Hacker News: llacane

New comment by llacane in "European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp"

llacane — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:11:48 +0000

Actually European Commission has been on its own Mastodon server for a couple years:

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/public/local

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

llacane — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:31:39 +0000

Signal does NOT send encrypted notification, they send a blank notification that act like a ping, the actual encrypted data is then fetched by the app itself.

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

llacane — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:39:09 +0000

Signal does NOT send notification content througth APN/Firebase, their push notification is literaly a ping as you expected.

Source: https://mastodon.world@Mer__edith/111563866152334347 (Meredith Whittaker is the current CEO of Signal)

I can't link you rigth now to the actual code on their repo but it is verifiable.

New comment by llacane in "Join us for OpenAI’s first developer conference on November 6 in San Francisco"

llacane — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 17:53:56 +0000

I was writing that maybe they're using one of their AI models to count, and we all know how they count.

New comment by llacane in "I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome"

llacane — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 15:47:19 +0000

3 work on my machine (Firefox 102 on Android 12) if the site is a PWA else it lets you to have a link in your home screen.

The option is "Add to home screen"/"Install app" in the menu.

Also about 1: did you tried to put the bar in the bottom?