Hacker News: assassinator42

New comment by assassinator42 in "Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode"

assassinator42 — Tue, 13 May 2025 19:18:58 +0000

Rumor is Samsung won't support Google's Linux Terminal (at least for their existing phones) since their Knox conflicts with the Android Virtualization Framework :-(.

Honestly I'd like to see Windows 11 running under this as well, but that seems incredibly unlikely.

New comment by assassinator42 in "GM says new battery chemistry will enable 400-mile range EVs"

assassinator42 — Tue, 13 May 2025 17:40:56 +0000

For my 2016 Volt I need to run the defroster to be able to actually see out of the window though. And that takes around 4KW on average.

I can get less than half the range on cold days in the winter (65 MPGe) vs the maximum in the summer (140 MPGe)

New comment by assassinator42 in "Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me"

assassinator42 — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:15:38 +0000

Java and the .NET Framework had partial trust/capabilities mechanisms decades ago. No one really used them and they were deprecated/removed.

New comment by assassinator42 in "Redis is open source again"

assassinator42 — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:42:38 +0000

I took a bit of umbrage with LineageOS for this.

CyanogenMod required a CLA to assign them copyright to Cyanogen Inc, only for them to basically kill the project. They forked it as LineageOS only to still require a CLA.

New comment by assassinator42 in "How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2"

assassinator42 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:31:21 +0000

This is a game; I don't think a debug configuration (with checks for things like this enabled) would run fast enough to be playable on contemporary hardware.

New comment by assassinator42 in "MinC Is Not Cygwin"

assassinator42 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:43:11 +0000

No you don't, MinGW(-w64) targets windows directly (with MinGW statically linked in). I've built a Windows->Linux cross-compiler that depends solely on DLLs built-in to Windows (kernel32.dll, MSVCRT.dll, and user32.dll).

Granted that was hundreds of hours, some patches (only 8 lines though), and probably a bit of masochism.

I did of course need MSYS2 command line utilities like make and bison to run the GCC configuration/make scripts. Although we use the mingw32 version of make along with the cross-compiler which also has no other dependencies (it uses cmd.exe as a shell if you don't have a bash.exe in your PATH).

New comment by assassinator42 in "Drawing Graphics on Apple Vision with the Metal Rendering API"

assassinator42 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:57:04 +0000

I would assume targeting OpenXR would be much more productive? It's unfortunate that Apple insists on being so proprietary.

New comment by assassinator42 in "Qualcomm's Oryon core: A long time in the making"

assassinator42 — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:48:08 +0000

I've been confused by this, aren't these systems using ACPI instead of Device Tree? I know AWS ARM systems use ACPI.

New comment by assassinator42 in "It's always TCP_NODELAY"

assassinator42 — Mon, 13 May 2024 21:08:13 +0000

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont...

"Decoupling the User/Kernel boundary in Windows is a monumental task and highly non-trivial, however, we have been working hard to stabilize this boundary across all of Windows to provide our customers the flexibility to run down-level containers"

New comment by assassinator42 in "It's always TCP_NODELAY"

assassinator42 — Thu, 09 May 2024 20:18:10 +0000

The proliferation of Docker containers seems to go against that. Those really only work well since the kernel has a stable syscall ABI. So much so that you see Microsoft switching to a stable syscall ABI with Windows 11.

New comment by assassinator42 in "IRS Free File is now available for the 2024 filing season"

assassinator42 — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:14:45 +0000

I've used Cash App Taxes (previously owned by Credit Karma) for several years. No income limit and free state taxes as well: https://cash.app/taxes

New comment by assassinator42 in "Encrypted Client Hello"

assassinator42 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:51:41 +0000

This is going to make it even more of a pain to do egress filtering on networks/systems we administer. I want to be able to allow list sites with dynamic IPs. The existing solutions for doing this by examining SNI are already often bypassable by forging the SNI (looking at you, AWS Network Firewall).

New comment by assassinator42 in "Google assigns a CVE for libwebp and gives it a 10.0 score"

assassinator42 — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:46:56 +0000

Ada has the bounds checking, but doesn't (AFAIK) have a safe way to deallocate dynamic memory. At least as of now, there is a proposal to add something like Rust in the future. It also has memory unsafe concepts like specifying an address for a variable.

New comment by assassinator42 in "Yes, Android 14 still allows modification of system certificates"

assassinator42 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:27:55 +0000

Can't you still install a CA certificate through Settings like you always could? https://stackoverflow.com/a/65319223