Hacker News: bitbang

New comment by bitbang in "Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need"

bitbang — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:19:58 +0000

New comment by bitbang in "Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?"

bitbang — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:28:24 +0000

Devices should offer a local signing cert, where you can sign an app for that device only. Then make the app signing process enforce binding agreement that you assume all responsibility related to the app.

New comment by bitbang in "FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections"

bitbang — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:14:24 +0000

For anybody on an android phone,I highly recommend https://github.com/aj3423/SpamBlocker

It is highly configurable with every feature I've ever wanted but could never find for call filtering in the the app store. I've essentially set mine so that if the calling number is not in my contacts, or is not a number I've called in the last 90 days, the phone never runs and the call is sent to voice mail. But it supports lots of other mechanisms to filter with like regex, or how many times the number has called within a given timeframe.

New comment by bitbang in "The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return"

bitbang — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:52:14 +0000

That’s not what that means at all, your inserting modern values into the parable. In the culture of that time, the rich were viewed with high regard. The understanding was that if you were rich, then clearly you were in a favorable relationship to God because he was blessing you with wealth. With that understanding, the sentence that directly follows the parable makes a lot more sense: “When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished, saying, ‘Who then can be saved?’” A modern telling of the parable would replace the rich man with a monk who’s taken a vow of poverty to run an orphanage in a God-forsaken third world country. The parable was intended to portray an absurdly impossible standard to entry; the whole point being that human merit, status, or morality, regardless of however the cultural context may define that, does not afford one any distinctive advantage before God.

New comment by bitbang in "DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format"

bitbang — Tue, 27 May 2025 19:04:12 +0000

Why is the footer metadata not sufficient for this need? The metadata should contain the min and max timestamp values from the respective column of interest, so that when executing a query, the query tool should be optimizing its query by reading the metadata to determine if that parquet file should be read or not depending on what time range is in the query.

New comment by bitbang in "New Tool: lsds – List All Linux Block Devices and Settings in One Place"

bitbang — Fri, 09 May 2025 19:35:01 +0000

Very nice, needs option for json/jsonl output.

New comment by bitbang in "The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems"

bitbang — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:32:56 +0000

I've done this to build custom RPi images. Way faster than trying to build on a low power ARM platform, and way less fragile than cross compilers.

New comment by bitbang in "Patience is a coping strategy, not a virtue"

bitbang — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:51:55 +0000

I have little patience for worthless studies that serve no purpose beyond a means of coping with time and effort sunk into a worthless humanities degree.

New comment by bitbang in "Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers"

bitbang — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:50:33 +0000

If I understand it correctly, landlock is an API used by an app to sandbox itself. The app itself controls the sandboxing. Bubble wrap is user space tooling external to the app, so the app had no direct awareness or control of its sandboxing. The scenarios each is intended for are orthogonal to one another.

New comment by bitbang in "The biggest blocker to LibreOffice adoption? LibreOffice (2023)"

bitbang — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:11:54 +0000

If your publisher requires word documents (or _any_ word processor format), you need to find a better publisher. I can understand if they prefer word for the text-copy, which is then pulled into a typesetting app. But to use that as the pre-press format is a terrible workflow. This isn't a limitation of LibreOffice, it's a limitation of not being competent in pre-press typesetting and publishing software.

New comment by bitbang in "DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing"

bitbang — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:11:07 +0000

This has been possible on Linux (Wayland + pipewire) for a couple years now.

New comment by bitbang in "What TeX Gets Right"

bitbang — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:46:48 +0000

Like sile

New comment by bitbang in "First Contact with SQLite"

bitbang — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:20:51 +0000

You need to look into duckDB.

New comment by bitbang in "Wendy's Wants to Start Uber-Like Surge Pricing in 2025"

bitbang — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 02:10:09 +0000

I foresee surge pricing for bricks...

New comment by bitbang in "My journey as a Christian software developer"

bitbang — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:50:04 +0000

It’s a little hard to answer a question so loaded with presupposition. It seems like you’re initially trying to frame your objection in terms of logic and reason, but your criticism is of the moral implications. My observation is that logical reasoning has little bearing on the divide between Christian and secular. There is no shortage of logical and illogical people in both camps. The objection, as seems to be the case here, is rarely on a rational level but rather a moral level. The idea of a moral authority that transcends humanity, by which humanity is to be judged is highly offensive. We naturally want to be our own moral authority. But if we are our own authority, who are you to determine what I should hold as “contradictions, inconsistencies, stretched truths, thinly veiled metaphor, lies...”? You’re objection appeals to the notion of an absolute objective authority on truth, while at the same time rejecting it.

If logical reason is truly what you’re interested in understanding the Christian world-view, there is no shortage of resources in the arena of apologetics. For easy reading you can start with something like Tim Keller’s two books, “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism” and “Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World” or perhaps C.S. Lewis’s “Mere Christianity”. If you want something of a more academic grade: - “Christian Apologetics (2nd edition)” by Douglas Groothuis - “Reasonable Faith, Christian Truth and Apologetics (3rd edition)” by William Craig - “Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview (2nd edition)” by William Craig and JP Moreland

New comment by bitbang in "AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source"

bitbang — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 01:19:58 +0000

That was my immediate thought: the software is made publicity available to help add value to their product offering, but they plausable deniability in court and don't have to bear the burden of potential lawsuits or support.

New comment by bitbang in "'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible Are All Forgeries (2020)"

bitbang — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 04:06:30 +0000

Not shocked that a biased commenter immediately tries to imply that MOTB is peddling lies without taking the time to find that the MOTB funded the research and analysis on suspicion of forgery and published the detailed report of the findings.

https://www.museumofthebible.org/dead-sea-scroll-fragments https://museumofthebible.cdn.prismic.io/museumofthebible/8ee...

New comment by bitbang in "Australia to ban engineered stone"

bitbang — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 23:15:51 +0000

Concrete isn't silly at all. (Google it) I actually prefer it to most of the other options.

New comment by bitbang in "Why America Is Out of Ammunition"

bitbang — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:17:17 +0000

All comments so far about small firearms ammo. Article has nothing to do with small firearms ammo. RTFA

New comment by bitbang in "Emacs and shellcheck"

bitbang — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 02:08:32 +0000

That language server automatically integrates shellcheck into its linter if shellcheck is present.