Hacker News: StingyJelly

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.

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

StingyJelly — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:26:15 +0000

Brave origin on linux looks pretty solid now. Now I'm using that and Librewolf.

New comment by StingyJelly in "WebUSB Extension for Firefox"

StingyJelly — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:03:53 +0000

You have to balance the this ease of use with increasing potential attack and fingerprinting surface. Correct approach is something in the middle - a separate off-by-default setting or recommended official extension.

New comment by StingyJelly in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

StingyJelly — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:55:08 +0000

just secure your networks bro

New comment by StingyJelly in "Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything"

StingyJelly — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:17:36 +0000

Reflowing smd paste inside print won't work reliably as the solder will tend to form blobs instead of keeping the track shape

New comment by StingyJelly in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

StingyJelly — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:09:15 +0000

I wouldn't call codex considerably better. It may depend on specific codebase and your expectations, but codex produces more "abstraction for the sake of abstraction" even on simple tasks, while opus in my experience usually chooses right level of abstraction for given task.

New comment by StingyJelly in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

StingyJelly — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:32:57 +0000

Yes and given that keyboard replacement is really common repair (probably most common repair on butterfly models but still quite common now), the ease of repair is extremely disproportional. In case of OP's Macbook Pro: the rivets, the number of screws, the need to disassemble everything, even having to lift the glued in battery - all just to get to the keyboard.

New comment by StingyJelly in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

StingyJelly — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:42:38 +0000

You can use tiny drill to drill off the rivets - much less violent. I covered everything in paper / masking tape to be able to vacuum off the metal shavings and used small dremmel like electric drill with chinese used re-sharpened pcb drillbit.

New comment by StingyJelly in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

StingyJelly — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:36:17 +0000

The bar should be higher than "Better than glue". While repair is possible, the number of screws with many different screw types still make it needlessly time consuming / expensive.

New comment by StingyJelly in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

StingyJelly — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:29:51 +0000

The laptop is deffinitely designed in a way that the keyboard is extremely hard to replace. Took me like 5 hours across 2 days. Rivets are not even the worst part, I used tiny drill and carefully glued in the replacement keyboard using phone screen glue (B7000) between the keys. (glue needs to go both on the frame and on the keyboard as there is a gap that needs to be bridged) Since there are screws along 3 of its edges, I deemed it good enough. drilling and tapping or riveting would have been extra painful.

What makes the repair more complicated is that 1) you need to take out basically everything to get to the keyboard. There are many different screws, luckily ifixit has a disassembly guides with their sizes. Still it was a bit painful to reassemble. 2) One of the things you need to take out or at least lift is the glued in battery - this took a lot of careful prying with thin plastic sheet and dousing it in ipa. 3) backlight is glued on to the case in an extremely fragile way, so it needs to be replaced with the keyboard or will probably look uneven after repair. (i reused the old one as I don't mind it but still, it could just have been glued to the keyboard itself and it would be easier to repair.

New comment by StingyJelly in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

StingyJelly — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:44:51 +0000

>it's even more tightly bound than just being soldered on

No. There is a reason for it but no, it's just soldered on the same carrier board as the APU, in order to be really close to it. Apple could have used a form factor like CAMM2 and it would have worked the same, be it at slightly higher cost. The reason is simply to kill upgrade options and cut manufacturing costs - same as for any other soldered ram.