Hacker News: VoxPelli

New comment by VoxPelli in "Attackers Are Hunting High-Impact Node.js Maintainers with Social Engineering"

VoxPelli — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:59:20 +0000

“it's just a lookalike phishing link”

In a way, yes, but embedded in a thick thick layer of social engineering

New comment by VoxPelli in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

VoxPelli — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:46:52 +0000

Rust was pretty much created to help solve security issues in browsers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)#20...

New comment by VoxPelli in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

VoxPelli — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:45:11 +0000

Servo has a distinct design goal that sets it apart from its predecessor within Mozilla and has already had offsprings that has made its way directly into Firefox.

Its purpose is not to reinvent everything. It’s not a hype project.

New comment by VoxPelli in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

VoxPelli — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:43:10 +0000

Servo makes a whole lot more sense: https://servo.org/

New comment by VoxPelli in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

VoxPelli — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:42:12 +0000

Not only is Firefox using it for their CSS engine but Mozilla created Rust to build Servo and sadly only the CSS engine and maybe some other parts is what they kept around when they offloaded Rust.

“the Rust ecosystem around browsers is growing” – in the beginning pretty much 100% of the ecosystem around Rust was browser oriented

Thankfully Servo is picking up speed again and is a great project to help support with some donations etc: https://servo.org/

New comment by VoxPelli in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

VoxPelli — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:38:47 +0000

Firefox was special in that Mozilla created Rust to build Servo and then backported parts of Servo to Firefox and ultimately stopped building Servo.

Thankfully Servo has picked up speed again and if one wants a Rust based browser engine what better choice than the one the language was built to enable?

https://servo.org/

New comment by VoxPelli in "Bunny Database"

VoxPelli — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:35:07 +0000

Main positive with bunny.net:

Its European rather than from USA so its less dependent on that orange guy in that white/golden house

New comment by VoxPelli in "Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned"

VoxPelli — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:27:38 +0000

Sounds like standard terms from lawyers – not very friendly to customers, very friendly to company – but is it particularly bad here?

I remember when I was part of procuring an analytics tool for a previous employer and they had a similar clause that would essentially have banned us from building any in-house analytics while we were bound by that contract.

We didn't sign.

New comment by VoxPelli in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

VoxPelli — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:28:48 +0000

This goes for publicly traded companies much more than privately owned ones.

GOG is now becoming private like Valve rather than publicly traded.

New comment by VoxPelli in "GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust"

VoxPelli — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:42:16 +0000

If the implementation gets it wrong that can also be a sign of ambiguity in the protocol / standard and as such result in clarifications and an overall more well specified protocol

New comment by VoxPelli in "GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust"

VoxPelli — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:40:50 +0000

sudo-rs itself is not a bad idea, Canonical’s premature shipping of it in Ubuntu was the bad idea. sudo-rs was transparent with how far it had gotten in compatibility and feature parity

New comment by VoxPelli in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

VoxPelli — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:52:58 +0000

Yeah, same here :/

New comment by VoxPelli in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

VoxPelli — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:08:44 +0000

If one were to make a iPhone 17 Pro Mini as thick as the iPhone 4 then it would:

- Likely still weigh less than a Pro Max - Have a battery with a capacity larger than the Pro Max - Have the pro cameras stick out about as much as they did on the iPhone 6

And it would feel as robust and solid as an iPhone 4 – my favorite iPhone so far

New comment by VoxPelli in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

VoxPelli — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:57:17 +0000

Check eg. the Mudita Kompakt: https://store.mudita.com/store/mudita-kompakt-global

And the Light Phone 3: https://www.thelightphone.com/lightiii

New comment by VoxPelli in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

VoxPelli — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:56:02 +0000

"the trade-offs in battery life and camera quality are too significant" - a small but thicker phone would have no trouble with battery life and could for sure have the same good cameras as larger phones – and could possibly even ditch the camera bump if it just made the entire phone as thick as the camera bump to fit a larger battery.

(After all, easiest way to increase battery size is to increase the smallest dimension. Add 1mm to a 4-4.5mm thick battery and you'll increase the battery size by 22-25%. Make the iPhone 13 Mini as thick as its camera bump and you would probably add ≈2.4mm, which would make the battery 60% larger)

New comment by VoxPelli in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

VoxPelli — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:41:47 +0000

The Mudita Kompakt (https://store.mudita.com/store/mudita-kompakt-global) is a 4.3” e-ink Android based phone that's about the size of an iPhone Mini.

It doesn't have the Google Play Store but one can sideload Android apps onto it

New comment by VoxPelli in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8"

VoxPelli — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:11:32 +0000

Readwise Reader should be a great option

New comment by VoxPelli in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8"

VoxPelli — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:11:05 +0000

Readwise Reader, paid service from a bootstrapped company, kind of ensures it won’t randomly kill the product

Also: They are users of their own product

New comment by VoxPelli in "We're bringing Pebble back"

VoxPelli — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:51:13 +0000

He apparently is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ericmigi.com/post/3lgr5paghx22u

New comment by VoxPelli in "We're bringing Pebble back"

VoxPelli — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:31:26 +0000

Completely agree! Felt like such a refresh right up until the suggestions to follow on the Musk platform – it’s basically the same as suggesting to follow on Truth Social nowadays, only that Musk has more money than Trump could ever dream off