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xaduhaon Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads

> This feels wrong. In that, I'd be surprised if they are not using compression.

Check this out, you can sort by the number of submissions to filter out indie games https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14CVXd6PTIYE9XlNpRsxJ...

from https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI

xaduhaon PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function

You don't need to trust PINs, they aren't passwords in technical sense. And you don't need to enter wrong PINs either, if someone else tries they would reach a limit very soon.

It's all seems pretty arbitrary to me as to whether something is considered destruction of evidence and it's very US-centric anyway. So I'd say yes, deniable encryption is needed. If they decide you're not playing ball, then you'll be punished. The difference is whether they will use a legal system for that in a First World country or something else if you're not so lucky.

xaduhaon PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function

> Not providing your really long password is not a crime

What about not providing a PIN? How is that different from password? Proper PIN protected smartcards will lock you out after several wrong attempts and would require a PUK. And you might not remember that, genuinely. What then?

xaduhaon PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function

That's usually where people bring up plausible deniability, off-topic and was discussed to death elsewhere anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption

xaduhaon PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function

Sure, knock yourself out if that's your thing. But what I meant was basically "power user" level devices, like what systemd-cryptenroll lists. So fido2, pkcs11 (smartcards and tokens) and tpm2. If you want to bury any of them in the woods, I guess you can.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-cry...

xaduhaon PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function

> Unfortunately it's not really practical to ask a user to type in 128 bits of binary every time they want to unlock their drive, so another approach has to be taken.

Yes, it's not practical to type that. So don't, stop using passwords for this as a main way to unlock it. You can add a password as a backup key, but the main one shouldn't include a keyboard. There are plenty of hardware options other than TPM that you can destroy if shit hits the fan.

xaduhaon ‘Angry Birds’ company is about to be sold for $1B to Sega

Very bad first impression is what this game excels at, but it gets better. In any case that's in the past and it looks like their music rights expired, that why it was pulled from Steam, not because of some special kind of malice to an old game. Situation still sucks though.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/segas-rights-as-publisher-of-a...

xaduhaon ‘Angry Birds’ company is about to be sold for $1B to Sega

A pity. Sega hates this game for some reason, you can't even buy it on Steam anymore.

xaduhaon ‘Angry Birds’ company is about to be sold for $1B to Sega

Any copyright and/or trademark experts around? It says here that previously Sega owned Alpha Protocol trademark has expired. Does that mean anyone can just use it? I know that the setting was generic as hell, but still.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Protocol#cite_note-62

xaduhaon Ask HN: Why don't smartphones encourage programming like early 80s computers?

I'd say Raspberry Pi 400 could ignite a similar spark, I don't think you're comparing apples to apples here.

Smartphones are consumer devices. And a Raspberry Pi 400 is probably even more niche than 80s computers were in comparison.

In any case I don't think it's about the devices at all, there are just better things to do even for an introvert who doesn't go out much. Just different times.

xaduhaon Lindows 4.0 (2003)

I remember it partially, these images spark something in me, but without any context. No idea when, where and why I tried it. I'm pretty sure it's Lindows specifically and not just KDE.

xaduhaon How to Yubikey

> I really would like to use it, but without ability to backup it, I don't wanna.

> For now I'm using TOTP but it's a chore.

TOTP is your backup, I'd say most sites don't allow WebAuthn without TOTP enabled first.

xaduhaon AI Companion Users Are in Crisis, Reporting Sudden Sexual Rejection

No one mentioned "Her" yet? And the article doesn't mention it either?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/

xaduhaon Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA

> And this is why we should all adopt webuathn, and get rid of totp based 2fa.

I'd be glad to personally, but if a site supports 2fa at all, then it's mostly likely TOTP. And some require TOTP first and allow webauth only in addition to it.

xaduhaon Just: A Command Runner

Make is firmly in a category of 'better the devil you know' for me. Not that I deeply know it, I use just a subset of it anyway and for that it's fine.

If there's was a short Make: The Good Parts O'Reilly book, then I would probably read it.

xaduhaon Saying “sup” with `net send`

Yep, happened to me. Literally just sent 'Test'. Got yelled at by two people, but that's about it.

xaduhaon Ask HN: Will AI put programmers our of work?

I used to reply with a joke answer to questions like these along the lines of

> wake me up when it starts to delete bad code instead of writing more of it

I too don't follow AI space closely, but I have hard time imagining it doing anything of the sort. It probably can't even remove a bug in a trivial program.

Correct me if I'm wrong of course, if there's a video that demonstrates something important/impressive related to this then I would certainly watch it.

xaduhaon Bitcoin worth $1.5B withdrawn from Coinbase in 48 hours

I'm not going to argue terms with you, I'm not an economist. But I do hope that rwaksmunski also harumphs the term "net worth" when used by more respectable publications than cited cryptoslate.com, because I would argue "worth" of bitcoin is closer to money in whichever sense of the word than "net worth" is when usually mentioned.

xaduhaon Bitcoin worth $1.5B withdrawn from Coinbase in 48 hours

If someone is willing to pay that price, then that's what it is worth to them, simple as that. That's what market is there for.

xaduhaon Bitcoin worth $1.5B withdrawn from Coinbase in 48 hours

https://en.macromicro.me/charts/29435/bitcoin-production-tot...

If electricity and computing power has a price, then so does bitcoin. Whether that's a waste or not is another question.

xaduhaon We've hit 1M monthly active users

> So I thought, maybe GitHub is on mastadon

If it was, then surely it would be something like @mastodon@github.com or @official@github.com? Just like with emails, you wouldn't expect official emails to be somewhere else.

And no, that doesn't mean everyone needs a full blown Mastodon server, I think just some sort of ActivityPub relay or a more lightweight server implementation would do.

xaduhaon Barilla passive cooker

Don't cook on gas if you really care about that kind of stuff.

xaduhaon Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

If you're not a part of some clique that decides to move off Twitter together, then I doubt you'll be able to just recreate a similar environment.

Otherwise for someone who posts frequently and has a good following, then it's probably worth it to start posting on Twitter and Mastodon at the same time, that's the only way it happens. Big movers and shakers are either going to stay on Twitter or drag everyone else with them, basically unlikely to happen.

xaduhaon Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

If they don't care, then they should stay on Twitter. There isn't a better option right now than Mastodon/ActivityPub.

xaduhaon Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

> Like browsing a news group on Usenet or checking a subreddit before

How would you do that on Twitter? Follow the hashtags. Why do you insist on limiting it to a server? That's not really how it is supposed to work anyway, it's not those things you mentioned.

xaduhaon Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

You have a good analogy attempt there, but you didn't quite nail it I think, because Outlook is also an email client.

It's more like if someone asked why they need to choose between someone@gmail.com address or someone@outlook.com, but in reality email would work just fine regardless.

EDIT: fixed

xaduhaon Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

It's federated, you don't need to register on multiple servers.

xaduhaon Mastodon's founder has a vision to democratize social media

Who should decide it for you then? Did someone mention blockchain already?

But seriously though, if you start to make it more distributed than it already is it will look even less like Twitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_(protocol)

xaduhaon Making an SSH client the hard way

From the article

> Web-based SSH clients aren’t new. Nearly every VPS and cloud provider already lets you connect to your VMs from the web — so how is this different?

This is clearly isn't for everyone, but if you need or already use something like that, then I think this has a chance to be more secure than some other options.

xaduhaon Deno vs. Bun performance is rigged

Are you sure about your conclusion though? Apart from just-js missing in action in last 3 runs, here it's just fine

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=e...