Hacker News: satbyy

New comment by satbyy in "Why standard Indonesian is not spoken throughout Indonesia"

satbyy — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 19:48:05 +0000

Yes, the root is from Sanskrit (भाषा), got called over to SE Asia during the spread of Buddhism from India.

New comment by satbyy in "Xcode 10 is now integrated with GitLab"

satbyy — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 03:41:05 +0000

Yes

New comment by satbyy in "NixOS 18.03 Released"

satbyy — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:35:47 +0000

Conversely, Python's PEP394 explicitly discourages `/usr/bin/env python`, so there's that. (I know why the PEP says so, just pointing out that it differs from Nix style)

New comment by satbyy in "A Crude Personal Package Manager"

satbyy — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:09:24 +0000

I've been using GNU Stow as a pseudo "package manager." Let's me install multiple versions of a software. And I simply delete the directory when I don't need it anymore.

New comment by satbyy in "KDE Plasma Voted Best Desktop Environment in Linux Journal Readers Choice Awards"

satbyy — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 10:48:35 +0000

The name you're looking for is MATE desktop. I've been using it for many years because I never liked Gnome 3 (constant churn, breaking plugins, themes etc). I'm using it on Debian but there's also Ubuntu MATE and Fedora & Opensuse spins

New comment by satbyy in "An introduction to RISC-V"

satbyy — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:09:54 +0000

Seems it is paywalled. I know that it will open up in a less than a week, but do you have subscriber link (because I'm curious to read) ?

New comment by satbyy in "“Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”"

satbyy — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 05:59:02 +0000

There is Google's own "Personal blocklist" extension that does exactly that

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

New comment by satbyy in "Welp, there go my Git signatures"

satbyy — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:36:38 +0000

Could you plz provide an example ?

New comment by satbyy in "Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme Court"

satbyy — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:59:20 +0000

There are already "benefit" cards like LPG card, ration card, BPL card, etc to get those benefits. Why bother with Aadhar then? The answer is, consolidation. Aadhar is meant to be the identity card. I don't want to carry big passport book, etc. wherever I go.

New comment by satbyy in "Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme Court"

satbyy — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:55:52 +0000

Not really. He means that govt cannot force every citizen to undergo iris scan etc. for obtaining Aadhar card. I would like to get Aadhar without iris scan (and am willing to let go of secondary benefits like LPG subssidy etc). Such an option doesn't exist as of today. I, as an individual, will exercise my right to privacy by deciding whether to give my biometrics or not. Govt should not decide on my behalf.

New comment by satbyy in "Still locked out of my AWS account"

satbyy — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 18:59:12 +0000

> You're just renting them.

It's not renting really. If I rent a physical book (or house, etc), I have exclusive access to it. Nobody else can possess it. It's for this privilege that I'm paying. Obviously, this is not true of ebooks because 'X' persons can "rent" at the same time.

You're just licensing them. You're just paying for a license which can be revoked at Amazon's whim.

New comment by satbyy in "Base-4 fractions in Telugu"

satbyy — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 11:32:25 +0000

And so is the first Kannada-English dictionary by a German, Ferdinand Kittel, in 1894.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Kittel

New comment by satbyy in "SDF – Public Access Unix System"

satbyy — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 07:32:31 +0000

There's a European subsidiary of SDF as well: https://sdfeu.org/ . So the latency is much better than accessing US servers.

I've been using this for IRC and it works satisfactorily.

How I hijacked top celebrities tweets including Katy Perry, Shakira…

satbyy — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 07:23:25 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@MisterCh0c/how-i-hijacked-top-celebrities-tweets-including-katy-perry-shakira-fca3a0e751c6#.d2ysh3hhj

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13596487

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Password managers: attacks and defenses

satbyy — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 07:21:47 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/02/06/password-managers-attacks-and-defenses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13587744

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by satbyy in "What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't"

satbyy — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 14:22:24 +0000

Thanks for the catch!

New comment by satbyy in "What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't"

satbyy — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 09:22:51 +0000

Just hit 'Run' here: http://rextester.com/BDGO47890

You can see the program crash

New comment by satbyy in "Rust vs. Go"

satbyy — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:36:55 +0000

Given how demanding ESR is with regards to 10+ years stability, Nim hasn't even reached 1.0 yet. I love Nim and your contribution to the Nim ecosystem, but yeah, convincing ESR with 0.16.0 isn't happening.

New comment by satbyy in "Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data"

satbyy — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:59:21 +0000

Correct link: https://github.com/uclmr/emoji2vec

New comment by satbyy in "Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine"

satbyy — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 08:16:11 +0000

I'm not associated with it, but yeah, it was posted in /r/india few days ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/5mj3vz/setting_up_ne...

Domain is from Gandi (France) and IP address (hosting?) seems to be from Netherlands