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New comment by enthdegree in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

enthdegree — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:35:08 +0000

They're coming for that stuff next

New comment by enthdegree in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"

enthdegree — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:31:41 +0000

No materials on the escalator

XyProblem (2020)

enthdegree — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:54:11 +0000

Article URL: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197532

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Developing ethical, social, and cognitive competence (2015)

enthdegree — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:42:50 +0000

Article URL: https://vividness.live/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005412

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New York Television

enthdegree — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:30:25 +0000

Article URL: https://nytv.live/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46535364

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by enthdegree in "Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?"

enthdegree — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 01:53:06 +0000

Good Luck Babe by Chappell Roan has a chorus that is 1 bpm slower than the verse!

New comment by enthdegree in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

enthdegree — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:43:57 +0000

The details in this comment are messed up and shouldn't be taken as authoritative.

- Getting the device's BL1/BROM into download mode (where it waits for an upload of a Preloader/BL2 from outside), for these devices itself does not involve exploits. Kamakiri is an exploit in the upload process that gives an execution point at that stage.

- The BROM on Kobos (at least the old ones, P365's) don't have security enabled as far as I know. (Unless somehow they are lying to us when we ask, which there is no evidence of). They only do some integrity checks (header magic #s, checksums).

- Security on Kobos happens down the chain, starting at the Little Kernel apparently jumped to from the Preloader. I am still learning about the Clara BW's boot process.

New comment by enthdegree in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

enthdegree — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:43:59 +0000

mtkclient does not seem to correctly interpret the usb output of the device past some part of the early boot process. Really, any of those messages formatted by mtkclient are unfaithful to the intended meaning. So yes maybe it is "just a checksum step" or maybe something else entirely. Last year I collected some UART logs on the device during bootup in a zip here:

https://github.com/bkerler/mtkclient/issues/1289

New comment by enthdegree in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

enthdegree — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:00:22 +0000

As far as I know, yes, it's possible. No SELinux. Kernel is a branch from 4.9.something pretty far off mainline with a few proprietary binary blob modules. As far as I know the real impediment here is lack of demand.

New comment by enthdegree in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

enthdegree — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:58:09 +0000

The latest Kobos use MediaTek SoCs with locked bootloaders. The Kobo Clara BW's MT8113, for example. As far as I know, one of the early bootloaders it, BL1, refuses to execute the next bootloader (BL2) unless its signature is valid. We can get the device into a mode where BL1 waits for upload of a BL2 via USB using an exploit called Kamakiri, but in public there is neither an exploit to get BL1 to boot an arbitrary BL2, nor an authorized BL2 image to upload. See here: https://github.com/bkerler/mtkclient/issues/1332

Kobo devices have root exposed but don't let users boot their own kernels (and the kernel they ship was not compiled with kexec either).

I really don't know the reason so many devices these days don't have an unlock method. It seems predatory. Who knows where in the chain this happens... maybe it's Kobo, or maybe MediaTek won't sell you their SoCs for mass-market devices unless you lock them.

New comment by enthdegree in "Nook Browser"

enthdegree — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:52:07 +0000

Another thing called nook? Another browser? Bad, presumptuous name. How many months will this project last?

Far Lands or Bust

enthdegree — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 01:10:14 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Lands_or_Bust

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420858

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by enthdegree in "Cable bacteria are living batteries"

enthdegree — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:02:20 +0000

>“What is this?” I asked. “It looks like hair.” Marshall chuckled. “That’s them — the cable bacteria,” he said. “If you watch closely, you’ll see them twitching.” I stared harder. The filaments shifted.

This schmaltzy student-teacher roleplay immersion-journalism feels false and infantilizing to me. It makes me mistrustful of the text and I avoid reading essays written like it. The facts are embedded in an artificial adventure narrative as one feeds a dog a pill by hiding it in peanut butter. Why? Would the non-sensationalized, plainly framed information content be too un-stimulating for readers? Are false narratives hidden inside?

>Obama chuckled. "You mean the Chaos Emeralds?"

New comment by enthdegree in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

enthdegree — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:52:35 +0000

Any pointers?

MathWorks experienced a ransomware attack

enthdegree — Tue, 27 May 2025 14:11:38 +0000

Article URL: https://status.mathworks.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107204

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by enthdegree in "On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots"

enthdegree — Mon, 05 May 2025 01:32:21 +0000

I like seeing pictures taken by my friends. I like discussing those pictures with them. Conversely I also like creating and curating my own pictures to share with like-minded friends. It is prosocial all around.

The article is appalling. To me it more effectively conveys his character than his ideas. Maybe for some people it really is hard to find a balance.

New comment by enthdegree in "Librarians are dangerous"

enthdegree — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 16:49:29 +0000

Reminds me of the old The Oatmeal infographics. Very epic mustache

New comment by enthdegree in "An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus (2022)"

enthdegree — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:38:45 +0000

Great post, "Wiener" is misspelled a few times.

New comment by enthdegree in "What is GNU Radio?"

enthdegree — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 22:40:37 +0000

I would love to be able to use GNURadio for something, I've just never found flow diagrams to be more expressive than writing procedural instructions over whatever SDR API. GNURadio's flow diagrams introduce a lot of hidden complexity that is difficult to observe and understand. For example, every arrow you draw represents a buffer and so for all but the simplest graphs this will quickly lead to difficult-to-interrogate sample over/underruns. There are workarounds for fine grained control over these buffers but they cannot be called simple (like message passing via tagged samples and flow control blocks).

New comment by enthdegree in "Palma 2"

enthdegree — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:06:16 +0000

They won't do anything. Every time this comes up I remember this shocking email they sent: https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hsn7kx/onyx_usin...