Hacker News: grishka

New comment by grishka in "macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL"

grishka — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:41:06 +0000

Audio problems aren't new. I remember that the last 10.9 build I was still using in 2016 had this bug where sound would just stop working every now and then. `sudo pkill coreaudiod` fixed it every time.

New comment by grishka in "Apple HomeView"

grishka — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:38:31 +0000

Except if a device has a microphone and a network interface, it has the technical capability of sharing those recordings. The only realistic way to guarantee this sort of thing is to reverse engineer the entire chain between the two and then never install any software updates.

New comment by grishka in "Apple HomeView"

grishka — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:34:07 +0000

Apple themselves keep assuming that they themselves can be unquestionably trusted. The same company that keeps inventing ever more elaborate ways to forcibly insert itself between users and developers to collect rent even when explicitly required by regulators to open up its devices to allow anyone to freely install anything.

New comment by grishka in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

grishka — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:34:14 +0000

I had a similar idea to bypass DRM for a while. Some kind of board that goes between the display panel driver and whatever sends it the signal, and outputs something you can capture, e.g. DVI or unencrypted HDMI. Not sure how practical it is.

New comment by grishka in "Passkeys are a trap"

grishka — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:46:34 +0000

Look up how any modern smartphone boots.

New comment by grishka in "Passkeys are a trap"

grishka — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:13:25 +0000

I'd go even further and say that secure boot and hardware roots of trust are the root of all evil.

New comment by grishka in "Passkeys are a trap"

grishka — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:09:45 +0000

> The FSA's official explanation for mandating passkey implementation is that people kept falling for phishing attacks, and the attacks were getting too sophisticated thanks to "AI" or something.

Ah, yet another case of people being forced to use technology instead of being left alone doing things the old way where they understood all the risks.

New comment by grishka in "Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [video]"

grishka — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:29:22 +0000

> British-style outlets can also be coaxed to take a europlug, not that I would advise anyone to do that.

I tried that once and the fit was so tight I thought I'd break both the plug and the outlet.

New comment by grishka in "Beauty in DVD Menus"

grishka — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:41 +0000

TIL SCART can carry data. I've seen and used these connectors a lot but had no idea.

New comment by grishka in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

grishka — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:03:25 +0000

Some people just don't want AI, any AI, at all, can you imagine that?

New comment by grishka in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

grishka — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:02:31 +0000

This one is easy. Find its updater service plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents, delete it, and create a directory with the same name so it won't be able to overwrite it.

New comment by grishka in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

grishka — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:24:38 +0000

Firstly, I'm talking about PMs, not group chats. Group chats have different requirements because they have to be moderated.

Of course, I have nothing against being able to delete your own messages for both. A time limit within which you can do that is nice but I can live without one. But Telegram lets you delete every message in any PM conversation, including incoming ones, for both people. Or even the entire conversation, and make it disappear from the other person's list without a trace.

New comment by grishka in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

grishka — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:00:41 +0000

But you can no longer trust Telegram that things you had in your chat will still be there tomorrow. This feature feels like someone has hacked into your device and deleted files they didn't like.

New comment by grishka in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

grishka — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:58:59 +0000

Questionable features like being able to delete anything in the conversation on both sides. Tacky UI choices like liquid glass on Android or the excessive use of Lottie animations every-damn-where. All while being completely deaf to feedback, both from within the team (any criticism makes you "toxic") and from the public. The way he treats his employees isn't exactly good either.

New comment by grishka in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

grishka — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:27:09 +0000

That's not a given. Visionary people sometimes go mildly insane over time. Source: worked at VKontakte and Telegram and watched it slowly happen to Durov.

New comment by grishka in "Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service"

grishka — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:07:40 +0000

Don't most countries give people their first IDs before 18? Mine does it at 14.

New comment by grishka in "English: A vs. An"

grishka — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:40:48 +0000

As a Russian who's fluent in English, I feel like I ended up learning it mostly by example (Slavic languages lack articles, but we have other fun things for people learning them to trip up on, like cases). But a more general rule seems to be that it's "the" if you can point your finger at that particular thing or rephrase it with "that", otherwise it's "a".

New comment by grishka in "Minimal Phone 2"

grishka — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:09:28 +0000

The product page explicitly mentions an unlockable bootloader.

New comment by grishka in "macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review"

grishka — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:19:44 +0000

Android used to work kinda like that. You got the system partition that's a fixed size, and that's it. You also had the data partition for apps and their data on the same internal flash. For everything else, you inserted a micro SD card. You could move some apps to the SD card as well.

New comment by grishka in "Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography"

grishka — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:12:24 +0000

You still have to trust the parts you can neither observe nor reverse engineer. So, everything organizational and everything that happens on their infrastructure.