Hacker News: Maskawanian

New comment by Maskawanian in "Fixing a bricked Framework laptop"

Maskawanian — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:59:12 +0000

Yup, I had to do that to get mine to work. It is a good thing that I am more experienced then the average bear when it comes to soldering. When it was **ed, I could still get it to boot with an AC adapter plugged in, so you can try that.

New comment by Maskawanian in "Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers"

Maskawanian — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:37:08 +0000

What I did was implement a SIP number that asks for a random digit to be pressed before allowing the call through. It also connects to my CardDAV server, and any numbers in my address book don't get the prompt. This works for 95% of bogus calls. The only thing this stops is people not on my address book calling from hands-free. But this has never come up in conversation so I think I'm OK!

New comment by Maskawanian in "Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers"

Maskawanian — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:30:43 +0000

Almost, as someone who used to work with telecom systems in Canada, while it is true that felony wiretapping requires 1 party to consent to not be illegal, it is not the only law. PIPEDA applies to only commercial endeavors, and requires two party consent.

This is why a company must inform you of the recording, but you do not have to inform them.

New comment by Maskawanian in "Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)"

Maskawanian — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:35:06 +0000

At least with Samba you can use the "veto files" and "delete veto files" global directives to deal with those, I personally use the following for veto files:

    /._*/.AppleDB/.AppleDouble/.AppleDesktop/:2eDS_Store/Network Trash Folder/Temporary Items/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/.@__thumb/.@__desc/:2e*/.@__qini/.Qsync/.@upload_cache/.qsync/.qsync_sn/.@qsys/.digest/

I understand that I may loose resource forks, but that isn't a problem for the use case of my server.

New comment by Maskawanian in "Can I start using Wayland in 2026?"

Maskawanian — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:55:17 +0000

Tearing and hidpi is why I left Linux for Windows between 2012 ans 2022. Once wayland was good enough I returned. Tearing is awful, and should be opt in (which wayland provides), not opt out.

New comment by Maskawanian in "Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux"

Maskawanian — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:21:03 +0000

No, that's every bit of software out there. Dynamic linking really does cause that problem even though allegedly it has security benefits as the vendor is able to patch software vulnerabilities.

NixOS actually is a bit better in this respect since most things are statically linked. The only thing is that glibc is not because it specifically requires being dynamically linked.

This issue also applies to macOS with their Dylibs and also Windows with their DLLs. So saying that this is an issue with Linux is a bit disingenuous.

Until everybody standardizes on one singular executable format that doesn't ever change, this will forever be an issue.

New comment by Maskawanian in "Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux"

Maskawanian — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:39:19 +0000

I know you are trying to make a point about complexity, but that is literally what NixOS allows for.

New comment by Maskawanian in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

Maskawanian — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:35:52 +0000

There is always the analog hole. Even HDCP can be worked around. Even if they do manage to stop all computers from doing direct bit copies, there are still old things such as Kinescopes which they used to use to broadcast television from film. There of course is a quality loss, but that's kind of irrelevant to the point.

New comment by Maskawanian in "Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres"

Maskawanian — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:37:34 +0000

When you benchmarked Postgres did you disable WAL for the cache table? That may minimize the difference.

New comment by Maskawanian in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

Maskawanian — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:00:09 +0000

That isn't the same as vendor-izing unless you are committing node_modules to your VCS, which would be insane.

New comment by Maskawanian in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

Maskawanian — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:04:36 +0000

Golang at least gives you the option to easily vendor-ize packages to your local repository. Given what has happened here, maybe we should start doing this more!

New comment by Maskawanian in "Linux phones are more important now than ever"

Maskawanian — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 01:49:43 +0000

Absolute lies, where I live it is one party consent. I can still record with another device on speakerphone.

New comment by Maskawanian in "You can now buy eggs from in-ovo sexed hens"

Maskawanian — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:54:52 +0000

No, you are putting words into my mouth. Try to argue in good faith through understanding the other party's viewpoint before responding.

I don't see much difference between killing chicks after them being born, or stopping them from being born in the first place. The only difference is in the efficiency of business operations.

If my values are that each deserves a chance at a life--whatever life it may be, I can advocate for searching for a better solution. I did not prescribe an alternative, don't pretend that I have.

EDIT: Damn, the hostile responses (Ad hominem, bad faith arguments, etc) to such a simple philosophical discussion I've been getting are unbelievable. I don't think there is much value in participating anymore. Thank you everyone for your responses.

New comment by Maskawanian in "Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI"

Maskawanian — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:39:16 +0000

You could not be more wrong. Kde is the last vestige of interfaces are powerful, pretty, and that don't their users like idiots.

You have your GNOME and simmilar ilk, be content with that and leave KDE alone.

New comment by Maskawanian in "Valve conquered PC gaming – what comes next?"

Maskawanian — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:58:39 +0000

Their anti-DRM stance is arguably their only compelling feature as opposed to just buying steam.

I remember the old game launcher that was called Desura?, which a lot of those third-party keys sites would sell keys for, and it's no longer around. So one of the main concerns with these online platforms is them disappearing and losing all your stuff.

Quite frankly, I am happy that GOG exists for this niche. It would be less "sabotaging" if consumers would actually vote in their own interests. However, this has been shown time and time again to never happen, sadly.

New comment by Maskawanian in "macOS Icon History"

Maskawanian — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 20:17:32 +0000

I would assert that iChat evolved into messages. There are a few more icons that could be added in that category.

New comment by Maskawanian in "Apple is reportedly going to rename all of its operating systems"

Maskawanian — Wed, 28 May 2025 21:19:42 +0000

Can't wait until MacOS 95 (then Mac OS XP of course). I can only imagine the discourse if this happened 25 years ago.

New comment by Maskawanian in "Unity is threatening to revoke licenses of developers with flawed data"

Maskawanian — Sat, 10 May 2025 14:02:44 +0000

It is bad form to engage in victim blaming. While yes, Unity has been pretty bad for a while, lots of times there is already a lot of development work sunk into existing programs. It would oftentimes sink the business switching engines rather than finishing up the existing project.

New comment by Maskawanian in "South Korea's 'heartbreaking' wildfires expose superaged society"

Maskawanian — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 01:50:01 +0000

I assume your in the Netherlands? Hoi! How is the tech industry there, does it pay decently, and how difficult is it for someone overseas to apply?

New comment by Maskawanian in "How University Students Use Claude"

Maskawanian — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:48:24 +0000

Agreed, the only thing that is certain is that they are cheating themselves.

While it can be useful to use LLMs as a tutor if you're stuck. The moment that you use it to provide a solution, you stop learning and the tool becomes a required stepping stone.