Hacker News: bionade24

New comment by bionade24 in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

bionade24 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:34:02 +0000

With every year passed the bar for a successful Linux phone got higher. Potential users expect more & more apps for internet-related services to run while the companies tear down their APIs making more 3rd-party apps impossible.

Facebook Messenger didn't have an XMPP API because Zuck was a nice guy back then.

New comment by bionade24 in "Stop Making TUIs"

bionade24 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:29:20 +0000

Of course there is, waypipe, ssh -X, wayVNC on a headless cage (or sway with appropriate config) session.

New comment by bionade24 in "Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption"

bionade24 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:07:22 +0000

Flatpak, Snap Store & PPA malware has been a thing for a long time already.

New comment by bionade24 in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

bionade24 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:36:47 +0000

gamescope absolutely can have Xwayland child panes & this is currently the default on SteamOS running games with Proton, unless PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 is set in the game options.

New comment by bionade24 in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

bionade24 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:10:32 +0000

It happened almost 6 months ago, trying to build https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI with uv. From what I can still infer from the dependency list & my shell history, the problematic dep had been pyopenjtalk. After building & installing this dep with pip, I was able to continue to use uv.

New comment by bionade24 in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

bionade24 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:42:02 +0000

uv still can't build all wheels and afaik they don't intend to do so. Furthermore they leave their users with 0 indication that the build fails because the wheel is unsupported by uv. If I were a beginnner or intermediate, I'd definitely given up after some attempts of fixing the buildsystem/code of the wheel.

I don't get how uv regularly gets recommended without any note about this.

New comment by bionade24 in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

bionade24 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:34:39 +0000

Valve recently changed the Steam workshop UI/website meanwhile Steam still runs on X11 and depends on 32bit libs on Linux.

New comment by bionade24 in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

bionade24 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:48:31 +0000

> huge structural investments are needed in the country

The D-Ticket is completely independent of any (rail) infrastructure financing, those have distinct budges on federal level, since any project has to be approved by the legislature individually. The D-Ticket is eating away the budget of the states and their transit authorities, causing a reduction of services..

New comment by bionade24 in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

bionade24 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:44:37 +0000

This only is an attractive offer if you don't commute by rail & the country/ticket area is small enough to make avoidance of the peak hours feasible.

New comment by bionade24 in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

bionade24 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:15:59 +0000

> no income taken away, as it is subsidized and compensated on the federal level

Only 50% of the relative loss of transit agencies is subsidised by the federal government, the other 50% gets subsidised by the respective state. And since the compensation is calculated in relation to the prices of monthly subscription tickets on routes in the respective transit area, transit agencies are left with even less.

Additionally, a lawsuit determined that the train network price cap for public transport is illegal, further increasing costs for the states.

This already has caused service reductions in multiple states, e.g. just now in Berlin additional overground Metro services during commuter peaks got halfed. With the results of the lawsuit and now interest from the federal goverment to put more funding into public transport, a lot more services will get axed in the next 3 years.

New comment by bionade24 in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

bionade24 — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:08:34 +0000

Using runsc instead of runsc means that there's a hypervisor layer (gvisor, probably) in-between the kernel and the container userland

New comment by bionade24 in "Gvisor on Raspbian"

bionade24 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:18:18 +0000

Using distcc networked compilation instead of cross-compiling is reasonably fast too and easier to set up if one isn't familiar with either.

New comment by bionade24 in "Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?"

bionade24 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:30:51 +0000

> I only use it [..] for research.

And it can be pretty great for that. But I'm not sure if this works well for people who don't have experience reading API documentation or coding support sites like Stackoverflow. Beginners having a problem most likely don't know any abstract term for the problem they want to solve, so they'll feed their scenario meticulously to the LLM, causing it to output an already tailored solution which obfuscates the core logical solution.

It's like starting to learn how to code by reading advanced code of a sophisticated project.

New comment by bionade24 in "A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project"

bionade24 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:54:10 +0000

> Everything already works fine.

No, Archlinux was repeatedly behind with package updates. This even went as far as lagging behind Ubuntu in at least one instance, causing inconvenience and frustration for users which then either had to use other more up-to-date sources for dependencies or package the newer version of dependencies under a different installroot themselves.

This problem is caused by a staff shortage or the average necessary maintanance effort for repo packages. At least one of those 2 causes has to be solved.

New comment by bionade24 in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

bionade24 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:14:20 +0000

> But I'd love to see Switzerland take over some of those international connections.

The Giruno EMUs of the SBB serving the Eurocity from Hamburg to Basel are having technical malfunctions causing delays & aborted trainrides for the last few weeks.

The Eurocity(Express) Zurich-Munich is the most delayed long-distance train route in Germany. Most of the German route is only single-tracked and overcrowded.

New comment by bionade24 in "Comparing xeus-Haskell and ihaskell kernels"

bionade24 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:36:00 +0000

It certainly can be inefficient depending on what you want to do, but loading files with functions into the scope of your GHCi session works quite well for quick debugging. When cabal repl all necessary deps for the project get loaded and it just works.

New comment by bionade24 in "WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel"

bionade24 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:14:20 +0000

Unrelated to this issue but I've had a race condition with Automake which while run oin 2-4 threads occured exactly every 2nd run. With -j48 it was obvious it's a race condition. No idea how cache invalidation works in the automake stack, but that must have caused it to fail exactly 50% of the time.

New comment by bionade24 in "Btrfs Allocator Hints"

bionade24 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:49:55 +0000

Most likely yes, but the also envisioned periodically repacking oft multiple small data extents into one big that gets written to the HDD would wake up the HDD. And if you'd make the SSD "metadata only", browser cache and logging will keep the HDD spinning.

This feature is for performance, not the case you described.

New comment by bionade24 in "How reliable are MicroSD cards?"

bionade24 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 08:02:41 +0000

Write cache flushing is a Software behaviour thing, it's unrelated to reliability.

New comment by bionade24 in "Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC"

bionade24 — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:51:18 +0000

Well, the author does have a link to the git forge of the VideoLAN project prominently displayed on the blog and also contributes to projects there: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/LibVLCSharp

Additionally, Videolabs is listed at https://www.videolan.org/videolan/partners.html

I guess the project is well-aware of the corporation.