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d4a··on My list of favorite secure messaging apps
For Session:

> Accounts can only be used on a single device, multi-device support is planned for the future

Can confirm that this is not true. I have multi device set up and it works just fine.

> Files are temporarily stored on a central server (encrypted) until the recipients retrieve them

Not just files, but also your messages. However, it's not as "centralized" as you think. The messages are stored across the Loki network, not just on one centralized server.

> Still new, bugs exists and features may change

Another con I would add is that it is painfully slow. There's often a delay of 10-15 or more seconds between sending a text message and receiving it. Interestingly, media files have about the same "lag". This makes faster conversations difficult, since I would send a message and an older message would backfill in making my message irrelevant. For example, I would receive "I have an idea", send back "what is the idea", but then a few seconds later a message would backfill in and appear before the message I just sent with clarification on the idea.

But that being said, I still think Session is one of the best truly-secure messengers out there. It's bug-free enough for daily use, very decentralized, solves the "offline message" issue. The only concern I have left is their weird crypto integration. The nodes in the Loki network are crypto nodes and it requires staking some $LOKI to join the pool. You do get rewarded for participating in some ways, however.

d4a··on Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?
FreshRSS for sync and on my computer, with NetNewsWire on my phone
d4a··on A 47-degree drop in Denver in 2 hours. Here are some of other dramatic changes
The power went out where I am right as the temps dropped. That means no heating. Luckily, I was able to get my fireplace running, despite it being fully electric-controlled and we were out of batteries (I just wired together a bunch of triple A's and it happened to work)
d4a··on Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately
I made something similar a few years back when I was learning web dev. It's not nearly as polished, but I'd love to pick apart your code and see what design decisions we did similarly/differently

https://9p4.github.io/hackna/

The big difference is that your project is self-contained in an HTML file, which I think is a much better design

d4a··on Digital books wear out faster than physical books
Not for a lack of trying

http://blog.archive.org/2022/07/08/internet-archive-seeks-su...

d4a··on Amazon’s cloud business just recorded its weakest growth to date
It's gotta grow at a rate of e^x so that the rate of growth is also the rate of the rate of growth and also is the rate of the rate of the rate of the rate of the rate...
d4a··on Food delivery robot crushed by train. [video]
That's a Starship robot. We have them around my college campus. They're typically super safe when crossing roads, but sometimes they just decide to wander out in front of a car.
d4a··on Square and Multiply Algorithm
256 points and just this comment? Flagged the post for likely vote manipulation.
d4a··on Archive.org Files Final Reply Brief in Lawsuit Defending Digital Lending
Original title: Internet Archive Files Final Reply Brief in Lawsuit Defending Controlled Digital Lending

Edited slightly to fit in HN's character limit.

d4a··on “Privacy”.com–Yeah Right
Author here.

My concern wasn't that Privacy.com knows who is using their service, but with rather how they choose to know that information through a third party (Onfido) and how terrible Onfido's privacy policy is.

d4a··on JDK 19 Release Notes
Seems like Java is ported to RISC-V on Linux now
d4a··on Homelab 10“ mini-rack shelves
There are 21" racks in use at some hyperscale clouds with OCP

https://www.opencompute.org/blog/introducing-the-open-rack

d4a··on Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?
I really like DF's theme, even though it looks terrible on mobile
d4a··on Solar canopies on parking lots
Even with those solar cars, it would be better off for them to plug into a larger grid and set of solar panels compared to the small ones built in. The purpose of those small panels is to charge when no charging is available. In this case, if enough current and charge is available (via solar canopies and mains power) then the built in panel is useless.
d4a··on Unplugged Phone Mysteries
With JS disabled, I get a "Sorry, Element requires JavaScript to be enabled."
d4a··on EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved
Cookie notices > having tracking cookies enabled by default with no easy way to turn them off
d4a··on Making holes without an electric drill
I would have liked some pictures to know what I'm reading about
d4a··on I posted my project on Reddit and received 9 job offers
Might not be it but maybe Samy Kamkar is who you are looking for? https://samy.pl/
d4a··on Ad company is teaming up with US carriers to take over your lock screen
Yeah... OSM just doesn't cut it unless if you're in a city.
d4a··on Camera model identification based on forensic traces
I could have sworn I read about this exact thing in Cory Doctorow's novel Little Brother
d4a··on Check if a website is using Google Analytics
Add a "Show HN: " to the beginning of the title, it might get more traction
d4a··on Yahoo admits mangling e-mail (2002)
It's the Sc**horpe problem all over again
d4a··on Wordalle – Guess the prompt used to generate a set of images from DalleMini
Some of them are super easy but I couldn't get one letter in the phrase a few times
d4a··on When network is faster than browser cache (2020)
Seems like you did something similar to what Vector Packet Processing is.

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

d4a··on The 8bit Keyboard
It's useless and I love it
d4a··on I just built yet another Meme Generator
Seems like a lot of the interface isn't translated into English just yet.
d4a··on GPyTorch Gaussian processes for modern machine learning systems
Doesn't seem like it's linked anywhere?
d4a··on Show HN: Remult – a CRUD framework for full-stack TypeScript
It seems to already be filled with racial slurs unfortunately.

Also, pressing enter to log in doesn't work.

d4a··on HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS
Virtualization is one that I frequently do. Running a VM to test out programs (especially to test out Windows compat, or macOS if you're feeling up to the challenge). 16GB can barely run an additional VM, and if you have 30-40 FF tabs open, an IDE, and so on, then running with just 16GB of memory becomes very restrictive. Allocating 8GB to the (one) VM would leave you with 8 for the host OS, of which 2GB is going to be used by the kernel/WM, and leaves only 6GB to develop with.
d4a··on DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit
Posted this since I am doing a little project around printers.
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