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commandersakion Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

I love the newsletter, I always find stuff I missed happening in the cryptography world.

commandersakion Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

Some say in this thread that it's supported by Google Play, but no mention of Apple's OSes, so I wonder if you can only do it on one platform.

commandersakion How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

What's crazy is there's so much malvertising on Google. I used to see heaps of Homebrew advertisements leading to malicious curl | sh installs.

commandersakion Asahi Linux on M3

At the point its vintage people will just buy something new as it will perform better.

commandersakion RecurseCenter.return()

This is such a great treatise on RC. I always found RC alum posts on HN are always interesting.

This article resonates a lot of what I've been going through recently, so I thought I'd just reflect about it here.

I was in a slump a year ago, and I felt like I wasn't being challenged and just lingering. I wanted to do something more, and have always looked at study or a programming retreat like RC, just to stimulate myself and keep myself always occupied, otherwise I'd just spend most of my spare time lethargic and sleepy.

I mean I have a great job programming that is remote/wfh with little to no supervision, excellent pay, and a good team. However I feel was simply not making good use of the time when not working, and I didn't want to just go hard and work extra hours.

I looked into studying maths but there is a dearth of options for my requirements: to do it in a classroom setting since I believe maths is a great social activity. I just can't pull off part-time maths while working and the local universities are pretty expensive for doing this.

However last November a colleague tipped me off about a program called LPAB which is a diploma that is equivalent to a law degree with remote/distant learning, classes during evenings and weekend schools, and simply incredibly value (20% of what a law degree would cost in Australia).

I didn't anticipate studying law, but I jumped on it because it was the only thing that would fit my lifestyle. Now in my second semester and I feel I'm always occupied and engaged either studying or working. It's also helped with giving discipline and structure to my day. Before this I would just wfh at scattered hours with little to no supervision or contact. I now have a cohort of study buddies and now friends that are all in it together also with work and kid obligations, so we endure the suffering together.

I wish there were more options for advancement for people in a career and need a part-time option doing something substantial.

commandersakion Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

So is the news outlet that is speculating for clicks.

commandersakion Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

There's no indication there's a limited supply by Apple or you cannot get one. I don't see a marketing angle here, just speculation from "The Information", and people love to speculate for clicks so there's the motive.

commandersakion Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

Because it is ludicrous and the tin foilers should be called out.

commandersakion Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care

I use the default neovim theme and I feel that's essentially what I get out of it. Feels like sometimes I don't have highlighting enabled.

commandersakion Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

> If there be anything that can ever steal the spotlight from Mac; it would be Haiku.

I looked at the Haiku slideshow and I'm not seeing this. It looks like an eye sore, desktop environments familiar of the 90s. Even early OSX is a massive improvement (as it was to the NeXT desktop).

commandersakion Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M

But that's not going to "make Linux fucking happen".

Not that Linux is going to ever happen anyways. (talking Desktop)

commandersakion Omakase Computing

Seems wrong that this post is flagged.

commandersakion An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

Most providers from my understanding don't handle aliases well.

I have a catchall *@domain.tld and Fastmail when it receives an email on an alias, responds correctly with the proper alias.

Also when I compose, it let's me write in a custom alias for the From sender.

Other providers and email clients seem to want you to create an identity for each alias which is a huge burden.

commandersakion Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries

I recently changed the USB port of my Fairphone 4 and it was just unscrewing and screwing.

why are you changing a USB port on a phone?

commandersakion OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

Yeah, Linksys made a killing from this and the WRT54GS 2.0 because of OpenWRT.

commandersakion NSA tries to weaken mlkem standardisation?

Reminds me of the time when Joseph Touch (I think his name was) proposed the NULL cipher in TLS. "It's just a proposal."

commandersakion Completing a computer science degree on Coursera

Any suggestions for online program / distance learning (I'm in Australia)? I want a proper challenge not a walk in the park.

commandersakion OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase

Is this the tool that blasted away all the wiki pages for Azure in the repos?

commandersakion Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager

Ah just realised no iOS release, that's a non-starter.

commandersakion CarPlay Is Additive

Let me put it this way: using my car's console controls are more distracting than using CarPlay with siri/voice control. If I'm uncomfortable though I would be in a worse shape driving, hence there's a need to set climate.

commandersakion Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager

How does it handle browser autofill. What if you have to fill in a box that has a non-standard label? These are things I rely on with 1Password.

commandersakion CarPlay Is Additive

I don't know about Rivian, but I'm generally less distracted on the road with CarPlay due to Siri & Voice Control. I wish I could extend it to my native car controls such as climate control etc.

commandersakion Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

If said videos or media are doing that, there would be a corpus of samples by now. I'm very sceptical of this.

commandersakion Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

I'm guessing none to be honest. It sounds plausible but in practice it's probably too difficult to do anything useful compared to other tried and true vectors.

Everyone goes to the extremes when it comes to these theories and throws out all aspects of pragmatism.

commandersakion Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

How many victims are known to be exploited by video codecs? Compare that with the wider landscape of how victims are being exploited.

commandersakion Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem

Looking at the comments from the previous thread at least on Android looks like you need to root the device. I'm not sure that is still required.

commandersakion LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach

E2EE done properly is why. See 1Password security whitepaper for how.

commandersakion Google Hits 50% IPv6

OP was making the case that CGNAT adds to the latency in some significant way. Yes it adds latency, but it is of negligible concern.

commandersakion Google Hits 50% IPv6

You do realise that mobile usage is a subset of the Internet and the Internet is not just about end user connectivity.

But you still haven't addressed my original point, how has IPv6 averted the impending (at the time) IP exhaustion problem? As I remember it, we were running out of IP addresses, then we did run out, and CGNAT helped extend the life of the Internet for people on IP, while v6 still remains an island that is optional and doesn't help alleviate any of the pain.

TL;DR: v6 is not fit for purpose.

commandersakion Google Hits 50% IPv6

20 years too late.