Hacker News: burstmode

New comment by burstmode in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

burstmode — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:56:00 +0000

I don't know about executable signing, but in the embedded world SecureBoot is also used to serve the PRODUCER; id est provide guarantees to the PRODUCER that the firmware of the device they SELL has not been tampered with at some point in the PROFIT chain.

New comment by burstmode in "Vali, a C library for Varlink"

burstmode — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:49:46 +0000

So, there's another copy of CORBA. :-)

New comment by burstmode in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"

burstmode — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:35:27 +0000

> pasting images of seemingly random noise into a sensitive environment is a terrible idea.

Only if your rendering libraries are crap.

New comment by burstmode in "EXT4 for Linux 6.16 Brings a Change Yielding "Stupendous Performance""

burstmode — Wed, 28 May 2025 04:56:55 +0000

Ok, so can someone explain what "Large folio support for regular files" is ?

New comment by burstmode in "The weirdest QNX bug I've encountered (2021)"

burstmode — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 16:43:22 +0000

>If your product has a software-related failure, customers won't care about all of your certifications. Only the end product.

If you're in a market where a ASIL certification is needed, the customers ONLY care about this certifications. I keeps them out of jail.

New comment by burstmode in "Twenty years is nothing"

burstmode — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 16:12:18 +0000

No, the exact reverse: Hide away the brain-damaging GIT database system behind a proxy, so that I can (again!) concentrate on my job as developer. Instead I have to spend at least one day every week as "version managment administrator" just to keep GIT from falling apart because of weird internal errors. I will never understand why a plain user must deal with internal data structures (like db-indieces) of some tool on a day to day basis.

New comment by burstmode in "Twenty years is nothing"

burstmode — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:32:53 +0000

I want the reverse: svn-git. That would be a real relief to so many developers.

New comment by burstmode in "Polymorphic Types in C [pdf]"

burstmode — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:58:53 +0000

Many people, Especially sice C++ has become a playfield for CS language theorists, who invent more and more overcomplicated language "features" with little to no practical use.

New comment by burstmode in "VW Group's troubled Cariad software division to lay off 2k workers"

burstmode — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 19:10:29 +0000

> That would be 1/3 (a third) of their workforce

Yep, that's probably all the SCRUM masters...

New comment by burstmode in "All About USB-C: Example Circuits"

burstmode — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 09:44:53 +0000

Every few sentences there there is a remark like "This circuit might have edge cases,... "...perfect for the majority of use cases,..". In other words: It will, at best, work on the developers table, but nowhere else. Why is somebody publishing examples that won't work in the real world ?

New comment by burstmode in "Ask HN: I get nauseous while playing first person view games"

burstmode — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 05:50:00 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulator_Sickness

New comment by burstmode in "Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C"

burstmode — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 19:00:31 +0000

C++ Metaprogramming is also just a bunch sugarcoated preprocessor macros and it was never someting else.

New comment by burstmode in "Visual Studio UI Refresh"

burstmode — Thu, 11 May 2023 16:59:43 +0000

Ohh man. The usual crap: Desingers adding unneeded whitepace to show of their super skillz. These GUI designer bros should really limit their work to their own tools and leave the productive part of the world alone.

New comment by burstmode in "John Deere's ongoing GPL violations: What's next"

burstmode — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 19:22:15 +0000

OK, so what exactly are the John Deere programs they think are a GPL violation ? There's no info about that in the article.

New comment by burstmode in "QNX DEMO disk (1999)"

burstmode — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 06:05:03 +0000

RT_PREEMT has nothing to do with "real" realtime. You never know WHEN the preemtion is gonna happen. Might be in 20ms, might be in 200.

New comment by burstmode in "Lennart Poettering Leaves Red Hat for Microsoft"

burstmode — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:27:18 +0000

OK, so Microsoft did the same thing to Linux that they did to Nokia...

New comment by burstmode in "Driverless robotaxi fleet paralyzed for hours in San Francisco"

burstmode — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:33:05 +0000

> incidents like these are only a minor, harmless inconvenience.

Until there is a emergency vehicle thats unable to get through.

New comment by burstmode in "Ask HN: Does the Scrum Framework Work?"

burstmode — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 17:10:36 +0000

> Do people secretly like it?

New comment by burstmode in "KDE Connect Now Available on iOS"

burstmode — Sun, 15 May 2022 12:08:37 +0000

Is it possible to use this without a phone, just connecting 2 PCs ?

New comment by burstmode in "Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random"

burstmode — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 06:04:07 +0000

Don't give the systemd people any ideas ! PLEASE!