Hacker News: choffee

New comment by choffee in "Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices"

choffee — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:20:54 +0000

This is good to see. The concept of immutable OS and fallback boots is going to be much more common. I think there are similar concepts being explored in postmarketOS such as https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/duranium

I've tried the silverblue desktop version of this and while I'm not convinced that a mix of OS/Brew/Flatpak/Containers is making things more approachable it's interesting to see these concepts progress and the tools improve.

New comment by choffee in "MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience"

choffee — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:06:52 +0000

That really reads like an ad.

New comment by choffee in "Prusa's New Open Community License (OCL)"

choffee — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:42:08 +0000

Feels like this is a reasonable compromise for them. They can release the source for their machines while still remaining in enough control to allow them to stay in business. It's similar to the Business Source licenses that we have seen from software companies recently. Not Open Source or Free but better than a lot of other manufactures. Does this leave the Voron as the only Open and Free design that is being built in quantities?

New comment by choffee in "Over-regulation is doubling the cost"

choffee — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:50:54 +0000

So the argument is, we have manufactured something to create a noxious goop that we would like to inject into the ground at high pressure. Why are people so scared that this is going to have a long term impact our company has a short term profit to deliver to shareholders.

New comment by choffee in "F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code"

choffee — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:13:09 +0000

My understading is that the hackers had a copy of the source code for their app so they had to patch all their outstanding CVE that they where sitting on so the DOJ let them hold back until that was ready. It's not ideal but I suppose there is at least something people can do right now. Feels like they could have been a bit quicker with some of the information though.

New comment by choffee in "Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable"

choffee — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:53:28 +0000

They have a post about some of the reasons that the 5 was sustainable. It's not just the repair and modular parts but the whole supply chain.

It' rarely gets talked about here as this is a mostly tech audience who focus on features, which are important, but Fairphone is more focused on the impact of the manufacture.

https://www.fairphone.com/en/2023/08/30/is-the-fairphone-5-t...

New comment by choffee in "Felix86: Run x86-64 programs on RISC-V Linux"

choffee — Fri, 02 May 2025 08:57:11 +0000

I think there has been a big uptake in things you don't see like embedded or FPGA cores but as a general CPU it's nowhere near as efficient as ARM/x86 right now is my understanding. So it might be running in the SSD and the Fan controller but not as the CPU. I think a large part of the cost of a CPU core is not the instruction set but the optimisation of the CPU and ARM/Intel/AMD are still way ahead in those. And so it needs people to optimise the cores, which when they have done that they charge for being a better CPU.

New comment by choffee in "Dropbox will require App Indicator support on Linux"

choffee — Thu, 01 May 2025 08:45:24 +0000

Gnome dropped status icon support as they think it's more consistent for the user to have a window for interacting with the application and do notifications via the notifications system.

I can see how people like a "dropbox" icon, especially Dropbox, as it makes them stand out but also I can see how it does not fit with the Gnome idea of consistency.

I used to be conditioned to using certain apps via their status icon as that was the only way to interact with them but as a long time user of Gnome I don't miss them now and use apps like syncthing-gtk via the app and notifications just fine. So for me, if I was a dropbox user, this would feel like a step backwards.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives(2f)StatusIconMigration(2f... https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives(2f)StatusIconMigration(2f...

New comment by choffee in "Major Flaws in 2025 Meta-Analysis on Fluoride and Children IQ Scores"

choffee — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:38:40 +0000

"Hi we would like to give your child something that we think will lower their intelligence would you sign here please."

New comment by choffee in "lc: List files in categories (and columns) – from Coherent Unix clone"

choffee — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:42:17 +0000

I give you the file called ":

New comment by choffee in "The era of open voice assistants"

choffee — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:19:42 +0000

They showed a video at the end of their broadcast last night comparing what the raw microphone hears and what comes out of the XMOS chip and you can hear a much clearer voice all the time even when there is noise or you are far away from the device. It is also used to cancel out the music if you are using it's speaker output. I don't think it's doing any voice processing but it's cleaning up the audio a lot which makes the job of the wake word processor and the speach to text a lot easier. Up until now this was missing from a lot of the home made voice assistance and I think why Alexa can understand you from the next room but my home made one struggles with all but quiet conditions.

New comment by choffee in "The era of open voice assistants"

choffee — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:37:49 +0000

Nabu Casa employ one of the Mycroft devs now and i think some of the tech came from that project so it's not all gone :)

New comment by choffee in "The era of open voice assistants"

choffee — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:36:35 +0000

I would think so in the end. They talked about the case design being open. The software and firmware are all open already and they said that they really wanted people to be able to take these components and make new devices.

They have relesased the designs for the yellow so I assume it will all come. https://github.com/NabuCasa/yellow

New comment by choffee in "The era of open voice assistants"

choffee — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:30:34 +0000

It's all open and so should be able to work with OpenHAB as well but it would need somebody to either write a firmware that's compatibale with the OpenHAB endpoints or add ESPHome interegeation into OpenHAB. Somebody might have already done that for their voice stuff. There is not much yaml in home assistant now unless you want it. I'd give it a go in a VM and see what it finds on your network :)

New comment by choffee in "The era of open voice assistants"

choffee — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:27:01 +0000

I don't think they are that easy to jail break but I may be wrong. I think they wanted to create an open device that people could build from rather than just a hacked up alexa.

New comment by choffee in "The era of open voice assistants"

choffee — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:25:20 +0000

That is one of the major things that Home Assistant are trying to fix. They have groups working on most languages and are adding them to their open as they improve. https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/contribute-voice

New comment by choffee in "The era of open voice assistants"

choffee — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:21:05 +0000

This device is just the mic/speaker/wakeword part. It connects to home-assistant to do the decoding and automation. You can test it right now by downloading home-assistant and running it on a pi or a VM. You can run all the voice assist stuff locally if you want. There are services for the voice to text, text to voice and what they call intents which are simple things like "turn off the lights in the office". The cloud offering from Nuba Casa, not only funds the development of Home Assistant but also give remote access if you want it. As part of that you can choses to offload some of the voice/text services to their cloud so that if you are just running it on a Pi it will still be fast.

New comment by choffee in "The era of open voice assistants"

choffee — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 09:49:40 +0000

Not really sure what the benefit of group buy would be here. Nuba Casa, the company that supports the development of home assistant and developed this product, already has a few products they sell. They had this stocked all over the world for the announcement and it sold out. I assume they had already made a few thousand. They will get more stock now and it will sell just like the other things they make. Any profit from this will go back into development of Home Assistant.

New comment by choffee in "SpaceX Seeks Approval to Turn Texas Starbase Site into New City"

choffee — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:25:12 +0000

I would imagine this is as much about having the authority delegated to SpaceX who will effectively run the city and so can issue permits and the like for building. Not some desire to make it a better place to work but just a better place to do business. The reason for the move from Cal is probably because of all their "red-tape" and this way they can play fast and loose with the environment and residents lives.

Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME with first-class support for containers

choffee — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:59:42 +0000

Article URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42248099

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