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zuck9··on Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
Sounds like more messaging app proliferation will lead to services like Texts.com / Matrix get even more popular.
zuck9··on Show HN: Offline voice messages transcription in Signal Desktop
Texts.com supports offline audio transcription for all platforms. They say it's powered by Apple's speech recognition APIs.
zuck9··on Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place
https://texts.com/privacy says:

> Messages, contacts, auth credentials, account information never touch Texts servers.

> Your messages are sent directly to the messaging platforms.

> All end-to-end encryption is preserved when the platform supports it.

> Texts is a client and works like the official app.

Apparently all the code runs on the user's device.

zuck9··on Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place
Been using https://texts.com — they preserve E2E for Signal/WhatsApp.
zuck9··on Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers?
+ Learning confirmation and other biases
zuck9··on GPT-2 generated satire news
This is trained on Onion articles. Which makes sense why it is amusing.

From https://www.fakefake.news/article/3ee8iz-trump-campaign-asks...:

> Pointing out that he is the candidate who will take on the establishment, President-elect Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday he is asking the American people to vote for him in November. “The establishment is trying to stop me, but I’m the guy who can speak their language,” said Trump, adding that despite the “corrupt political establishment,” he has been a champion of working people for the past eight years, and that “we need a leader who can take them back.” “If they think I’m some puppet politician who can bring the country down, they’re really mistaken. I won’t be able to do that if you’re all in the same camp.” At press time, Trump had announced that he will be releasing a new book Saturday, titled If We Build A Bridge, which lays out his vision for the country.

zuck9··on 1.1.1.1 for Families
YouTube says "Some results have been removed because Restricted Mode is enabled by your network administrator." when I'm on the Family DNS. How does this work? How can they know what DNS I'm using?
zuck9··on Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS
https://issuehunt.io/
zuck9··on Ask HN: How to harden my opsec / digital security?
@dang, if you see this, please delete this thread.

I've reposted my question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108768

zuck9··on Apple Officially Announces Bug Bounty Program Covering All of Its Software
Here's the official page: https://developer.apple.com/security-bounty/
zuck9··on Create-React-App 3.3
I've been using it for a while with CRA 3 / react-scripts 3.2

Works fine for overriding Webpack config at least.

zuck9··on Create-React-App 3.3
You can use https://github.com/timarney/react-app-rewired to override anything in the default CRA config
zuck9··on GitHub Archive Program
In addition, they provide excellent error recovery.
zuck9··on I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (2016)
Reminds me of the time this lady contacted the mother of a man who sent her violent threats and got him to apologize: https://twitter.com/AGlasgowGirl/status/1188128030268575744
zuck9··on Stripe CLI
Curious what your use case is.
zuck9··on Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a memory copy
Also worth checking out: https://github.com/superhuman/fast64

That is what Superhuman uses for decoding base64 in browser.

zuck9··on Perfectly Cropped
Do you have a non-standard font size? If not, maybe OP does.
zuck9··on Show HN: React Hook Form – Simple Form Validation
Landing page is pretty impressive. Nice work :)
zuck9··on Ask HN: What Have You Learned at Google as a Software Engineer?
You should replace Google with "big tech company" or FAANG to get more responses.
zuck9··on Fraudsters Used AI to Mimic CEO’s Voice
It's dead easy to spoof caller IDs. Any kid could do it.
zuck9··on Slack Security Incident
> Were our Dutch friends sifting through our messages for four years before Slack notified us of a suspicious login?

The author might know this already but the hackers aren't Dutch. They simply bought a cheap NL server from LeaseWeb to mask their real IP.

zuck9··on Jane Manchun Wong: App researcher who unlocks new features before they launch
What's HH?
zuck9··on We Pay You to Learn to Code
How's this different from Lambda School?
zuck9··on 20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience
I would love to feed GPT2 with movie scripts when it's completely open source.
zuck9··on Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps
How so? A world without Google would have shitty search initially but would exist perfectly fine. iOS/Windows, Safari/Firefox, Apple Maps, iCloud Mail/Outlook, Vimeo already exist and soon a decent search engine would surface.
zuck9··on FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
Which you cannot do on iPhones.
zuck9··on Announcing unlimited free private repos
GitHub should publish the post today after noticing this and remove the embargo for other publications.
zuck9··on Why Telegram is insecure (2015)
Keybase is a great alternative for chats (no voice/video yet).

It is VC backed, doesn't require a phone number, everything is end-to-end encrypted and has apps for all major platforms (iOS, Android, Windows/Mac).

zuck9··on Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets
This is another reminder of why people should be using hardware wallets.

It is relatively super cheap compared to the value of 1 BTC.

zuck9··on My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
After e2e encryption, my second largest feature request is a .dropboxignore file

I don't understand why they don't have it even after all these years.

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