Hacker News: mcsniff

New comment by mcsniff in "Poker and Liar's Dice over Bluetooth Low Energy"

mcsniff — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:00:23 +0000

Clickable links, because offline mode is pretty cool.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/airplane-mode-poker/id67912479...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.testco.airp...

New comment by mcsniff in "A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention"

mcsniff — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:59:52 +0000

Because libertarians generally want fewer laws, not more.

New comment by mcsniff in "Canceling "Hey""

mcsniff — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:28:30 +0000

Perhaps they agree with his opinion or they don't care about it?

New comment by mcsniff in "Ask HN: Share Your Eccentric Hobby"

mcsniff — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:09:50 +0000

If you don't want to run your own VPN, there's Tailscale or CloudFlare Tunnel, both widely known and provided by reputable companies.

New comment by mcsniff in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

mcsniff — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:06:33 +0000

It will drift, significantly, without being connected to a device to set the time.

New comment by mcsniff in "Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust"

mcsniff — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:58:16 +0000

Using a package manager usually

New comment by mcsniff in "Immich 3.0"

mcsniff — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:27:59 +0000

Okay? So don't use it, use a managed service like Google Photos, Apple Photos, Dropbox, etc where your photos and files might be arbitrarily removed or your access to them limited while they are scanned for disavowed content.

You can also just use a secure transport layer (like WireGuard or a VPN) instead of relying on every project to implement end-to-end encryption.

New comment by mcsniff in "The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024)"

mcsniff — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:17:26 +0000

And this is exactly why people are, have been, and should continue to opt out and/or opt in if they choose.

I appreciate your comment doesn't try to state if these are good or bad things, just that they are.

New comment by mcsniff in "USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits"

mcsniff — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:58:55 +0000

I'll bite. What type of watch do you have that has a direct USB-C port on it?

New comment by mcsniff in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

mcsniff — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:35:57 +0000

If a shop won't accept cash, I just leave.

New comment by mcsniff in "Android Developer Verification"

mcsniff — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:41:04 +0000

What you're describing is not "broken", it's the process and it appears it hasn't even failed for you.

My experience with getting a verified "business" developer account from Google mirrors the experience as getting one from Apple, except it's a one-time fee and much less than Apple.

Yes there are hoops to jump through, identification usually requires some hoops, but pretty it's straightforward. I am not commenting on the requirements of these hoops, yes, it's BS that they exist but it's their platform so it's their rules.

What type of "experience" are you expecting to have anyway?

New comment by mcsniff in "Government agencies buy commercial data about Americans in bulk"

mcsniff — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:42:31 +0000

If you want to absolve yourself of personal responsibility, go ahead and blame "them" and "we".

You were free to drink lead-free water the entire time, you just didn't care enough to do so.

New comment by mcsniff in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

mcsniff — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:01:55 +0000

100+ times a day? Explain yourself.

I login/unlock my password manager maybe...a dozen times a week and that would be a high count when I'm doing "business" and logging in for financial things.

New comment by mcsniff in "uLauncher"

mcsniff — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:41:44 +0000

OctoPi Launcher is a solid replacement for Nova, it has swipe up/down functionality.

New comment by mcsniff in "Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting"

mcsniff — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:46:18 +0000

And what exactly stops this from happening to any company or organization, regardless of being US-based?

If 90% of customers are in the US, they're probably going to comply.

New comment by mcsniff in "[dead]"

mcsniff — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:53:32 +0000

Your demo video could be better. As a whole, this looks extremely rushed.

Zooming in and out makes it hard to focus and see what is actually happening.

The cursor moves around very erratically. Difficult to follow.

You really couldn't spend a few minutes to re-record it without the "in action" typo in SAMPLE_VALUE?

Why are you moving between Logs, Compute, Storage, etc. so quickly with no time for the viewer to see what's in there and nothing to highlight?

New comment by mcsniff in "Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered"

mcsniff — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:24:01 +0000

No, not "only". E2EE is now used as a dog whistle.

Who holds/controls the keys on both ends?

New comment by mcsniff in "Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011"

mcsniff — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:00:12 +0000

Just some constructive feedback. Your site needs a little bit of work on design and copy.

"test your personal user account one month free for." and other (translation?) mistakes.

Your use of capitalisation and spelling is not consistent throughout each page.

FAQ page is empty?

Quick Manual page is empty?

iOS download link doesn't work.

Your security posture boils down to "we're German, trust us"?

New comment by mcsniff in "Android Tablet as Mac Display"

mcsniff — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:21:01 +0000

Clickable link:

https://www.jefferyabbott.com/caboose

For those interested it would be nice to include that the Mac app costs $24.99 and the Android app isn't available in the Play Store (yet?).

New comment by mcsniff in "TP-Link only works with a permanent internet connection"

mcsniff — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:34:32 +0000

This is a pretty interesting claim...I have a few C110 and C200 that work just fine offline after null routing them.

You may need to enable RTSP (https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/2680/) to get a feed off them directly, it works fine in Frigate and any other viewer that can consume RTSP.

I am not defending TP-Link, but it's a pretty big claim for you to say their devices don't work offline and will immediately power down, without any supporting technical evidence.