Hacker News: Joe_Cool

New comment by Joe_Cool in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

Joe_Cool — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:51:55 +0000

For those things you can't control it doesn't ask. You can see those under "other permissions" (or similar). But once you look there it's too late if you care about this data and forgot to turn on airplane mode.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

Joe_Cool — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:50:13 +0000

OK, that's even worse. Thanks.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

Joe_Cool — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:53:36 +0000

As I understood not ANY website can see it. But the same website can see it regardless if you reset your identity in Tor Browser.

So it persists between anonymous sessions. So you could connect User A that logged out and reset the identity to User B who believed was using a fresh anonymous session and logged in afterwards.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

Joe_Cool — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:50:05 +0000

Most stock android phones don't either. You usually get to control precise location, notifications, some background activity, SMS, Calls, Mic, Camera, SD Card, etc.

But most ROMs don't allow controls for WiFi, Cell data, Phone ID, Phone number, User ID, local storage, etc...

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

Joe_Cool — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:09:43 +0000

Must be cool to have bike weather all year round. ;)

Yeah, snow and scooter/motorcycle is not a great mix here. But touring the Alps down to Lake Garda was amazing. Can recommend.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

Joe_Cool — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:06:43 +0000

Honking is more for the people behind/around me. I also don't want to be hit by inattentive people following me to closely.

May I ask where you are riding? I am currently in Bavaria. The danger level is usually higher after the winter. Drivers need to re-accustom themselves to sharing the road with two wheeled riders.

Evasive action could be even more dangerous in cities. In my experience being able to come to a stop without hitting anything is even better.

Lot's of dead people had the right of way. Ride safe, I agree. I also had 0 accidents so far in 30 years. But you still experience new things you hadn't thought would be an issue.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

Joe_Cool — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:22:04 +0000

Oh I know. They look at me while turning left cutting me off.

Maybe I need a bigger bike, the 2cyl 400cc is particularly invisible. ;)

Best one was a woman who cut me off doing her left turn. I high-beamed her and honked. She put her hands in front of her face and came to a dead stop in my lane directly in front of me. I was already braking before I honked. Nothing happened. I stopped wondering and just assume everyone is out to kill me.

It's a rule that also applies to bicycles.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Veracrypt project update"

Joe_Cool — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:23:51 +0000

Yeah, same here. It's a black box. Nobody knows how it works or what you can do to make it hassle free.

MS went from "developers, developers, developers" to being a nightmare for everyone involved.

I actually liked Visual Studio 6 and the old MSDN. Now I only wish they were gone.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Veracrypt project update"

Joe_Cool — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:38:31 +0000

Just shows how quickly and thoroughly those stupid suits managed to destroy its reputation. Guess they love burning money or really needed those tax writeoffs.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Veracrypt project update"

Joe_Cool — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:35:33 +0000

I have found that MS still blocks my signed and timestamped .msi files for at least a few days. From saving the downloads in Edge and then via Smartscreen once you get it downloaded.

If I submit it manually for every update it tends to go better. If more people download and install it whitelists faster. But that is highly annoying, orwellian bullshit. Might even be anti-competitive or downright illegal.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

Joe_Cool — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:13:37 +0000

Sadly I had to kick a few cars that thought they could run me off my motorcycle. Worked every time. All of them didn't look out the window or they would have looked right into my face. Yelling and horn did absolutely nothing.

Most of them were extremely apologetic or even shocked (as if I appeared from thin air). None of them were angry for scratching their door. Some people are just lost in thought it seems...

New comment by Joe_Cool in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

Joe_Cool — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:58:21 +0000

I am noticing something those devices have in common.

My Galaxy Tab also has dead EMMC. My HTC One M8 still works and even holds a day of charge. Too bad Android doesn't support 32bit ARM anymore.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Windows native app development is a mess"

Joe_Cool — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:48:53 +0000

You talk like that is a bad thing. Win32 UI works, is fast, works everywhere even on ancient 640x480 server screens, safe mode and vnc in 16 colors without opengl, directx, Angle or vulkan.

Flutter is nicer to scale and maybe design but it is a massive overhead. Skia still has trouble with some drivers and causes lag or falls back to software rasterization. Hot replacement while coding is pretty neat though. It runs much better on mobile devices imho.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026"

Joe_Cool — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:10:47 +0000

Depends on the country but around 40-50% would be taxes, climate compensation and other stuff, yes.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026"

Joe_Cool — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:30:47 +0000

So normal Europe prices from before this thing. It's up to $8.50 per gallon there now.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Rebasing in Magit"

Joe_Cool — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:02:14 +0000

s/with/without/

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Rebasing in Magit"

Joe_Cool — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:39:40 +0000

Shouldn't matter when I am not on GUI seat. In my SSH session with X11 forwarding there is no DISPLAY emacs could use.

Tried it anyways, looks the same:

  $ time emacs -nw -Q -e kill-emacs
  real    0m0.075s
  user    0m0.062s
  sys     0m0.013s

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Rebasing in Magit"

Joe_Cool — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:10:25 +0000

no, this is the TUI version. X11 emacs with all the composited effects needs about 200-250ms to open (about the duration of the animation for opening and closing it). That's more like OP's timings.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Rebasing in Magit"

Joe_Cool — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:41:33 +0000

What hardware are you on?

On my old Ryzen 3600X running Arch it's a lot faster. Does the UI eat so much performance on OSX?

  $ time emacs -Q -e kill-emacs
  real    0m0.076s
  user    0m0.058s
  sys     0m0.018s

  $ time nvim -es --cmd 'vim.cmd("q")'
  real    0m0.028s
  user    0m0.005s
  sys     0m0.003s

vim still is a lot faster though.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?"

Joe_Cool — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:59:30 +0000

Yes, but only what was mirrored to usenet: https://usenetarchives.com/groups.php?c=fido

But usenetarchives has had some enshittification happen.

This one still has some of the more fun files: http://textfiles.com/bbs/FIDONET/

There is also a Giganews dump on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/giganews And this one: https://archive.org/details/usenet-fido

Google stopped being useful for usenet a while ago but still has some if you can find it.