Hacker News: DaSHacka

New comment by DaSHacka in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

DaSHacka — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:33:57 +0000

Do you not also keep your ID on you at all times?

That's why I don't mind carrying around plastic cards, they just go in my wallet with my ID and a small amount of cash anyway.

Even if I was willing to use GPay, I don't like the possibility of my phone dying locking me out of my apartment and preventing me from paying for things.

New comment by DaSHacka in "OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics"

DaSHacka — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:45:37 +0000

I honestly think even the hypebros are less embarrassing than the full-on Luddites that think LLMs are an ontological evil.

It should really not surprise you that Hacker News, a community with an extremely technical audience, is interested in a bleeding edge technical tool that is literally completely reshaping the industry.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side"

DaSHacka — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:34:03 +0000

Wow, just needed something like this literally yesterday, thanks OP.

New comment by DaSHacka in "A big win for Android interoperability"

DaSHacka — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:31:31 +0000

It's a two-step issue. Manufacturers lock the bootloader and don't provide a method through them to unlock it, therefore making bypassing that "digital lock" in violation of the DMCA.

New comment by DaSHacka in "NetBSD 11.0"

DaSHacka — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:53:48 +0000

Well, that arguably depends on your hardware, as there's plenty of devices. Linux doesn't even support anymore.

New comment by DaSHacka in "BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising"

DaSHacka — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:55:38 +0000

LOL, so do all Western automakers.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations"

DaSHacka — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:08:34 +0000

"No benefit" from having article after article written about how advanced their technology is, and how its just soooooooooo bleeding edge they can barely contain it?

All of these are thinly veiled advertisements.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Long Range Wi-Fi – Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits (2019)"

DaSHacka — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:10:28 +0000

> In HAM circles some people do use WiFi in an arguably legal manner by making the SSID their callsign and either making the network open or putting the password somewhere public.

And presumably also no SSL when browsing?

Part of why I never really understood the appeal to getting a ham license. Things like no encrypted communications really limits the utility.

Anything outside of talking to randoms on the open air, and you'll better served by the computer networking infrastructure where encryption is allowed, you can speak to anyone in the world anyway, and the medium (IE physical device) you're using is irrelevant.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API"

DaSHacka — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:58:35 +0000

Well, the OP's username is "Fiona at Telnyx"

New comment by DaSHacka in "LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals"

DaSHacka — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:37:19 +0000

> There's something seriously wrong if we just keep creating these new arms race scenarios. It's sickening.

You mean technology?

New comment by DaSHacka in "LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals"

DaSHacka — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:36:34 +0000

It's already been quite interesting to witness the birth of the 'Digital Amish' throughout the past few years.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Firefox Containers Preview"

DaSHacka — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:44:29 +0000

This is great, previously I was just using every wireguard tunnel as a traditional interface and hosting a socks proxy on the network on the other end.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Firefox Containers Preview"

DaSHacka — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:42:40 +0000

Same here, probably my most used feature. Really useful if you route all of your traffic through a VPN by default, but you want to selectively route something outside of it. Just route it through a socks proxy running in your homelab.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Claude Opus 5"

DaSHacka — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:36:41 +0000

If you have the link for the page handy, I'd be curious to find the original revision on the wayback machine. That's too funny, especially if they've silently walked it back since.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

DaSHacka — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:45:02 +0000

"The only good thing about crypto is using it for "

Well, sounds like it is a successful technology.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

DaSHacka — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:15:44 +0000

Who's to say we were never going to use Codeberg? I actually had quite a favorable impression of it before now, as I know many projects that had to flee to it thanks to GitHub's terrible DMCA system and Microsoft randomly locking their accounts.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

DaSHacka — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:07:48 +0000

The difference is sourcehut has like 50 users

New comment by DaSHacka in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

DaSHacka — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:05:29 +0000

Obviously the 'process' is how you arrive at the rule.

If it was just one guy who arbitrarily decided as such, that's not much of a 'process' and is exactly what GP was calling out.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

DaSHacka — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:00:40 +0000

Well, GitHub seems unlikely to randomly ban your project if it fits within an entire category of services some admin arbitrarily decided they don't like.

I know which one I'll be sticking with.

New comment by DaSHacka in "An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024)"

DaSHacka — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:52:27 +0000

Check if your keyboard has a way to enable n-key rollover (NKRO)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_rollover