Hacker News: dvdbloc

New comment by dvdbloc in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

dvdbloc — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:12:23 +0000

Catastrophic? Like a battery fire?

New comment by dvdbloc in "Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage"

dvdbloc — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:02:36 +0000

Has anyone else noticed their website has been having a ton of issues in the last few weeks as well? In terms of bookings failing and trips not appearing? Just my anecdote but software issues seem to have become very frequent over there…

New comment by dvdbloc in "Thoughts on (Amazonian) leadership"

dvdbloc — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 23:19:37 +0000

Can definitely relate. There is no correlation to work complexity and quality in performance reviews from what I’ve seen. It’s often how much you are selling something and your director happens to be buying…

New comment by dvdbloc in "Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion"

dvdbloc — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:14:59 +0000

Could I sufficiently foil their mechanism here by not connecting any WiFi devices to their access point and then wrapping their access point with foil? Or would you need to take it all the way and put the device in a faraday cage? I’ve always wanted to build one but never had the motivation. Maybe this will be the impetus I need to finally make one! Like others have stated I use the ISP provided hardware to get around the data cap. But connect nothing to it other than my own router.

New comment by dvdbloc in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

dvdbloc — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:16:37 +0000

What microcontroller would you use?

New comment by dvdbloc in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

dvdbloc — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:34:58 +0000

What’re you doing with Zig and N64? Sounds awesome.

New comment by dvdbloc in "OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release"

dvdbloc — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 05:33:41 +0000

There is also the router made in partnership with OpenWRT, the OpenWRT One. I’m using one right now and it has been very stable just on the RC builds for this release for a few weeks now. This is the first actual release supporting this device. The device itself is pretty nice with a JTAG header on the board so it's pretty clear that it is a hacker-friendly device. Haven’t needed to use that yet though…

New comment by dvdbloc in "WikiTok"

dvdbloc — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:25:08 +0000

This would be an awesome way to get more breadth of knowledge during downtime. For example, many times there are interesting algorithms or some technology I would benefit from knowing I just wouldn’t know to search for it.

Or you could make infinite scrolling randomized hacker news front page articles from the past.

New comment by dvdbloc in "General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years"

dvdbloc — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:33:56 +0000

If you’re willing to do a little bit of work you can often remove the cellular radio from some modern cars to remove the data collection connectivity, not sure if it’d still be buffered on the device still but it’s a step in the correct direction. I’ve read about this in some modern BMWs so it might be worth a bit of googling if you have a particular modern car you are interested in. Or if no one else has done it with a particular model you could also blaze your own path here.

New comment by dvdbloc in "Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas"

dvdbloc — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 02:53:09 +0000

There used to be a great Starbucks in Kirkland that was 24hr. I am equally frustrated that there are no coffee shops open late even close to the universities in Seattle.

New comment by dvdbloc in "GPT-5 is behind schedule"

dvdbloc — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 06:09:04 +0000

If ChatGPT keeps giving you wrong answers wouldn’t this make paying customers leave? Effectively “losing its job”. But I guess you could say it acts more like the person that makes stuff up at work if they don’t know, instead of saying they don’t know.

New comment by dvdbloc in "Hardware Security Exploit Research – Xbox 360"

dvdbloc — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:22:53 +0000

What was the culture like working on this project and back in those days? I’ve always been fascinated by the development of consoles, especially the story of the 360. Any sources you recommend to learn more? I thought the Microsoft documentary on Xbox was the best I’ve found so far.

New comment by dvdbloc in "US could ban TP-Link routers over hacking fears: report"

dvdbloc — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:53:58 +0000

What solution do you use for wireless access points? That’s generally my problem, you can find plenty of solid hardware to run pfSense on but as soon as you look at access points everything seems to be proprietary something or from questionable sources.

New comment by dvdbloc in "Four dead in fire as Tesla doors fail to open after crash"

dvdbloc — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:08:38 +0000

I always thought it was a luxury item like soft close doors on high end luxury cars. Supposed to feel premium compared to actually pulling a mechanical handle.

New comment by dvdbloc in "Military's UFO-hunting aerial surveillance system detailed in report"

dvdbloc — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:01:34 +0000

Is it just me or does the architecture diagram at the top of the page from the “DOD Document” leaves a lot to be desired? It almost gives you no information about the actual system at all

New comment by dvdbloc in "A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones"

dvdbloc — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 15:19:54 +0000

Exact same thing happened to me as well. I now travel very far to go to a dentist that I can trust. It never even crossed my mind that this would be a possibility when I was younger.

New comment by dvdbloc in "Toasty, an async ORM for Rust"

dvdbloc — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:00:01 +0000

Is it just me or why does Rust have all these confusing names that seemingly have nothing to do with the functionality of the module/crate? Or maybe I’m just used to the names in Python and C++ packages for performing common tasks. It just seems to make it harder for a newcomer to locate what packages they should be using when they want to perform some common function.

New comment by dvdbloc in "Cobb Tuning Hit with $2.9M Fine over Emissions Defeat Devices"

dvdbloc — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:34:42 +0000

I wonder to what extent possible is it possible to avoid this by air gapping your tuning computer from now on.

New comment by dvdbloc in "What are the best options for Amazon SDEs thinking about leaving over RTO policy"

dvdbloc — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 04:38:16 +0000

I’ve heard if you are on focus when you quit you may have a lifetime ban on ever coming back anywhere in Amazon. Is this correct?

New comment by dvdbloc in "Why Oxide Chose Illumos"

dvdbloc — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:05:28 +0000

What do the big three use?