Hacker News: RRRA

New comment by RRRA in "Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped"

RRRA — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:13:03 +0000

So long for monopoly laws...

New comment by RRRA in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

RRRA — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:03:59 +0000

Funny thing for me, it was NEVER the code...

New comment by RRRA in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

RRRA — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:03:20 +0000

Oui, j'ai hâte que l'on partage d'avantage avec l'Europe que les É-U...

Bonjour du Québec.

New comment by RRRA in "Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography"

RRRA — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:58:59 +0000

When is this turned into an RFC?

New comment by RRRA in "Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?"

RRRA — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:45:31 +0000

So has the spec been built with a bluetooth capture dongle, would it be better?

That said, I'm in Canada which has some different nuances around the same exemption and IANAL

New comment by RRRA in "Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?"

RRRA — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:52:52 +0000

I'm currently toying with a similar process which I think falls under the interoperability exemption:

- Get an apk online, you haven't accepted a EULA.

- Run jadx to get some code to work with

- Ask Claude to extract the protocol specification cleanly for a Bluetooth device with capabilities etc.

- Use Claude to implement a version as a TUI/CLI in go, rust, whatever.

I get to use a device I own with a local Bluetooth connection from my machine, maybe Home Assistant. I do not contact any online services (there are none anyway in that case).

Since it's to avoid getting locked in with proprietary OS, it's a clean room reversing through a spec and an LLM produced a non copyrightable output... Can I just release this however I want? Probably a basic MIT or CC0, whatever...

New comment by RRRA in "EasyEffects can improve laptop speaker sound quality"

RRRA — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:11:44 +0000

It'd be nice if it could use a mic to self calibrate according to a target response profile curve.

New comment by RRRA in "Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network"

RRRA — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:45:34 +0000

I think that unlike Meshtastic or Meshcore, this one is transport agnostic.

New comment by RRRA in "AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them"

RRRA — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:56:16 +0000

Exactly, it's making connection across vast set, not bringing the magic intuition.

Has anyone tried feeding all of human knowledge to an LLM prior to Einstein's work and tried to have it reinvent physics?

New comment by RRRA in "It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop"

RRRA — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:34:45 +0000

Pretty sure it's been the year of the Linux desktop for 30 years for me...

New comment by RRRA in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"

RRRA — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:21:07 +0000

Oh yes, Wi-Fi was cheap, but before HaLow we ended giving up because we couldn't get a meaningful density for the network to get far enough across town to start to be remotely useful, even with 10-15dBi antennas mounted outside.

About the messaging aspect, I mean that though a messaging app is great, I feel that the end goal is having an independent network from the telcos, carriers, etc. In that sense we're going to need to allow more than an SMS replacement.

And from there is born the problem. Bootstraping such a network for more than geeks is relatively impossible in that context. You either have a device that does one thing as a drop-in magic solution for newcomers to jump on, or you chase the better solution, but that brings as much complexity, if not more, as running the Internet...

And while I'm happy to see p2p and mesh research continuing, participate when I can, I just feel like it's a pipe dream that is far far away and I'd like to see it grow beyond the few dozens of decentralization geeks in every city :)

New comment by RRRA in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"

RRRA — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:31:01 +0000

In Montréal we've rebooted Réseau Libre which used to be a Wi-Fi mesh experiment 15+ years ago. It's a fun experiment, but in a way feels like a step backward for me. Meshtastic and Meshcore are just that, messaging, but that makes it the standardized killer app. On the other side you have reticulum which allows decoupling from the LoRa low bandwidth only radios, seems to do a lot of neat stuff, but if we're reinventing a whole network layer, we're going to have to reinvent services, discovery, etc. and I fear we're wasting time when in the end what wins is controlling the backbone bandwidth, but with the added difficulty of a p2p mesh.

I'm starting to feel this is a fun activity, but realistically copium for a world that is very sadly centralizing everything.

New comment by RRRA in "Ferrari Luce"

RRRA — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:01:50 +0000

Now rebrand it the Apple car, and somehow it would makes sense...

New comment by RRRA in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

RRRA — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:09:35 +0000

Surprised Enlightenment didn't make the cut while fvwm is there

New comment by RRRA in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

RRRA — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:47:58 +0000

If you think the 2000s were special, try going back to the 90s when you could finish browsing the web! :P

New comment by RRRA in "Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction"

RRRA — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:32:14 +0000

It was pretty funny to see Qwen 3.6 (heretic) tell me about how many death the Chinese government thought happened at Tiananmen Sq. on April 15th 1989.

Makes you wonder where that data was taken from, or if their great firewall is broken, or even if Alibaba engineers have special access...

New comment by RRRA in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

RRRA — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:39:48 +0000

The irony of posting ethical social reflection on X though...

https://xcancel.com/GlennMeder/status/2049088498163216560

New comment by RRRA in "Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson"

RRRA — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:25:53 +0000

How long before LLM perform perfect disassembly exploitation...

New comment by RRRA in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

RRRA — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:32:01 +0000

The worst thing about this is a company saying you need to lock yourself on one of the 2 proprietary platform that somehow didn't just wrap the web for apps and use a ridiculously small device you might own, but anyone on an open standard system can go F themselves...

New comment by RRRA in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

RRRA — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:19:17 +0000

Yeah the only reason I still use YouTube is because μBlock Origin still works great.