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New comment by xelamonster in "Android XR"

xelamonster — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 05:37:07 +0000

Well this explains why every time I get payment autofill suggestions from Google it's a random one of four or five possible auth flows, and pulls from an arbitrary one of at least two separate data sources with different sets of cards saved...

I let my password manager handle it now.

New comment by xelamonster in "Review of Mullvad VPN"

xelamonster — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:56:37 +0000

I like NordVPN still. If there's any reason I shouldn't I'm all ears but haven't had an issue so far. I travel a lot and I definitely do feel better having my traffic routed through a VPN vs opening it up to whatever random entity happens to control the wifi I'm connected to, despite all the issues with them

New comment by xelamonster in "Review of Mullvad VPN"

xelamonster — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:53:18 +0000

Unless you were actively using port forwarding before it wouldn't be any different. If you need a VPN for your torrents, despite these faults I don't know of a better one myself. I use the Firefox VPN (which is Mullvad under the hood and it's worked at least as well if not better than any alternatives for me so far.

New comment by xelamonster in "Ask HN: Why do banking apps care about your phone OS"

xelamonster — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:18:44 +0000

That's not really how biometric app login works here. Credentials are configured locally and used as an alternative to the existing login method. Nothing changes about how you login with other devices, you can still choose to use your username and password on the device with biometrics enabled even.

New comment by xelamonster in "MagiskSSH – SSH server on Android without Termux"

xelamonster — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:38:46 +0000

For some definitions of works. It's frustratingly inconsistent for me, very often it'll give me no suggestions on apps it's filled many times before and I have to go open it and manually copy out passwords.

New comment by xelamonster in "Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner"

xelamonster — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 05:03:13 +0000

It does but you need to run commands through uv to use it, I assume this means if you run bare python commands in the task runner or whatever mise will use the venv.

New comment by xelamonster in "JSON5 – JSON for Humans"

xelamonster — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 03:50:50 +0000

I'm not a fan of forcing single or double quotes because escape codes are such a pain to deal with and to me make things significantly harder to read than an inconsistent quoting style ever could.

New comment by xelamonster in "JSON5 – JSON for Humans"

xelamonster — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 03:47:27 +0000

Well what's more readable, .8675309 that is understood to have an implicit zero, or the parser giving up and unexpectedly making it a string? Maybe it's not your preference but I can't see any problem with making this more robust. The trailing one is strange to me but leaving off a leading zero isn't unusual at all for written numbers in my experience.

New comment by xelamonster in "Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here"

xelamonster — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:44:35 +0000

Ah cool, maybe I'll check it out someday. JVM isn't a huge part of my daily work though so I'm pretty happy having it managed the same way as everything else for now. I like the intuitive simplicity of a .tool-versions file in a repo that supports a huge variety of tools.

New comment by xelamonster in "I spent a year building an Android course for the elderly"

xelamonster — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:37:18 +0000

I tried to use the Find My Phone feature with my Samsung account a couple days ago. Log into Samsung with Google, on my friend's device as I've lost my phone, and Google says "we've sent a prompt to your phone to log in"... the phone that I'm trying to find. No alternative options, I just got frustrated and gave up and luckily found it on my own. Still not over how incredibly stupid that was.

New comment by xelamonster in "Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz"

xelamonster — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:18:05 +0000

This made me think I'd somehow not saved my MS password because it wouldn't show up if you searched "microsoft". I know you can combine them like the other comment mentioned but what an awful default experience.

New comment by xelamonster in "Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here"

xelamonster — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:12:41 +0000

It supports most OSes rather nicely, check the docs for a long list of config options. It creates a local package store and configures your user's path for it, each tool is managed with a custom plugin that IME works flawlessly and versions are handled better than anything else I've ever used. It's the only way I'll install Golang or NodeJS lately, and I had good luck with it for Java too.

New comment by xelamonster in "Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz"

xelamonster — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:55:12 +0000

Yep that's the issue, I'm just saying I'd rather have that problem than the one where I can't register a clean looking personal domain because every idea I have is already registered (with 95% of them leading to a parking page untouched for years except to pay the bill). Feels like we just need more names available and I don't see how else we could get them.

New comment by xelamonster in "Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz"

xelamonster — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:48:47 +0000

The implication that gTLDs are bad and new ones shouldn't be introduced because of this is a bit silly to me. The argument that they somehow have lower registration requirements makes no sense, .shop .top and .xyz registrations involve the exact same amount of verification as .com (none). Prices aren't really that different and plenty of gTLDs are more expensive than traditional ones.

Registering a domain is frustrating these days, too many already taken and a lot of them by squatters not even intending to use it. I'd love to see more options personally even if it makes it slightly easier to create a phishing domain. We need better tools than memorizing a domain name to deal with that anyways.

New comment by xelamonster in "I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)"

xelamonster — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:56:08 +0000

They don't differentiate. They just make it too expensive to be worth paying for the resources required to carry out a spam attack at any meaningful scale.

New comment by xelamonster in "Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds"

xelamonster — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:26:38 +0000

Interestingly enough I've had the opposite experience. If I'm having a nightmare, usually at some point I realize it's a dream, and from there I can almost always force myself to wake up immediately. It rarely happens for me in a regular dream but when it does I can start to control the scenario to some degree.

New comment by xelamonster in "Battery-Free Bioelectronic Implants"

xelamonster — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:17:09 +0000

No? I mean I'm with you that it sounds like a really bad idea and would probably not end well, but laying on a table so someone can implant a device that handles it for you forever does sound a whole lot easier than having to actively balance your intakes for your entire life.

I totally understand the appeal, hell I'd do it myself if you could give me a guarantee, my problem with it is there is no guarantee and it's 99.9% likely to not actually be safe.

New comment by xelamonster in "CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`"

xelamonster — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:02:34 +0000

Yeah wow, I love that this is forever encoded into the standard now. A lovely tribute. It's always been one of the few CSS default colors I actually like too (alongside "cornflowerblue").

New comment by xelamonster in "Everything Is Just Functions: 1 week with David Beazley and SICP"

xelamonster — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 19:45:50 +0000

How does that mean anything to the people who need to be employed to continue living? We're not the ones with the ability to change this.

New comment by xelamonster in "Why did people rub snow on frozen feet? (2017)"

xelamonster — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 03:45:05 +0000

Makes sense, thanks! I first heard about crush syndrome from an episode of House, and IIRC it ended up being a cause of death so didn't exactly learn how to manage it. Though I want to say the woman there was pinned from the waist down, which I'd imagine complicates things.