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New comment by garaetjjte in "Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Afternoon"

garaetjjte — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:13:04 +0000

Windows Phone 7 was artificially limited crap, any amount of head start wouldn't help it.

New comment by garaetjjte in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

garaetjjte — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:34:28 +0000

Only acceptable use of attestation is when done on behalf of device owner. So if they let me submit list of keys allowed for my account, fine, but any other use is just evil restriction of what software I can run on my own devices.

New comment by garaetjjte in "DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded"

garaetjjte — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:12:21 +0000

You usually hope that TTD points to the culprit in such situations. But once I encountered single-byte corruption that didn't make any sense in TTD trace, there was good value at write and next read was garbage. I never discovered whether that was CPU bug, corruption by GPU shaders, stray kernel writes, or whatever.(I think it's unlikely that CPU bug would manifest with both native and TTD-instrumented runs. Corrupted byte was inside heap allocated memory so it shouldn't be in GPU pagetables at all. Kernel writes wouldn't appear in TTD trace, so really I think that was most likely issue, but how to debug that...)

New comment by garaetjjte in "Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them"

garaetjjte — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:04:56 +0000

Maybe they don't do that for larger destination providers. But definitely no coincidences here. (in the post I replaced address with example.com because I'm curious if I will ever get other spam onto it, but here's another one unmodified)

  curl --request POST --data '{"email": "pangramdemo@milek7.pl"}' https://www.pangram.com/api/validate-email

https://milek7.pl/mailverifyspam/another.txt

Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them

garaetjjte — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:23:49 +0000

Article URL: https://milek7.pl/mailverifyspam/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650837

Points: 193

# Comments: 63

New comment by garaetjjte in "Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You"

garaetjjte — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:14:13 +0000

I hate that type of diagrams. Why sRGB-encoded image, pretends to show any color outside of sRGB region? It doesn't make any sense! (and when these diagrams attempt to illustrate sRGB, often actual colors encoded are narrower than full sRGB)

New comment by garaetjjte in "Making espresso with ultrasound"

garaetjjte — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:11:36 +0000

>Good coffee is better enjoyed around 60-70C

If you want to scald your mouth I don't think you need coffee to do that.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Unity vs. Floating Point"

garaetjjte — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:57:18 +0000

>Official Mono releases have switched to do that since then, but (I think) for backwards compatibility reasons Unity never enabled that functionality and kept everything at double precision so far.

Probably because Unity uses ancient Mono fork. And that apparently started because they didn't renew their non-copyleft license with Xamarin.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5!"

garaetjjte — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:26:31 +0000

Can Immich on Android automatically upload taken photos like Google Photos?

New comment by garaetjjte in "Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses"

garaetjjte — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:24:11 +0000

In practice they don't do that, apart from spamming few addresses like office@ or accounting@. If some address starts getting spam I reject everything sent to it. For addresses that are getting spam but needs to be public (like contact addresses on website) I do more aggressive filtering (eg. I noticed that enforcing that recipient is actually present in To/Cc header cuts down a lot of spam).

New comment by garaetjjte in "Moving beyond fork() + exec()"

garaetjjte — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:15:18 +0000

That's mostly papering over design mistake that most syscalls doesn't accept target pid. Otherwise you could just create suspended process, configure it with syscalls that explicitly take target pid, and start it.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)"

garaetjjte — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:33:10 +0000

>the more of them you add, the larger is your communication and coordination overhead. In no small part because humans are self-interested agents that simply aren't designed to compose their capabilities seamlessly.

What proves that AI doesn't have the same limitations? There's only so much computation you can do in given space, and all communication is limited by universal speed limit.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler"

garaetjjte — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:54:30 +0000

Incredibly rich to complain about LLM scraping with LLM generated article.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

garaetjjte — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:06:08 +0000

Getting closer to https://xkcd.com/416/

New comment by garaetjjte in "I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)"

garaetjjte — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:59:56 +0000

What about CE/FCC certification?

New comment by garaetjjte in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

garaetjjte — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:27:29 +0000

Swinging back? Was UE used more widely in the past than it is now?

New comment by garaetjjte in "Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets"

garaetjjte — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:40:05 +0000

Ah yes, in Utah, the capital of MLM scams?

New comment by garaetjjte in "WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64"

garaetjjte — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:44:43 +0000

Huh? CE7 platform builder is just extension to stock VS2008. And it doesn't really do much, just few treeviews for selecting components. The real issue is the build system, which is some hideous combination of bat files and nmake.

Kernel is the only part that seems written with any sort of care, everything else is barely holding together with duct tape.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

garaetjjte — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:41:13 +0000

I don't think cell tower connection will give you any more precision, GNSS fix will be much more accurate. (within few meters)

You could get more accurate fix with RTK data, but I'm not sure if that's actually widely used. And in any case that doesn't require active communications either, you could get correction data from satellite broadcasts too.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Testing UPS Output Waveforms"

garaetjjte — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:26:57 +0000

Could it be that it directly uses AC for flame rectification and gets confused with ugly waveform?