Hacker News: SpaghettiCthulu

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC"

SpaghettiCthulu — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:29:36 +0000

What benefit would there be to uninstalling those bundled apps entirely vs disabling them? It's a nice goal to aspire to, sure, but does it really matter?

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC"

SpaghettiCthulu — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:37:18 +0000

You can trivially install another launcher without that search bar and disable nearly all bundled apps on Pixels. Show me how easy it is to remove all the ads and bloatware from Windows.

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "Ironwood, our latest TPU"

SpaghettiCthulu — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:33:59 +0000

> successfully killed ZLUDA

Did they? Sounds like AMD did that[^1] and that the project is continuing based on the pre-AMD codebase[^2].

[^1]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZLUDA-CUDA-Taken-Down

[^2]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ZLUDA-Third-Life

GrapheneOS: "We now have experimental support for the Pixel 10 "

SpaghettiCthulu — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:18:41 +0000

Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115613410154853462

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46054964

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96M bill for website redesign"

SpaghettiCthulu — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:24:36 +0000

> "A complete rebuild was necessary to ensure the website meets modern security, usability and accessibility requirements for the millions of Australians who reply on it every day," a spokesperson said.

I guess those "usability and accessibility requirements" don't include being usable without JavaScript.

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors"

SpaghettiCthulu — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:12:09 +0000

Unless you think the same backdoor is hiding in AOSP, you can just check the diff and some extra lines for context.

Rain: Cloud Leakage via Hardware Vulnerabilities – Vusec

SpaghettiCthulu — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:40:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vusec.net/projects/rain/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870843

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"

SpaghettiCthulu — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:05:20 +0000

You really want an LLM hallucinating that everything is ok and turning your air back on? Or hallucinating that everything was always ok and not turning your air off in the first place?

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "Polish PM: government used Pegasus spyware to surveil my wife and daughter"

SpaghettiCthulu — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:18:19 +0000

Source?

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "Recovery Contacts: Sign in with a little help from your friends and family"

SpaghettiCthulu — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:30:01 +0000

> When you reach out to one of your recovery contacts for help, you will share a code with them. They will get an email or notification and can confirm it’s really you by verifying that code, helping you securely regain access to your account. While you should choose someone you trust, rest assured that your recovery contact will not have access to your account or any of your personal information.

What additional verification will be required to regain access to your account?

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "Apple defined ICE as a "protected class" in blocking anti-ICE apps"

SpaghettiCthulu — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:54:02 +0000

Would be safer to use GrapheneOS and distribute these apps on F-Droid, using a custom repo if the main one won't allow them.

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree"

SpaghettiCthulu — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:46:00 +0000

It's not just Android. I've encountered frequent broken gradle caching when using Kotlin outside of Android and when using Fabric for building Minecraft mods. In my experience, the only solution is wiping the user-wide gradle cache. Maybe it's a gradle issue or maybe it's an ecosystem issue (i.e. gradle plugins not respecting Gradle's cache semantics). Regardless, it does not reflect well on Gradle that such issues are so widespread.

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "ByteDance Proposes "Parker" for Linux: Multiple Kernels Running Simultaneously"

SpaghettiCthulu — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:07:07 +0000

From TFA:

> The primary use case in mind for parker is on the machines with high core counts, where scalability concerns may arise. Once started, there is no communication between kernel instances. In other words, they share nothing thus improve scalability.

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads"

SpaghettiCthulu — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:25:50 +0000

I haven't tested this, but in theory running deno with `--v8-flags='--jitless'`[^1][^2] will disable the JIT compiler.

[^1]: https://v8.dev/blog/jitless

[^2]: https://docs.deno.com/runtime/getting_started/command_line_i...

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "Delayed Security Patches for AOSP (Android Open Source Project)"

SpaghettiCthulu — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:02:36 +0000

Of course they don't. But the courts/government should force them to do so in this case. If the company or its shareholders need to be compensated then so be it. Better to pay them off and get Android and Chrome out of their hands before they can cause further damage.

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "GrapheneOS and forensic extraction of data (2024)"

SpaghettiCthulu — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:42:47 +0000

Some devices are listed with both "BFU Yes" and "BF No" under the "... BFU" column (for example, the newer Pixel devices table). What do these mean in combination?

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "Delayed Security Patches for AOSP (Android Open Source Project)"

SpaghettiCthulu — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:32:39 +0000

Why not spin them each off into an independent non-profit?

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

SpaghettiCthulu — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:24:03 +0000

If you don't mind sharing, which country is that?

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)"

SpaghettiCthulu — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:31:48 +0000

Last I heard, the default on Android was to randomize MAC address across networks but keep them static for each network.

New comment by SpaghettiCthulu in "Stop killing games and the industry response"

SpaghettiCthulu — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:17:00 +0000