Hacker News: eptcyka

New comment by eptcyka in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

eptcyka — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:22:39 +0000

No, my intention was to not touch google services.

New comment by eptcyka in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

eptcyka — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:58:30 +0000

When running Signal without google play services, Signal reliably received push notifications and with minimal battery drain.

New comment by eptcyka in "Expanding Swift's IDE Support"

eptcyka — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:46:28 +0000

But can I develop iOS apps with vim? As in, easy to execute commands for debugging, running app and tests?

New comment by eptcyka in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

eptcyka — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:57:17 +0000

In what world does is such a protocol any more *”””compatible”””* with IPv4 than IPv6 already is? It is a different header after all.

New comment by eptcyka in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

eptcyka — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:39:20 +0000

I wouldn’t say “Never again”, unless you put in the caveat that you shouldn’t do this again for the same leaders.

New comment by eptcyka in "The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands"

eptcyka — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:25:25 +0000

Kill is not a command to kill processes, it is a misnomer. Kill is meant to send signals to processes.

New comment by eptcyka in "The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands"

eptcyka — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:24:51 +0000

Never use `kill -9`, instead refer to the signal directly. 9 is not always the same signal on all platforms.

New comment by eptcyka in "How to turn anything into a router"

eptcyka — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:58:30 +0000

It is hit or miss - one NUC has been stable for years, another kernel panics after the 5th client connects.

New comment by eptcyka in "How to turn anything into a router"

eptcyka — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:22:54 +0000

Any tips on good wifi chipsets that do not suck in AP mode?

New comment by eptcyka in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

eptcyka — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:46:44 +0000

Because Apple no longer implements subpixel rendering for fonts?

New comment by eptcyka in "Swift 6.3"

eptcyka — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:03:20 +0000

You can take this approach in personal projects - with teams you need to decide on this and then on-board people into your use of the language. This does not work.

New comment by eptcyka in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

eptcyka — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:20:25 +0000

Some kind of acknowledgement would be nice, but nost of our feedback reports fall on deaf ears.

New comment by eptcyka in "Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers"

eptcyka — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:00:02 +0000

The only reason government are doing this is because they want to force everyone to identify themselves online.

New comment by eptcyka in "Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers"

eptcyka — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:37:32 +0000

We don't need a nanny state to help with either of the two things. We can just have parents do their jobs if they wish to restrict social media usage.

New comment by eptcyka in "WolfGuard: WireGuard with FIPS 140-3 cryptography"

eptcyka — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:47:32 +0000

You can host a decoy on the server side.

New comment by eptcyka in "WolfGuard: WireGuard with FIPS 140-3 cryptography"

eptcyka — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:39:27 +0000

It is, we did the same. It is a shame that only Linux supports proper fake TCP though.

New comment by eptcyka in "WolfGuard: WireGuard with FIPS 140-3 cryptography"

eptcyka — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:30:48 +0000

OpenVPN looks like a regular tls stream - difficult to distinguish between that and a HTTPS connection. WireGuard looks like WireGuard. But you can wrap WireGuard in whatever headers you might want to obfuscate it and the perf will still be better.

New comment by eptcyka in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

eptcyka — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:31:20 +0000

Do we need all that if we can apply AI to solve practical problems today?

New comment by eptcyka in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

eptcyka — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:14:42 +0000

Yea, but ctrl + arrows to move cursor between ‘words’ don’t work, especially sad when SSH’ing in from linux. It works fine when using terminal on macOS - you just use command + arrows.

New comment by eptcyka in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

eptcyka — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:41:08 +0000

The Just in that sentence is wholly unjustified. There are plenty of cli/tui/console/shell shortcuts that are incredibly useful, yet they are wholly undiscoverable and do not work cross-platform, e.g. shell motions between macOS and reasonable OSes.