Hacker News: dbolgheroni

New comment by dbolgheroni in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

dbolgheroni — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:02:31 +0000

I don't think that cost is what is mostly driving the move from Windows nowadays.

New comment by dbolgheroni in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

dbolgheroni — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:43:12 +0000

When debugging something, I often remember the the quote, often misattributed to Einstein: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". Then I remember about bitflips, and run a second, maybe a third time, just expecting the next bit to flip to not be in the routine I'm trying to debug.

New comment by dbolgheroni in "Animated Knots"

dbolgheroni — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:46:06 +0000

To anyone into knots, I recommend Knots 3D on Android. It is really handy because most people keeps the phone with them all the time. Beautiful and well maintained app. It's not overwhelming, in the sense that it doesn't try to add every existing knot in the same database, it has usage, which gives context, history and specially related knots, which makes it possible to compare different related knots that are usually used for the same thing.

New comment by dbolgheroni in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

dbolgheroni — Mon, 26 May 2025 14:28:41 +0000

Code review is another sacred process that seems too good not to have, but many teams use it as a "we care about quality" stamp when in fact they do not. Used for just nitpicking code style (important but not the whole reason to have CR, and there are tools for this), issue comments like "LGTM" and approve whatever arrives at the pull request anyway.

New comment by dbolgheroni in "The Future of Flatpak"

dbolgheroni — Fri, 23 May 2025 02:18:58 +0000

I've installed flatpak to install VSCode/Codium to have an usable debugger for a Python project I'm working on. After some time tweaking VSCode/Codium trying to get the debbuger to work, just realized flatpak could be the problem. After another considerable amount of time trying different flatpak permissions, realized this is not a good use of my time. Installed the same packages from snap, and everything worked OK.

New comment by dbolgheroni in "Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war"

dbolgheroni — Mon, 12 May 2025 16:55:42 +0000

That's what many OEMs have been doing for decades and this is exactly what many SDV have been trying to get rid of, since integrating many different products from many different manufacturers are slow, let alone iterating and designing new features.

Related to CAN, the bus is standard, but the thing is, CAN is just a bus, not a protocol. There are many ways you can have two ECUs (vehicle's modules) talking in incompatible ways.

New comment by dbolgheroni in "Linux’s Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down"

dbolgheroni — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:27:19 +0000

Stefan Sperling does a great work on the OpenBSD side.

New comment by dbolgheroni in "QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support"

dbolgheroni — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:44:15 +0000

You can just use the default bridge, but still have to add a static route in the router.

New comment by dbolgheroni in "QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support"

dbolgheroni — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:38:23 +0000

It's possible to create a custom network for libvirt, but you have to add a static route to in the router for the other hosts in your LAN to see the VMs.

Using virsh, you can dump the default network with net-dumpxml, which is the default bridge libvirt creates, modify it and create another network. Add the modified file with net-create (non-persistent) or net-define.

This way the VMs can participate in the LAN and, at the same time, the LAN can see your VMs. Works with wifi and doesn't depend on having workarounds for bridging wifi and ethernet. Debian has a wiki entry on how to bridge with a wireless nic [0] but I don't think it's worth the trouble.

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections#Bridging_wi...

New comment by dbolgheroni in "Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3"

dbolgheroni — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 12:09:37 +0000

Not supported. It can't be anything.

New comment by dbolgheroni in "Ask HN: What is your opinion on Open BSD?"

dbolgheroni — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 11:59:04 +0000

Bad if you have Nvidia, but works OK with Intel and AMD even for new hardware.

New comment by dbolgheroni in "Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs"

dbolgheroni — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 11:25:11 +0000

No, FreeBSD has jails but k8s uses different types of runtimes for OCI containers (containerd, CRI-O, Docker Engine, etc).

New comment by dbolgheroni in "Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work"

dbolgheroni — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:06:56 +0000

Besides Larry Finger, another Linux kernel developer passed away this week: https://lwn.net/Articles/979617/

New comment by dbolgheroni in "AI-Driven Security Enhancements for OpenBSD Kernel"

dbolgheroni — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:41:55 +0000

Some points: 1) A tool automatically generating thousands or millions of patches won't scale since it can't be reviewed by developers; 2) A tool could automate patch generation but won't automate doing tests to check if it works or of if there are any regressions introduced; 3) https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=171817275920057&w=2

AI-Driven Security Enhancements for OpenBSD Kernel

dbolgheroni — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:03:15 +0000

Article URL: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=171810103406609

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40696432

Points: 2

# Comments: 5

New comment by dbolgheroni in "This USB flash drive can only store 8KB of data, but will last you 200 years"

dbolgheroni — Mon, 20 May 2024 12:22:43 +0000

In general it's good to have products with reliability as a first class citizen, but the best way to keep data for lots of years is to replicate them onto a reliable media from time to time.

New comment by dbolgheroni in "The $10k BYD Seagull EV is scaring the U.S. auto industry"

dbolgheroni — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:58:55 +0000

In Brazil, BYD sells this car not as Seagull, but as Dolphin Mini. But, directly converting currencies, it's more like U$23.000, not U$10.000 as is being announced everywhere.

New comment by dbolgheroni in "OpenBSD 7.5"

dbolgheroni — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:22:46 +0000

Sometimes the song release comes after the software release.

OpenBSD imports xz-utils

dbolgheroni — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 21:53:36 +0000

Article URL: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=171200100510963&w=2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39899834

Points: 25

# Comments: 3

New comment by dbolgheroni in "NetBSD 10.0 Released"

dbolgheroni — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 22:42:51 +0000

So you would only "expose yourself", specially a quite low friction action of trying a new piece of software, if you know someone who already "wasted their time" on it? Do you use the same criteria with every piece of software? What's your point?