Hacker News: Mogzol

New comment by Mogzol in "Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing"

Mogzol — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:20:09 +0000

"they" being Huawei, and their phone suffers from the same problem, the main display can be easily damaged by dust, dirt, or just your fingernails pressing into it. Notably Samsung's trifold kept the folding display entirely inside when folded, presumably to avoid this problem.

New comment by Mogzol in "Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing"

Mogzol — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:50:16 +0000

The whole display is plastic, including the part on the front that doesn't wrap around. Yes the part behind the glass panel on the back would be protected, but the front of the phone wouldn't be.

New comment by Mogzol in "Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing"

Mogzol — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:13:52 +0000

Additionally, the flexible screen is on the outside which will quickly get damaged since it is made of soft plastic. It's too fragile for something that lives in your pocket every day. All modern foldables have the folding screen on the inside to keep them protected, and a standard glass screen on the front.

New comment by Mogzol in "LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life"

Mogzol — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:43:38 +0000

I assume this will just be using Window's dynamic refresh rate feature, which you can turn on and off in the display settings, and when it's off you can set the refresh rate manually. I guess the question is whether they will let you set it as low as 1hz manually though.

New comment by Mogzol in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

Mogzol — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:34:17 +0000

All your comments are painting archive.today as an innocent victim in all this, but in addition to the DDoS, they have been caught modifying archived pages as well as sending actual threats to Patokallio [1] which in my opinion seem far worse than the "doxxing".

Just the fact alone that they modified archived pages has completely ruined their credibility, and over what? A blog post about them that (a) wasn't even an attack, it is mostly praising archive.today, and (b) doesn't reveal any true identities or information that isn't already easily accessible.

From my perspective at least, archive.today seems like the unhinged one, not Patokallio.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...

New comment by Mogzol in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

Mogzol — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:04:56 +0000

Not true: https://gyrovague.com/2025/02/23/anatomy-of-a-boarding-pass-...

There are only two posts about archive.today on the blog, and one of them only exists because archive.today started DDoSing them. I fail to see how you could consider the entire blog to be a "harassment campaign", especially considering that the original blog post isn't even negative, it ends with a compliment towards archive.today's creator.

New comment by Mogzol in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

Mogzol — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:04:32 +0000

I believe that is why "escalating safety" and "secure" were written in italics in the comment. Those are the terms Google would use, not necessarily the truth.

New comment by Mogzol in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

Mogzol — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:01:38 +0000

Are you saying that opting for a beyond burger patty instead of a beef patty is going to "poison and destroy" your health? That's a bit of a stretch no? Are they really any worse for you than a regular burger from a fast food joint or something?

New comment by Mogzol in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

Mogzol — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:52:15 +0000

"here" in that comment is not referring to any specific scenario. It is referring to the problem discussed in the sentence immediately following it, that public prediction markets can shape the outcome of the events they are predicting.

New comment by Mogzol in "I Don't Like Magic"

Mogzol — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:55:14 +0000

The "magic" of React though is in its name, it's reactive. If all you're doing is creating static elements that don't need to react to changes in state then yeah, React is overkill. But when you have complex state and need all your elements to update as that state changes, then the benefits of React (or similar frameworks) become more apparent. Of course it's all still possible in vanilla JS, but it starts to become a mess of event handlers and DOM updates and the React equivalent starts to look a lot more appealing.

New comment by Mogzol in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

Mogzol — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:50:06 +0000

Transcribing locally isn't free though, it should result in a noticeable increase in battery usage. Inspecting the processes running on the phone would show something using considerable CPU. After transcribing the data would still need to be sent somewhere, which could be seen by inspecting network traffic.

If this really is something that is happening, I am just very surprised that there is no hard evidence of it.

New comment by Mogzol in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

Mogzol — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 05:31:57 +0000

The vast, vast majority of Windows users don't know their laptops are encrypted, don't understand encryption, and don't know what bitlocker is. If their keys weren't stored in the cloud, these users could easily lose access to their data without understanding how or why. So for these users, which again is probably >99% of all windows users, storing their keys in the cloud makes sense and is a reasonable default. Not doing it would cause far more problems than it solves.

And the passphrase they log in to windows with is not the key, Microsoft is not storing their plain text passphrase in the cloud, just to be clear.

The only thing I would really fault Microsoft for here is making it overly difficult to disable the cloud storage for users who do understand all the implications.

New comment by Mogzol in "Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)"

Mogzol — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:19:51 +0000

Live streaming data is one of the examples: https://chartgpu.github.io/ChartGPU/examples/live-streaming/...

Although dragging the slider at the bottom is currently kind of broken as mentioned in another comment, seems like they are working on it though.

New comment by Mogzol in "Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners"

Mogzol — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:36:15 +0000

I have no idea what this is fixing.

> Note: This does not change the rounded corners of individual app windows. It only restores the straight silhouette at the edges of your display.

My display does not have rounded corners. I am on macOS Tahoe using external monitors. I know that newer macbooks have rounded display corners, but those are rounded at the hardware level afaik, those corner pixels simply don't exist. And besides that, the medium article linked in the repo specifically talks about external monitors. Does anyone have an example of what this program is actually meant to fix?

EDIT: I downloaded and compiled it myself to see. All it does is add a black border around your whole screen. Here is a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/7XWAwxz.jpeg

Again, I don't have rounded corners on my display in the first place, but if I did I suppose this would hide them. At the cost of losing the whole edge of my display, lol. I don't see why anyone would actually use this, especially since it cuts off half the menu bar.

New comment by Mogzol in "Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions"

Mogzol — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:24:24 +0000

GitLab already has "interactive web terminals" which is basically the same thing: https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/interactive_web_terminal/

New comment by Mogzol in "I wrote a batch script to keep my 2011 ThinkPad alive for 24/7 streaming"

Mogzol — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:24:05 +0000

Yeah if the laptop is from 2011 and has never had the thermal paste replaced I would highly recommend it. I just replaced the original thermal paste on a Dell laptop from 2015 and temperatures dropped by ~20C. I was not expecting such a huge improvement, the laptop fans rarely even spin up now.

New comment by Mogzol in "Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free"

Mogzol — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:41:21 +0000

Why? I assume the intention is to show these images on a webpage somewhere. WebP is well-supported by browsers and can store lossless images at better compression ratios than PNG, so why not use it? I don't think using a lossy format like JPEG makes much sense. JPEG is a fine format for photos, but for HTML content rendered as an image I assume most people would want a lossless format so you don't get artifacts.

New comment by Mogzol in "JSDoc is TypeScript"

Mogzol — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:15:48 +0000

Isn't that the whole point of the article? For all intents and purposes, JSDoc IS TypeScript

New comment by Mogzol in "Size of Life"

Mogzol — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:35:02 +0000

You can change the units in the top corner. It defaults to metric for me, but if your browser language is "en-US" you get imperial by default.

New comment by Mogzol in "Size of Life"

Mogzol — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:30:10 +0000

For me it appears in millimetres, but I'm in Canada not the US. I'm guessing the default is chosen based on your browser's language. You can change the units in the top right.

Edit: I checked the page's code and it does indeed set the units based on language. If your language is "en-US" you get imperial by default, everyone else gets metric.