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New comment by enthdegree in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

enthdegree — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:33:02 +0000

From the circles I am exposed to Pevear and Volokhonsky's translations are not seen as the most natural ones (although they are the only ones I have read because of the cool abstract paperback covers). I have heard they miss anecdotes and humor in favor of word accuracy. Characters are always "twisting their mouth" and similar. I'm looking forward to re-reading Demons in some other translation. He might have been well served by Garnett.

New comment by enthdegree in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

enthdegree — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:45:38 +0000

I love my X3. I glued its magnetic folio to the back of my Apple Wallet. It turned out perfectly, for me. Pictures below. I've read The Odyssey and several other shorter books on it and have yet to recharge it.

- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HFaPCStWYAAOj6f?format=jpg&name=...

- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HFaPCO8WIAASMEn?format=jpg&name=...

- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HFaPCPEXgAE3O4z?format=jpg&name=...

New comment by enthdegree in "A website that lists websites to submit your website to"

enthdegree — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:17:52 +0000

"X are Y but Z is real." Closed tab.

Mathematics Dating Simulator

enthdegree — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:10:03 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/akuicia/status/2067096575172899015

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576965

Points: 4

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New comment by enthdegree in "Agentic Mfw"

enthdegree — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:35:08 +0000

I'm fatigued by this hyperbole and profanity, especially when written by an LLM. There is too much of this. Human-written or not it makes it very difficult for me to engage with. The sentiment is bad. Is building this better than building nothing?

Just because this is how things are does not it's how they should be. I'm very tired.

New comment by enthdegree in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

enthdegree — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:39:48 +0000

Your point number 3 is very irritating to read.

New comment by enthdegree in "Bliss (Photograph)"

enthdegree — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:24:56 +0000

Does anyone have any idea what RZ67 lens was used? People have found the exact hill and from this one might be able to figure out from what perspective it was captured, thus which focal length it was shot at. I haven't found anyone who has done this, only vague, unconvincing speculation. Maybe confounders like fact that it is now covered by a vineyard and erosion long since changed the shape of the hillsides makes this impossible.

New comment by enthdegree in "People Hate AI Art"

enthdegree — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:49:55 +0000

People with low social literacy need to hear more that they have low social literacy. Bad behavior is objectively bad, and just because some people have exuses doesn't make their behavior less bad.

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

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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

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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