Hacker News: dvdkon

New comment by dvdkon in "Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker"

dvdkon — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:31:36 +0000

I mostly deal with the possibility of bricking a device by not caring too much :) That said, I usually start by reverse-engineering the software at one of the ends, so I don't blindly "fuzz" the device. There's still some risk, but not that much.

New comment by dvdkon in "Fixing a bricked Framework laptop"

dvdkon — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:57:14 +0000

It's a shame Framework don't offer support for component-level repairs, but sadly neither do other laptop manufacturers, if you don't count leaked resources. They could certainly do better, but I wouldn't see it as a reason to switch to e.g. ThinkPads.

New comment by dvdkon in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

dvdkon — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:54:36 +0000

Maybe it's just familiarity, but I think it would look a lot more comprehensible with some punctuation. Just because a syntax is formally unambiguous doesn't mean it looks that way to humans.

    func (b: Box[T]).Map[U: any](f: func(T) -> U) -> Box[U]

New comment by dvdkon in "Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript"

dvdkon — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:33:38 +0000

I use Sway and happily manage my terminal windows using its tabs and splits. I can mix other "graphical" apps with the terminals or move them to another screen, all with the same keybindings. I agree, though, that I wouldn't want to replace my Sidebery vertical tabs with this setup, but I ultimately don't see why equivalent functionality couldn't be implemented inside the window manager in some alternate universe.

There are sadly hardly any WMs now with tabs, so having them support tree style tabs as well doesn't look too realistic.

New comment by dvdkon in "The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras"

dvdkon — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:37:54 +0000

Sorry about your connotations. I just needed a simple term to express "actions that are against the implicit social contract and harm the rest of society".

Of course pinning down what exactly this should encompass is hard, which is where my general distrust comes in.

New comment by dvdkon in "The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras"

dvdkon — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:04:14 +0000

Our laws only work because of a hidden assumption that trivial or victimless crimes won't be prosecuted. This assumption isn't always upheld, but automatic surveilance would break it pretty much every time.

Even if our laws were actually written with perfect enforcement in mind, only outlawing what's actually antisocial, I don't think I could ever trust a government enough to give it that kind of power. Mass surveillance makes it easier to enforce any law, just or not, and most countries haven't been able to go even one lifetime without turning into a totalitarian hellhole or at least persecuting part of their population.

Another part of it may be that emigrating is so costly (not just in money) that most people won't ever be able to do it. When you're de facto forced to live in a country whose laws you (partly) disagree with, it's easier to add barriers to law enforcement than to get those laws changed.

New comment by dvdkon in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

dvdkon — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:47:44 +0000

Actually it does affect me, as I do use Codeberg. And even if I didn't, your comment is pretty much equivalent to "mind your own business" and about as rude. We are all free to complain about things across the world, no?

New comment by dvdkon in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

dvdkon — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:58:51 +0000

I'm upset because I strongly prefer rules to be unambiguous and enforceable. This is neither.

New comment by dvdkon in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

dvdkon — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:07:16 +0000

More spend doesn't equal more ads. Given a fixed number of ad spots, demand dictates the price advertisers would pay for ad placement. But ad platforms have no incentive to reduce the number of ads they show just because placement price is low; keeping ad spots around costs them nothing.

New comment by dvdkon in "The kids with phones are alright"

dvdkon — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:39:11 +0000

It really matters which country you're talking about, because depending on that you'll get answers from "filming in public is effectively forbidden" to "film and publish whatever you want".

New comment by dvdkon in "No Spanish reading crisis?"

dvdkon — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:18:06 +0000

Pretty easily - I don't think reading a medical text from the 19th century will give you up-to-date information. I'd agree that the concept doesn't apply to fiction, though.

New comment by dvdkon in "A bug which affected only left handed users"

dvdkon — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:35:05 +0000

Sorry, I was looking at the non-pro variant by mistake.

New comment by dvdkon in "A bug which affected only left handed users"

dvdkon — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:39:32 +0000

They're also bigger than the base Samsung S26. They're not small even in comparison to other Android phones.

New comment by dvdkon in "If you're a button, you have one job"

dvdkon — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 06:53:26 +0000

Of course, it's never impossible for the user to click a button. They can click on anything under their cursor. The key is giving them feedback to show them what their clicks will do or just did. If you can update the visuals within a frame or two, that's already fast enough to give that feedback.

New comment by dvdkon in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

dvdkon — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:13:40 +0000

It sounds like your scheme would only allow browsing the "adult web" on locked-down, unmodified devices running government-approved software. Frankly, that's worse than even requiring ID.

New comment by dvdkon in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

dvdkon — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:24:02 +0000

Please don't declare software "completely useless" just because it lacks a feature you need.

I personally also need hiking trails on my map, but I know people who don't and happily use CoMaps.

New comment by dvdkon in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

dvdkon — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:12:19 +0000

There would be a bunch of value in having, say, a good 30B-class model that used my local language as well as it does English. There's lots of cases, especially in the government sphere, where local processing is a requirement and frontier-level capabilities aren't required. Making those cheap to run seems like a fine goal.

New comment by dvdkon in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

dvdkon — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:33:38 +0000

I haven't ever heard of an SoC supplier demanding that the device's bootloader must be locked. Are you sure that this is happening? I've only ever seen devices delete first-party blobs, presumably of the manufacturer's own volition.

New comment by dvdkon in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

dvdkon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:38:52 +0000

New Zealand, along with Australia, shares a lot of its urbanism with the US and Canada. In the rest of the (urbanised) world, I'd say it's expected to be able to walk to stores, especially in cities.

It's interesting to ponder if it's just the low density (caused by "having too much land" to expand on) or other factors that deprioritise walking like this.

New comment by dvdkon in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

dvdkon — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:22:48 +0000

Closed-source projects have been dealing with this forever, by having a mostly-static pool of employees replenished through job listings and interviews. A FLOSS project adopting this model would certainly feel weird, but could work if there were enough willing candidates. The question is, who will take on effectively a job without the monetary reward?