Hacker News: StingyJelly

New comment by StingyJelly in "Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth"

StingyJelly — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:39:15 +0000

It even has full (unofficial) linux support!

New comment by StingyJelly in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

StingyJelly — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:03:25 +0000

or maybe add 3 lsb noise, then let local diffusion model denoise the image. (is there something like convolutional diffusion denoiser?)

New comment by StingyJelly in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

StingyJelly — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:37:48 +0000

Then it is detectable. Those permissions should have a third option alongside allow and block - spoof.

New comment by StingyJelly in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"

StingyJelly — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:42:20 +0000

Not sure about other phones, but ThinkPhone 23 was supposed to get Android 16 anyway

https://www.androidauthority.com/lenovo-thinkphone-hands-on-...

New comment by StingyJelly in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

StingyJelly — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:13:47 +0000

We are both calling our callax callax and hate it the equal amount. (The word as well as the piece of furniture)

New comment by StingyJelly in "A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux"

StingyJelly — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:30:36 +0000

The fact that some innovations succeeded despite having to tiptoe around patents is more of an example of survivorship bias.

When we get something working first, there are probably some optimal partial solutions there. Working around the patent means having to do some things inefficiently while being able to provide better efficiency or cost of the overall system.

In my work, I all too often see that the obvious optimal solution we come up with turns out to be patented and we are spending time on finding least bad worse solution. (unless our patent lawywers manage to pussh through a patent for the same thing with different wording, like measuring period instead of measuring frequency)

In some cases it is not possible. For example, 3D printing was held back for 20 years just because of sleeping patents.

New comment by StingyJelly in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

StingyJelly — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:09:47 +0000

> Companies have show that they are incapable or unwilling to address the problems they cause

> This is where regulation is supposed to come in.

This is such a misdirected effort... Why the heck are we focusing on addressing those problems for a small subset of population (kids) while creating even bigger problems for the rest? Lets regulate those companies into actually addressing the problems they cause for everyone!

New comment by StingyJelly in "GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims"

StingyJelly — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:04:33 +0000

They don't need completely bare-bones setup. Sweet spot for non-geeks is installing play services, which can be used without signing into an account and by default have invasive permissions revoked. Then installing playstore apps from aurora store.

New comment by StingyJelly in "The kids with phones are alright"

StingyJelly — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:53:17 +0000

Kids with phones are alright. Attention economy of social media is not. As did tabaco companies, they (soc. media tech giants) push proposals to regulate phone use based on age in hopes that the their information asymmetry advantage and addictive dark patterns that are the problem in the first place won't be regulated and they can keep exploiting the public held in their trap by network effect.

New comment by StingyJelly in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

StingyJelly — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:17:06 +0000

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ has a better way to sort by country and political party so you can see who woted for what. It is painful to see politicians I voted for supporting this, even after I have sent them a few emails. Honestly, based on the results from my country, in the upcomming euro-elections, I am seriously considering voting alt-right.

New comment by StingyJelly in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

StingyJelly — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:53:54 +0000

That's great but I want to be able to share such app with my family members coleagues

New comment by StingyJelly in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

StingyJelly — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:21:42 +0000

We finally live in an age when I can tell a clanker that I want an app that does something that I need, connect the phone with adb and in half an hour have a working solution for my tiny problem while knowing little about android development. This is something google should embrace, not kneecap.

New comment by StingyJelly in "Watch a Steam Controller Skitter Itself to Its Charge Puck"

StingyJelly — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:03:41 +0000

The original link to github was posted here a few days ago [0] but received no attention perhaps due to dull title. I find too funny to let it at that so here is a hackaday blogpost with a slightly catchier title. Sorry for breaking the rules slightly for the sake of entertainment :) There is also a video [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48693338

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwq-xr2fDBU&t=18

Watch a Steam Controller Skitter Itself to Its Charge Puck

StingyJelly — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:03:41 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/07/01/watch-a-steam-controller-skitter-itself-to-its-charge-puck/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758066

Points: 7

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New comment by StingyJelly in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

StingyJelly — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:45:22 +0000

Or not implement it at all...

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

StingyJelly — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:32:12 +0000

I use usb-c dac and it is honestly fine. you can get one with charging bypass and keep that one with the charger

New comment by StingyJelly in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

StingyJelly — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:12:51 +0000

That's charitable, but even then you probably want to avoid fingerprinting...

New comment by StingyJelly in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

StingyJelly — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:54:09 +0000

That made me avoid it for a long time but there hasn't been more concerning behavior since, so some point, we can move on.

New comment by StingyJelly in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

StingyJelly — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:49:37 +0000

I think using tor in brave just makes you stand out more - stock tor browser is probably a better setup. Whonix even better.

New comment by StingyJelly in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

StingyJelly — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:41:35 +0000

This is so absurd... I have to keep an old (rooted in order to hide that adb is enabled) phone connected to my home server just to use such app, because grapheneos without google services is apparently not secure enough.