leshenka (u/leshenka)

leshenka commented on Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules resurf.me... · Posted by u/walrussama

leshenka · 6 days ago

I hear about time capsule apps from time to time and my main concern about them is longevity.

Will this application exist in say 10 years from now? 20? And even then will I be using the same email by then?

leshenka commented on It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) javascript.tm/letter... · Posted by u/pavelai

homebrewer · 10 days ago

Imagine if this effort was spent on solving more pressing problems, like the recent yet another security kerfuffle, or the overloaded maintainers whom everyone depends on but reliably fails to support.

Call the language JS, everyone already understands it, it's used on all the logos because it's short, we already another popular language with a very compact name (Go, which is harder to look up without mangling its name, and it's still doing fine).

leshenka · 10 days ago

> Go, which is harder to look up without mangling its name

don't get me started on typescript. Until recently I had to use its full name when googling something

leshenka commented on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

raw_anon_1111 · 12 days ago

From what I just heard on the Upgrade podcast, Apple only put a splash screen up when you first purchased your phone “encouraging” users in Russia to download the app. It didn’t force you to.

leshenka · 12 days ago

That's true, it opens a splash screen. But if I remember correctly even if you dismiss it it opens a corresponding AppStore section. Which was kinda annoying but that's it.

In more recent developments of this story, looks like Russian authorities saw a success of EU's push for alternative stores and now want Apple to allow that in Russia too [1,2]. Sadly, the motivation is twofold: a. let authorities publish their spyware (Max messenger) and b. let sanctioned companies publish their apps (sberbank). I haven't heard a single word about caring for user freedom.

P.S. just for laughs: Since it's currently (almost)impossible to install alternative appstores, stores and online marketplaces selling iphones now label them as "defective" [3]: below title "Имеется недостаток товара: невозможно установить и использовать RuStore" = "Defect: impossible to install and use RuStore"

[1] (ru) https://www.ixbt.com/news/2025/07/07/apple-rustore-iphone-ip...

[2] (en) https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/27/an-app-store-ultimat...

[3] https://re-store.ru/catalog/10117MAX512ORGN/

leshenka commented on Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS gist.github.com/arianvp/5... · Posted by u/arianvanp

cedws · 21 days ago

Secretive is a bit friendlier to set up but I'll probably switch to this anyway so I have one less app on my computer.

Plugging my blog post for how to achieve this on Windows 11:

https://cedwards.xyz/tpm-backed-ssh-keys-on-windows-11/

leshenka · 20 days ago

Wonder if it's possible to use keys created by Secretive in native authentication?

leshenka commented on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/abraham

thunfischtoast · 23 days ago

Now fix Direct Share on android, which is a highly broken feature and has been for years.

leshenka · 23 days ago

Why, I think you'd be able to send files between two androids via airdrop implementation.

leshenka commented on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/abraham

hu3 · 23 days ago

If implemntations have been around for a while but it only happened now, then it's 99% chance that's it's Apple backpedalling and trying to weasel their way around DMA.

They got smoked in court, see ruling at https://ec.europa.eu/competition/digital_markets_act/cases/2...

    5.4.8. Implementation timing
    (245) Apple should provide effective interoperability with the P2P Wi-Fi connection
    feature by implementing the measures for Wi-Fi Aware 4.0 in the next major iOS
    release, i.e. iOS 19, at the latest, and for Wi-Fi Aware 5.0 in the next iOS release at
    the latest nine months following the introduction of the Wi-Fi Aware 5.0
    specification.

leshenka · 23 days ago

opendrop works without asking Apple

leshenka commented on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/abraham

leshenka · 24 days ago

What would it take to make it work when reception is set to "contacts"?

leshenka commented on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem blog.cloudflare.com/18-no... · Posted by u/eastdakota

arccy · 25 days ago

if you make it easy to be lazy and panic vs properly handling the error, you've designed a poor language

leshenka · 25 days ago

All languages with few exceptions have these kinds of escape hatches like unwrap

leshenka commented on I don’t need a Steam Machine brainbaking.com/post/2025... · Posted by u/ingve

devwastaken · a month ago

SteamOS is locked down. it is not a community driven project. You cannot update if you modify the rootfs. Valve created a true console, it is not a PC.

leshenka · a month ago

Sorry that’s absolutely not the case. They’ve created “locked down” experience so that is serviceable and harder to break but you’re absolutely free to install arch, ubuntu, whatever and put Steam on top of it. You can install Windows even.

You don’t have to choose “all or nothing”. You are not being locked in an ecosystem like you do with the consoles Steam Machine aims to compete with.

leshenka commented on Zed is our office zed.dev/blog/zed-is-our-o... · Posted by u/sagacity

cantalopes · a month ago

It's truly showing that the zed team is chauvinistic by dismissing different encodings not being supported and focusing on other things. "It wurks in merica", it gut i guess

leshenka · a month ago

If software developers use anything other than utf-8 it's on them