Hacker News: RachelF

New comment by RachelF in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

RachelF — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:23:47 +0000

Microsoft is also doing this, Microsoft Authenticator, no longer works under GrapheneOS for corporate creds, and coming in July they will delete any Entra-related IDs from your phone.

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/03/10/microsoft-tig...

New comment by RachelF in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

RachelF — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:45:32 +0000

I too, liked it.

However, some apps that I need for work, like Microsoft Authenticator, no longer work under GrapheneOS.

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/03/10/microsoft-tig...

New comment by RachelF in "The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix"

RachelF — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:38:47 +0000

Yes, their software is terrible across CPUs and GPUs, and continues to be. So many trivial bugs just never fixed.

It has literally cost them a Trillion dollars in market cap - Nvidia's CUDA is a big reason they're so much bigger than AMD.

New comment by RachelF in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

RachelF — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:29:46 +0000

Me too. Many government or banking sites only work properly on Chrome. Anything with Docusign is Chrome-only.

New comment by RachelF in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

RachelF — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:52:09 +0000

I wonder how fast it performs on just a CPU? If the model performs say 10x on a GPU cluster, would it also perform faster on a CPU?

This could bring proper desktop AI to the average laptop user, which could be a game changer for running local models.

New comment by RachelF in "New Texas Instruments 5532 chips are not the 5532s we’ve used for decades"

RachelF — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:51:50 +0000

This sort of thing really annoys me. Part numbers are for use of engineers, not for the marketing dept. If you change the specs, change the part number.

New comment by RachelF in "Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux"

RachelF — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:31:04 +0000

Nice idea, but something has gone very wrong here:

>Sequential throughput: ~1.3 GB/s

[on a RTX 3070 Laptop]

This RTX 3070 chip is on PCIe 4.0 x16 which should give 64GB/s. The 8GB of GDDR6 is 448GB/s.

Swapping to an NVMe drive would be twice as fast, but with higher latency.

New comment by RachelF in "Coreutils for Windows"

RachelF — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:53:44 +0000

Don't use find, use Voidtools' Everything. It finds filenames instantly, by searching the NTFS structures.

This is one of the few features that Linux file systems do not have.

New comment by RachelF in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

RachelF — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:08:29 +0000

I think the weak precedent here is Apple vs Palm:

Palm devices pretended to be iPods so that users could use iTunes to copy music to them. Apple threatened legal action and Palm backed down.

New comment by RachelF in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

RachelF — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:45:41 +0000

Yeah, modern software towers of libraries literally eat memory.

MS Teams uses around 1000MB of RAM to do exactly the same things that Microsoft Messenger could do in 8MB.

New comment by RachelF in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

RachelF — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:36:25 +0000

Why not just remove the antenna or SIM card from the modem?

New comment by RachelF in "Cisco workforce reductions"

RachelF — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:02:21 +0000

I really battled to read his memo. The it was written in English, but a very odd style indeed.

New comment by RachelF in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

RachelF — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:21:36 +0000

The late 1970's were the golden age of documentaries: Connections, Cosmos, Civilization, The Ascent of Man and Attenborough's Life on Earth.

Perhaps it's just me, but modern documentaries are rather dumbed down?

As a side note: Quite ironic that he ends up pointing to a rocket propelled mostly by solid fuels.

New comment by RachelF in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

RachelF — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:20:15 +0000

Yeah, everything being black on modern motherboards might look cool with RGB lighting, but makes it harder to work on. I like the older green PCBs with white PCI slots.

I also lament the demise of color coded connectors at the back. I knew to plug my speakers into the green 3.5mm jack. Now everything is black, so I need to look at the manual again to see which of the 5 connectors is the right one.

New comment by RachelF in "Managing the Unmanaged Switch"

RachelF — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:29:46 +0000

Faster is only needed when you need the speed. 2.5G and 10G NICs eat power - all the ones I seen have heatsinks.

New comment by RachelF in "A Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification Is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic"

RachelF — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:22:34 +0000

A cunning move from Anthropic, nevertheless - their system has now seen and trained on a many big organization's source code.

New comment by RachelF in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

RachelF — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:37:21 +0000

In the early 1980s there were actually word processors for the Apple 2 which had a 40 column display (7 pixel wide fonts default) that gave 60 columns using the a 5x5 font in graphics mode. It was a selling point.

The hardware solution was to buy an "80 column card" that gave 80 columns of proper text, if your monitor could handle it.

New comment by RachelF in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

RachelF — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:02:46 +0000

Another trick I've seen on LinkedIn is job applications open from 12:00 am to 12:01 am.

The employer can legally say they advertized the job and had no applicants and need an H1B employee.

New comment by RachelF in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

RachelF — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:18:29 +0000

It is a superb project, and a hard thing to do.

It is a pity that the apps most business people use everyday, like Word and Excel and Outlook don't work in it (Excel 2010 is the last version that has Platinum status). It is interesting that these are harder to get working than games.

New comment by RachelF in "Palantir extends reach into British state as gets access to sensitive FCA data"

RachelF — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:29:39 +0000

Australian house transactions are also commonly used for low-million dollar money laundering operations.

Australia specifically exempts house purchases and the associated agents and their lawyers from AML laws.