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BramLovesYamson Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

I am just starting out trying to learn iOS development and last weekend I made a small tally/counter app. All it does is adds or subtracts 1, but dammit if I'm not excited about it.

BramLovesYamson Surveillance by the New Microsoft Outlook App

There is a screenshot of this banner from a recent blog post by the Tuta team as well. It shows 813 data sharing partners... https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-shares-passwords-with-microsof...

BramLovesYamson Tuta (formerly Tutanota) Mail turns ten today

Happy birthday!

BramLovesYamson Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach

But if we did that financial executives won't be able to afford that 5th vacation home! I'll stay here in the muck with my stolen identity incurred debt thank you very much. One day I'll tug these bootstraps hard enough.

BramLovesYamson Google introduces new security requirements for bulk email senders

Absolutely. It is really weird that they wouldn't have required some kind of quality control for domains sending out more than 5k emails per day.

If it looks like spam, walks like spam, talks like spam, nah we shouldn't require stricter DNS authentication requirements. (My best Google impersonation)

BramLovesYamson OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon

I read this in Mike Tyson's voice.

BramLovesYamson Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays

Holiday workers are the true heroes.

BramLovesYamson Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on LOTR fanfiction author

On does not simply take on the Tolkien Estate in a copyright lawsuit. It is folly.

BramLovesYamson E-books are becoming tools of corporate surveillance

I only buy physical books. Not trying to be sarcastic here, but I have yet to find an E-Reader that gives me the same relaxing feeling that looking at ink on paper does at the end of the day. For the the library-in-one device convenience hasn't outweighed the disconnected simplicity of reading a book.

After spending a work day staring at a screen I have zero interest in looking at at yet another display.

BramLovesYamson The Norway Model: How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse

Norway, the mitochondria of European Literature.

BramLovesYamson RPG Engine for the Nintendo 64

I agree 100% on the loading times. This is an issue I still have and find myself often just playing something from an old cartridge (N64 or Gameboy) rather than waiting for a modern game to load up.

BramLovesYamson Gameboy technical reference for homebrew developers

Thank you so much for leading such a great project! In the past I had struggled to find a project to really get me hooked into programming, but the gbdev project really nailed it : )

BramLovesYamson Gameboy technical reference for homebrew developers

Thanks for the tip! I've been wanting to dive into DS/lite/DSI.

BramLovesYamson Apple admits third-party app stores in Europe are inevitable

This would be great! Fingers crossed!

BramLovesYamson Tutanota is now Tuta

Does that mean they are an email provider you can feel warm and cozy with?

BramLovesYamson Test browser for web tracking – EFF

One thing that is important in keeping this "identical" browser appearance to potential trackers is not changing the size of the browser window once you open Tor.