Hacker News: uselpa

New comment by uselpa in "ZeroTier – home VPN without a public IP address"

uselpa — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 13:08:08 +0000

Last time I checked it did not support IPv6, and the issue is still open today https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/issues/6

New comment by uselpa in "You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase"

uselpa — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:55:44 +0000

LibreOffice is awful on macOS. Also, file compatibility with MS Office is still problematic. Onlyoffice is indeed a better choice.

New comment by uselpa in "Ask HN: Cheap/effective way to manage physical backups of cloud files?"

uselpa — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:44:13 +0000

If your cloud storage is supported by rclone, you can use that to mount the storage and then back it up, locally or to an S3 storage at a different provider. That’s how I backup my wife’s and daughter’s OneDrive, using rclone and restic.

New comment by uselpa in "Did DORA's last update create an encryption loophole?"

uselpa — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 07:27:44 +0000

This is a very dangerous take - while at this point in time the RTS have not yet been formally adopted by all the relevant bodies, they will be, at which point they will be enforceable.

New comment by uselpa in "Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps"

uselpa — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:14:42 +0000

I find that one concerning in an enterprise setup (which they target). Or the fact that the desktop client has 999 open issues. Or that the last version silently takes you off the stable channel. I could go on … Nextcloud desktop has severe quality control issues.

New comment by uselpa in "Zettlr: Note-Taking and Publishing with Markdown"

uselpa — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 10:39:18 +0000

Full. agree on the data loss issue. I have experienced it myself, and their forum and issue tracker also show this. Its not a « trusted system » at all.

New comment by uselpa in "Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin"

uselpa — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:17:26 +0000

If only we could have uB Origin for Safari back!

New comment by uselpa in "Show HN: COBOL-REKT, a toolkit for analysing and reverse-engineering COBOL"

uselpa — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:28:20 +0000

Our shop (a bank) still develops in COBOL on a daily basis (IBM mainframe) and has a stock of tenth of millions of code lines.

New comment by uselpa in "How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator"

uselpa — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 21:11:24 +0000

Not necessarily. You can for example configure both Thunderbird and mailcow to allow you to reply from any address (of the domains you manage, of course), without having to create the mailbox.

New comment by uselpa in "Ask HN: What is the biggest thing you've changed your mind about?"

uselpa — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 20:44:36 +0000

I am still afraid of dying slowly and/or painfully, but over the last 57 years I have moved from wanting to live forever to accepting that I will die. Like you, it’s not a wish, it’s simply acceptance. Makes you appreciate the little things in life, too.

New comment by uselpa in "Meta outage"

uselpa — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:08:16 +0000

For now, some countries preparing a larger war seems more likely.

New comment by uselpa in "Nebula is not the fastest mesh VPN, but neither are the others"

uselpa — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:43:17 +0000

Is Android better in this respect? I’m all-in in the Apple ecosystem, but iOS specifically makes me want to switch.

New comment by uselpa in "Setting up a secondary Pi-Hole on my home network"

uselpa — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 10:07:26 +0000

I did, and according to the man page of /etc/resolv.conf the order is taken into account unless you specifically set the option not to. Which covers macOS, i(Pad)OS and Linux, and afaik also my Windows machine (I haven't checked the latter though).

Skiff: Various Privacy Failures

uselpa — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 19:40:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.grepular.com/Skiff_Emails_Various_Privacy_Failures

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38993680

Points: 60

# Comments: 25

New comment by uselpa in "Ext4 data corruption in 6.1 stable"

uselpa — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 19:48:53 +0000

I use borgbackup so the storage requirements are fairly low if the data does not change too much (which is my case). Also diffs are just a « borg diff » away.

New comment by uselpa in "A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32"

uselpa — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 09:43:24 +0000

No, I'm implying that the autopilot code has not been as thoroughly tested as it should have been.

Example: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/22/tesla-aut...

New comment by uselpa in "Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1"

uselpa — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 08:11:26 +0000

I understand your reasoning, but running a popular « stable » distro in a popular configuration will help detect bugs much faster. I’m not sure this would be the case for the very latest kernel.

New comment by uselpa in "Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1"

uselpa — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 08:07:34 +0000

Are you sure about that (genuine question)? The linked discussion involves a Suse engineer and a request to the kernel maintainer directly, not to a Debian packager-

New comment by uselpa in "A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32"

uselpa — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 08:02:18 +0000

Cars might not be the best example, since human lives are at stake, as in aviation. Unless you work on Teslas autopilot, it seems. But yes, backups and restores are often good enough.

New comment by uselpa in "A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32"

uselpa — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 07:57:58 +0000

Epic fail indeed, costing many lives.