Hacker News: Mad_ad

New comment by Mad_ad in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

Mad_ad — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:05:11 +0000

it's not about porn, it's about power over all citizens.

New comment by Mad_ad in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

Mad_ad — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:50:51 +0000

No it doesn't. No opensource dev need to answer anything, if you dont like it, fork it and do the work yourself.

New comment by Mad_ad in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

Mad_ad — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:36:43 +0000

America doesn't really produce RAM either.

New comment by Mad_ad in "OrangePi 6 Plus Review"

Mad_ad — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:58:49 +0000

With this board the SoC is the main problem. CIX is working on mainlining that stuff for over a year and we still dont have gpu and npu support in mainline

New comment by Mad_ad in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

Mad_ad — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 07:15:05 +0000

i dont want a device to tell me when i need to restart it, thats my decission.

New comment by Mad_ad in "Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers"

Mad_ad — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:26:59 +0000

Was it Alpha-ESS? they make it so stupidly hard to get your information outside of their smartphone app.

New comment by Mad_ad in "Rost – Rust Programming in German"

Mad_ad — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:33:49 +0000

its also hard to read for a german. coding in english is the only viable thing after learning everything in english

New comment by Mad_ad in "WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops"

Mad_ad — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:16:31 +0000

are they Flatpaks?

New comment by Mad_ad in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

Mad_ad — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 04:15:46 +0000

yeah, in Europe

New comment by Mad_ad in "Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu"

Mad_ad — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 22:24:44 +0000

iirc they used a open-source emu on their snes/nes mini

New comment by Mad_ad in "Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks"

Mad_ad — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:10:05 +0000

source? sounds fishy to me, can't believe insulin pumps are so vulnerable.

New comment by Mad_ad in "Google Search Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find"

Mad_ad — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:57:05 +0000

oh boy, you should look at german wikipedia...

New comment by Mad_ad in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023"

Mad_ad — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:53:07 +0000

look at a local distributor, thats just the productpage.

New comment by Mad_ad in "A picture is worth a thousand permissions requests"

Mad_ad — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:12:57 +0000

Mac OSX is getting worse every update, using OSX since 2012 and every update is worse than the last one when you look at the "security features"

New comment by Mad_ad in "Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines"

Mad_ad — Wed, 10 May 2023 13:51:40 +0000

works okayish on iPad Pro https://getutm.app/