Hacker News: Geof25

New comment by Geof25 in "Work with the garage door up (2024)"

Geof25 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:55:08 +0000

It really depends. If you know your competitor and understand their core business, then opening garage doors can actually screw them up.

I am working in an industry where if one competitor would go open source and created decent open application, whole industry will effectively implode because end customers will always choose cheaper solution, which in case of open source would be for free.

New comment by Geof25 in "Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes"

Geof25 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:31:11 +0000

So they burned through weapon stockpile and also through zero day stockpile. Good job, another strategic success which will help in war with China...

New comment by Geof25 in "Fix monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity in chair"

Geof25 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:47:12 +0000

Sounds like very cheap monitor which had lot of cost cutting done on side of protections of inputs.

I would not be surprised that touching such monitor will electrocute you.

New comment by Geof25 in "Binary obfuscation that doesn't kill LTO"

Geof25 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:53:51 +0000

You can consider obscurity as concealment. You can't be attacked if you are not seen. And to be seen attacker needs much more resources to see you.

New comment by Geof25 in "Binary obfuscation that doesn't kill LTO"

Geof25 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:50:47 +0000

Actually decoys are very useful in Ukraine Russian war. It is usually decoys of air defense or long range precision fires like Himars and target is to waste resources of opponents long range fires which are limited and/or expensive.

Further more you can also reveal position of the attacker and counterfire.

New comment by Geof25 in "Binary obfuscation that doesn't kill LTO"

Geof25 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:44:45 +0000

If your system gets locked (I.e. ransomware) and you have secure boot active, then you are out of luck.

See Apple M chips which if they get locked you will never unlock them again.

New comment by Geof25 in "Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of EuropeanUnion inaction"

Geof25 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:13:53 +0000

Setup a political party and turn every citizen into politician. For a fee of course

New comment by Geof25 in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

Geof25 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:13:35 +0000

The original ESP32 has Ethernet as well, I believe in the form of RMII. Then it has been removed from the chip, never specified the reason.

New comment by Geof25 in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

Geof25 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:44:01 +0000

Or instead of React you can use native WinUI. So using React is just lazy bloatware introduction

New comment by Geof25 in "World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite"

Geof25 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:09:04 +0000

Yeah, spark of engine is something what can be seen on SIGINT for dozens of kilometers.

So unless jet engine is used (which rarely is on reconnaissance drones) then the drone will be spark lighthouse in the sky.

New comment by Geof25 in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

Geof25 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:55:17 +0000

> I wonder what has happened to the German builder/tinkerer culture that made German manufacturing great.

Over engineered stuff which hate the user is staple of German manufacturing. Look on tanks during WW2. Impressive on the surface but unreliable crap for everyone who used it.

New comment by Geof25 in "MacBook Neo"

Geof25 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:13:39 +0000

Testing should be on such laptops. Development, especially in things like xcode or visual studio would be insane

New comment by Geof25 in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

Geof25 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:34:38 +0000

Exactly what .NET does with MAUI, just little bit lower than electron

New comment by Geof25 in "SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B"

Geof25 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:23:32 +0000

It can use Rolls Royce engine as well.

New comment by Geof25 in "Free software hasn't won"

Geof25 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:17:25 +0000

I do see it on exactly same way. A lot of people are conflating opensource with free. That model is not really sustainable if you want to do it for living.

New comment by Geof25 in "ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway"

Geof25 — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:52:02 +0000

It is exactly the opposite. EU is blamed for everything what is wrong and local politicians are taking credit for whatever is good.

New comment by Geof25 in "Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems"

Geof25 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:36:08 +0000

And the worst part is that you can't even change it as far as I know