My grandmother was tricked into buying cryptocurrency for a scam. All the apps that they used on her Android and iPhone were in the respective app stores. Removing side loading has little to nothing to do with it from my point of view because the app stores are not doing a good job of verifying apps.

New comment by eightys3v3n in "AI is a horse (2024)"

eightys3v3n — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:18:18 +0000

  I did not catch that. Nice.

New comment by eightys3v3n in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

eightys3v3n — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:22:25 +0000

Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/538

New comment by eightys3v3n in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

eightys3v3n — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:30:04 +0000

Yeah except once in a blue moon they send an email I do need that really is account information and all from the same SunLife email :/

Otherwise I have the same policy.

New comment by eightys3v3n in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

eightys3v3n — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:08:24 +0000

I had a similar problem with SunLife marketing emails. I would unsubscribe from everything there was an option for, then a month later I would get another marketing email setting personal finance advisors. I spoke to support to be told how to unsubscribe, then that it "was an account information email not a marketing email so I cauld not unsubscribe".

Eventually after escalating I was put on a do not email list and haven't received emails since; though they do still send crap to my work email.