Readit NewsanVlad11 commented on WA man set up fake free WiFi at airports and on flights, police allege theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/cyberlimerence
This is called an evil portal, it's super simple to do - Flipper has inbuilt functionality for this. It's super simple, broadcast an SSID with "Amazon Free Wifi" - when the user connects serve up a simple login page with Amazon logo, prompt for username and password - save the username and password, and just do nothing... end user doesn't understand why it didn't work, but it's too late at this point. Remarkably simple.
Please don't spread misinformation about Flipper Zero, there is enough of that already. The device has no Wi-Fi capabilities without hardware modifications.
anVlad11 commented on Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend? · Posted by u/0bsolete
> I don't believe it will exist in it's current form in two years,
Why?
Arc Browser does not have a public monetization plan. The Browser Company is a for-profit company, and they'll need to give something to their investors. Their market share now is abysmal to make a meaningful amount of profit from just selling user data.
At some point, they will need to introduce some kind of subscription for some of their browser features - I assume that current Arc Max is going to be part of it. This would lead to making new features available only to the paying users.
I have really pessimistic views on software development (for-profit or not) in general now, so I'd be really happy to be wrong here.
anVlad11 commented on Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend? · Posted by u/0bsolete
Choosy - is a must for me. It lets you select the browser/profile after clicking on any link or define the rules for opening them. For example, if a link contains a certain domain or it's source application is Slack, it will be opened in Work profile of your browser.
Obsidian - note taking, making presentations for work-related stuff.
iTerm 2 - it's better than default terminal emulator, but i consider moving to Alacritty to see what's so hype about it.
Scroll Reverser - macOS still doesn't know the difference between mouse scrolling and trackpad scrolling.
While i can't recommend Arc browser, i still use it daily. I don't believe it will exist in it's current form in two years, but now it's much more usable than other Chromium-based browsers for me.
I also have a simple shortcut in Siri Shortcuts that calls m1ddc tool to change the external monitor current input between HDMI and DisplayPort.
I've been always fascinated by subway maps. The best ones are usually made manually and require update from contractors on every infrastructure extension. Were there any efforts to make autogenerated styled subway maps? Not like stylization of OSM data, but real schemes that show the whole system without sensory overload?
anVlad11 commented on World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any visitor yourworldoftext.com/... · Posted by u/throwaway47292
I remember finding it in early 10's and posting link on a local forum - people organized and started writing crazy and fun things here, like a minimap or a two-page-ASCII-tank.
It was one of my first realtime collaborative experiences in the internet and it was magical at the time, i still believe that services like Miro grew out of World of Text.
Edit: couldn't find the forum post but found the tweet, wow, it was more than a decade ago https://twitter.com/anVlad11/status/23055592331 . Were old pages wiped?
anVlad11 commented on Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka github.com/provectus/kafk... · Posted by u/germanosin
Neat! Just be wary around licensing, we’ve been using a similar management tool for a couple years https://github.com/yahoo/CMAK which was originally Kafka manager but they were forced to rename it.
There was a whole wave of renamings in the past two years, it looked like Apache Foundation just carpet bombed everything with "Kafka" in the name.