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Genuine question, why are these http links instead of https?

jonas-won Show HN: Mystery-o-matic – A daily murder mystery to solve

Mhm interesting, didn't know that it is seemingly just a German thing, only with some editions that are translated. The stories are often very hardcore, but nonetheless we played these as teens after School together or even in school. It's an analogue "card game", one side of the card is known to all who participate which contains the story and the other side is only known to one person which has the solution. The participants that don't know the solution only can ask yes or no questions to the one who knows the solution. I don't own one personally, and the only things I found on the internet are some images of these cards, but in german. You could try to translate one with Google Translate. If you search for black stories on the official store you can see that there are 135 different versions of it (some are called different colors/names, e.g. pink stories, which are more harmless stories for children or "pferde stories" which are about horses)

Many of then have an example image attached.

I translated this one with DeepL for you. https://www.moses-verlag.de/black-stories-8/106746

(Trigger Warning Eating Disorder)

Translation (story): > The queen

> After the meal, the queen died. If the guests had been more boring, she would still be alive.

Translation (solution): > A beauty queen (like e.g. Miss America) was invited to dinner every night after her election. To maintain her weight, she stuck her finger down her throat after each meal. At a reception she was involved in many interesting conversations and forgot to retire to the toilet after the main course. Her overfull stomach ruptured and she died as a result.

jonas-won Show HN: Mystery-o-matic – A daily murder mystery to solve

Reminds me of Black Stories: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stories https://www.moses-verlag.de/black-stories-English/103646

jonas-won List of Unix binaries that can be used to bypass local security restrictions

None of them rely on sudo. https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/sudo/ -> Is a 404

jonas-won Element X Matrix client now on iOS early release

Perfect makes sense, and that it also works with other matrix server implementations is even better, thank you for your efforts!

jonas-won Element X Matrix client now on iOS early release

Does anyone know if there are plans to integrate the sliding-sync-proxy into synapse itself?

jonas-won Web servers should refuse requests for random, unnecessary URLs

Maybe the scanner should also look at the "resource-that-should-not-exist-whose-status-code-should-not-be-200 well-known URI"

https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-change-password-url/response...

jonas-won Is the aircraft in this image real?

Banner blindness is more a web term, but maybe fits as the logo could count as some kind of banner/ad which we only glance over and won't pay much attention to it.

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

jonas-won Ask HN: Is there an e-commerce platform that doesn't suck?

jonas-won Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware?

You can use the google camera app, but they are trying to make their own Camera app as good as the official App.

> Google Camera can take full advantage of the available cameras and image processing hardware as it can on the stock OS and does not require GSF or sandboxed Google Play on GrapheneOS. Direct TPU and GXP access by Google apps including Google Camera is controlled by a toggle added by GrapheneOS and doesn't provide them with any additional access to data. The toggle exists for attack surface reduction. Every app can use the TPU and GXP via standard APIs including the Android Neural Networks API and Camera2 API regardless.

> We aim to reduce the benefits of Google Camera compared to GrapheneOS Camera over time, especially on Pixels. Many features of Google Camera will end up being available for GrapheneOS Camera in the next year or so via CameraX extensions including more aggressive HDR+, Night Sight and Portrait. Video features such as slow motion and time lapse are likely further away than within the next year. These video features could potentially be provided via CameraX vendor extensions or could be implemented via our own post-processing of the video output. Panorama, Photo Sphere, Astrophotography, Motion Photos, Frequent Faces, Dual Exposure Controls, Google Lens, etc. aren't on the roadmap for GrapheneOS Camera. Video frame rate configuration and H.265 support should be available for GrapheneOS Camera in the near future via CameraX improvements along with DNG (RAW) support in the further future.

All the info: https://grapheneos.org/usage#camera

jonas-won Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings

Can you enlighten me where the "Third-party licenses" link is?

jonas-won Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings

If they use it often, then the Settings app will have a longer screen time compared to normal usage I'd guess.

jonas-won An app can transform smartphones into thermometers that accurately detect fevers

> a custom user-debug Android kernel for accessing raw touchscreen capacitance data.

I don't know much about android and kernels, but seems like only rooting your phone still would not be suffice.

jonas-won Ask HN: Alternative to Firebase FCM

Yes, definitely.

https://unifiedpush.org/users/faq/#will-unifiedpush-ever-wor...

jonas-won Ask HN: Alternative to Firebase FCM

In very simple terms, you have an app installed on your phone (ntfy) that creates a websocket connection to your ntfy server and waits for notifications. The ntfy server receives these notifications from your Application Backend (via HTTP POST), which would normally send these to Firebase. Then your ntfy app receives the notification and can broadcast these to other apps, which could be your Application that earlier talked to some google services to receive notifications.

The whole point of unifiedpush is, that earlier when people did not want to use Google services in their application, they all needed to listen/poll on their own to some endpoint from the Application backend, which can be quite battery draining when you have multiple apps that do this. With ntfy you have only one app that listens/polls for these and can efficiently send them to the apps which want these notifications, exactly like Google Firebase notifications

jonas-won Fast and free multi-language code editor for Android

https://github.com/massivemadness/Squircle-CE/issues/182

It contains a google library, but can't find what exact library they are referring to, as the link they've provided is dead.

EDIT: Found it in an old commit from around that time the comment was made https://github.com/massivemadness/Squircle-CE/blob/1818d3904...

A googleplay "appupdate" library, I don't have knowledge about App development, but I don't see how this library is needed in the fdroid version?

jonas-won Ask HN: Alternative to Firebase FCM

I have my own selfhosted https://ntfy.sh instance that I use as my UnifiedPush provider (https://unifiedpush.org/), and to me it feels near instant. But I don't have any knowledge about how good this scales or fits your needs.

jonas-won Is Google reCAPTCHA GDPR Compliant?

IP reputation/blocking. Often datacenters have a bad IP reputation and if you access a site with a captcha from a datacenter IP, you will often get more/harder/slower captchas to solve. Some IPs are completely restricted from accessing sites which have captchas, if they are known to be used for spamming.

jonas-won An app can transform smartphones into thermometers that accurately detect fevers

In the paper (6.4 Limitations), there is an explanation for it:

..."Lastly, FeverPhone uses root-level access for reading a broad set of thermistors and a custom user-debug Android kernel for accessing raw touchscreen capacitance data. These requirements limit FeverPhone to phones with fine-grained sensor access. Temperature data from the battery thermistor is more readily accessible but did not yield comparable performance relative to temperature data from other thermistors. Still, future work could explore a more accessible version of FeverPhone with specific considerations paid to the battery thermistor. Similarly, the TouchEventAPI is publicly accessible at the cost of coarse-grained information about touch location. The use of this API in place of the raw capacitance data could be explored in future work."

jonas-won AWS documentation site has some issues

It's last updated 3 years ago, you could open an issue or even open a pull request on GitHub https://github.com/awsdocs/amazon-lightsail-developer-guide/...

jonas-won Ask HN: How do you do backups for personal/home server?

1. Raid1 (ZFS), if a drive fails 2. Borgbackup [0] with Borgmatic [1], daily backups to another server which also has Raid1

[0] https://www.borgbackup.org/ [1] https://torsion.org/borgmatic/

jonas-won Decoding small QR codes by hand (2012)

Doesn't seem to work for me, I used one of their example logo qr codes on their website and all give the error "Cannot decode a function pattern"

jonas-won iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on

Don't use TikTok, so can't say, but never had an Issue with these types of tracking links.

jonas-won Manjaro is a free and open source Linux operating system that emphasizes privacy

Just FYI many of the "Source" links lead to a 404

jonas-won Show HN: Hacker News Summary – Let ChatGPT Summarize Hacker News for You

Sorry, just did remember that this was on the front page some time ago.

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