Hacker News: okso

New comment by okso in "Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout"

okso — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:03:39 +0000

The Mullbad Browser? https://mullvad.net/en/browser

New comment by okso in "A decade of Docker containers"

okso — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:49:11 +0000

LLMs are getting very good at packaging software using Nix.

New comment by okso in "Voxon: Real time interactive volumetric holograms"

okso — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:15:35 +0000

Would a transparent OLED display not provide a better visual quality ?

New comment by okso in "Helium: Lighter Web Automation with Python"

okso — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:24:37 +0000

macOS only (uses Apple Vision framework)

New comment by okso in "NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch"

okso — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 11:19:21 +0000

I am using GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS has a compatibility layer providing the option to install and use the official releases of Google Play in the standard app sandbox.

See https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play

NetGuard also shows network requests from GrapheneOS itself, all proxied by the GrapheneOS project, as described here: https://grapheneos.org/faq#default-connections

New comment by okso in "NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch"

okso — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 11:14:38 +0000

Not sure anymore since I removed them, it may have been BlaBlaCar and/or Tricount.

New comment by okso in "NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch"

okso — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 06:00:15 +0000

I am dreaming of an open-source app that adds Wireguard capabilities to NetGuard or vice-versa.

Having to switch from one to the other is very annoying.

New comment by okso in "NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch"

okso — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 05:58:02 +0000

Installing NetGuard was revelation regarding the amount of tracking in most Android apps.

You can configure it to block access by default and notify you every time an app attempts a new connection. And it rings all the time.

Some software call home at 4am every day, other every hour, some send data to a dozen "analytics" services - services that I never opted-in for, which shows how few apps respect the RGPD.

At least most apps still work when those are blocked, and NetGuard allows you to block connections to Google servers except for Google Apps, which network firewalls and DNS solutions can't.

New comment by okso in "Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text"

okso — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:32:34 +0000

F-Droid only packages open-source software and rebuilds it from source, while installing from Accrescent would move all trust to the developer, even if the license changes to proprietary.

I understand that the author trusts itself more than F-Droid, but as a user the opposite seems more relevant.

New comment by okso in "Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text"

okso — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:29:28 +0000

Link: https://github.com/soupslurpr/Transcribro/issues/9

New comment by okso in "62 Minutes could bring your business down"

okso — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:16:11 +0000

They should reword it as "That’s the average time it takes a broken automatic upgrade to land and deploy through your network. When your data, reputation, and revenue are at stake, don't trust third-party software with automated updates."

New comment by okso in "FUTO Keyboard"

okso — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:30:09 +0000

Finally a voice recognition keyboard that works well on Android and offline! I just tested it and the quality in English at least is great.

Too bad that the license is not open-source, I prefer donating to projects that are open-source even if asking for a fee to use (ex: Netguard, MyExpenses).

New comment by okso in "Google releases smart watch for kids"

okso — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:00:55 +0000

Does anyone else feel uneasy about the idea of children having to curb their behavior because they know they're being constantly monitored by their parents?

This product concerns me not only due to corporate advertising surveillance but also parental spying.

New comment by okso in "Statically Typed Functional Programming with Python 3.12"

okso — Sun, 26 May 2024 07:53:38 +0000

You may be interested in the type matching provided by Pydantic. It is a handy way to avoid writing `match-case` expressions.

``` >>> from pydantic import BaseModel >>> from typing import Literal, List

>>> class Chicken(BaseModel): ... n_legs: Literal[2]

>>> class Cat(BaseModel): ... n_legs: Literal[4]

>>> class Farm(BaseModel): ... animals: List[Chicken | Cat]

>>> Farm.model_validate(dict(animals=[{'n_legs': 2}, {'n_legs': 4}])) Farm(animals=[Chicken(n_legs=2), Cat(n_legs=4)]) ```

New comment by okso in "School lunch breaks in France can be two hours (2012)"

okso — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:11:06 +0000

Don't underestimate the value of having lots of social time with classmates.

New comment by okso in "Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU"

okso — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:11:22 +0000

Apple keeps a strong control nevertheless, as detailed in the page "Getting ready for Web Distribution in the EU."

> Apps offered through Web Distribution must meet Notarization requirements to protect platform integrity, like all iOS apps, and can only be installed from a website domain that the developer has registered in App Store Connect.

Further, the conditions for eligibility seem to block access to new startups and indie developers.

> To be eligible for Web Distribution, you must: (...) Be a member of good standing in the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more, and have an app that had more than one million first annual installs on iOS in the EU in the prior calendar year.

New comment by okso in "So you want to build your own open source chatbot"

okso — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 17:41:12 +0000

> "set up our own virtual server inside Mozilla’s existing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account. In doing so, we effectively committed to doing MLOps ourselves. But we could also move forward with confidence that our system would be private and fully under our control."

How is setting up a server inside Google's infrastructure "private and fully under Mozilla's control" ?

New comment by okso in "Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser"

okso — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:41:46 +0000

I am curious about the technical reasons motivating the requirement to login with a Mullvad account number while already using Mullvad VPN to reach Mullvad Leta.

The Mullvad website and the https://mullvad.net/en/check page show that Mullvad already has tools to detect users of its VPN.

New comment by okso in "Composefs: Content-Addressable Overlay Filesystem for Linux"

okso — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:45:51 +0000

Combining this with IPFS could be pretty interesting

New comment by okso in "WireGuard for the ESP32"

okso — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 13:55:44 +0000

RISC-V might change the game soon with chips such as the Boufallo Lab BL616/BL618 RISC-V MCU.

> Boufallo Lab BL616/BL618 is a 32-bit RISC-V wireless microcontroller with support for 2.4 GHz WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2 dual-mode, and an 802.15.4 radio for Zigbee, Thread, and Matter designed for IoT applications. [1]

Boufallo chips are becoming available on Pine64 products (Ox64, Star64, Pinecil) [2].

[1] https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/12/29/boufallo-lab-bl616-b... [2] https://www.pine64.org/2022/11/15/november-update-tuned-in/