<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: drnick1</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=drnick1</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:12:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=drnick1" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drnick1 in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do you measure that "better lifestyle?" Quality of life in the USA outside of crowded/expensive cities is exceptionally high.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:32:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863951</link><dc:creator>drnick1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drnick1 in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> No other country gives two shits if the US "recognizes" the ICC.<p>That's irrelevant. What is this "other country" going to do about it? The only way to impose international law is by credible military force.<p>By the way, America isn't exceptional at all in that regard. China, Russia, India don't recognize the ICC either. That's more than 2/3 of the world.</p>
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<p>> Boasted about his assault on the ICC.<p>The US does not recognize the ICC. There is no such thing as supranational law that isn't enforced by military power.</p>
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<p>Omitting the cellular modem would be a nice way to save a few bucks, and would save me the effort of pulling the fuse or disassembling the dash in order to silence Internet traffic to and from the car. But how will Toyota sell my driving habits to car insurance companies then?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:41:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837755</link><dc:creator>drnick1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drnick1 in "F-Droid 2.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stretching that budget to about $350 would get you a new Pixel a-series, on sale. It's well worth it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:56:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836618</link><dc:creator>drnick1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drnick1 in "Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What can you do about it?<p>Ask Claude, which has read all the existing literature on parallel programming, to make the program faster.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:47:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836535</link><dc:creator>drnick1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drnick1 in "F-Droid 2.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is an entire world of Android phones not controlled by Google, including GrapheneOS, LineageOS, and countless variations in China and other places where Google is effectively banned.</p>
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<p>And yet, you were ordered to stay home during coronavirus and threatened with fines if you did not comply. Also, the Internet is censored by your ISPs, you increasingly need to prove your age/identity to do anything online, and it isn't clear for how long you will be able to work around that with VPNs. Apart from that, the UK truly looks like a democratic paradise.</p>
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<p>I started rotating my BSSID weekly after I learned Apple and Google abused it to track the location of people and devices.<p>Permanent hardware or software IDs, such as the Windows GUID or machine-id on Linux (systemd) are inevitably abused for surveillance sooner or later.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:26:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833963</link><dc:creator>drnick1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833963</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drnick1 in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Desktop UI was a problem solved around the time of Windows 95. Contemporary GNOME and KDE versions add eye candy, but aren't more usable than Windows 95 was.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:31:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833076</link><dc:creator>drnick1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drnick1 in "F-Droid 2.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wouldn't use F-Droid exclusively. Many apps can simply be downloaded from their respective webpages. GrapheneOS also has also its own very basic app store.</p>
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<p>So Arch on ARM is basically limited to an SoC with at most 8GB of RAM? It looks like we are still very far from a mainstream ARM motherboard with a socketed CPU, upgradable RAM and support for discrete GPUs. Until then, I see no reason to move away from x86.</p>
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<p>This isn't right, in fact one of the main reasons for building nuclear power plants is independence from politically unstable places like Russia and the Mideast.</p>
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<p>Sounds good, as long as a standard Linux distro can replace whatever operating system ships with these machines.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:15:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823970</link><dc:creator>drnick1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823970</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drnick1 in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> certainly not a rational weighing of the pros and cons of nuclear power.<p>Nuclear has no real cons other than time/cost of deployment, and it should be a no brainer for a place like Europe without significant energy resources. Once the power plant is built, it provides 50+ years of nearly free energy. It's that or buying gas from Russia.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:13:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820211</link><dc:creator>drnick1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drnick1 in "Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Now it automatically goes to sleep after a few minutes of tv inactivity.<p>> All those companies push shit updates to keep their existing engineering teams busy.<p>Or comply with idiotic energy conservation laws in places like Europe.</p>
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<p>> There has got to be a middle ground between 1K flagship phones and cheap sub-$200 phones, but I swear I can't find it.<p>The Pixel phones are precisely that, and they are the only phones supported by Graphene for now. The a-series is a particularly good value and I am posting from one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:33:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806029</link><dc:creator>drnick1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806029</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drnick1 in "Claude Opus 5.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> did you actually verify that it's output in those scenarios is good ?<p>Yes, in the sense that it reproduced results in the paper or known solutions obtained by other methods. In fact, Opus is very good at checking it's own work in my experience.</p>
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<p>> It just puts Google in the same sandbox Google puts everyone else.<p>Yes, you can do that, but Graphene is probably best used without Google apps at all. If you use Google Maps, sandboxed or not, Google still knows where you are, what speed you drive, etc, and can rat you out to car insurance companies or the government.</p>
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<p>Probably not, because of Google attestation, the cancer of Android.</p>
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