Hacker News: Geof25

New comment by Geof25 in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection"

Geof25 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:07:01 +0000

I am on protonmail+ my own domain. Works alright

New comment by Geof25 in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

Geof25 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:52:31 +0000

China and India signalled to Russia that nukes are big no-no.

Reason is simple - using nukes when you can't win a conventional war will degrade them from strategic asset into tactical one and whole nuclear proliferation flies out of the window and everyone will have nukes.

New comment by Geof25 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

Geof25 — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:07:31 +0000

Speaker in carry on luggage to be used in vacation. They were flying to Malaga

New comment by Geof25 in "Starship V3"

Geof25 — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:35:43 +0000

And then it creates problem with radiation (energy dense particles travelling close to the speed of light ripping holes into 2nm chips) and heat (it turns out that coffee stays hot in a thermos for very long time)

New comment by Geof25 in "Starship V3"

Geof25 — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:31:45 +0000

Like point to point rocket travel?

New comment by Geof25 in "Starship V3"

Geof25 — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:28:57 +0000

So you can have datacenters in space, you are just not allowed to use them

New comment by Geof25 in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

Geof25 — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:14:06 +0000

It is illegal to commit a crime. So no crimes will be committed. Duh.

New comment by Geof25 in "The Serial TTL connector we deserve"

Geof25 — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:31:07 +0000

Well the first problem you will hit I'd that very likely you will need to protect or isolate those lines from ESD. This will raise price of device and it will get denied just in these grounds.

New comment by Geof25 in "The Serial TTL connector we deserve"

Geof25 — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:26:33 +0000

What you are describing is going to be nightmare to work with - i.e. when you will have automatic detection of levels and it will decide to push RS232 into 3V3 MCU then you will have dead, maybe one of the kind prototype or dead expensive production device

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.