Hacker News: bluesign

New comment by bluesign in "I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude"

bluesign — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:40:15 +0000

New comment by bluesign in "I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours"

bluesign — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:04:45 +0000

ah sorry, when I was debugging I changed the endianness.

  0x9B530150 -> 0x5001539B ->
  01(year_1) 010000(flags) 00(hour_2) 000001(minute) 01010(day) 011(hour_1) 1001(year_2) 1011(month)
  month 1011 -> 11
  year  01 1001 -> 25
  day = 01010 -> 10
  hour = 011 00 -> 12
  minute = 000001 -> 1


 with no endianness change should be: 

 1001(year_2) 1011(month) 01010(day) 01100(hour) 000001(minute) 01(year_1) 010000(flags)

 with your data:

 1001(year_2) 1011(month) 01010(day) 01011 (hour) 000011(minute) 01(year_1) 010000(flags)
 
 16+9=25       11            10        11              3

New comment by bluesign in "I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours"

bluesign — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:47:15 +0000

I think this is the format, some parts are split ( maybe some obfuscation attempt )

0-4 month 4-7 year 8-10 hour 11-15 day 22-23 hour 24-29 flags 30-31 year

New comment by bluesign in "iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline"

bluesign — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:14:06 +0000

Isn't this same as Fortnite windows situation?; windows allows exe but Epic still forces the store.

New comment by bluesign in "You can't cURL a Border"

bluesign — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:45:25 +0000

I think it is more for overstays. Years ago when I asked about my stayed days ( I was traveling a lot ) , border guard took passport and tried to count then gave up

New comment by bluesign in "You can't cURL a Border"

bluesign — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:15:59 +0000

Illegally = like smoking weed in Amsterdam

Except few countries, all EU countries tolerate this

New comment by bluesign in "Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere"

bluesign — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 11:37:05 +0000

> From my point of view, the issue would be if the same phone worked with the same technology over the same mobile network when connected via a carrier A but the same phone on the same network refused to work with the same technology when connected via a carrier B.

But thats the whole point of carrier profiles ( If I didn't understand wrong. )

Eventually it is the carrier who decides what you can do. ( this can also may be related to deals they made with manufacturers )

I think in this case, it is just missing carrier profile. ( which is like a config file )

New comment by bluesign in "Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere"

bluesign — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:27:06 +0000

I think it depends; speculating but probably volte is a very complicated spec with many optional enhancements ( think ssl with cipher types )

So carrier can choose to whitelist/blacklist phones depending on extensions available

New comment by bluesign in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

bluesign — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:11:35 +0000

Yeah but those times were easy. Now drivers are binary blobs and firmwares basically.

New comment by bluesign in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

bluesign — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:27:29 +0000

I meant a bit like: Let's say you have 2 mobile phone operators in your country ( duopoly ) we are ok that for example using SMS for banking interaction ( second factor etc )

I think this is a process; and somehow slowly people accepting those levels, and in a society it becomes normal ( to have whatsapp for friend group, to have facebook for family photos etc etc ) and you are being left out eventually if you are outside of those norms.

So it is not so different for bank to require something like google provided software.

New comment by bluesign in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

bluesign — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:48:21 +0000

I think it is kind of levels:

"can't participate in society without a mobile phone" "can't participate in society without internet" "can't participate in society without google"

not sure where is the logical correct threshold making it wrong. because we all accept maybe people not participating without internet.

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

bluesign — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 11:16:10 +0000

That is totally fair.

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

bluesign — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 08:25:52 +0000

You are owner of the hardware, user of the software.

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

bluesign — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 08:21:40 +0000

If you consider developer has the right to determine who runs their software, it is actually.

My last 10 apk installs:

- 9 apps not available in the local store - 1 app I changed some setting in the manifest

For less technical people it will also include some shady apk's for example promising free La Liga match broadcast but then scraping everything from phone.

New comment by bluesign in "VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project"

bluesign — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:00:23 +0000

> presence of the established mark "Deepkit"

I think this is the key point, according to EU it is not

New comment by bluesign in "Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA"

bluesign — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:23:18 +0000

Now basically the situation is: No browser vendor wants to port their engine, because cost > benefit.

I think the discussion should focus more on why benefit is this small for users to switch.

With browser selection dialog, I think vendors have already 0 cost channel for UA. I don't think new binary would make a big difference.

New comment by bluesign in "Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux"

bluesign — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:52:12 +0000

but why would passport contain a private key ?

New comment by bluesign in "The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks"

bluesign — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:47:06 +0000

been long time but I recall playing it on PSP, ( before playing the AC game before though ) I have pretty good memories, and it was one of the best games I played on PSP for sure.

I think maybe Sony created too high expectations with PSP.

New comment by bluesign in "US blocking Swiss access to AI chips"

bluesign — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 07:55:41 +0000

Yeah but considering EU and free movement agreements, little bit apples and oranges comparison.

New comment by bluesign in "The Salvadoran government has 5,940 bitcoins worth $582M"

bluesign — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 03:23:57 +0000

It is not only in developing countries, even in developed countries it is a bit of a problem, the rise of “far right” in Europe etc is an example to this.