Hacker News: bobim

New comment by bobim in "General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1"

bobim — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:43:06 +0000

A court could rule the seizing of a flat I rent to pay up my debts? I'm not getting how this could be legal.

New comment by bobim in "General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1"

bobim — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:49:29 +0000

Maybe GM is still the legal owner since they were all leased, so that would be a possible sad outcome.

New comment by bobim in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

bobim — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:55:45 +0000

Well, in the end user agreement there are usually clauses that forbids it. It's tolerated in some geographies for interoperability, research and infosec, but you agreed on ToS already.

New comment by bobim in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

bobim — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:52:41 +0000

Won't they sue for the reverse engineering?

New comment by bobim in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

bobim — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:32:36 +0000

Then make it an universal income, because deep down everyone is an artist waiting to be revealed.

New comment by bobim in "The Tulip Creative Computer"

bobim — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:59:05 +0000

Why not passing it on to some friends?

New comment by bobim in "Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors"

bobim — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:51:15 +0000

Probably not as lungs are behind the rib cage and filled with air, making two sources of spurious reflections that could be dangerous with high intensity ultrasounds.

New comment by bobim in "Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors"

bobim — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:31:06 +0000

Getting the US through the skull bone is next to impossible due to the acoustic impedance mismatch with surrounding tissues. As a stranger I'm deeply sorry for your situation, and thought your question should be answered somehow...

If you want to dig a little bit, the team of Mathias Fink in Paris explored "time reversal" techniques to get through the skull: one have to emmit from the tumor location, listen with a huge array, reverse the signature and blast. I don't know if this ended with a medical device.

Take care.

New comment by bobim in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

bobim — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:34:40 +0000

Brillant, I'm stealing it.

New comment by bobim in "Smartphone without a battery (2022)"

bobim — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:39:46 +0000

I need to know if this is running e-banking a.k.a. "we are secure, yet is that you that made this payment" apps?

New comment by bobim in "Learning music with Strudel"

bobim — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:40:18 +0000

Yes, true, any music production oriented live distro recommendation to test if it's the case anyone?

New comment by bobim in "Learning music with Strudel"

bobim — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:58:59 +0000

I can't tell, things like BespokeSynth are running ok with alsa or jack. I got the rt kernel, made a few things to audio priority, fiddled with governors, but no luck. Let's say that it happens quite quickly with the Stitch Angel fast trance example "the key needs to be G" supersaw synth.

Chromium is better at it than Firefox though.

Maybe this 5800X3D needs a buff up...

New comment by bobim in "Learning music with Strudel"

bobim — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:08:19 +0000

True that compared to FoxDot, Sardine or Tidal, the syntax and visualization are just making the whole thing a real pleasure to use.

But this is way too taxing for my linux boxes that are ending stuttering quite badly sometimes. Are you all using macs or something?

New comment by bobim in "OpenMW 0.50.0 Released – open-source Morrowind reimplementation"

bobim — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:41:55 +0000

Teleportation? That would kill the hiking simulator vibe!

New comment by bobim in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

bobim — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:17:40 +0000

I have a coworker who usually say that billions of flies can't be wrong. Maybe we should just start eating what they eat.

New comment by bobim in "Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy"

bobim — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:01:38 +0000

That last point is even enough as demonstrated by the swiss people voting for the eID, democratically paving the way for future mass surveillance and total dependency to our iOS and Android locked bootloaders overlords. As stated further down this is all stemming from education.

New comment by bobim in "Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud"

bobim — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:52:25 +0000

I was running it on an Odroid N2 for 2-3 years, and upgraded to a RK3588 Orange Pi something a couple of years ago. It's not fast but it's useable. At one point I succeded in making the collaborative editing working, but it stopped after updates. Maybe it needs more love than what I'm able to spare, but the feeling after years is that you have to accept some level of unreliability.

New comment by bobim in "Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference"

bobim — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:07:13 +0000

GP bikes are faster than dirt bikes, but not on dirt. The context has some influence here.

New comment by bobim in "Apple ordered by EU antitrust regulators to open up to rivals"

bobim — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:30:31 +0000

It seems more like 25%, a bigger market than US and with a lot of progression margin because of android dominance.

New comment by bobim in "BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells"

bobim — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:24:41 +0000

Sure, but we have some difficulties to understand that we have to let go some of the comfort we were used to.

And we know that EVs are not for saving our climate, it's for saving the car industry. Don't look up.