Hacker News: faust201

New comment by faust201 in "Passkeys are not a trap"

faust201 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:43:54 +0000

Is this a private company?

New comment by faust201 in "Passkeys are not a trap"

faust201 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:15:05 +0000

True... but a majority don't care. And it works.

As always you are not compelled to that. Lets others enjoy the convenience of passkey.

New comment by faust201 in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

faust201 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:14:25 +0000

I am not amused!

(great writing)

New comment by faust201 in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

faust201 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:13:12 +0000

facebook's muse

New comment by faust201 in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

faust201 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:03:21 +0000

Many people in hn are involved in such jobs. Not sure they would agree.

But I sincerely hope things like muse will force public and unethical programmers to change.

New comment by faust201 in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

faust201 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:34:32 +0000

totally...

Funnily what I found was to install 1.1.1.1 from cloudflare. Enable that. PipePipe works perfectly.

New comment by faust201 in "F-Droid 2.0"

faust201 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:23:07 +0000

when you use adb - no need to wait for 24hours. Just use android studio or adb install

New comment by faust201 in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series"

faust201 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:46:22 +0000

Are you sure? Snapdragon laptops have worst sales in Windows world. Or are you a MS ARM guy?

New comment by faust201 in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series"

faust201 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:02:37 +0000

A lot of people do see the graphs. But reality is - unless they cooperate with lkml and merge it there is no point. Ubuntu has the only beta ISO for it - works not very good for the Lenovo. Qualcomm does not provide any support. Then people won't buy.

New comment by faust201 in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

faust201 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:07:45 +0000

> I hope people remember this when advocating for chromium. Just because it is open source doesn't mean they don't control it. We need to start the long process of hard forking now or turn to alternatives like Firefox as a new foundation.

This is correct but rarely in practiced.

During firefox DRM/HTML5 issue, I know many people from Free software foundation Europe absolutely telling in their blogs, talks etc please stop Mozilla from implementing this DRM or that... but finally when I spoke to these in private they told --- ya, whatever - I need to see this series in netflix etc- so I have another device with chrome etc to watch it. (Indeed Firefox did implement it)

This behavior is the reason average Joe gives up...

New comment by faust201 in "I don't like passkeys"

faust201 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:03:15 +0000

My actual experience is people with passkey are fine. No more account take over. Mote over they like frictionless login.

Yes there are few that used bitwarden and lost everything as their sync using syncthing failed.

New comment by faust201 in "I don't like passkeys"

faust201 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:35:26 +0000

Or they have a laptop or tablet - even the cheapest one that has logged into Google or Apple. That way they can recover.

New comment by faust201 in "I don't like passkeys"

faust201 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:10:19 +0000

this is ridiculous. I don't even have a bubble device. Run lineageos in a decent 2020 device moto G32 for €100.

Yes, you can afford to host everything locally. Not everyone can.

New comment by faust201 in "I don't like passkeys"

faust201 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:07:24 +0000

You are exaggerating. If the loss or lockdown is so bad then many would have stopped using any of icloud or google equivalent. People are able to depend on it. People are able to repair and use phones even when it falls into abyss.

New comment by faust201 in "I don't like passkeys"

faust201 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:05:21 +0000

At the same time, I know so many people believing DIY raspberrypi based NAS and losing lots of data (thankfully they had cloud backups).

Not everyone has access to server grade hardware.

New comment by faust201 in "I don't like passkeys"

faust201 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:04:12 +0000

This is a different issue. Not everyone has a data engineer - know it all as a family member.

And you need to accept it works for millions.

New comment by faust201 in "I don't like passkeys"

faust201 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:53:20 +0000

Same way. A majority generally have a old phone that was already signed in to google. Or if they remember only Apple ID and password (one very difficult password) + sms. They can login on to a new phone.

Everything is SYNCED immediately.

What if you have a ransomeware that destroy everything on the same day your house and all backups burn down. And you cant get it from immutable backups as you wrote that decryption key in paper. And the bank will not allow you to access it as the govt deported you elsewhere.

New comment by faust201 in "I don't like passkeys"

faust201 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:50:01 +0000

But a majority don't do that. For them let them use passkeys. If the possibility is once in 10 years then I am happy to do that. A majority is happy to do that.

And yes, Google or Apple - dont say you should not keep passwords in your database and sync it with dropbox. DIY.

Rest of us want convenience.

New comment by faust201 in "I don't like passkeys"

faust201 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:42:02 +0000

The point is people like this usually are arguing as they hate adopting new tech. And they hate FAANG. No way to convince them.

New comment by faust201 in "I don't like passkeys"

faust201 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:41:05 +0000

A majority have more than one phone. Or at least they can get a new SIM card and sign into the iCloud account. Then all passkeys are synced from cloud.

Yes, if you are edward snowden then not for you. For rest of us - it is useful