Hacker News: hexmiles

New comment by hexmiles in "Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data"

hexmiles — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:14:00 +0000

Personally, I deleted everything I could but kept the Gmail account for a couple of years with a forward to my new account, and after that, I also deleted it. Google Takeout is a very useful way to quickly create a backup of everything Google.

New comment by hexmiles in "Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

hexmiles — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:03:27 +0000

Sorry, I wasn't clear. By old hardware, I meant peripherals connected to the computer via serial or USB. We are at a level of performance where running an entire VM as a driver is kind of feasible, if wasteful.

New comment by hexmiles in "Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

hexmiles — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:20:10 +0000

I know that it is a heavyweight solution, but it could be useful for some situations with old driver/devices/applications. I have some old hardware that is compatible only with pre-WinNT OS, and I could do something similar to provide a simple solution for the end user.

Pyrite64: N64 Game-Engine and Editor using libdragon and tiny3d

hexmiles — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:25:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/HailToDodongo/pyrite64

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540914

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by hexmiles in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

hexmiles — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:08:02 +0000

For a moment, I thought it was a game about finding chickens and was confused yet intrigued.

New comment by hexmiles in "A web server on a single floppy disk"

hexmiles — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:24:12 +0000

Or a Sony Mavica, I love those

UK union accuses Rockstar Games of firing employees attempting to organise

hexmiles — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:33:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/nov/07/uk-union-accuses-gta-maker-rockstar-games-of-firing-employees-attempting-to-organise

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46033425

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by hexmiles in "OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios"

hexmiles — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:06:58 +0000

All modules seem to be us-only. Is there a modules usable in eu frequency?

OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios

hexmiles — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:18:14 +0000

Article URL: https://openmanet.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920677

Points: 148

# Comments: 42

Score a Scorewriter Program

hexmiles — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:44:35 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORE_(software)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644500

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hexmiles in "Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down"

hexmiles — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:56:35 +0000

Do you know of any games downloaded from Steam that work even once Steam is removed? I tried to search a bit, but I couldn't find any.

I would like to test it for myself to confirm it.

New comment by hexmiles in "Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down"

hexmiles — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:54:00 +0000

I tried to search if it's possible for a dev studio to release a game on Steam that works without it, by which I mean that if I uninstall Steam, the games keep working; I wasn't able to confirm, but it seems to be theoretically possible...

None of the games I have in my library work like that, but online some people suggest that some games work even without Steam, once installed.

Your point, however, still stands.

New comment by hexmiles in "Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down"

hexmiles — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:30:06 +0000

All (most?) Steam games have a very simple DRM that is extremely easy to bypass, and you can find examples on github.

However, a lot of games add their own DRM and/or protection scheme that complicates things.

EDIT: technically there are two distinct component: the actual DRM, called steamstub, and the steamwork library, that does not work without steam but it is not considered drm. Both can be easily bypassed/emulated.

New comment by hexmiles in "'A black hole': New graduates discover a dismal job market"

hexmiles — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 07:38:02 +0000

You can't dictate it, but you can influence it.

Imagine if we teach from primary school student to clean their own classroom and bathroom so that everyone must do at least once every x days/week, it think it would help reconsider how we view this jobs. This is just an example, but I think there are plenty of ways for a government to incentivize desirable behavior (even social).

New comment by hexmiles in "Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world"

hexmiles — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:06:54 +0000

In case of holiday/sick leave do i need to find someone to feed the agentic pet from my ip address? Or is my manager responsability?

New comment by hexmiles in "A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns"

hexmiles — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:46:40 +0000

How easy is detecting a transmitting starlink terminal? I assume is pretty easy but i don't know if the phased array antenna and beamforming make detecting from ground harder. Could i detect it with a SDR while driving around, wardriving-style?

New comment by hexmiles in "Qwen VLo: From "Understanding" the World to "Depicting" It"

hexmiles — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:36:21 +0000

While looking at the examples of editing the bear image, I noticed that the model seemed to change more things than were strictly asked.

As an example, when asked to change the background, it also completely changed the bear (it has the same shirt but the fur and face are clearly different), and also: when it turned the bear in a balloon, it changed the background (removing the pavement) and lost the left seed in the watermelon.

It is something that can be fixed with better prompting, or is it a limitation of the model/architecture?

New comment by hexmiles in "Linux kernel WireGuard can go 'fast' on decent hardware"

hexmiles — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:55:56 +0000

I also did use tinc in the past, and while it was very robust it was not as reliable/fast on roaming as wireguard, BUT to be fair it may have been user error.

New comment by hexmiles in "Linux kernel WireGuard can go 'fast' on decent hardware"

hexmiles — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:17:04 +0000

In addition to been faster it is also the only vpn that reliably handle roaming, without interrupting active connections.

The Quite OK Audio Format

hexmiles — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:46:08 +0000

Article URL: https://qoaformat.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44223470

Points: 2

# Comments: 0