Hacker News: fmajid

New comment by fmajid in "HomelabFest will be in St. Louis in September 2027"

fmajid — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:53:57 +0000

Sounds like fun. I wish there were something like this in the UK. Though we do have some pretty cool events like EMF Camp.

New comment by fmajid in "There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027"

fmajid — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:40:33 +0000

Have you priced a workstation class laptop recently? They’re over $3000 even with a paltry 32GB RAM

Miniaturization costs, and I would expect a flagship phone to cost at least as much as an equivalent CPU/RAM/storage laptop. The cost of miniaturization, modem, camera and OLED more than balances the bigger screen and keyboard/trackpad.

New comment by fmajid in "Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com"

fmajid — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:36:42 +0000

Amazon’s enterprise value is made up entirely of AWS and Amazon’s advertising business. Thus according to Wall Street their e-commerce is a loss-leader whose only purpose is to provide inventory for ads. Agents shopping on Amazon do not show Amazon ads and are thus antithetical to Amazon’s business model and need to be blocked.

New comment by fmajid in "Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup"

fmajid — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:20:50 +0000

Works just fine on my 10.0.0.0/8

New comment by fmajid in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

fmajid — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:37:32 +0000

Jacques Attali, former adviser to French president François Mitterrand, wrote about the behind-the-scenes work the "sherpas" do for their principals in his three-volume "Verbatim", which has been translated into English.

New comment by fmajid in "Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100"

fmajid — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:17:46 +0000

Proving Hardy’s “A Mathematician’s Apology” wrong?

New comment by fmajid in "Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100"

fmajid — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:12:15 +0000

Cauchy is the one who introduced rigor to calculus with the formalization of limits, including epsilons and deltas, a full century after Leibniz and half a century after Euler.

New comment by fmajid in "Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation"

fmajid — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:56:52 +0000

That’s 1/3 what IBM paid for Red Hat, simply insane.

New comment by fmajid in "JetKVM Mini"

fmajid — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:29:46 +0000

I got mine as a side-effect of ordering the Comet Q on Kickstarter...

There is also the Comet 5G, which gives you cellular backup. I use it to control my OpenBSD home router when traveling if my Internet connection goes down.

New comment by fmajid in "JetKVM Mini"

fmajid — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:30:35 +0000

The GL-iNet Commet X is a 4-port IP KVM. It does 4K, albeit at 30fps.

https://nascompares.com/2026/06/26/gl-inet-comet-x-kvm-early...

New comment by fmajid in "JetKVM Mini"

fmajid — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:26:46 +0000

The higher-end GL-iNet Comets have passthrough. I have the 5G cellular equipped one connected to my OpenBSD home router so if I lose Internet connectivity at home while I am traveling, I can still debug and do something about it.

New comment by fmajid in "JetKVM Mini"

fmajid — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:23:29 +0000

I think that's mostly marketing waffle, but I suspect the argument is that this will allow a LLM or agent to remote control your phone, tablet or computer in a format that is a bit more directly accessible for them than the VNC-like UIs most of this new crop of PiKVM-derived IP KVMs offer.

New comment by fmajid in "JetKVM Mini"

fmajid — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:20:52 +0000

It is 4K, just not the 120Hz or higher gaming grade the parent was asking for, and better than the 1080p of the JetKVM Mini. The JetKVM Mini does offer Ethernet, however (not sure if it can be powered by PoE, however, which would be a huge plus).

New comment by fmajid in "JetKVM Mini"

fmajid — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:12:48 +0000

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zepan/nanokvm-go-worlds...

Not high frequency though, tops out at 45Hz

New comment by fmajid in "Show HN: Syq – copy files between machines fast (better than rsync)"

fmajid — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:39:24 +0000

Multiple connections totally help. At a previous job, we drove rsync with GNU parallel, then did a final catch-all pass with rsync, and that divided transfer time for about 600GB by a factor of 4.

New comment by fmajid in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

fmajid — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:42:12 +0000

Also, if you have a heat-sealer, individually bagging the cables before grouping them avoids having cables mate and turn into a Gordian knot. A heat-sealer allows you to make bags that are just the right size for your cable, vs. generic ziplocs.

New comment by fmajid in "My Feed, My Way"

fmajid — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:30:35 +0000

It's unclear whether this legislation will require giving users the choice of the sort order. That's one of the tricks exploitative social networks use, selective prioritization of ragebait and other content that encourages "engagement". If you have the choice of strict chronological order, that removes a lot of the hold the networks have over you.

New comment by fmajid in "The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay"

fmajid — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:50:58 +0000

They are not going back to physical controls out of the goodness of their hearts. Physical controls are a requirement to get a European 5-star safety rating, and possibly in China as well.

New comment by fmajid in "The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay"

fmajid — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:45:40 +0000

Yes, but the Honda to Chevy ratio is accelerating in just 2 years, which suggests something more than a preference for Japanese brands is at play.

New comment by fmajid in "How AI is breaking the British state"

fmajid — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:49:08 +0000

Of course they are, The Economist is to the City of London (the unaccountable pseudo-local authority that is effectively a lobbying group for banks) what Pravda was to the Soviet Communist Party. How dare the little people demand the same privileges the feudal aristocracy expect, as do the oligarchs assimilated with them?