Hacker News: realusername

New comment by realusername in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

realusername — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:00:15 +0000

That's also what Microsoft 365 is, a webapp, even the latest Outlook is a webapp.

New comment by realusername in "EFF is leaving X"

realusername — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:41:49 +0000

I would bet the opposite, Twitter was already a small competitor compared to Facebook and never reached its popularity, switching the audience to the far right likely cut down even more of what was left.

New comment by realusername in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

realusername — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:54:07 +0000

While I like the simplicity from FreeBSD, this simplicity also comes specifically because there's less contributions.

I doubt anything can get the scale of Linux and not have some mess.

New comment by realusername in "Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates"

realusername — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:17:42 +0000

Nothing has been tampered with doesn't mean there's no factory backdoor, it just only means same as factory, nothing more.

New comment by realusername in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

realusername — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:42:58 +0000

> Compare emissions between France and Germany during dunkelflaute

Even without dunkelflaute, the absolute bottom per kwh emissions of Germany in summer still doesn't reach the maximum emissions of France in winter.

New comment by realusername in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

realusername — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:39:25 +0000

I don't think it will matter too much in the long run, 8 of the top 10 smartphone manufacturers are Chinese, there's nothing the US government can really do.

New comment by realusername in "Veracrypt project update"

realusername — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:08:18 +0000

I think this is fundamentally an unsolvable problem and I'm not even sure it's worth pursuing.

Any large scale signing platform will have large oversights and be rendered useless. See the appstore / play store/windows...

New comment by realusername in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

realusername — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:56:41 +0000

I think the blame is on Apple here, you can't support older devices even if you wanted to. (And it's the same on Android)

New comment by realusername in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

realusername — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:45:36 +0000

Google is above the law in the US, there's a reason why the CEO sits at the presidential inauguration. It's not about laws but power.

And your example is pretty poor, HBO doesn't have a 10th of the power of YouTube.

New comment by realusername in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

realusername — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:13:11 +0000

When you have a monopoly like YouTube, yes you can expect to have an access to the platform if it prevents competition. It's textbook antitrust laws.

New comment by realusername in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

realusername — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:45:12 +0000

There hasn't been any abuse in this story as far as I know, it's not like mass downloads of videos happened with their client.

New comment by realusername in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

realusername — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:46:08 +0000

Google deployed custom code to actively block the clients so it went beyond just a disagreement

New comment by realusername in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

realusername — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:02:59 +0000

Personally this toggle doesn't do anything (Android 16, Samsung) so I'm not sure when it's supposed to be ready

New comment by realusername in "Android Developer Verification"

realusername — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:55:41 +0000

Meanwhile, on the Play Store... https://ibb.co/DJKGM8d

New comment by realusername in "Android Developer Verification"

realusername — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:35:50 +0000

What you are proposing won't solve anything, the #1 source of malware on Android is Play Store ads, here I said it.

And Google benefits financially from the problem.

New comment by realusername in "Android Developer Verification"

realusername — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:31:23 +0000

I call it "direct install" personally, implying the play store is the indirect install.

New comment by realusername in "Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices"

realusername — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:16:13 +0000

Their stance is that they want to lock up Android, if they start sharing the truth, it just doesn't support their goals

New comment by realusername in "Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices"

realusername — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:00:10 +0000

> no data shared with the public on what percent of scams were caused by sideloaded apps and how the scams actually operate for us to be able to accept the solution.

They will not share the data because the data goes against their public stance.

Apks are already very annoying to install for your average user. The scams will target the web, the playstore and then as a very last resort, direct installs

New comment by realusername in "Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices"

realusername — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:55:09 +0000

Google's perspective is that they want full control on Android.

If they really care about scams, the first result when I search for chatgpt is a fake app with a fake logo. Maybe they should start by tackling the scams on the play store as the play store is the far west.

New comment by realusername in "Migrating to the EU"

realusername — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:54:42 +0000

Fastmail is australian