Hacker News: starfox64_

New comment by starfox64_ in "The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025"

starfox64_ — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:40:19 +0000

Couldn't people move over to another app store like F-Droid?

New comment by starfox64_ in "LLM pricing comparison tool"

starfox64_ — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:20:51 +0000

Sorting by price doesn't seem to work as it sorts alphabetically

New comment by starfox64_ in "Serious incident to the 777-300ER on 5 April 2022 at CDG [pdf]"

starfox64_ — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 13:20:25 +0000

> 4.2 Safety measures taken by the manufacturer

I would have hoped for Boeing to add a warning system in the case of dual input, like in Airbus aircrafts, but it seems they did the bare minimum here. Simple warnings were added to the pilot hanbook that basically amount to "don't apply opposite inputs".

New comment by starfox64_ in "What PWA Can Do Today"

starfox64_ — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:19:44 +0000

It's kinda sad that the website doesn't prominently display which features have "universal" support across iOS and Android. The whole point of PWAs is to provide cross platforms apps so if a feature isn't available on all/most platforms, I don't think it's fair to say that it's really usable at all in your PWA.

New comment by starfox64_ in "15 Years of Android Memories"

starfox64_ — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 09:25:44 +0000

I've noticed that tapping notifications has a significant delay (350ms or so) before it opens any app since upgrading to 14.

New comment by starfox64_ in "Email Authentication: A Developer's Guide"

starfox64_ — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 21:16:15 +0000

I think it's a good initiative, it's obviously there for CAs to make a buck but it's finally a way to arguably curb phishing emails that rely on similar domain names or IDN characters all the while making your brand identity more prominent.

It seems to also have learned from one of Extended Certificate's shortcomings by relying on trademark instead of company name. I actually wish something similar was created to replace EV certificates as it's easier than ever to perform phishing attacks now that everyone and their grandmas has a DV certificate on their site (which is a good thing).

New comment by starfox64_ in "Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365"

starfox64_ — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 08:57:01 +0000

> Microsoft was already contemplating separating the two products, possibly as a pre-emptive measure to prevent antitrust investigations.

More like a pre-emptive measure to charge customers more for access to Teams

New comment by starfox64_ in "UUIDs are obsolete in the age of Docker"

starfox64_ — Fri, 19 May 2023 07:31:38 +0000

When did this change? Last I checked the PHP driver still relied on the pid.

New comment by starfox64_ in "UUIDs are obsolete in the age of Docker"

starfox64_ — Thu, 18 May 2023 23:18:54 +0000

I've had a similar issue with MongoDB's ObjectIDs. They are generated using a combination of process id, UNIX timestamp and a counter that is randomly initialized during process creation. The issue when docker comes into the mix is that the root process id of every container is 1 so a decent chunk of entropy is removed from the ObjectID. Add to that the fact that the timestamp doesn't have millisecond resolution, the only thing saving you is praying the counter of any of your processes never overlaps during the same second.

It's unlikely to happen but still possible and it has brought down some of our parallel worker pool because once you have a collision, you are bound to keep generating the same id sequence until you restart your whole process to randomize the counter again.

New comment by starfox64_ in "Show HN: Make domain verification as easy as verifying an email or phone number"

starfox64_ — Sat, 06 May 2023 08:26:20 +0000

I was very excited at discovering this protocol thinking it could solve a few pain points of our domain onboarding process.

However the fact that you need to go to every domain provider to get your template manually approved makes this completely useless, what even is the point? This barely adds any security too since I can just use each provider's official API and create whatever records I want this way.

It's really sad because the protocol is designed for auto discovery but then does a 180 by having this manual step.

New comment by starfox64_ in "HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users"

starfox64_ — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 08:34:45 +0000

This reminds me of when I took over a project after a developer that left they company.

They had just added SMS notifications to production but to my horror left some test code that would text you "Hey motherf**r" every time you would change your phone number.

To this day I still wonder how many people got that text.

New comment by starfox64_ in "Temporal Tables PostgreSQL Extension"

starfox64_ — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 12:07:11 +0000

Does anybody know of an equivalent for MongoDB?

New comment by starfox64_ in "Cloudflare Waiting Room"

starfox64_ — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:21:16 +0000

This is pretty neat, I'm actually surprised I haven't seen something like this on any website before.

New comment by starfox64_ in "Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature"

starfox64_ — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:11:32 +0000

Unless I'm reading this wrong, this lacks a lot of granularity. I'd like to be able to only give access to a subset of my vault, not all of it. I'm of the opinion that my accounts should just disappear with me, apart for some things related to real life like utilities and the likes. Come to think of it, my GitHub account could be worth preserving too but right now I can't think of much else being worth it.

New comment by starfox64_ in "Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive"

starfox64_ — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 08:31:34 +0000

I have encountered the exact same situation just a few days ago to get a developer account running. I created a new account using my personal phone number and this one hasn't been shut down yet so here's hoping it stays that way.

New comment by starfox64_ in "What we learned after a year on Kubernetes"

starfox64_ — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:35:42 +0000

I find that the best place to have an actual documentation for writing yaml files is the API Reference[0] and falling back to the "regular" documentation for more detailed explanations about specific topics. The reference lists all properties and type for everything that you can shove in your yaml files.

[0] https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-ap...

New comment by starfox64_ in "I lost €4k in a Facebook scam"

starfox64_ — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:13:43 +0000

I doubt many banks would refuse a charge-back considering this transaction obviously didn't use 3DSecure since it went through PayPal. You'd probably get your PayPal account shutdown if it went through though.

New comment by starfox64_ in "GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic"

starfox64_ — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:49 +0000

GDPR

New comment by starfox64_ in "France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program"

starfox64_ — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:10:33 +0000

It's not stated clearly in the official publication but it seems that their medium term goal, beyond using this on government websites, is to also allow private companies access to the tool.

It'd be pretty useful as a way to standardize the way various companies do identity verification online.

I'm honestly pleasantly surprised to see such a thing coming directly from our government, as it can be sometimes quite outdated.

New comment by starfox64_ in "Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking"

starfox64_ — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 21:12:54 +0000

They have different pricing depending on the type of storage medium (Phone/USB Drive/Regular HDD)

https://www.copiefrance.fr/images/documents/tarifs_FR_2019_0...

Looking into it, it seems to not be considered a tax as it's not collected by the government, it also states that if you are importing a drive from a country that also collects such a "tax" you should seek to be reimbursed from the exporting country and pay the "tax" to the importing country.

Their FAQ: https://www.copiefrance.fr/fr/ressources/questions-reponses