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DerWOK

1,043 karma · joined October 12, 2016

hacker, coder, tech evangelist, 10 yrs++ in healthcare product development, mobile apps, web apps, raspberry pi, js, meteor, agile
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DerWOK··on 152kb WebAssembly interpreter that runs on six OSs with Cosmopolitan
suggested to tag cosmopolitan projects with such a cosmopolitan tag https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3/issues/205
DerWOK··on Show HN: Full text search Project Gutenberg (60m paragraphs)
Hm. I cannot do language selection on iOS Safari. Even not with the mentioned workaround of first typing the language name prefix.
DerWOK··on Threema – Secure and Private Messenger
Multi-year Heavy Threema User here. They just made it fully open source. Which I greatly appreciate.

And though this comparison by them might be little biased I found it interesting especially with regards to Signal: https://threema.ch/en/messenger-comparison

DerWOK··on Threema apps are Open Source
Link to GitHub repo https://github.com/threema-ch
DerWOK··on Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing
Yes mermaid is built in. Just start a tripple apostrophe codeblock with code style mermaid and it will render the graphics when your cursor leaves the code block.
DerWOK··on Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing
Some admin removed the "version 1.7" from the post headline? Why that? The news is that the version 1.7 - after 4 month of work - was just released a few hours ago... ️
DerWOK··on Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing
For syncing I'm using a private github repo, then syncing is easy and on iOS / Android I use GitJournal or WorkingCopy (iOS only IMHO).
DerWOK··on Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing
Yes, I also looked into Obsidian. And I really liked it. But their license scheme would have forced me to buy a subscription to also use it in work environment.

So I switched to Zettlr and never looked back.

Would they have allowed the personal one-time bought license to use in professional working, I would have sticked.

DerWOK··on Jitsi Meet Electron 2.1 – With End-to-End Encryption
Though they call the End-to-End encryption feature still "beta", the release 2.1.0 is not beta.

WebRTC encryption was possible by upgrading to Chrome 83 embedded in Electron. User may switch on/off encryption via menu.

More details from behind the scene here: https://jitsi.org/blog/e2ee/

DerWOK··on Germany’s Corona-Warn-App
Wow. Did not now this App will be open source (backend and front end!)!

I heard they wanted to really bring it to highest (possible) privacy level without a central "Master knows all" server. But open source is a real wow for a German governement project.

So, maybe one could adapt the title of this HN post "Germany’s Corona-Warn-App will be open sourced on GitHub"?

DerWOK··on Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
No end-to-end encryption plus forced Google Mail registration preventing anonymity. Yawn, Google. Yaaawn!
DerWOK··on Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0
If you don't get it, read the page https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron#features

Just one example: the Jitsi Meet Electron app e.g., allows you to remote control a screen, if screen owner allows. This makes it a replacement for e.g. TeamViewer, VNC or so...

DerWOK··on Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0
Authors explain why code signing (currently) was skipped here: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/234#issu...
DerWOK··on Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0
Though Jitsi is also usable via "zero-install browser only", the electron package allows additional features like e.g., desktop sharing with remote control. And due to bundled Chrome, some Firefox RTP problems are also circumvented with the Electron desktop version.
DerWOK··on Windows93
Most fun was: launching Brain Sweeper! ROFL!!1!
DerWOK··on Wacom tablets track every app you open
Really great article. But I wonder, why the author did not cover if/what the driver publishes, If I do:

- open "Wacom Desktop Center"

- Top right (next to "Login") is "More" (click!)

- "Data Privacy Settings" (click!)

- "Participate In Wacom Experience Program" => on => off!

My setting was "On" - and I swear: whenever a program/website/installer asks I go "No thankx". So it must be dark UI patterns with evil defaults that this super-hidden thing was "on" for me. Shame on you, Wacom!

DerWOK··on Protobot generates random product and service ideas
I'm not affiliated with that site. Just stumbled upon it.

Also funny the disclaimer: "This site uses Google Analytics, honestly just in order to satisfy my personal curiosity about who visits it. More info" press "Cool" to close.

DerWOK··on Ask HN: Are any of you working on Cicada 3301?
Not really. Just stumbled upon this very interesting high quality documentary. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20732957
DerWOK··on Cracking the Code of Cicada 3301
Very interesting 4 part documentary. Worth watching!!
DerWOK··on Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing?
If you look at some quite active meteor open source repos with a non-trivial size, you may also see that meteor is still alive and kicking. ;-)

* WeKan - FOSS Trello clone https://github.com/wekan/wekan

* Rocket.Chat - FOSS Slack clone https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

* Vulcan - React, GraphQL & Meteor toolkit https://github.com/vulcanjs/vulcan

* 4Minitz - FOSS Collaborative Meeting Minutes and Protocols WebApp https://github.com/4minitz/4minitz & https://www.4minitz.com/

Disclaimer: I'm one of the contributors of 4Minitz. ;-)

DerWOK··on Affinity Photo 1.6 and Affinity Designer 1.6 are out now
As a longtime in-depth Photoshop user I must say: I'm using Affinity for over a year now - not missing a thing! As Affinity gets better with every (free) version, I really love the non-subscription license model! Let's hope they can keep it this way! Then I'll never look back at Adobe suite.
DerWOK··on How many Bitcoins were actually paid to the WannaCry authors so far?
Seems only three BTC addresses are used for payments by WannaCry:

* https://blockchain.info/address/13AM4VW2dhxYgXeQepoHkHSQuy6N...

* https://blockchain.info/address/12t9YDPgwueZ9NyMgw519p7AA8is...

* https://blockchain.info/address/115p7UMMngoj1pMvkpHijcRdfJNX...

Roughly 47 BTC (~100,000 $) were paid by a total of ~310 users. There have been 300,000 infected PCs reported [1]. If we asume that a payment is done per machine (at least thats what the WannaCry 'rules' demand), than only 0,1% of infected users pay.

Seems, crime does not pay (at least it does not pay as much as expected) ;-)

[1] www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/13/nhs-cyber-attack-everything-need-know-biggest-ransomware-offensive/

DerWOK··on Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10
Sounds pretty cool! Some source/how-to you can share?
DerWOK··on Show HN: Stock Sandwich [Beta] – Free, high-resolution stock images
I couldn't find a search field. Is there any?
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