Hacker News: Joe_Cool

New comment by Joe_Cool in "SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?"

Joe_Cool — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:11:35 +0000

I heard the term "Sloperator" a few times. Quite fitting...

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Briar is in maintenance mode"

Joe_Cool — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:03:37 +0000

There should be a category: "Background Check" in the Android developer options. You can pretty finely tune or alter the automatically set priorities and permissions for background activity there.

I don't know exactly what the option is called but since Android 8 there is at least a toggle there per app. Later versions have lots more settings.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

Joe_Cool — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:35:23 +0000

Combined with the factoid it features under "how is this calculated":

    However, most native speakers have an active vocabulary between 15,000 and 35,000 words.

We must be geniuses, lol.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

Joe_Cool — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:33:43 +0000

Getting "Obfuscate" as #99 and "Quixotic" as #100 made me feel exorbitantly smart.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

Joe_Cool — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:58:12 +0000

If it's the same as on Win10 it's a UWP App that needs a ton of dependencies like .net, WinUI2/XAML.

The appx is: Approximate size 21.8 MB according to https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfhvn5

Win7 calc.exe had 758KB for i686 and 897KB for amd64.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

Joe_Cool — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:22:48 +0000

I really like Betterbird. It's basically ESR Thunderbird + a few fixes.

If you want mail to just work and updates going smoothly it's the solution.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

Joe_Cool — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:20:48 +0000

Probably a cache thing. Win11 precaches a lot of stuff if you hover over it or have excess RAM. It's not as smart as SuperFetch and ReadyBoost (with an HDD) was but it's still doing similar things.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

Joe_Cool — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:17:14 +0000

Microsoft has AppLocker (since Win7, I think). If you give it a curated whitelist it's actually quite alright and manages well via GPO. (until you manage to lock yourself out ;) Much less overhead than any 3rd party tool that hooks the kernel.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "CrankGPT"

Joe_Cool — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:34:40 +0000

Connect Keyboard, Press PgDn.

Or what I actually use for ssh on the road: https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard

Google kicked it from their store because it still supports older Androids but it still works just fine on the latest versions. It's on F-Droid.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "CrankGPT"

Joe_Cool — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:25:38 +0000

I still prefer my Magic 8 Ball, it's less exhausting. But this is pretty cool.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning [KWin Wayland]"

Joe_Cool — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:41:11 +0000

Agreed, I don't want to miss my 24" 16:10 displays. They are just standard IPS though but enough for work.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning"

Joe_Cool — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:39:27 +0000

Still on X11. OBS just works.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning"

Joe_Cool — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:07:02 +0000

duplicate, already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476462

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning"

Joe_Cool — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:04:43 +0000

Also still on X11 because of xorgxrdp and X11 forwarding.

It would be cool to see this test with a CRT connected to a VGA port (adapters make it slower) and a PS/2 input device.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning [KWin Wayland]"

Joe_Cool — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:02:13 +0000

Yeah, not testing X11 was a weird choice.

It's likely his monitor. Would be interesting to see CRT results.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning [KWin Wayland]"

Joe_Cool — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:02:49 +0000

Interesting methodology:

    "To investigate, I used a small Teensy microcontroller to measure click-to-photon latency. It acts as a USB HID mouse and is paired with a light sensor pressed against the screen. I flashed it with an existing Open Source LDAT sketch, with slight modifications. The resulting setup can log hundreds of samples to a CSV file, unattended."

Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning [KWin Wayland]

Joe_Cool — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:02:49 +0000

Article URL: https://farnoy.dev/posts/linux-latency

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476462

Points: 22

# Comments: 6

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

Joe_Cool — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:13:20 +0000

I agree, it should work. It just doesn't. I haven't had the time yet to figure out why it doesn't because everything is fine on X11.

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Now AI agents need what RSS does"

Joe_Cool — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:42:10 +0000

Glad to hear, and neat site. Cool to see new Ruby on Rails sites. Thought I was the only one still loving it. ;)

New comment by Joe_Cool in "Now AI agents need what RSS does"

Joe_Cool — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:17:36 +0000

Europe

IP address has no effect on the User Agent block though...