Hacker News: youseecomrade

New comment by youseecomrade in "Women's Pockets are Inferior"

youseecomrade — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:29:56 +0000

It's time to bring fanny packs back, but please don't turn them into power banks.

New comment by youseecomrade in "I Was So Wrong About Microsoft"

youseecomrade — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 00:28:35 +0000

> So what company that once it gets into a position to bully won’t?

All of them will. All of them need to be regulated better instead of just getting a slap on the wrist.

Just don't go throwing "Microsoft is my open source hero" (and that last paragraph) bullshit on my face.

New comment by youseecomrade in "I Was So Wrong About Microsoft"

youseecomrade — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 23:29:39 +0000

Not being in a position to bully everyone else really improved their attitude. Microsoft is my friend now! They wouldn't abuse us if they were on the top again, right?

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Sent from my Windows 10 Enterprise computer https://i.imgur.com/cwZGj0g.png

New comment by youseecomrade in "Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypassing the Play Store"

youseecomrade — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 19:35:33 +0000

I can't find the article but I remember reading how Google is closing the platform more and more. That's the reason why many people are forced to use MicroG since things are routed through Google Play Services. So in many ways you already "need" Google in your phone for certain apps to work correctly. There's also a rant from CopperheadOS' twitter about how Google make things worse and worse for ROM developers.

I would love to see an updated article about this whole subject.

New comment by youseecomrade in "Firefox Offers Recommendations with Latest Test Pilot Experiment: Advance"

youseecomrade — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 15:44:40 +0000

You're better off just going the power user way and making your own user.js file

https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js

You can use version control, options persist between restarts if you accidentally change something, you can use comments, easily make new profiles that share the same settings

Or you can keep complaining until every piece of software have like 3 options inside a hamburger menu

New comment by youseecomrade in "Introducing Android 9 Pie"

youseecomrade — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 19:26:25 +0000

https://old.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/879e9o/unofficia...

New comment by youseecomrade in "ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation"

youseecomrade — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 19:09:21 +0000

> It's not that different from running any software from the internet.

I don't run "any" software as root or with even more privileges, so I would classify random kexts from the web as a highly critical threat. Of course you could be victim of an exploit even without willingly granting privileges but that's not really relevant.

New comment by youseecomrade in "Introducing Android 9 Pie"

youseecomrade — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 19:01:07 +0000

That's why I only use Android with ROMs like LineageOS where I can block apps from opening on startup and running in the background (you also get more granular permissions for free).

New comment by youseecomrade in "ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation"

youseecomrade — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 18:34:52 +0000

"[..] They (kexts) run at the OS's highest privilege level; ring-0."

New comment by youseecomrade in "ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation"

youseecomrade — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 04:08:16 +0000

Isn't a "little" insecure having to rely on random kext and random internet files to run your base system? Or are they always open source or something? I know very little about MacOS

How do you archive, deduplicate and search e-mails offline?

youseecomrade — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 22:56:01 +0000

I have thousands of emails from multiple accounts. Some of them are .eml and others are entire .mbox mailboxes.

I would like to be able to search them and also import new emails (manually, I'm not going to connect to IMAP or anything else). It would need to ignore duplicated e-mails e.g. re-import a Google Takeout .mbox without creating complete chaos.

- me@example.com -- inbox -- sent -- folder1 -- folder2

- the-other-me@example.com -- inbox -- sent -- thingsishouldnthavesent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17630140

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New comment by youseecomrade in "Ask HN: My Microsoft account has been suspended by Microsoft without details"

youseecomrade — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 18:54:38 +0000

I would be even more worried about DNS/domain hijacking if the HN stories I hear are true. Not only technical issues but social engineering of the domain ownership.

Whatever you do (custom domain or not), you're always exposed.

New comment by youseecomrade in "Why ActivityPub is the future"

youseecomrade — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:54:22 +0000

It's just EEE, they'll slowly introduce better features (with a colossal marketing budget) and after they gain the userbase back they'll close it down. Until I see a solution for this problem I'm not going to advocate/adopt any of these services.

New comment by youseecomrade in "Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript"

youseecomrade — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:17:51 +0000

Some login servers that you go through, like Skype's, share the same IP address that many "anti-telemetry tools for Windows (10)" are blocking.

New comment by youseecomrade in "F-Secure Anti-Virus: Remote Code Execution via Solid RAR Unpacking"

youseecomrade — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 18:50:14 +0000

I see. For some reason it was updating the database but not the software itself. I had to dowload the installer again.

New comment by youseecomrade in "F-Secure Anti-Virus: Remote Code Execution via Solid RAR Unpacking"

youseecomrade — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 02:01:56 +0000

And MalwareBytes is still using 7zip 18.01

New comment by youseecomrade in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

youseecomrade — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 21:12:28 +0000

I think the network effect is too great to ignore. I would guess the number of potential contributors you get just by using GitHub, where many people have an account and know the workflow/UI, is bigger than any other place.

5 years from now when GitLab is acquired by Google we'll have to migrate again.

New comment by youseecomrade in "A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"

youseecomrade — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:34:56 +0000

And it has to keep up with Gnome/GTK too. I heard it's not easy.

New comment by youseecomrade in "Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App"

youseecomrade — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 19:33:49 +0000

I don't know much about licenses: is Matrix and/or the protocol safe from Facebook, Google and co to pull the same thing again? Feels like EEE is inevitable when these companies allocate resources to provide a better UI/UX and benefits in their own services.

New comment by youseecomrade in "A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"

youseecomrade — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:40:44 +0000

Couldn't they do a "freeze" with backports just for the LTS? My experience with non LTS versions were always awful so I don't see why a rolling release model would be that much worse.