ptman

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ptmanon Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud (2020)

ptmanon Slack AI Training with Customer Data

We really need to start using self-hosted solutions. Like matrix / element for team messaging.

It's ok not wanting to run your own hardware at your own premises. But the solution is to run a solution that is end-to-end encrypted so that the hosting service cannot get at the data. cryptpad.fr is another great piece of software.

ptmanon Apple introduces M4 chip

Apple privacy is marketing https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1039938

ptmanon The best way to have complex discussions?

lemmy.ml https://lemmy.ml/post/70280

Just run a private instance if you want.

ptmanon Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, something else

You could do with some other concept than users. E.g. namespaces or capabilities.

ptmanon Univer: Open-Source Alternative for Google Sheets, Slides, Docs

share a link

ptmanon Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git

https://abc.xyz/

ptmanon How I tripped over the Debian weak keys vulnerability

OpenSSH 6.2 from 2013 added AuthorizedKeysCommand, so no patching needed.

ptmanon Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content

Cryptpad is really good. Self-hostable and works for most use cases.

ptmanon Go Enums Still Suck

How does this compare to enumer? https://github.com/dmarkham/enumer

ptmanon Passkeys – Under the Hood

Affordable option: https://www.token2.com/shop/product/fido-bundle-2-x-fido2-us...

ptmanon Cloning a Laptop over NVMe TCP

Pipe with zstd (or similar)!

ptmanon Frugly vs. Freemium

Extra price for all government required compliance documentation.

ptmanon Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy

We need a direct way to fund firefox https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-donate-money...

ptmanon Canadian government banning Flipper Zero to combat auto theft

How do you get negative gdp per capita? That must mean negative gdp unless you have less than 0 population. Do you mean negative growth? Then what does per capita have to do with it?

ptmanon Companies embracing SMS for account logins should be blamed for SIM-swap attacks

There are some quite cheap fido2 keys ( https://www.token2.com/shop/product/token2-t2f2-fido2-and-u2... ). But WebAuthn / Passkeys can also be provided by your android or ios phone. Or TPM -chip on a laptop.

ptmanon Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6

  2^32 is ~4.3*10^9

  2^64 = 2^32 * 2^32 , so quite a bit more

ptmanon Flattr is closing down (2023)

The EU is working on "digital euro", which is meant to be free of transaction fees. I would rather see a 0.1% transaction fee to cover the costs, but at least it should make micropayments viable.

ptmanon The best way to get unstuck

Still doing turkeys: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5184

ptmanon Repurposing Hugo as a wiki

is there a replacement for ikiwiki, the wiki compiler?

ptmanon Custom firmware for MI fitness band

PineTime has quite good battery life. Probably not as good. But a week?

ptmanon The "Cheap" Web

Matrix shifts much of the burden to the server so that clients can be simpler (except for e2ee, which has to be done clientside).

ptmanon Biscuit authorization

webassembly may be useable in many javascript environments

ptmanon Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads

Small ICEs should just be banned. Leaf-blowers, chainsaws, mopeds, motorcycles. All of them can be replaced by electric motors.

ptmanon Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android

Not encryption, apparently. And the blue iMessage bubbles indicate encryption, so RCS bubbles will be green.

ptmanon Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

https://wanderinginn.com/ Warning: there's quite a lot to read and it's not finished yet

ptmanon Bcachefs Merged into the Linux 6.7 Kernel

ZFS now has reflink support, which doesn't require lots of RAM, but isn't done automatically while writing. You need to run something like https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove

ptmanon Replit permanently moves to paid hosting after 7 years of free service

If you want to chase free stuff there are good alternatives. Or you can pay for something where you get good value for money. https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/

ptmanon DRM-free e-books are a big deal (2019)

Are you sure? https://epubor.com/drm-removal-tools-for-amazon-kindle-azw-e...

ptmanon The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod

There is no ONRUN: "you can think of docker mods as a missing ONRUN hook"