Hacker News: MaPi_

New comment by MaPi_ in "Keep Android Open"

MaPi_ — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:06:04 +0000

It kind of is their fault because of Google Play Integrity APIs. They are effectively developing tools that are designed to make their product mandatory. There wouldn't be a backlash that big if we could just unlock our bootloaders and run a patched version of Android.

New comment by MaPi_ in "EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google"

MaPi_ — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:46:54 +0000

What do you mean? The webchat client is linked right there in the second paragraph, doesn't require you to install anything and let's you connect and list channels as a guest without registering. It took me like 30 seconds to find out that there is indeed an astronomy channel.

New comment by MaPi_ in "Has the decline of knowledge work begun?"

MaPi_ — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:30:39 +0000

Sure, replacing the car with a plane for your grocery shopping would be probably more dangerous, but do you have any data at what distances do the risks flip?

When I see those statistics I think about flights like Austria to Finland and I imagine that is indeed safer by plane.

New comment by MaPi_ in "Kagi Teams"

MaPi_ — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:17:49 +0000

There is a setting to turn on the favicon somewhere

New comment by MaPi_ in "Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning"

MaPi_ — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:59:07 +0000

How does it handle electrostatic discharge when touching it in that case? I used a case that was really more of an oversized heatsink[1] than a case and it was really sensitive. Managed to crash the rpi a couple of times when I touched it without touching ground first a couple of times.

edit: I replaced the thermal sticker for thermal paste, not sure if that could have affected it, the paste wasn't the conductive kind.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/GeeekPi-Aluminum-Heatsink-Raspberry-I...

New comment by MaPi_ in "Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning"

MaPi_ — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:29:01 +0000

> Most N100 are noisier, hotter

I went from a passively cooled RPi5 to a N100. The RPi idled at around 50°C and throttled under load. The N100 keeps 56°C under light load (the heaviest things are rtl_433, grafana, nextcloud). To keep it from throttling in heavy load I zip tied a small Noctua NF-A4x20 to the side of the case over the passive heatsink and adjusted the fan curve to only run at above 60°C. This works super well, the N100 doesn't get hotter than about 62°C under full load and the fan spins slow enough that I can't hear it at all even if I put my ear directly next to it.

New comment by MaPi_ in "Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable"

MaPi_ — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:39:07 +0000

That seems to be exactly what Garry (the creator of Garry's Mod) is trying to do with s&box https://sbox.game/

New comment by MaPi_ in "Noclip.website: A digital museum of video game levels"

MaPi_ — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 08:48:57 +0000

I tried some hl2 maps and the need for speed most wanted map. I'm really impressed by how close the rendering is to the original games. Not only did they get the lighting and shading right, there are also details like the NPCs being present, or even animated falling leaves particles in the most wanted map.

New comment by MaPi_ in "Opus Databending Drumkit"

MaPi_ — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 21:04:13 +0000

On the projects page (https://suricrasia.online/projects/) it says "Make glitchy beats with randomly generated Opus protocol packets." So I guess it's random data fed into the opus decoder.

New comment by MaPi_ in "Windows is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to keep curl support for"

MaPi_ — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:27:18 +0000

Curl runs on at least 89 operating systems[0]. Apparently 88 of them are then better at "being Linux" than Windows.

[0]https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/curl-...

New comment by MaPi_ in "Audio CD ripping – optical drive accuracy listing"

MaPi_ — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:12:04 +0000

I imagine that a bit flip in the most significant bit could cause an unpleasant pop.

New comment by MaPi_ in "Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards"

MaPi_ — Wed, 19 May 2021 07:58:04 +0000

According to this[1] website, bitcoin mining is only around 0.6% of the worlds power consumption. It is certainly not anywhere near to being the main cause of global warming.

[1]https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons

New comment by MaPi_ in "Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs"

MaPi_ — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 08:48:13 +0000

Look into DCC/CI, it's possible your monitor supports that already.