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I'm a Pythonista, Rustacean, wine-lover, skier, mountainbiker. Wow, I really was able to describe myself in just a few words! More about me on https://hackan.net
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hackan··on Shamir Secret Sharing
Of course hahaha, but it is rather annoying to do so. Nevertheless, that's exactly what I did :D
hackan··on Why GNU su does not support the `wheel' group (2002)
legal rights? "I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers." He is pretty clear...
hackan··on You're a cyclist who was just struck by a car driver. Why it was your fault
Yup, 100% agree, having custom roads is ideal.
hackan··on You're a cyclist who was just struck by a car driver. Why it was your fault
Excellent! Nowadays, cities are more and more built exclusively for cars. Not even sidewalks! Insane... How someone would dare to challenge the neverloving rule of the almighty Car!
hackan··on Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’ Criminal Prosecution
It indeed is, your friend is right.
hackan··on Throw away your first draft of your code
I really like this idea, I'm often prototyping, but since I do it on my own, it is not throwable, so I tend to keep longer as they explain.
hackan··on Briefcase: Convert a Python project into a standalone native application
It's a cool trick, I used it to pack a tool long time ago: https://github.com/HacKanCuBa/passphrase-py/blob/219d6374338...

Basically, u zip the package, then add the shebang on the zip binary. Quite cool and simple! No need for external tools :p

hackan··on Apple stole $100s from me, Customer Service says there's nothing they can do
Stop throwing moneyz to them, they will never change...
hackan··on Shamir Secret Sharing
Great story! It made me super nervous all the way.

I also built a pure python lib a whole ago to use w/ an app, check it out: https://github.com/HacKanCuBa/secretshare-py It uses prime arithmetic, which limits severally the input size, but it works pretty well and fast. Not production ready BC I haven't tested it enough, but it is a good starting point.

hackan··on Show HN: Local development with .local domains and HTTPS
Well, it targets Mac users ;) So, you know...
hackan··on Show HN: Pyflo – a free, interactive guide to learning Python
Awesome design!! Regarding content, I feel it is a bit discrete. Great as a starting point, but won't solve everything if u are just starting. Maybe add links to recommended reads?
hackan··on Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
Yup, had the same experience, also got raided, but unlike him, I got exonerated :) No conviction whatsoever. I had obviously nothing like files nor logs nor whatsoever, and like him the raid was not really related to that, but instead a fight against the government against e-voting. It was certainly quite a ride...
hackan··on Ord Phone
awesome, so we can get hooked up w/ Spotify, and no other service, forever. Great idea!

I'm being sarcastic, BTW.

hackan··on Show HN: Serverless VPN, pay as you go, unlimited devices, no subscriptions
great tip, although this situation should be way clearer than it is...
hackan··on France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone
well, it has sw switches at least, but yeah, i would love to :)
hackan··on I stopped buying new laptops (2020)
I have a Thinkpad T460p myself, and its battery lasts as long, or longer, than most new laptops I've seen! I was just searching for a new one for a friend, and noted that most new laptops are absolute garbage, total crap. Most have the same specs as mine, almost a decade later, WTF (yeah, "new gens", whatever) It's really sad, we are dropping all quality for mere quantity and consumerism...
hackan··on France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone
This is exactly why we need GrapheneOS in airplane mode w/o SIM, and a secondary phone w/ cam and mic removed as wifi hotspot
hackan··on Show HN: Serverless VPN, pay as you go, unlimited devices, no subscriptions
Yeah, the price is huge! I use terabytes of VPN traffic per month...
hackan··on Show HN: Serverless VPN, pay as you go, unlimited devices, no subscriptions
Pretty neat idea, but it leaks DNS requests unfortunately: see point 5 "When We Share Information" in [privacy policy](https://upvpn.app/privacy-policy/).

If they used some sort of disposable or "trustable" DNS server, it would be awesome!

hackan··on Kenny Log-Ins
never really meet one, at least not in the recent years...
hackan··on KryptEY – Android keyboard for E2EE comms via Signal protocol in any messenger
This is just genius, I love it! As someone already mentioned, more as a political statement than a useful app, let's hope and work towards not really needing it because we will be able to "just use Signal".

But otherwise, really cool idea :)

hackan··on KryptEY – Android keyboard for E2EE comms via Signal protocol in any messenger
Finally! Someone that can actually "read between the lines", or basically, just read after the first paragraph :P
hackan··on Kenny Log-Ins
Add spaces, for the love of god! Spaces are symbols as well, and are easier to read, type and remember...
hackan··on PGP signatures on PyPI: worse than useless
Indeed. I stopped using gpg for my packages, and started with minisign. Unfortunately, PyPi doesn't support any kind of metadata file, like a signature file, so I can't upload them :( Unless maybe u name it like a pgp file, but them u are hurting UX. Anyway, I simple upload them to my releases anyway, in Gitlab or Github.
hackan··on Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)
I couldn't agree more! The first time I was faced w/ FiraCode, I was like "WTF is this!?". I tried using it, and lost my mind on the way... Well, I'm exaggerating a bit, but it was really uncomfortable... For me, its Mononoki all the way, or JetBrainsMono is not bad, too.
hackan··on Local License Key Verification
Funny, that never worked on me... It always read the cracker name instead of mine :P
hackan··on Dishwasher Salmon
shisus
hackan··on Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data
you can also use pandas in Python to access parquet data, and then i.e. convert it to sqlite
hackan··on Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data
we are pretty much literally doing that :D
hackan··on Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
Elon has signed that letter :P
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