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mccorrinall··on VPNs on iOS are a scam
I use perfect privacy and they provide IPSec configs for iOS. Their guide even makes note to enable on-demand to prevent leaks.

Also, just checked Mullvad, which seems to open an IPSec server on your local device and then install a vpn config on your ios device. From the local IPSec server a connection is made to mullvad via wireguard. On-demand is also enabled by default.

But yea, VPN were initially targeted at enterprises anyway. So I don’t mind that i actually have to install vpn profiles by hand.

mccorrinall··on Ask HN: In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning?
Read this book: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hands-on-machine-learni...
mccorrinall··on Impact to DigitalOcean customers resulting from Mailchimp security incident
+1 for postmark. Wildbit also always cared about their users, I hope the new owners of postmark will continue this.
mccorrinall··on Germany sees shift in sentiment toward atomic energy
Exactly. Why did holes into the earth to store toxic waste when you have literally infinite energy right above your head (sun and wind)?
mccorrinall··on The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS
Are you sure the logging out when switching issue isn’t a setting by your organization?
mccorrinall··on The mechanics of a sophisticated phishing scam and how we stopped it
It’s scary that porkbun just gave away the domain like this. What if cloudflare was actually the threat actor? Could they just steal domains like this?

They should’ve not cooperated. Instead, cloudflare should have had to contact verisign - the actual owner of .com.

mccorrinall··on OnlyFans bribed Meta to put porn stars on terror watchlist: lawsuits
And there is no evidence to prove this as the article shows. The headline is clickbait.
mccorrinall··on FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants
> The lobbying against it has been intense for completely befuddling reasons though

Citation needed. I don’t see why anyone would lobby against starlink or LTD here. Neither won. They money from the fund is not distributed. They can reapply.

What the hell are you talking about? If there is lobbying, it’s certainly not against Starlink or LTD getting the funds as subsidiaries. The goals were set, starlink didn’t meet them, they don’t get subsidized. Simple as that.

mccorrinall··on Celsius Network Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
It does. When coinbase goes bankrupt, they can liquidate all user assets. User assets at banks are insured up to 250k.

Why should I take the risk of a company going bankrupt and liquidating my funds when I can keep the money in my house (wallet)?

mccorrinall··on An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter
No spammer ever buys sim cards in store with ID. 5sim.net apparently has direct SS7 access and nearly infinite numbers and offers bulk purchases for receiving SMS. Even for countries like Germany, where ID authentication is mandatory to get a phone number. They have thousands of +49 numbers.

Costs only a few rubles. If you convert it to euros it’s between 1-10 cents, depending on the service and country.

The bottom line is: IDs for sim cards are useless.

mccorrinall··on Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?
You might be mistaking playwright with puppeteer
mccorrinall··on Ask HN: What city is the center of crypto innovation?
The same switzerland that requires proof of address ownership when using a non-custodial wallet?

https://www.bitcoinsuisse.com/news/what-is-the-fatf-travel-r...

mccorrinall··on Uber’s Still Not Profitable
Always love doctorows uber rants.
mccorrinall··on Ubisoft about to take away games you bought
After one year of sending tickets back and forth I just asked my credit card issuer to charge back all purchases ever made. Going to court or similar was not an option as a poor student :/
mccorrinall··on Ubisoft about to take away games you bought
You don’t even own your steam account. If you forget your password, but have other ways to proof (7+ years of purchase history of your credit card and paypal, your ID etc) they will still say: „go fuck yourself, buy all games again.“

Happened to me. Awful customer service.

mccorrinall··on GraphQL kinda sucks
I love consuming graphql as a client. But writing resolvers and all that stuff on the backend? God, I hate it!
mccorrinall··on Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines in a good sense
Why do you think so? In my opinion it makes debugging, deployment and keeping the architecture clean much easier.
mccorrinall··on Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
> So it seems to be a phishing opportunity is to create a profile on LinkedIn or angel.co with a company name that matches your target company. Write some job postings with descriptions that look like a job posting that the company would actually hire. And now those job postings will be reposted onto the official LinkedIn pages of the company, and applicants will be redirected to your phished webpage.

Ehh, not sure how I'm targeting the company by doing that? If I understand correctly, you're actually targeting an applicant here.

mccorrinall··on Build your own web framework
Babel transpiles js to browsers which are older than me. You should give it a try.
mccorrinall··on I don’t have notifications enabled, nowhere and never
Calendars and emails usually don’t need push to show notifications. Email clients usually use imap streaming (if supported) or just poll your inbox every x minutes.

We are specifically talking about push via GCM / Apple here. Afaik signal opens a websocket in the background if GCM push is not supported. Or at least that’s how it worked a few years ago.

Google Cloud Messaging features (push) only work when you have gapps installed or use an alternative implementation like microg.

I assume that whatsapp also has some kind of fallback strategy built in.

mccorrinall··on I don’t have notifications enabled, nowhere and never
I do the same. Focus modes on iOS are a really good addition!
mccorrinall··on The Case for C# and .NET
You are actually right. Today I opened the documentation again: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/web-api/route-t...

And it says right at the bottom, that OpenAPI and model binding is not supported in their route to code feature.

I initially googled how to create a simple json api, and that’s the documentation which I found. Looks really easy in the beginning, but after you’re done with your routes, you’ll read at the end of the documentation, that OpenAPI generation, model binding etc is not supported. I blame that the guide‘s title is misleading and - of course - that I should’ve read till the end before actually following any step of that tutorial.

mccorrinall··on The Case for C# and .NET
Looks like I was using the wrong ASP.NET features! Route-to-code does not support OpenAPI.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/web-api/route-t...

mccorrinall··on The History of ‘Ampersand’ (2020)
Don’t believe them! ß is not sharp! Do you see any sharp edges there? Me neither! It’s as blunt it can get!
mccorrinall··on Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime
Is there something like this for python?
mccorrinall··on The Case for C# and .NET
I tried writing a simple crud api with asp.net, which should parse and respond json. It was the worst development experience I ever had while writing json apis. Validation? Not existent. OpenAPI/swagger documentation generation? Not existent. Then it also tried to force me into using MVC, while acting that it is express with its middlewares.

I switched back to node.js with fastify and wrote my app in an hour.

I really like C# for cli and windows desktop applications, but I probably won’t touch it for the web in the next few years.

mccorrinall··on Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme
There are exchanges which allow transactions from e.g bitcoin to monero. As soon as you’re on such a private chain, you most likely broke the link.
mccorrinall··on EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved
I don’t care as long as I can finally use firefox or chrome on my iphone and FINALLY play vp9 webms.

Also, I use a few mobile apps with web push notifications, so there is that too! Webkit still doesn’t support neither.

Im hyped.

mccorrinall··on “No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels
While I only had positive experiences with SSRI so far, I can definitely say that substances can cause suicidal thoughts. When I took xanax, I had a lot of suicidal thoughts and really had to fight to not kill myself. It’s just like being on autopilot and having to fight against autopilot who wants to crash your car into a wall.

I could imagine that SSRI can activate this autopilot for some people and worsens their negative thoughts.

mccorrinall··on “No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels
Same here, but with Fluoxetine (Prozac). However, I don’t think exactly that fluoxetine made me less depressed. It only made me more „aggressive“ and more risk taking, and the antidepressing effect came from the positive results of taking such risks. I just „don’t care“ about failures as much as I used to.

E.g. I finally started talking to girls, because I wouldn’t care about rejection that much. => Got into my first relationship and was happy.

Also, I started working on my passion project full time and I recently registered a company for it. Two years ago I would have not thought about doing this, as working for an employer is way „safer“.

But I don’t care about failing anymore.

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