Hacker News: vallerie

New comment by vallerie in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"

vallerie — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:16:46 +0000

Well shoot, I guess QBittorrent is worth a trillion dollars.

New comment by vallerie in "Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With Caveats"

vallerie — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:12:32 +0000

Would you happen to have a link to this? I would like to learn about this but unfortunately treehouse.systems doesn't seem to be very well indexed by search engines, and Mastodon's search is failing me.

New comment by vallerie in "A/I shuts down"

vallerie — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:07:55 +0000

Yet another example of the troubling amount of power the United States holds over the internet and global finance.

I really worry about the future of free and open expression over the next few years.

New comment by vallerie in "iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com"

vallerie — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:30:48 +0000

Private Relay also works because it's on by default for everyone paying for iCloud (including everyone just on the 0.99/month tier for photo backup) - so Apple can use it across their apps (e.g. loading images in Apple Mail) and it doesn't let you single out privacy conscious users!

New comment by vallerie in "Framework? I sure hope it does"

vallerie — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:03:41 +0000

(and i had to make a HN account for this; sorry if comments like this aren't the done thing here)

New comment by vallerie in "Framework? I sure hope it does"

vallerie — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:02:01 +0000

oh hey, that's my blog post! thanks for posting it; this isn't my finest work, but it's been floating around my disk for ages. happy to answer questions here :)