Hacker News: grawlinson

New comment by grawlinson in "USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers"

grawlinson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:58:17 +0000

I packaged that driver on the AUR, since I’ve got the same device. I can’t get the binary blob to work (admittedly, I haven’t tried very hard) and it’s not high on my list of priorities so I’m okay using it as a dumb MIDI tool.

New comment by grawlinson in "Framework Sponsors CachyOS"

grawlinson — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:01:12 +0000

Arch package manager here, there is ongoing work behind the scenes to support multiple architectures (aarch64, riscv, etc), but as our volunteers (myself included) are doing this in our free time, progress is up in the air.

New comment by grawlinson in "Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware"

grawlinson — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:50:33 +0000

They've also been working on emulating the JP-8080, as per recent discord announcements.

The JP-8080 uses custom DSP chips designed by Roland, and Roland do not provide a Virtual Instrument (VST) for this much desired synth.

New comment by grawlinson in "16 years of CVE-2008-0166 – Debian OpenSSL Bug"

grawlinson — Mon, 13 May 2024 00:17:07 +0000

Arch package maintainer here; we generally encourage building from source for packages provided by the official repositories. As far as I know, we only ship pre compiled binaries if there is no source available, i.e. commercial programs such as reaper.

New comment by grawlinson in "Debian on Mellanox SN2700 (32x100G)"

grawlinson — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 06:56:50 +0000

I’ll never understand these big companies, they often seem to be allergic to money.

New comment by grawlinson in "Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art"

grawlinson — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:26:22 +0000

Realistically, it’ll be when the patents expire.

New comment by grawlinson in "Want to Enjoy Music More? Stop Streaming It"

grawlinson — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 04:34:31 +0000

Apple (and other streaming services) have been caught out replacing people’s local songs with censored/blessed versions. That is the main reason why some characters will not stream music; because they do not have full control over their own files.

New comment by grawlinson in "To make dishwashers great again? (2020)"

grawlinson — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 01:06:23 +0000

Well yeah, how else do you stop color bleeding out and staining your other dishes?

New comment by grawlinson in "Arctic Code Vault"

grawlinson — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 23:18:03 +0000

Does anyone know how to access any of the repos listed in this vault? I’m after a particular one that was deleted earlier this year; has zero forks and does not show up in the way back machine.

New comment by grawlinson in "Sieve: An Email Filtering Language (RFC 5228)"

grawlinson — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 21:13:56 +0000

I don’t know what I would do without sieve, I use it to manage my mailing list subscriptions, eg move to folders, mark emails from specific chatty users as read, etc.

It automates a lot of manual cruft and I’m endlessly thankful for it.

I do wish it was more widely supported, and I try to do my part to encourage adoption (I maintain several sieve related packages for Arch Linux).

New comment by grawlinson in "Bintracker: A chiptune audio workstation for the 21st century"

grawlinson — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:39:41 +0000

Do you have a PKGBUILD available? I'm currently running into this particular issue when installing the requisite chicken libs:

building srfi-14 /usr/bin/chicken-csc -host -D compiling-extension -J -s -regenerate-import-libraries -setup-mode -I /home/deploy/.cache/chicken-install/srfi-14 -C -I/home/deploy/.cache/chicken-install/srfi-14 -O3 -d0 srfi-14.scm -o /home/deploy/.cache/chicken-install/srfi-14/srfi-14.so /usr/bin/chicken-csc -regenerate-import-libraries -M -setup-mode -static -I /home/deploy/.cache/chicken-install/srfi-14 -emit-link-file /home/deploy/.cache/chicken-install/srfi-14/srfi-14.link -host -D compiling-extension -c -unit srfi-14 -D compiling-static-extension -C -I/home/deploy/.cache/chicken-install/srfi-14 -O3 -d0 srfi-14.scm -o /home/deploy/.cache/chicken-install/srfi-14/srfi-14.static.o /usr/bin/chicken-csc -setup-mode -s -host -I /home/deploy/.cache/chicken-install/srfi-14 -C -I/home/deploy/.cache/chicken-install/srfi-14 -O3 -d0 srfi-14.import.scm -o /home/deploy/.cache/chicken-install/srfi-14/srfi-14.import.so installing srfi-14 install: cannot create regular file '/usr/lib/chicken/11/srfi-14.o': Permission denied

Error: shell command terminated with nonzero exit code 256

New comment by grawlinson in "Larian's Unfair Advantage"

grawlinson — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 02:24:01 +0000

Maybe there’ll be an article or two, once it’s released!

Oh wait…

New comment by grawlinson in "VyOS From Scratch – Edition 1 (set up your own router)"

grawlinson — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:00:15 +0000

Hey! Thanks for writing this, this really helped me setup VyOS as my main router/firewall for my homelab.

Do you have any plans to expand into IPv6 functionality?

New comment by grawlinson in "Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]"

grawlinson — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 19:48:43 +0000

Do you know if any of the official FreeCAD tutorials go through using data planes instead of sketch on face?

New comment by grawlinson in "Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps"

grawlinson — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 05:01:15 +0000

I assume it’s here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36362737

New comment by grawlinson in "APIs for content sites must be free"

grawlinson — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:05:15 +0000

It would be much better if this knowledge was available elsewhere for other souls to peruse. Say, maybe, a blog?

New comment by grawlinson in "USB MIDI interface for the NeXTCube – ISPW board"

grawlinson — Thu, 18 May 2023 02:06:55 +0000

> The optocoupler also works like a cheap (although somewhat hard to replace) fuse which is probably a good thing if you want to connect you Roland Jupiter-8 / Fairlight CMI to some dodgy equipment.

In this case, the older synths are more likely to have failing/dodgy components. I have a DX-7 that I'm going to have to replace a lot of components in, and this sort of knowledge/understanding really should be more common along synth enthusiasts.

New comment by grawlinson in "Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%"

grawlinson — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 23:16:01 +0000

that is some amazingly crap UX. who the hell thought this was a good idea?

New comment by grawlinson in "MSI's (in)Secure Boot"

grawlinson — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 01:29:59 +0000

I have a Z97 board from ASUS that exhibits this behavior. It’s a bit ridiculous because there is no Secure Boot option in BIOS other than disable/enable.

New comment by grawlinson in "Stop using utcnow and utcfromtimestamp"

grawlinson — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 06:46:28 +0000

This kind of stuff really needs to be made explicitly clear in any/all API documentation as it inevitably leads to underlying issues later down the line. It's amazing how something as "simple" as official time/date libraries still have footguns like these.

I'm not bashing anyone that's involved as I realize we're all human and prone to mistakes, I just wish we could all do better.