Hacker News: patchtopic

New comment by patchtopic in "Molly: An Improved Signal App"

patchtopic — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:52:35 +0000

this is why molly.im was a lifesaver for me.. trying to move a family member from VIBER to SIGNAL and ran into the annoying roadblock of not being able to link an Android tablet to an Android phone like Viber can - but molly does it fine.

New comment by patchtopic in "Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon"

patchtopic — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:47:13 +0000

this kind of blockchain analysis for the non-privacy oriented coins has been well known at least for a decade.. I don't see how it's a secret weapon except against the naive or uninformed

New comment by patchtopic in "Google Cloud suspended customer's account 3 times, for 3 different reasons"

patchtopic — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:03:19 +0000

I had the same frustrating "we are suspending your account but we refuse to explain why, have a nice day" crap from Azure.. anyone who depends on mission critical stuff from these services needs their heads read.

New comment by patchtopic in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"

patchtopic — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:51:13 +0000

Next in this series: why does the news not report on the time Trump spends sleeping and on the the toilet with the same importance that he spends on political decisions

New comment by patchtopic in "Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware"

patchtopic — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:17:34 +0000

I haven't opened my DOOM software box, it's still in the shrinkwrap. I guess I can take it back and ask for a refund now?

New comment by patchtopic in "Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty"

patchtopic — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:58:08 +0000

well said.

New comment by patchtopic in "Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty"

patchtopic — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:57:04 +0000

A false civil liberty they reserved for themselves.

New comment by patchtopic in "Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything"

patchtopic — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 02:22:47 +0000

something good for small hands, some kind of russian flute?

New comment by patchtopic in "Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year"

patchtopic — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 01:52:21 +0000

since space joffrey only owns about 12% of the shares, the other shareholders should vote the clown out..

New comment by patchtopic in "FFmpeg 8.0"

patchtopic — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:10:46 +0000

you know I cut a whole documentary in ffmpeg?

New comment by patchtopic in "Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom"

patchtopic — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:19:50 +0000

GrapheneOS says

"European authoritarians and their enablers in the media are misrepresenting GrapheneOS and even Pixel phones as if they're something for criminals. GrapheneOS is opposed to the mass surveillance police state these people want to impose on everyone"

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114784469162979608

State employees in their official capacity making inaccurate claims to media about GrapheneOS to smear it as being for criminals and as the users as largely being criminals is a state sponsored attack on the GrapheneOS project.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114813613250805804

New comment by patchtopic in "Australia Wants to See Your Papers Before You Press Play"

patchtopic — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:13:35 +0000

As an Australian I am disgusted by this backwards, authoritarian, ant-privacy approach.

New comment by patchtopic in "White Noise – secure and private messenger"

patchtopic — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:29:38 +0000

interesting but still very alpha. It doesn't have any desktop/PC clients yet, but I assume it will?

New comment by patchtopic in "The Email Startup Graveyard: Why 80%+ of Email Companies Fail"

patchtopic — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 03:13:42 +0000

compared to other businesses this number seems OK :-)

New comment by patchtopic in "Microsoft's big lie: Your computer is fine, and you don't need to buy a new one"

patchtopic — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:17:49 +0000

But in 2015:

Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference this week that Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows. Microsoft has no plans to let Windows 10 become stale. On the contrary, it plans to keep Windows evolving with regular improvements and updates.

New comment by patchtopic in "LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends"

patchtopic — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 12:33:45 +0000

time to get rid of the freeloaders with Anubis? https://anubis.techaro.lol/

New comment by patchtopic in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

patchtopic — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 07:41:08 +0000

just read this before so I can see why

https://old.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1lbn0fs/is_it_no...

New comment by patchtopic in "I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it"

patchtopic — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 01:47:54 +0000

A long time ago I was given an Android, Apple, and MS-windows phone to evaluate as company phones for the company I worked for. the MS-windows phone crashed almost straight out of the box. and crashed again. and again.

New comment by patchtopic in "The lack of a good command line way to sort IPv6 addresses"

patchtopic — Wed, 21 May 2025 14:00:37 +0000

The 85% of French and 75% of India adopting it don't care, they just use it :-)

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...

New comment by patchtopic in "Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server"

patchtopic — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 10:31:05 +0000

perhaps this is a FAQ but does this handle virtual domains like Postfix and Dovecot can?

i.e

person@fred.com and person@mary.com are completely separate domains/imap accounts on the same server?