Hacker News: hiprob

New comment by hiprob in "OpenSUSE Kalpa"

hiprob — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:16:09 +0000

What do you mean by that? SUSE products are for sale, OpenSUSE products are free.

HeliumOS Needs Your Help

hiprob — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:25:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.heliumos.org/blog/post/heliumos-needs-your-help/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414023

Points: 3

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New comment by hiprob in "California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS"

hiprob — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:09:25 +0000

When will the AI bubble pop already? Things seem to just get worse

New comment by hiprob in "GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor"

hiprob — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:23:01 +0000

sudo? gnu? mate? debian? ubuntu? suse?

New comment by hiprob in "11.8M EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for"

hiprob — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:29:12 +0000

are you scared by that premise?

New comment by hiprob in "TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app"

hiprob — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:22:48 +0000

Same applies to Google, Facebook, Twitter, you name it.

New comment by hiprob in "Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function"

hiprob — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:37:28 +0000

Man anything can cause dementia huh.

New comment by hiprob in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

hiprob — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:36:55 +0000

what about linus torvalds

New comment by hiprob in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

hiprob — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:36:12 +0000

what exactly happened to bazzite? I've seen so much hype around the distro and buzz among normal people, that it almost became THE normal gamer distro, so much so it completely overshadowed nobara and whatever other gamer gimmick distros are out there

New comment by hiprob in "Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine"

hiprob — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:01:08 +0000

Half-Life 2 looks incredible in Quake 1, what gives?

New comment by hiprob in "Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail"

hiprob — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:18:31 +0000

This is such an insane sentence I genuinely don't know if it's supposed to be demoralizing bait or you genuinely just said this

New comment by hiprob in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

hiprob — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:19:26 +0000

Are they going to leak IDs of minors again like they did last time? Who does this protect exactly?

New comment by hiprob in "I built a search engine to index the un-indexable parts of Telegram"

hiprob — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:36:22 +0000

This is cool. Telegram also has a Premium feature which crawls the contents of (presumably) all public channels on the platform. It's limited to 10 searches per day and doesn't search for old content if there are too many retrieved posts.

New comment by hiprob in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

hiprob — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:24:07 +0000

It's legal to just put kids in foster care for no reason but to ruin someone's life?

New comment by hiprob in "US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private"

hiprob — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:46:12 +0000

>This is the worst way to assses E2EE deployment. 5D-chess.

How would you explain the fact that WhatsApp remains unblocked in Russia, when all other major messengers except Telegram and Meta's own products all got banned there?

>Telegram also requires a phone number. If you didn't have double standards, I bet you'd have no standards.

Not my point. I'm pointing out a flaw that both messengers share.

>TG has no idea how to make seamless E2EE like Signal.

Because it's never seamless. Loading your messages on Signal can take quite a while. Also if you receive a message over 2 weeks ago without checking your phone in the meantime, you may as well have never received it.

>You ignoring that Signal is both open source and always E2EE and complaining about it's "proprieatry blobs" yet looking past TG's atrocious E2EE speaks volumes.

Why are you ignoring the fact Signal actively prohibits third-party clients? Why the air quotes on proprieatry blobs? Yes, Telegram is far from perfect, and inferior to Signal when it comes to E2EE. But what makes you reject the proprieatry blob claim when it's true? Because your favorite messenger is being attacked?

New comment by hiprob in "US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private"

hiprob — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:46:24 +0000

Currently, the Russian government is trying to squeeze people out of Telegram and move them over to MAX: https://caspianpost.com/regions/russia-tightens-telegram-res... WhatsApp also operates in Russia, despite Instagram and Facebook being banned. So I wouldn't count on its E2EE either. Signal still requires a phone number and proprietary Google blobs on mobile. Many third-party Telegram clients exist - Signal allows none.

New comment by hiprob in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

hiprob — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:39:00 +0000

If it's as flaky as YouTube's age estimation, it's just ID by default.

New comment by hiprob in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

hiprob — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:21:09 +0000

Legally, it doesn't matter. You can talk to people? Social media it is.

New comment by hiprob in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

hiprob — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:58:57 +0000

Are they going to conduct an uncontrolled human experiment by requiring age checks to use the Internet (read: surveillance capitalism and Orwellian lack of privacy)?

New comment by hiprob in "US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private"

hiprob — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:45:54 +0000

I know the default assumption with Telegram is that they can read all your messages, but unlike WhatsApp they seem less cooperative and I never got the notion that they ever read private messages until the Macron incident, and even then they do if the other party reports them. How come they are able to be this exception despite not having end to end encryption by default?