Hacker News: dogben

New comment by dogben in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

dogben — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:29:57 +0000

Same. I tried it just a few days ago. This news made me almost jump out of bed.

New comment by dogben in "Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images"

dogben — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:31:41 +0000

fixed link: https://skyviewer.app/embed?target=187.04483+7.00898&fov=0.2...

New comment by dogben in "Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images"

dogben — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:17:45 +0000

something red https://skyviewer.app/embed?target=186.82033+8.25479&fov=0.0...

New comment by dogben in "How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router"

dogben — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:58:42 +0000

They may want to make absolutly sure no wifi signal emit from the device. Turning it off in the setup page is definitely not enough.

The wifi chip may emit signal during boot. The device may get accidentally reset in the field. SpaceX may push an update that messes with the settings.

New comment by dogben in "A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices"

dogben — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:42:58 +0000

PS/2 keyboard/mouse are interrupt driven which saves power on laptops. While USB ones are polling based which require controllers running all the time.

New comment by dogben in "IO Devices and Latency"

dogben — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:26:24 +0000

I believe that's power saving in action. A single operation at idle is slow, the drive needs time to wake from idle.

New comment by dogben in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo"

dogben — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:47:39 +0000

There were instruments dropped by parachute.

New comment by dogben in "Linux 6.11 Released"

dogben — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:15:49 +0000

you can just blacklist amdgpu and use EFI/VGA buffer provided by bios

New comment by dogben in "Cyber Scarecrow"

dogben — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:03:43 +0000

A simple magic is to set system language and locale to Russian.

New comment by dogben in "Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero"

dogben — Mon, 27 May 2024 19:50:15 +0000

Thanks. So that 30W lamp in another comment might be a safty hazzard if someone in close range stares at it and the beam is tightly focused.

New comment by dogben in "Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero"

dogben — Mon, 27 May 2024 19:15:08 +0000

Is high power IR lamp safe for eyes?

New comment by dogben in "A transport protocol's view of Starlink"

dogben — Fri, 17 May 2024 16:32:27 +0000

> This orbital velocity at the surface of the earth is some 40,320 km/sec.

Is that a typo? Orbital velocity on the surface should be 7.9km/s.

New comment by dogben in "How Microchips Work"

dogben — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 20:27:38 +0000

And it's relatively easy to make large pure silicon single crystal.

New comment by dogben in ""[31M"? ANSI Terminal security in 2023 and finding 10 CVEs"

dogben — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 04:37:50 +0000

My Firefox+dwm combo works. The 0x1b on my status bar is shown as a Treble clef. Maybe it's a font thing?

New comment by dogben in "How I Made a Heap Overflow in Curl"

dogben — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 08:46:58 +0000

  if(!socks5_resolve_local && hostname_len > 255) {
    socks5_resolve_local = TRUE;
  }

This is really a bad idea. For people who use anti-censorship tool to protect privacy, this can leak their identity through DNS.

New comment by dogben in "Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier"

dogben — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 12:37:30 +0000

武侠小说 may be more appropriate.

New comment by dogben in "Memory-efficient enum arrays in Zig"

dogben — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 14:52:04 +0000

The most accurate IBM PC emulator is in rust. https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc

New comment by dogben in "Keeping Open Source Open"

dogben — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 12:23:04 +0000

This makes me feel very uncomfortable.

New comment by dogben in "Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture"

dogben — Sun, 21 May 2023 03:09:22 +0000

Looks like SMM is still there.

New comment by dogben in "Why is my dryer radioactive?"

dogben — Thu, 18 May 2023 20:40:34 +0000

I don't think it has negative ion generator. I guess the fan itself can generate ions, that's why aircraft have static dischargers.