Hacker News: scarfaceneo

New comment by scarfaceneo in "iPhone users can now set WhatsApp as their default calling and texting app"

scarfaceneo — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:20:59 +0000

Because pretty much everyone who isn’t from the US is on WhatsApp, and voip calls quality is infinitely better than normal voice calls.

I either use FaceTime or WhatsApp.

New comment by scarfaceneo in "Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default"

scarfaceneo — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:40:13 +0000

Yelp, back to librewolf it is.

New comment by scarfaceneo in "Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)"

scarfaceneo — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:59:03 +0000

You can donate to an organisation and use their search engine.

New comment by scarfaceneo in "The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome"

scarfaceneo — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:33:29 +0000

None. Safari is the best browser I’ve used by a long margin.

New comment by scarfaceneo in "Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows"

scarfaceneo — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:21:37 +0000

They’re all kind of lacking imo compared to btop.

https://flathub.org/apps/io.missioncenter.MissionCenter is a good option though

New comment by scarfaceneo in "James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, has died"

scarfaceneo — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:09:37 +0000

In Brazil you get a day off work every year to donate. Which I think is a good compromise.

New comment by scarfaceneo in "Difficult Employees (and How to Handle Them)"

scarfaceneo — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:17:24 +0000

What in the actual hell is this doing here.

New comment by scarfaceneo in "'Hey Number 17 '"

scarfaceneo — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:16:44 +0000

Those poor bosses, they’re employing people that are barely making them any profit, purely out of the goodness in their hearts.

Spare me your BS.

New comment by scarfaceneo in "NASA Downgrades the Risk of 2024 YR4 to Below 1%"

scarfaceneo — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:15:39 +0000

Exactly. When people like Musk try and brainwash you into believing “we” should be a multi planetary species, what he means is “they” should be, and “you” should fund it.

New comment by scarfaceneo in "File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface"

scarfaceneo — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:03:00 +0000

Two completely unrelated products.

New comment by scarfaceneo in "Altman: OpenAI not for sale, especially to competitor who is not able to beat us"

scarfaceneo — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:54:24 +0000

Elon is that another one of your alts?

New comment by scarfaceneo in "Altman: OpenAI not for sale, especially to competitor who is not able to beat us"

scarfaceneo — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:51:03 +0000

Ah yeah, he’s very popular… with the “pick me” crowd

New comment by scarfaceneo in "Apple software update "bug" enables Apple Intelligence"

scarfaceneo — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:26:44 +0000

Yes, but if we’re discussing solutions, maybe it would be relevant to understand where the problem stems from

New comment by scarfaceneo in "UK Weighs Making Netflix Users Pay License Fee to Fund BBC"

scarfaceneo — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 06:22:52 +0000

Yes, it’s for live TV and/or any BBC content

New comment by scarfaceneo in "Magic Links Have Rough Edges, but Passkeys Can Smooth Them Over"

scarfaceneo — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:47:23 +0000

> Imagine if you could link your email client and your web browser closely together so that every site that offered a magic link "just worked". You click a button, it emails you, your email client silently notifies the web browser and deletes the email, and then you get logged in.

How the hell do you think that’s better? Passkeys are absolutely portable, many of the password managers on the market allow you to export them.

What happens if google suddenly decides to deactivate your account?

New comment by scarfaceneo in "Magic Links Have Rough Edges, but Passkeys Can Smooth Them Over"

scarfaceneo — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:44:00 +0000

So your only change would be needing to store a recovery code instead of the password.

New comment by scarfaceneo in "Magic Links Have Rough Edges, but Passkeys Can Smooth Them Over"

scarfaceneo — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:42:48 +0000

That’s why you don’t create a passkey for the service that manages your credentials.

Use a pair of yubikeys.

BTW, all major email providers have a flow to allow you to recover access to your account.

When you enable passkeys it doesn’t suddenly deactivate every other way of logging in.

New comment by scarfaceneo in "Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder"

scarfaceneo — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:44:05 +0000

MKBHD is the last person I’d go to for anything tech related.

He, like many others, do little more than just read spec sheets.

I like his car related content though, reckless driving notwithstanding

New comment by scarfaceneo in "Assassination is a leaky abstraction"

scarfaceneo — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:29:25 +0000

HN: “you know, in reality the French Revolution was actually a bad thing. Feudalism is where it’s at”

New comment by scarfaceneo in "Assassination is a leaky abstraction"

scarfaceneo — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:27:06 +0000

Stakes will be too high for that. The risk of that backfiring will be immense.

Well, there’s always the chance of claiming the shooter got away, and be lying in a ditch somewhere