itsthecourier (u/itsthecourier)

itsthecourier commented on US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

miduil · 9 days ago

> Push notifications can be used to read messages.

Are you trying to imply that WhatsApp is bypassing e2e messaging through Push notifications?

Unless something has changed, this table highlights that both Signal and WhatsApp are using a "Push-to-Sync" technique to notify about new messages.

https://crysp.petsymposium.org/popets/2024/popets-2024-0151....

itsthecourier · 9 days ago

Push-to-Sync. We observed 8 apps employ a push-to-sync strat- egy to prevent privacy leakage to Google via FCM. In this mitigation strategy, apps send an empty (or almost empty) push notification to FCM. Some apps, such as Signal, send a push notification with no data (aside from the fields that Google sets; see Figure 4). Other apps may send an identifier (including, in some cases, a phone num- ber). This push notification tells the app to query the app server for data, the data is retrieved securely by the app, and then a push notification is populated on the client side with the unencrypted data. In these cases, the only metadata that FCM receives is that the user received some message or messages, and when that push noti- fication was issued. Achieving this requires sending an additional network request to the app server to fetch the data and keeping track of identifiers used to correlate the push notification received on the user device with the message on the app server.

itsthecourier commented on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars newsroom.porsche.com/en/2... · Posted by u/m463

kulahan · 21 days ago

In terms of features I see on high end cars… (no clue if these are available in Chinese cars, just to help you get an idea of what exists)

1. Backup camera with lines that move as you turn the wheel

2. Camera setup that lets you see how close you are to curbs, other cars, etc. from a plethora of unexpected angles (you can get a top-down view of your car! Pretty cool.)

3. Automatic parking when parallel parking

4. “Reverse actions” feature, where you press a button after very carefully getting into a spot, and the car replays it in reverse to get you out of said spot

5. Lots of remote features tied to an app. The ability to look through cameras, auto-record videos when people get close, lock and unlock and view status of the car. Remote tracking via GPS in case it’s stolen.

6. Turn on your turn signal, your dash changes to a live video feed of that side of the car

7. Chairs with heating and cooling, massaging, and auto-inertia-damping features

8. Bluetooth and Apple CarPlay plus Android auto

9. Road-scanning cameras which adjust suspension live based on upcoming road conditions

10. Crash preparation features like Benz’s Pink Noise or auto-recording a minute of video to assist with crash investigations

There are probably may I’m forgetting.

itsthecourier · 21 days ago

saw an xpeng playing music outside the car, not inside, for beach parties

and, this is not a joke, truly: the seat gave me a massage.

itsthecourier commented on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars newsroom.porsche.com/en/2... · Posted by u/m463

appplication · 21 days ago

The issue is not actual quality, it’s perceived quality. Chinese companies will fight decades of history and negative perception to reach top of the market consumers, a segment obsessed with perception.

itsthecourier · 21 days ago

just got an etron because my partner wanted a xpeng, guy is super happy in that xpeng and I gotta say, he's right

itsthecourier commented on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars newsroom.porsche.com/en/2... · Posted by u/m463

bnchrch · 21 days ago

While the headline is interesting.

I think the table at the end of the article is more so.

- Worldwide sales -10% YoY

- China sales -26% YoY

And when you cross compare Porsche saying they sold more EV powertrains than their gas equivalents against China's new found foothold as the market leader in consumer electric cars (BYD, NIO, Xiaomi, etc...)

Then I think you see an early indication not just of electric car dominance, but of the (very potential) rise of China as the premier automotive super power.

itsthecourier · 21 days ago

great analysis

itsthecourier commented on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars newsroom.porsche.com/en/2... · Posted by u/m463

itsthecourier · 21 days ago

I was reading about Porsche this week on reddit. lots of complaints about Taycans.

always have been a fan of Porsche.

hope they find the way forward

itsthecourier commented on Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back calquio.com/finance/compo... · Posted by u/ivcatcher

7777332215 · 22 days ago

Yup. I worked very hard, and for many years to acquire a skill in designing and writing systems. It is an art. And it is very disheartening to see people without any skills to behave the way they do. For now, the work I do cannot be replicated by these people, but I do not such high hopes for the distant future. Though at the point it can truly be automated I think it will be automating a large majority of non physical jobs (and those too will be likely getting automated by then)

itsthecourier · 22 days ago

feel the same, but I moved up. create full products and profit from them. you have a great taste if you know what's behind

itsthecourier commented on Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager github.com/njbrake/agent-... · Posted by u/river_otter

river_otter · a month ago

I'm also seriously considering the ability to produce aoeii sound effects like "nuh nuh nuh"

itsthecourier · a month ago

it must be done

itsthecourier commented on Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times nexanet.ai/blog/53-times-... · Posted by u/fuck_flock

Jon_Lowtek · a month ago

The citizens of the USA need to modernize their concept of privacy. Defining it over private/public spaces comes from a time when mass surveillance was technologically unfeasible. Technology has changed, and so must the definition of privacy.

thought experiment: >> if they do not want their conversations in their living room recorded, parsed by automated language models running in our datacenters, and added to their permanent record, they shouldn't have a window to a public space that vibrates. All we are doing is being in a public space, spending billions of VC money to point laser microphones at all homes 24/7 collecting data that anyone in this public space could have collected. You can not outlaw that without outlawing 5 year old Timmy riding his tricycle down the sidewalk, because we are using his right to see the light from his lamp being reflected by the houses, to justify why our creepy business model isn't a violation of millions of peoples privacy. You can't have a reasonable expectation of privacy that allows little Timmy to see, but forbids our corporation to spy on everyone, not in america. We also send electromagnetic waves out on one side off your house and collect them on the other, so we can see you move inside your house. It is basically like ham radio, anyone could do it, little Timmy sends electromagnetic waves through your house when he talks to his friend on a walkie talkie. You think Timmy shouldn't be allowed to have a walkie-talkie? We just send them through all the homes, all the time, everywhere. No we are not on your property all our devices are in public spaces <<

The idea that, if a single piece of information could be collected by a human in a public space, then mass scale collection of that and similar information at all times and in all public spaces, for any purpose by a fully automated behemoth is fine, is insane.

The USA needs to amend its constitution to define the right to privacy in a way that declares mass surveillance and systematic profiling using non-consensual data gathering at scale illegal for being the nefarious violation of basic human rights that it is, before they completely loose what little privacy they have left when they hole up in their homes.

itsthecourier · a month ago

good examples

itsthecourier commented on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far burkeholland.github.io/po... · Posted by u/tbassetto

redhale · a month ago

Not necessarily responding to you directly, but I find this take to be interesting, and I see it every time an article like this makes the rounds.

Starting back in 2022/2023:

- (~2022) It can auto-complete one line, but it can't write a full function.

- (~2023) Ok, it can write a full function, but it can't write a full feature.

- (~2024) Ok, it can write a full feature, but it can't write a simple application.

- (~2025) Ok, it can write a simple application, but it can't create a full application that is actually a valuable product.

- (~2025+) Ok, it can write a full application that is actually a valuable product, but it can't create a long-lived complex codebase for a product that is extensible and scalable over the long term.

It's pretty clear to me where this is going. The only question is how long it takes to get there.

itsthecourier · a month ago

I use it on a 10 years codebase, needs to explain where to get context but successfully works 90% of time

itsthecourier commented on I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019) idiallo.com/blog/18000-do... · Posted by u/caminanteblanco

itsthecourier · a month ago

the longest case I know is a guy in big crypto who after a fallout was taking care of a zombie company for about a year and half, full pay, practically 1 or 2 hours of work some of the weeks