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N-Krause··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
I did write a android app for my SO, rather over engineered - but I had fun programming it and SO uses the app daily. The thing is, the app was in ReactNative and I didn't regularly update the codebase with current ReactNative versions so, to get the app running on a newer Android version I had to either go through the pain of updating the app or rewrite it. I didn't really have the time and energy to rewrite it. So a few weeks ago I just gave it a shot and provided Claude Code with a few screenshots, description of functionality and it basically one shot the whole app. Now I am building new features SO was missing and currently also developing a backend.
N-Krause··on Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
> Depending on how easy it is to run Linux on this as opposed to the new MacBooks may make this attractive for Linux users.

Why? Just to get ARM? Buy a brand that actually works with the kernel and distros to get their hardware working with linux. Get your money to the people that actually help the software ecosystem.

When you spent premium, put your money where it makes a difference.

N-Krause··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
The article linked here is a consequence of the actions taken against the repository linked by OP, not a more 'credible source'.

The file linked in by OP, is the main argument by Pawel Jarczak why his fork does not violate any copyright laws (may it be written by/with help of AI or not).

N-Krause··on Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites
When I check google.com I get a 94% score? Kinda ironic no?
N-Krause··on Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp
Social media has hit rock bottom a long time ago. Everything else is just digging even deeper. Problem is, people keep consuming that crap and wonder why nothing is changing for the better.
N-Krause··on Servo 2025 Stats
Thanks, that are the insights I was hoping to get.
N-Krause··on Servo 2025 Stats
But the question still remains, why did Igalia pick up a dead project?

I doubt you'd invest that kind of money/time into a project without a good reason. I am not saying that ladybird or manifest v3 are the reason, I just notice a lot of new energy in the not-just-chrome category and wonder what the other reasons might be.

Andreas Kling is pretty open about his reasons to have started the ladybird project and I just know Servo from his monthly videos and a few other sidenotes, so I was surprised that it gained so much traction after being basically dead.

N-Krause··on Servo 2025 Stats
I wonder, seeing the immense growth in 2023/2024, how that correlates with the ladybird project, which officially started in 2024.

Could Manifest v3 be the reason we have so much fresh air blowing in the browser ecosystem or does it just stem from a general unhappiness of said ecosystem?

N-Krause··on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
Awesome! Something that I had on my todo list the past couple of months, because I also switched from YT Music to Navidrome + Bandcamp. Feels great to own your music again.

Thanks for sharing your work!

N-Krause··on Size of Life
uBlock seemed to have handled it for me.
N-Krause··on Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera
Yeah of course, technically that is true. Still when talking about e2ee in any context it implies to the non technical user: The company providing the service cannot read what I am writing.

That's not given in any of those examples. In the case of ChatGPT and this toilet sensor e2ee is almost equivalent to 'we use https'. But nowadays everybody uses https, so it does not sound as good in marketing.

N-Krause··on Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera
There was a discussion here on hn about OpenAI and it's privacy. Same confusion about e2ee. Users thinking e2ee is possible when you chat with an ai agent.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45908891

N-Krause··on Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]
I knew I've already seen this. Seemed like a great tool then as well as now. Will definitively deploy it on for my personal file server. Just haven gotten around it.
N-Krause··on Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy
Lumo never promises encryption while processing a conversation on their servers. Chats HAVE to be decrypted at some point on the server or send already decrypted by the client, even when they are stored encrypted.

Read the marketing carefully and you will notice that there is no word about encrypted processing, just storage - and of course that's a solved problem, because it was solved decades ago.

The agent needs the data decrypted, at least for the moment, I know of no model that can process encrypted data. So as long as the model runs on a server, whoever manages that server has access to your messages while they are being processed.

EDIT: Even found an article where they acknowledge this [0]. Even though there seems to exist models/techniques that can produce output from encrypted messages with 'Homomorphic Encryption' [1], it is not practical, as it would takedays to produce an answer and it would consumes huge amounts of processing power.

[0] https://proton.me/blog/lumo-security-model

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

N-Krause··on Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy
You cannot compare these examples. There is currently no way to encrypt the user message and have the model on the server read/process the message without it being decrypted first.

Mullvad and E2EE Messengers do not need to process the contents of the message on their server. All they do is, passing it to another computer. It could be scrambled binary for all they care. But any AI company _has_ to read the content of the message by definition of their service.

N-Krause··on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
While I can understand that it's frustrating. Kernel level Anticheat is a abomination in itself and should in no way be supported. It is a security flaw in itself!

Read this: https://gist.github.com/stdNullPtr/2998eacb71ae925515360410a...

N-Krause··on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
While you're at it, you might as well downgrade to Win7. No jokes aside, if all the software you want runs on it, it is fine. Just no security update etc.

I would suggest just switching to Linux and using a VM for things that NEED to be Windows. Games that run kernel level Anti-Cheat won't run, but tbh nothing I would suggest installing anyway.

N-Krause··on Keep Android Open
All the Fairphone Versions support e/OS/ as far as I know. I have the Fairphone 5 with the current e/OS/ version completely un-googled. But you also have the option to allow partial google-fication in e/OS/ so you don't miss out on most of the features and paid-apps you had.
N-Krause··on Be Careful with Obsidian
While I agree with you, i feel like that was not the point the author was making.

It more so was a warning that the combination of little reviewed community plugins and a not sandboxed macos binary is a potential risk. And with that sentiment I can also agree.

N-Krause··on Greenland’s national telco, Tusass, signs new agreement with Eutelsat
Good to know, any source for that? I only did a quick websearch and that was in the first results.

EDIT: Nvm, just now saw the sibling comment with the wiki article.

N-Krause··on Greenland’s national telco, Tusass, signs new agreement with Eutelsat
Seems like they partnered with SpaceX.

https://www.ipinternational.net/oneweb-and-spacex-a-surprisi...

N-Krause··on Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024)
Do you know if there is a English version of the book?
N-Krause··on I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
And what are those details? Sounds like you know specifics that I'd like to also know.

If you're claiming it is just an oversight, then please back it up.

N-Krause··on Nostr
"Welcome" is in the eye of the beholder. Everyone can join, but I am sure as it is also with our real worldwide community, not everyone is welcome or is accepted equally.

But the point is, nostr does not intent to judge that. It happens automatically while communicating. Nostr is just the means to communicate.

N-Krause··on Nostr
It is a standard of how one thing talks to another thing. It is JSON with some fingerprinting/hashing send over Websocket. Thats basically it. What you do with it, remains up to your implementation.

That helped me understand the protocol better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbt3jL1Ms0w

This also helps understand the whole basic concept: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/01.md

N-Krause··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Isn't this basically the same as Slack, just good for _now_?

I do use discord myself. But as a company I wouln't put all my communication data in the hands of a company that could just do the same as Slack did, in some foreseeable future.

N-Krause··on Windows 10 resists its end: usage share climbs while Windows 11's falls
I am running all my games from linux nowadays. Using nixos with steam (games run via proton) and hyprland. Works like a charm.
N-Krause··on Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management
As other's have already mentioned, currently I am using Tailscale. But I plan to somewhere in the future change that to something a bit more controlled by myself. Like a self hosted Wireguard VPN on some VPS.

I was also thinking about just reverse proxying my local instance to some public domain. But currently do not trust immich to be safe enough to allow for public exposure.

N-Krause··on Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management
Runs on a Pi4 in a cabinet with a lot of other self hosted stuff. Data is stored on a NAS. Performance on the Pi4 isn't the greatest, but it works without any annoyance.

It has been hosting my SO's and my photos for a few months, the transition from Google Photos was pretty easy and it is almost a drop in replacement. I love it.

Make sure to checkout https://github.com/simulot/immich-go, it was a great help migrating my Google Takeout to Immich.

N-Krause··on Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward
Yeah, I probably didn't formulate that well enough. What I meant was that they don't care about it. Sure it matters.

Thanks for the link, didn't know about that, sounds awful..

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