Hacker News: piuvas

New comment by piuvas in "Show HN: Running the second public ODoH relay"

piuvas — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:40:05 +0000

anyone know how the diagram was made? pretty cool.

New comment by piuvas in "Nothing Chats, an iMessage app for Android, is a privacy nightmare"

piuvas — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:09:21 +0000

can someone explain to me how this is any different from beeper?

New comment by piuvas in "Signal: The Pqxdh Key Agreement Protocol"

piuvas — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 11:43:10 +0000

loving it!!!

New comment by piuvas in "Antisemitism on Twitter has more than doubled since Elon Musk took over"

piuvas — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:02:36 +0000

Unsurprising

New comment by piuvas in "Show HN: vore – a simple RSS/atom feed reader"

piuvas — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:54:44 +0000

I love weirdly named, cutely presented software <3

New comment by piuvas in "Stone tablet shows Babylonians able to approximate √2 with 99.9999% accuracy"

piuvas — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 05:21:49 +0000

Ah, thank you very much for the explanation!

New comment by piuvas in "Stone tablet shows Babylonians able to approximate √2 with 99.9999% accuracy"

piuvas — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 18:45:28 +0000

I don't understand how it's 99.9999% accurate if it's infinitely long

New comment by piuvas in "Ask HN: What's the best selfhost ActivityPub option"

piuvas — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 23:56:44 +0000

I'd say you try Akkoma.

https://akkoma.dev/

New comment by piuvas in "Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover"

piuvas — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:18:09 +0000

How so? Every instance is not independent, they all communicate with each other. In practice, it's like everyone (Misskey, Pleroma, Mastodon) is on the same platform, except that some users have an address after their handle.

New comment by piuvas in "Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover"

piuvas — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 13:17:42 +0000

It's not very different. The hardest thing to grasp is the decentralization.

New comment by piuvas in "Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover"

piuvas — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 12:50:39 +0000

You're forgetting that Mastodon runs on ActivityPub, which means that the point is to divide users into different servers. For example, when everyone joined mastodon.social, the balance tipped and a lot of users lost access. Concentrating users into a single instance is not what's supposed to happen.

Ideally, you wouldn't want to go through joinmastodon.org and join the highest ranking server since that would centralize the whole protocol. It's favorable for everyone using the service that you join invite-only niche servers or self host.

Ask HN: Are there no shells for Windows other than PowerShell and CMD?

piuvas — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:29:07 +0000

And I don't mean terminal emulators, because I know Console Host, WT, Kitty, Alacritty. I mean shells like bash, zsh.

How come there are so many alternatives for linux but none for Windows?

Nothing against PowerShell, I'm just curious.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33324582

Points: 11

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New comment by piuvas in "Open source, cross-platform, low latency, user-mode tablet driver"

piuvas — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 21:49:07 +0000

The Windows Ink plugin used to have issues interfacing with it's plugin API. I've tested it and it's working again. This is great since most tablets have sucky software in my experience.