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New comment by effdee in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

effdee — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:24:13 +0000

> they do not actually give the user access to general purpose computing in the sense that the users can control exactly what computations the device is going to execute

What prevents the creation of an App that allows one to do exactly that?

New comment by effdee in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

effdee — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:40:49 +0000

If your game uses more than 1% CPU and 1% GPU when paused you're doing something wrong.

A damn blurred screenshot should not make the GPU consume hundreds of Watts.

New comment by effdee in "Solar Balconies Take Europe by Storm"

effdee — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:36:49 +0000

If port 502/TCP is open you can probably access it via Modbus protocol. Implementing a Modbus client is trivial.

My rebranded Fox ESS hardware has it enabled and there's even official documentation of the so-called "registers".

New comment by effdee in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

effdee — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:04:10 +0000

I prefer the term "classic coding".

New comment by effdee in "SmartOS"

effdee — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:37:08 +0000

The first link's broken as it includes the semicolon.

New comment by effdee in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

effdee — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:23:56 +0000

There's a slash missing at the end.

New comment by effdee in "The Programmer Identity Crisis"

effdee — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:49:50 +0000

Hint: click it!

New comment by effdee in "The Programmer Identity Crisis"

effdee — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:46:45 +0000

The use of HAL 9000 in the top divider is a nice touch.

New comment by effdee in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

effdee — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:39:23 +0000

Regarding 1, that's like saying the Mongols beat the US at owning China (and most of Asia for that matter) by 700 years. And counting.

New comment by effdee in "Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking"

effdee — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:42:28 +0000

Tobias Engel's initial video about this was "Locating Mobile Phones using SS7" given at the 25C3 in 2008:

https://media.ccc.de/v/25c3-2997-en-locating_mobile_phones_u...

New comment by effdee in "Numbering should start at zero (1982)"

effdee — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:37:17 +0000

Let's also add a link to the handwritten version for good taste:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF

New comment by effdee in "Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s"

effdee — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:51:33 +0000

So... the next step clearly is ChatGPT adding Ads to its output.

New comment by effdee in "VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles"

effdee — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:20:05 +0000

> I'd rather focus on standardizing a transparent and privacy safe way to gather these metrics. Consumers would know what metrics are collected and there would be guarantees that privacy is kept.

I'd rather see laws to have it disabled by default. People who don't mind can then opt-in again.

New comment by effdee in "Conversations are better with four people"

effdee — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:36:14 +0000

Four people seems to be an interesting threshold when it comes to groups. The British special forces, for example, started doing four man teams and several units of other countries followed their example (SEALS, KSK, etc).

https://www.sasregiment.org.uk/patrol.html

New comment by effdee in "Go-Safeweb"

effdee — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 06:32:21 +0000

The phrase "SSL added and removed here" from an NSA slide comes to mind.

New comment by effdee in "The mystery of why left-handers are so much rarer (2016)"

effdee — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:18:27 +0000

I used to have the same problem. Switching from pencils and pens to keyboards fixed it for me. :)

Podman Testing on FreeBSD

effdee — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:38:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/oci-playground/freebsd-podman-testing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41728961

Points: 2

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New comment by effdee in "We could be witnessing the death of the graphics card in real time"

effdee — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:48:41 +0000

Graphics cards are already dead for me (as a causual gamer). I recently bought a used notebook with a 12th Gen Intel Core processor and it can run an impressive list of games.

New comment by effdee in "Better Dotfiles"

effdee — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 01:15:19 +0000

One version of this is to use a bare repo, as described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070797

New comment by effdee in "Cough or sneeze? How the brain knows what to unleash"

effdee — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 00:42:04 +0000

A sneeze-hickup combo is also _very_ painful.