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prima-facieon Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company

I was hoping banks would turn to using Yubikeys/U2F for authentication/transaction signing, and not these Draconian measures.

prima-facieon Oxygen Candles: Providing Emergency Air

I believe these are the same candles used on submarines to make oxygen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Ud6mHdhlQ

prima-facieon UML Diagrams Designer via Code

There's also Mermaid which is natively supported by Github: https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/

prima-facieon Tell HN: Recruiters are lying about remote positions

> When they pointed out they had been hired as remotes they were met with a collective shrug - the job opening didn't say remote, the agreement they signed didn't say remote. The recruiter was wrong but that's not the company's problem.

That's why during the interview process you need to repeat it multiple times to all parties involved - to make sure they are all on board. After the interview/when accepting the offer you need to get it in writing as an appendix to the contract or any other form that's legally acceptable.

prima-facieon Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://wooptoo.com

No images, just plain HTML/CSS generated with Pelican. I try to keep it as minimal as possible. Haven't posted in a while though.

prima-facieon Why to care about privacy after years of sharing data

What if you go even further and pollute the data to such an extent that you start fitting into all buckets.

You could be male, female and any other gender, any race, any job, work as a CEO and a janitor, live both in Russia and the US.

You could probably do this to Google search.

Edit: Apparently somebody already built an extension which does exactly this for Facebook. https://floorvandenberghe.be/derivedscrolling/

prima-facieon YouTube cancelled my Nextcloud installation how-to

Funny how these companies started out with open source software as the base of their products, and are now pulling up the ladder behind them.

prima-facieon Ask HN: How to move away from Google

This is the first time I'm hearing this. Can you please elaborate? Thanks

prima-facieon Tell HN: Adobe took down the PDF 1.7 specification from their site

PDF 2.0 is not cheap either: https://www.iso.org/standard/75839.html Definitely a step back.

prima-facieon The end of the nice GTK button

All I can hope is that XFCE with its conservative approach will never pick up this new design language. Why have changes for change's sake?

prima-facieon Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers

I use both Meld and Diffuse[1] depending on what I do. I find Diffuse represents diffs better visually, while Meld being better for actually merging contents since you can just click on those arrows.

[1]: https://github.com/MightyCreak/diffuse

prima-facieon Who's Attacking My Server?

Nice tool, thanks.

prima-facieon Who's Attacking My Server?

I used SSHGuard in the past which can actually cover a lot more services than just SSH. I imagine this sort of daemon is useful when you have external customers. It also has a touchy behaviour which gradually increases the timeout until it permanently locks out misbehaving clients.

Nowadays I just use WireGuard to access my own LAN. But this doesn't scale as well if you need to constantly add and remove clients from the network.

For Nginx most bogus requests come directly on the public IP. So you can set up a dummy/catch-all vhost which drops those. https://pastebin.com/MuWgyGGG

prima-facieon Google Docs New Feature: Pageless

Isn't this how Google Docs worked back in the day?

I remember it didn't have page breaks by default and it took them a while to implement that.

prima-facieon Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

> To all those Russians I can only say: please help spread the information about what is going on in Ukraine.

As these sanctions kick in I think we're going to see less and less sympathy from the Russian people.

prima-facieon Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?

Rsync -- Initial release 25 years ago

prima-facieon Documenting equipment losses during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Those are definitely soviet from the naming scheme. The Chinese use a completely different naming scheme

https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/land/row/index.html

prima-facieon Ask HN: Google SSO or Password Manager?

- SSO for work accounts where available. The infra is maintained by the company so it should be as easy as possible for you to use it.

- Independent user accounts (with a password manager) for personal stuff.

prima-facieon Is it time to remove reiserfs?

Linus admitted that he only named one piece of software after himself and that was Git. Linux was a sort of half-hearted decision he only accepted as a last resort.

prima-facieon Is it time to remove reiserfs?

Maybe it's a sort of Teutonic tradition to name things after yourself. e.g. Hetzner, ReiserFS.

prima-facieon Tell HN: I got 10x Hetzner storage at the same price

Is there currently any way to:

- have more secure passwords for Storage Boxes? Currently they're 16 characters long which is quite weak. Plus the usernames seem to be predictable/enumerable (e.g. u000000).

- or even disable password logins entirely for boxes where there is ssh-key authentication set up?

Thanks.

prima-facieon Tell HN: I got 10x Hetzner storage at the same price

I can confirm that rclone works over sftp on port 23. They also support rsync and borg (not tested) [1].

I would also recommend adding `sha1sum_command = /usr/bin/sha1sum` to the rclone.conf entry in order to enable rclone cryptcheck.

[1]: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/storage-box/access/access-ssh...

prima-facieon Tell HN: I got 10x Hetzner storage at the same price

Probably stupid question: can you use rclone to sync data over or does it have to be via rsync only?

I'd prefer rclone since it can encrypt a remote.

prima-facieon Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?

Teams is not meant to be good, friendly or performant. Teams is meant to check boxes in executive meetings, and to beat the competition's price when purchased in bulk.

prima-facieon Reddit can't build a better search engine

Let's bring back the old dmoz.org [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ

prima-facieon AWS S3: Sometimes you should press the $100k button

They're also _not_ classic hierarchical filesystems, but k-v stores with extras.

prima-facieon Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for?

> And I've started by purchasing a domain name for 10 years and having a 'catch all and forward to gmail' rule setup.

This is the easiest way to do this since most domain registrars have a forwarding option. Cloudflare recently introduced Email Routing, which has been working well for me.

> But what if I get reported on my domain name? What if that gets suspended or blacklisted too?

Usually IPs or blocks of IPs get reported for spam, not domains. So in case the SMTP server you use starts to see a drop in reputation you can always change to another one without affecting your deliverability.

prima-facieon Zim – A Desktop Wiki

Discussed here https://github.com/GitJournal/GitJournal/issues/594

prima-facieon Zim – A Desktop Wiki

I'd be happy to help. I do use Zim on a daily basis and would love for GitJournal to support it natively.

prima-facieon Zim – A Desktop Wiki

Thanks for sharing, but this approach is not what I'm looking for. Being able to (auto)commit to git from the editor is priceless to me.

I've used Markor but there's too much file management involved, instead of organising pages at a higher level and letting the app handle the filesystem ops.