Hacker News: omnifischer

New comment by omnifischer in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

omnifischer — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:44:08 +0000

do the meta employees that code these stuff also get tracked?

New comment by omnifischer in "The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds"

omnifischer — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:27:57 +0000

Agree... There should be some penalty to sites that want to show off their reports only to people with high end devices...

New comment by omnifischer in "Googlebook"

omnifischer — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:32:25 +0000

they do. You do lose 2FA with shattered screen.

Android phone can be used without google account (I do it). You cant even use Apple iPhone without.

New comment by omnifischer in "Googlebook"

omnifischer — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:00:09 +0000

Have you tried configuring secure boot - with - every single protection on Ubuntu /any distro?

Just google: Mathew Garrett On The State Of Boot Security implement everything and comeback.

Maybe slate with android? If you disable android in ChromeOS it a dream to use. Everything just works.

And remember normal people (i.e outside USA) already have Android phone. They just login and use. All passkeys etc. synced and running. All these are a pain in fedora etc.

New comment by omnifischer in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

omnifischer — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:47:30 +0000

No. They have more in common. I would assume this is an internal joint project.

New comment by omnifischer in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

omnifischer — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:44:39 +0000

People can install Google Services in them. Once you sign into google account then you self-certify the device. https://www.google.com/android/uncertified/?pli=1

New comment by omnifischer in "Open source does not imply open community"

omnifischer — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:13:37 +0000

Often people get emotional and try to baby sit (new and users that don't want to learn basics). Having a disjoint but strict, timely, disinterested connection with support forums is great. One of the great examples is coreboot or MrChromebox. He replies only when necessary.

New comment by omnifischer in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

omnifischer — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:57:14 +0000

Wait few hours. Some CTO or PR guru will post a message here.

- We are totally revamping our processes. This never happened out of incompetence. Humans make mistakes. We are contacting the client for 1 year free renewal - waiving. Will mail a coupon code. We consider this issue closed.

New comment by omnifischer in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

omnifischer — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:41:23 +0000

Those working in Google (AOSP) that write these code should be ashamed of themselves. Eventually they are doing a bad thing for the society.

New comment by omnifischer in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

omnifischer — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:33:44 +0000

Then ask all the billionares or people like you to give jobs/salaries/allowances/holidays at SV level to everyone in the world. Lets all build yachts. I am happy to get that level of pay.

New comment by omnifischer in "Ring owners are returning their cameras"

omnifischer — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:51:55 +0000

Once you do illegal then that is a different issue.

Even if your company does such stuff... the number of cameras per street is far fewer then one sees in the UK or USA.

New comment by omnifischer in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

omnifischer — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:08:01 +0000

The logic of putting roof over the head is a point that is too broadly used is not at all valid for things like tailscale as... eventually most businesses at that level (tailscale revenue in 2025 was $45.2M) are crushing the customers. Either entshittification or lock-in. There is a loss of trust. The trust on SV/software is as much as bankers (during Lehmann bros crisis). Some people in HN think oh, we are growing small farmers/engineers from grassroots etc Yes, maybe - but their thinking is to exploit customers sooner or later. These smaller ones (as compared to FAANG etc) think that common man thinks that FAANG are the exploitative ones. But no. The public is getting aware that every damn calendar app or pdf viewer or router is increasing prices or wants subscription or planned obsolescence.

A roof over the head is OK but the price increases are usually to put private Yachts. The income earned by majority of these founders is already good to have lots of roofs.

Maybe my local corner coffee shop is one fellow I would not mind having subscription with...

New comment by omnifischer in "Ring owners are returning their cameras"

omnifischer — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:04:31 +0000

All over Europe is generalisation. At least in France, Germany, Switzerland it is too much pain and paperwork to get any camera installed. If you are worried about chinese then seriously you cannot live.

New comment by omnifischer in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

omnifischer — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:00:46 +0000

> Screens are getting bigger and bigger, yet they make things smaller and harder to click on.

Totally true. I have some some UX designers daily driving 4k monitors with 2k resolution to see things clearly!!

New comment by omnifischer in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

omnifischer — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:57:36 +0000

if you search

NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture

you see how often this feature gets broken and type some other flag or install 3rd party app.

New comment by omnifischer in "Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome"

omnifischer — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:44:44 +0000

I wish this executive (author of that post) https://xcancel.com/laparisa?lang=en will show their browser in REAL LIFE everyday use. Really do they use it?

New comment by omnifischer in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

omnifischer — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:28:10 +0000

> people have access to old computers from ewaste imports at a reasonable price,

Are you joking?

One can get super good condition Dell latitudes with 8th gen Intel with 8GB RAM and 256GB NVMe with 1 year no-questions asked warranty (and original charger) for €100. Similar ones cost 2x or 3x in India. That is not reasonable.

> don't all live in straw mudhuts wearing loincloths

No. But not everyone is earning in Bengaluru campus. Look at the typical Rapido driver.

New comment by omnifischer in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

omnifischer — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:04:05 +0000

Please delete my account. Thanks

New comment by omnifischer in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

omnifischer — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:32:16 +0000

- How different is this from Fedora BlueFin or silverblue?

- it looks like they want to build a ChromeOS without Google.

New comment by omnifischer in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

omnifischer — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:29:18 +0000

For all those people saying negative please see all the comments when RedHat was acquired by IBM (2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884

- Linux is better now

- Nothing bad