<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: universenz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=universenz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:32:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=universenz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Correct, they’re closed source and you can’t opt out of analytics</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:54:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250800</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Definitely check out Osaurus for macOS and Windows. Heavily privacy focused with e2ee iOS and iPadOS tethers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:50:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250735</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250735</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Surely you used several USB Ethernet adapters to rule them out as being the source as well right? Those types of dongles are well known for calling home.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:31:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998251</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998251</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>tHaTs BeCaUsE wE dOn’T SeLL wIdE ScReeN DiSpLaYs YeT! -Apple Genius</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:13:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997678</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Vibechart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No no no.. go one better for the Mac. It should be whichever device/s which are next to be made legacy from Apple’s 7 year support window. That way you’re actually catering to the lowest common denominator.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 22:51:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831382</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831382</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Apple M3 Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there a single Apple SoC where they’ve provided removable ram? Not that I can recall.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:22:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266767</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266767</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Apple M3 Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>96gb on baseline model m3 ultra with a max of 512gb! Looks like they’re leaning in hard with the AI crowd.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:21:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266744</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266744</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Show HN: WP Foundry, a desktop WordPress management tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A fellow HN Kiwi. Nice work on this Mike. Keen to see how it develops!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:14:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143455</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143455</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right? Dude, please provide some additional context around your web browser stack because something you’re using is triggering their system. That or you’re click house neighbours are using your wifi.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2023 02:08:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37733166</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37733166</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37733166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Affinity 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also it appears the new v2 licensing approach does not support Family Purchases, which is a step backward in my view.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 12:32:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33530620</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33530620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33530620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Meta lays off 11,000 people"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While he may not of penned it himself, he is certainly funding 50% of the rather generous severance and that should count for something by comparison.</p>
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<p>Correction: They /attempted/ to add an /optional/ feature for your /children's/ account(s).<p>Do you have kids? Daughters? Would you like better control over what they're exposed to? Being given the tools to track screen time, purchases and control where possible exposure to objectionable content for immature minds isn't a bad thing.. provided it is opt-in. Which the feature always was before the news cycle chose their own narrative.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:27:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30107836</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30107836</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30107836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Felony charges are first in a fatal crash involving Autopilot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you sure you meant to use “FUD” in this sentence? It doesn’t make sense. “Elon and his sales team (“they”) are selling this fear uncertainty and doubt”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 19:56:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29999130</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29999130</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29999130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Mozilla's Firefox Relay to be added to disposable-email-domains blacklist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>EVE Online has highly sophisticated user fingerprinting to prevent fraud and real money trading. So even if you got through with that email address it wouldn't be long before an issue was raised for your account.<p>With EVE, fraud comes in many ways and most would presume credit card fraud but because you can earn ISK in-game, which can be converted/sold for PLEX (their game-time subscription currency, worth real $) many items (Capital Ships, High Experience Characters, Corporations) are bought and sold for real money outside of the platform - which in some cases, is revenue that EVE would/could benefit from if PLEX was purchased from them directly and used legitimately instead.<p>So aside from basic things like blocking utility email addresses, they have sophisticated algorithms that monitor user accounts for unusual activity. The definition of unusual is constantly growing/changing and it is monitored and managed by a dedicated "security" team.<p>Source: Friend of friend works in that security team.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2022 21:44:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29960472</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29960472</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29960472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "New SysJoker Backdoor Targets Windows, Linux, and macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know your question is for Windows, but in case someone was wondering about MacOS:<p>Aside from being able to manage some persistent login items under Settings > Users > Login Items, there is a free tool available from Patrick Wardle that helps manage the hidden launch items (like updaters) on MacOS called Knock Knock.<p><a href="https://objective-see.com/products/knockknock.html" rel="nofollow">https://objective-see.com/products/knockknock.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:07:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29899718</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29899718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29899718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Hidden Networks in TP-Link Routers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Although to be fair, while this has been super annoying, they are slowly getting there with recent releases. It definitely has the new product manager 'start from scratch clean slate' vs 'inherited mess' while co-existing vibes. Once they have hit parity, the cadence of this new team's releases should turn into a feature because they are consistently releasing updates/fixes way differently to previous management.<p>I still hate that the iOS Protect UX/UI has never used their own app beyond 9-5, as dark mode was removed and the interface is PURE WHITE. The iOS Network UX/UI designer has clearly used their app at night, hence a dark mode existing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2021 22:10:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29642734</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29642734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29642734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do you know what the UDM IPS does/does not block? Is it displayed somewhere? Is it updated at a different cadence to the firmware/software updates?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2021 06:19:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29527572</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29527572</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29527572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "Stop paying DocuSign $2 for an e-signature"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure if you're guessing, but DocuSign and Adobe Sign's per-envelope (not per signature) rate is expensive and doesn't scale down on volume as quickly as you'd think. In fact, to get lower rates.. you need to buy their "X" and "Y" products/addons (e.g. Contract Lifecycle Management).<p>Bottom line is, whilst the name of this new service is bad and would immediately get a no from our execs, there is a market for a pay-as-you-go service like what they're providing.. especially as it becomes commoditised thanks to the pioneers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 18:51:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29257217</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29257217</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29257217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Further to this, doesn't Chrome and Safari quietly auto-ping/reload pages that "fail to connect" if they're left open in a tab or browser?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:21:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28751571</link><dc:creator>universenz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28751571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28751571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by universenz in "BMW’s New Overspray-Free Paint Works Like an Inkjet Printer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fires, too!</p>
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