Hacker News: aerique

New comment by aerique in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

aerique — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:40:28 +0000

On the Atari ST we had a boot sector virus that inverted the mouse Y-axis after some random time.

So annoying.

New comment by aerique in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

aerique — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:36:37 +0000

If you liked that and you haven't read it yet, give "Dragon's Egg" by Robert L. Forward a read.

New comment by aerique in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

aerique — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:56:56 +0000

At least SFOS has been a viable daily driver since 2013, so there's that.

And SFOS can also run natively like on the PinePhone.

New comment by aerique in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

aerique — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:52:58 +0000

I can also chip in, fully agree with Aachen.

(and I've also made apps for things I'm missing on SFOS (Pushover client, Bluesky client), so Hi5!)

New comment by aerique in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

aerique — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:45:59 +0000

My eyes want a 19" laptop these days.

New comment by aerique in "Linux phones are more important now than ever"

aerique — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:08:00 +0000

That's what I love running Android apps in Sailfish OS. I can just take these screenshots.

Then again, this is also what makes me almost throw my Android phone against the wall when I try to do the same on that phone.

New comment by aerique in "Baby Steps into Genetic Programming"

aerique — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 07:18:25 +0000

The AI Challenges were so cool and I had hoped there would be more of them.

A "humbling experience" is definitely the right choice of words.

I did some minor work on a PoC for the one after Ants. It was multi-player (or: multi-bot) Asteroids but things fizzled out as most of the people organizing moved on to other things.

New comment by aerique in "Baby Steps into Genetic Programming"

aerique — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 07:15:45 +0000

Well, the blog post is 14 years old.

It's an interesting showcase in how we (or at least I) assumed what the lifecycle of hyperlinks would be. (My assumption was they would perhaps 404 at some point, but not this.)

New comment by aerique in "Baby Steps into Genetic Programming"

aerique — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 07:12:31 +0000

There's some minor issues with the blog post though that don't make it entirely correct Genetic Programming as written by Koza's. I'd have to dive into it again but I think it was either with the way mutations are done or how fitness is evaluated.

Anyway, it should be close enough.

New comment by aerique in "Syncthing Android App Discontinued"

aerique — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 05:36:15 +0000

I use Sailfish OS as my daily driver since 2013.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS

New comment by aerique in "Twelve sentenced for violent home invasion robberies to steal cryptocurrency"

aerique — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:01:54 +0000

Crypto is much easier to move around and, with some effort, convert into harder to follow cryptocurrencies.

Very few people will be their own bank.

New comment by aerique in "Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced"

aerique — Wed, 01 May 2024 11:48:03 +0000

Void Linux and now Guix have been a godsend.

New comment by aerique in "Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced"

aerique — Wed, 01 May 2024 11:47:18 +0000

Well, it has "NFT" in the name so it must be good!

New comment by aerique in "Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced"

aerique — Wed, 01 May 2024 11:32:28 +0000

And explains so much!

New comment by aerique in "Alexei Navalny has died"

aerique — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:23:07 +0000

I never understood why he went back to Russia.

New comment by aerique in "Alexei Navalny has died"

aerique — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:21:33 +0000

Yes, as long as said autocrats spent billions to undermine it ;-)

New comment by aerique in "Google has removed Conversations_im from the Play Store"

aerique — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:12:04 +0000

I would even go so far (as I recently said on Mastodon) that nowadays using Aurora over the Google Play Store is safer since it doesn't display ads for other apps just above the search results for the app one is looking for. If one isn't paying attention or running on autopilot (it happens) one might click on the ad and install some malware.

New comment by aerique in "Relativistic Spaceship"

aerique — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 11:37:26 +0000

Not to mention the comic is pretty good as well!

New comment by aerique in "Relativistic Spaceship"

aerique — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 11:23:53 +0000

Yes, but that's intergalactic space not interstellar space. We've not even begun exploring the latter :-)

New comment by aerique in "Why Emacs Keys Are Painful"

aerique — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 11:53:42 +0000

Not only does the superior ESDF have tactile feedback (because of the nub on the F key) but you also get an extra column of keys (QAZ) on the left!