Hacker News: leshenka

New comment by leshenka in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

leshenka — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:24:43 +0000

jokes on you my Albania hacking project is called "a1bania"

New comment by leshenka in "macOS Container Machines"

leshenka — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:49:24 +0000

Isn't it wasteful? I know it's a "tiny" vm but still is a vm

New comment by leshenka in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

leshenka — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:58:27 +0000

iOS has the thing they call “time-sensitive notifications” which is a flag you put when submitting notification that is supposed to be Really Important Right Now. Unfortunately it’s not easy to mute everything that is not time-sensitive

New comment by leshenka in "XLIDE: VBA without excel"

leshenka — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:12 +0000

Wonder how extensively VBA is used in today's Excel. I know that macros are considered dangerous but would love to know if there are exceptions for that rule.

On the other hand I wonder why aren't they run in such a sandbox where the most destructive action they can do is to wipe the sheets.

New comment by leshenka in "Dogma 25 – Vow of Chastity (2025)"

leshenka — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:46:25 +0000

I believe red and black theme is an artistic choice. Sadly, readability suffers from this choice. Just making the text bold makes it a lot better while preserving its spirit.

New comment by leshenka in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

leshenka — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:14:27 +0000

Easy:

- know ip ranges of popular cloud providers and deny service. Not bulletproof but enough to make it a pain in the ass so people don’t bother

- make it illegal to offer this kind of service for the purpose of evading location detection. Put pressure on Apple and Google, force them to remove vpn apps

You guys need to start reading on Russia's war on internet and treat it as a cautionary tale

New comment by leshenka in "Zed 1.0"

leshenka — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:54:19 +0000

I can’t relate to that, I’ve also struggled with this decision for quite some time, but I’ve gotten used to it. What I hate is that it doesn’t open several search tabs if I need to look for several things at once.

New comment by leshenka in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

leshenka — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:40:47 +0000

I really don't understand what the issue is? Gatekeeper is merely a warning that introduces a minimal friction if what are you trying to run is created by an entity that chose not to present itself. It only happens once per application, not per launch. I've spent more time reading this thread than I have removing quarantine flags in the last five years.

Apple has a lot to be criticized for but gatekeeper (and SIP) isn't that.

New comment by leshenka in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

leshenka — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:18:01 +0000

I wouldn't be able to say this with a straight face after reading this article.

New comment by leshenka in "“This is not the computer for you”"

leshenka — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:51:33 +0000

> compromises the average user buying a $599 laptop isn't going to notice everyday

Oh my god yes. I've read way too much discussions that completely overlook this aspect.

So many people get so fixated on meaningless labels such as "smartphone CPU" (meaning it's bad) and things to pick on like "ew no HDMI or Ethernet" as if it was a life-saving thought terminator that preserves the world view in which absolutely nothing under the Apple brand can be in any way good.

New comment by leshenka in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

leshenka — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:10:22 +0000

power bricks tend to live longer than devices they accompany so it's only really an issue when you're buying your first one

New comment by leshenka in "Microslop Manifesto"

leshenka — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:44:59 +0000

At least they're being honest about the counter in their source:

    // Starting value (high number to suggest ongoing problem)
    let currentCount = 8_472_000;

New comment by leshenka in "Dead Internet Theory"

leshenka — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:37:23 +0000

Okay sorry I don't want to sound rude but am I getting it right?

You don't know if there's a benefit in knowing the photo you look at is real?

New comment by leshenka in "Dead Internet Theory"

leshenka — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:21:50 +0000

I just hope someday we will have actual cameras adding provenance data to the image file, digitally signing it and its miniature version. Image editing software will then collect that data from all images used to create an artifact and append their miniatures and signatures to it. So as long this data is not removed you can verify that the image came from an actual camera and evaluate the degree to which it was edited.

But really I'm not a professional in this field. I'm sure there are pitfalls in my imagined solution. I just want some traceability from the images used in news articles.

New comment by leshenka in "Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian"

leshenka — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:38:13 +0000

I envy those who doesn't need a second keyboard layout on their computers haha

New comment by leshenka in "Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules"

leshenka — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:15:12 +0000

I hear about time capsule apps from time to time and my main concern about them is longevity.

Will this application exist in say 10 years from now? 20? And even then will I be using the same email by then?

New comment by leshenka in "It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)"

leshenka — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:09:11 +0000

> Go, which is harder to look up without mangling its name

don't get me started on typescript. Until recently I had to use its full name when googling something

New comment by leshenka in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

leshenka — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:09:52 +0000

That's true, it opens a splash screen. But if I remember correctly even if you dismiss it it opens a corresponding AppStore section. Which was kinda annoying but that's it.

In more recent developments of this story, looks like Russian authorities saw a success of EU's push for alternative stores and now want Apple to allow that in Russia too [1,2]. Sadly, the motivation is twofold: a. let authorities publish their spyware (Max messenger) and b. let sanctioned companies publish their apps (sberbank). I haven't heard a single word about caring for user freedom.

P.S. just for laughs: Since it's currently (almost)impossible to install alternative appstores, stores and online marketplaces selling iphones now label them as "defective" [3]: below title "Имеется недостаток товара: невозможно установить и использовать RuStore" = "Defect: impossible to install and use RuStore"

[1] (ru) https://www.ixbt.com/news/2025/07/07/apple-rustore-iphone-ip...

[2] (en) https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/27/an-app-store-ultimat...

[3] https://re-store.ru/catalog/10117MAX512ORGN/

New comment by leshenka in "Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS"

leshenka — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:23:48 +0000

Wonder if it's possible to use keys created by Secretive in native authentication?

New comment by leshenka in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

leshenka — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:42:50 +0000

Why, I think you'd be able to send files between two androids via airdrop implementation.