Hacker News: madeforhnyo

New comment by madeforhnyo in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

madeforhnyo — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:45:56 +0000

I can add certificates on my unrooted android. That how HTTPToolkit [0] works, it only requires adb, which (thankfully) doesn't trip banking apps. Banking apps can (and do iirc) pin certificates, so a rooted phone adds no risk whatsoever.

Also in my experience a rooted phone experience is by far more secure than the OEM androids. Security is supposed to assess risk objectively, yet "running on a Xiaomi phone with 3rd party apps that cannot be uninstalled and have system access" is somehow more secure than "running on a signed LineageOS where user can edit hosts file".

[0] https://httptoolkit.com/

New comment by madeforhnyo in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

madeforhnyo — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:30:43 +0000

Yep that's my experience as well, if you don't get the play protect™ absolution your device is seen as rooted. Latest app to display this BS behavior was PagerDuty, I guess they have to protect their secret sauce of calling an API and showing notifications

New comment by madeforhnyo in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

madeforhnyo — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:53:37 +0000

A collegue of mine was tech lead at a large online bank. For the mobile app, the first and foremost threat that security auditors would find was "The app runs on a rooted phone!!!". Security theater at its finest, checkboxes gotta be checked. The irony is that the devs were using rooted phones for QA and debugging.

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

madeforhnyo — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:07:19 +0000

Are you saying that corporations respect the letter of the law when it comes to privacy? They don't, they can just drop some lunch money when caught red-handed [0]

Even when they write in their privacy policy that they collect private data and sell them to third parties, unlawfully, that does not make it any better. Cambridge Analytica was operating with respect to Facebook policies. Would you say that people that took an IQ test and were manipulated into voting pro-Brexit were well-aware of the sauce they were eaten with?

Discord is unfortunately no different, they're profit-driven and likely to sell user data already or in the future, because it's incredibly easy and profitable to do so. Why would a chat app try and predict its users' gender? [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDPR_fines_and_notices [1] https://x.com/DiscordPreviews/status/1790065494432608432

New comment by madeforhnyo in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

madeforhnyo — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:30:50 +0000

Would you say that slaughtering Native Americans and enslaving Africans "worked pretty well" for them, or do you only speak from the White adventurer perspective?

New comment by madeforhnyo in "Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers"

madeforhnyo — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:30:51 +0000

Just because some CEOs pour billions into fantasy projects it doesn't mean they're viable. Otherwise we all would be in the metaverse wouldn't we?

New comment by madeforhnyo in "Show HN: Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git"

madeforhnyo — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:01:01 +0000

Being a node dev - by necessity, I've settled on dotenvx [0] for committing encrypted .env files.

[0] https://dotenvx.com/

New comment by madeforhnyo in "The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law"

madeforhnyo — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:15:23 +0000

If they're not doing evil work, why all the secrecy? It's not like they're going bankrupt either since, like you mentioned, the demand is not going away

New comment by madeforhnyo in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

madeforhnyo — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:26:55 +0000

I believe news sites let crawlers access the full articles for a short period of time, so that they appear in search results. Archive.is crawls during that short window.

New comment by madeforhnyo in "Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor"

madeforhnyo — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:47:22 +0000

From Incus main page:

> The Incus project was created by Aleksa Sarai as a community driven alternative to Canonical's LXD. Today, it's led and maintained by many of the same people that once created LXD.

Thé confusion si real

Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble

madeforhnyo — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 06:39:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/759965/sam-altman-openai-ai-bubble-interview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44938004

Points: 27

# Comments: 10

New comment by madeforhnyo in "Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA-Low frequency band"

madeforhnyo — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:44:26 +0000

Communication requires accurate timing. Time dilation occurs between Earth and satellites, a phenomenon that isn't part of Newton mechanics, so relativity is indeed involved.

New comment by madeforhnyo in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

madeforhnyo — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:33:06 +0000

Still, it is _personal_ data collected and sold by Google, which was the point raised by gp comment. As for it being personally identifying, the aggregation/pseudonymization/anonymization process doesn't even prevent precise identification [0]. I'd say it's pretty close.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10933-3

New comment by madeforhnyo in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

madeforhnyo — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:43:35 +0000

Wait no further: https://ads.google.com/intl/en/home/tools/insights-finder/

New comment by madeforhnyo in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

madeforhnyo — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 09:05:26 +0000

Source? Google is literally an online ad monopoly, and being sued for it. They did track and continue tracking users, and they sell data though their SSP, DSP, ad networks, ad exchanges they own.

New comment by madeforhnyo in "FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies"

madeforhnyo — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:22:56 +0000

Good ol' zip bomb

https://furry.engineer/@niko/113728467796605323

New comment by madeforhnyo in "Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?"

madeforhnyo — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:37:20 +0000

https://bleuje.com/

New comment by madeforhnyo in "The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind"

madeforhnyo — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:05:26 +0000

In the empirico-criticism philosophy (which influenced general relativity), the real cannot be understood outside of one's sensations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Mach#Philosophy_of_scien...

New comment by madeforhnyo in "Infosec 101 for Activists"

madeforhnyo — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:22:52 +0000

https://signal.org/bigbrother/

New comment by madeforhnyo in "Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion"

madeforhnyo — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:22:12 +0000

Someone did? Could you pls share a link?