Hacker News: leavenotracks

New comment by leavenotracks in "Security Envelope Pattern collection – S.E.C.R.E.T"

leavenotracks — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:35:02 +0000

I am delighted that such a thing exists! I’ll never look at letters from the bank in the same way.

New comment by leavenotracks in "Why I love FreeBSD"

leavenotracks — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:48:07 +0000

What a delightful letter of appreciation for a project. Reminds us all to appreciate what FOSS gives the world every day and to not take it for granted!

New comment by leavenotracks in "Is Librem Mail Down?"

leavenotracks — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:50:19 +0000

That's them - it seems every now and again their set-up goes down, hopefully it's just a blip. I signed up to Librem One ages ago on the basis that I was supporting a company trying to do good things. But they do seem to be getting flakier and flakier with time. Maybe it's time to roll e-mail on my own domain.

New comment by leavenotracks in "Is Librem Mail Down?"

leavenotracks — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:07:04 +0000

Librem mail appears to be down since approx 8am GMT. Status site appears to be down, as is the main puri.sm site.

Is Librem Mail Down?

leavenotracks — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:07:04 +0000

Article URL: https://status.librem.one/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604339

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by leavenotracks in "Purism Domain Puri.sm Suspended?"

leavenotracks — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:05:36 +0000

e-mail service provided by purism (librem.one) also appears to be down :(

I have to say though apart from the occasional blip, service has been pretty steadfast for the last ~5 years.

New comment by leavenotracks in "Ross Anderson has died"

leavenotracks — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 06:48:42 +0000

Wonderful.

Made more so by the music that has been combined with the recording!

New comment by leavenotracks in "Ross Anderson has died"

leavenotracks — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 06:32:59 +0000

Very sad to learn of his passing. I came across his work after Bruce Schneier posted a link to a pre print of Ross’s Security Engineering tome. His clarity of thought and effortless navigation through this complex landscape has been inspiring.

Also discovered subsequently his fondness for traditional pipe music and that he busked in his younger years.

A great person - may others bear the light that he brought.

New comment by leavenotracks in "Show HN: I built a dashboard tracking the number of Threads users"

leavenotracks — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:15:11 +0000

Anyone have a view of the percentage of accounts that are likely to be fakes/bots? Is this even a thing? Or is there some sort of verification on sign-up?

Spotlight: Starlink, the truth is out there

leavenotracks — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 10:35:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.samknows.com/blog/starlink

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35092751

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by leavenotracks in "Atom was archived today"

leavenotracks — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:35:22 +0000

Mostly Debian at home - thanks for reminding me though - I do use Notepad++ at work. I believe it's available as a snap on Linux. I do enjoy the simplicity of N++.

New comment by leavenotracks in "Atom was archived today"

leavenotracks — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:31:34 +0000

Thanks for that will give VS Code a spin

New comment by leavenotracks in "Atom was archived today"

leavenotracks — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:11:06 +0000

Brief comment + total noob question here:

I've been using atom for several years now to main a few sites. I have always found it a pleasure to work in, but then admittedly I am probably using a small percentage of the features that it offer.

What does it mean that the project (or any project) is archived? Does it mean that it no longer has maintainers? Should we stop using it because security will worsen due to lack of updates?

If I should stop using it - what should I try instead (apart from Vi / Emacs / VS Code, which are already well represented in the discussion)?

Thanks

New comment by leavenotracks in "Raspberry Pi update removes the default user"

leavenotracks — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 23:44:39 +0000

Rotating their desktops by 90/180/270 degrees, and watching them trying to fix- priceless.

New comment by leavenotracks in "The Personal Security Checklist"

leavenotracks — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 11:04:53 +0000

Despite its shortcomings, I value the attempt to generate this list and thank the author for it. Moreover, it's on Github so issues and pull-requests can be created, and the list can be improved.

Even though a ot of the advice will be sound for pretty much all-time, unless this kind of list is maintained in this way it would grow very stale very quickly.

New comment by leavenotracks in "The Personal Security Checklist"

leavenotracks — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 11:01:03 +0000

Individual words then are easily crackable.

But, take 3 long dictionary words chained together...easier to remember and more secure than a shorter randomly generated string.

E.g. postcriptaluminumengagement vs kug45l2wx

Or are there also dictionaries that contain combos of words?! (Would be rather a large dictionary).

New comment by leavenotracks in "Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times?"

leavenotracks — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 12:58:53 +0000

Why the arbitrary comparison with (likely) the costliest outlay? I think it is sound to suggest eliminating gym membership, particularly if under-used. Moreover, it's not optional to pay your mortgage if you have one, gym membership is.

New comment by leavenotracks in "Open-source online SVG path editor"

leavenotracks — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 20:11:03 +0000

+1 yes! this got deep very quickly

New comment by leavenotracks in "Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager"

leavenotracks — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 19:29:15 +0000

Had a look, and it was worth it! Will consider using for sure

New comment by leavenotracks in "Ask HN: Why the obsession with note taking?"

leavenotracks — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:58:35 +0000

All the animation in the second link as you scroll down is very swanky, but super-distracting!