<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: pteraspidomorph</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pteraspidomorph</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 03:44:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pteraspidomorph" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can access page info through address bar shield > connection secure > more site information too. It used to be easier to access from there, but they redesigned that at some point I think.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:23:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387726</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also, people can and should go to the firefox settings > Permissions and data > Autoplay and change the Default for all websites to "Block Audio" (at least).<p>You can set per-hostname exceptions if you like! CTRL + I > Permissions</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:37:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376958</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Graphene passes basic integrity, so most of them work. There is a list here:<p><a href="https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/" rel="nofollow">https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:45:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49361539</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49361539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49361539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suspect that while Ron Gilbert is great at what he does, Tim Schafer was always the funnier writer of the Monkey Island trio...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:34:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109787</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109787</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Em dashes are fucking amazing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a stylistic choice. Here's an analysis, complete with a link <i>back</i> to an old HN discussion:<p><a href="https://www.pbjstories.com/blog/spaces-around-em-dash" rel="nofollow">https://www.pbjstories.com/blog/spaces-around-em-dash</a><p>I beta read for a popular american author and they started using spaces too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:38:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035393</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035393</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It sucks that Google is probably using OSM data to check what they are missing and adding it to their maps<p>If only. Maps are still super broken around where I live. I personally mapped everything in OSM (which thankfully is used by most third party services these days) a couple years ago, but Maps is still people's primary source for routing and traffic related stuff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:03:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820553</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Remember it's also coming for you:<p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require...</a><p>> The KIDS Act Regulates Private Messages, Too</p>
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<p>Have you tried foliate? Their embedded reader works quite well for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:13:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536508</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe because a lot of users still have those games wishlisted?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 04:17:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004570</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004570</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "State of Kdenlive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can confirm that it got more stable for me in 2025. Good job!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:30:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816674</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816674</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had this problem with Facebook 15 years ago. Nothing new, but as always, people will avert their eyes until it begins to affect them personally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:43:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102355</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102355</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And we're still getting passwords changed periodically or requiring a number, upper case letter, symbol...<p>I'm an European engineer and I can confirm that our tech is often broken and customer-reachable people are usually obtuse and hostile about it. We don't even seem to properly implement our own legal requirements. Sometimes, Americans implement the RGPD better than we do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:13:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998503</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who has been on Discord since the beginning, runs Discord communities and writes Discord bots, here's my list of three things that I believe would make a viable Discord competitor:<p>- Free without requiring self-hosting;<p>- Absolutely frictionless community access - here's an invite link, you can start chatting immediately;<p>- High quality voice calls with screen sharing.<p>I don't think there is a competitor that hits all three points right now. Screen sharing in particular is often disregarded by developers who have limited interaction with Discord and don't truly understand the platform. It was not an original feature, but it <i>is</i> Discord's killer feature. Because screen sharing is also impromptu videogame streaming.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:21:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962092</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962092</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OK, but you're not the one making that decision and you don't know/can't control how that decision is being made.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:16:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946884</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That has always been the case, yes, though I'm not sure what you mean by "illegal" content. There is only a small overlap between NSFW and illegal content, and the NSFW filter has never been concerned with, uh, violating photograph copyright or something.<p>You don't have to take my word for it, just check it yourself, although it seems that this week, they renamed the NSFW setting to "Age-Restricted Channel" (in preparation for this change, no doubt). The verification-related portion of the behavior I described was implemented for the UK months ago.<p>The description still contains: "Age-restricted channels are exempt from the explicit content filter."<p>EDIT: IANAL (or american) but if Discord was policing content for legality rather than age-appropriateness, wouldn't they lose DMCA Safe Harbor protections?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:25:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946255</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946255</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's how Discord works. A third or so of its features, such as forum channels (EDIT: I think this specific example was wrong; stage and announcement channels, but not forum channels) or role self-assignment, are locked behind Community Mode. After enabling Community Mode, server owners are NOT ALLOWED to turn off content filtering anymore, meaning that by default, content in every channel may be filtered out by systems you cannot configure.<p>The only way <i>for the server owner</i> to circumvent the filter is to mark a channel as "NSFW", which doesn't necessarily mean the channel actually contains any NSFW content.<p>This change will not actually require ID for content confirmed to be NSFW. It will require ID for each and every "NSFW mode" (unfiltered) channel. The end result is that you have three choices:<p>- Ditch Discord features implemented in recent years (or at least this is currently possible) - this prevents a server from being listed as public;<p>- Require ID checks from all your users (per channel);<p>- Have everything scanned from all your users (per channel).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:06:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946021</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946021</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>RTS like Age of Empires were more geared towards combat, and base building existed only to supplement that. Whereas in games like Pharaoh and Caeser you <i>could</i> plan your city if you wanted to.<p>My iteration of The Settlers was The Settlers II (also its later 3D remake) which is very much designed around roads that units mostly had to use! This was found in other early instances of RTS but later discarded (including in The Settlers series).<p>It's true, however, that events like floods or the tax collector were missing. Those are more easily found in board games.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:16:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727556</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727556</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Of course not, everyone knows there were only five Istari in total, Saruman the White, Gandalf the Grey, Radagast the Brown and the two Blue ones that were kidnapped by aliens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:11:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727533</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used Nova for years and went through this research before, having tested many alternatives. Octopi is what you're looking for. It can do pretty much everything Nova did for me and more besides. They also update often with improvements and fixes!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:38:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701538</link><dc:creator>pteraspidomorph</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701538</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pteraspidomorph in "The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm happy Airvpn is rarely mentioned in mainstream vpn lists and don't typically mention them myself (sorry airvpn folks, but here's my apology) because I suspect its relative obscurity is in great part the reason it works so well. Not only reputation - it's technologically good too, supports all the payment methods, good prices, lots of exit points, no nonsense. I've been using them continuously for several years.</p>
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