Hacker News: jolmg

New comment by jolmg in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

jolmg — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:34:16 +0000

> He means the tracking potential is the same.

If you can buy and use with cash, then it isn't.

New comment by jolmg in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

jolmg — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:33:04 +0000

Haven't had that happen, but what I have had happen is that I open in a new tab, and it just displays this spinner in the middle of the window while on the tab. It never loads. I take the URL from the address bar and drag it into yet a newer tab and there it loads. Then I close the original new tab. Sometimes I gotta do that a few times for the thing to load. I tend to open in new tab with middle click, if it makes a difference.

New comment by jolmg in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

jolmg — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:15:36 +0000

Got a PinePhone Pro with 4GB.

> I suppose it's limited to very few tabs

Not really. Haven't used it super heavily, but I haven't felt limited by tabs. It can handle multiple YouTube tabs, too.

> Some very lightweight DE could likely make it more usable. Running something like WezTerm + tmux as the DE

I use sway on it. It's perfectly responsive. I expect i3 with Xorg would also be. Neither count as a DE, but neither does a terminal + tmux.

New comment by jolmg in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

jolmg — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:21:14 +0000

This probably depends on location, but generally, you cannot log in to your bank account on your laptop/computer without using your phone's banking app for 2FA. That's the status quo among banks.

Whether it may be possible to convince a bank to give you a hardware token instead if they even still make them is not an assured thing.

New comment by jolmg in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

jolmg — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:01:07 +0000

> I suppose it would be only the same as credit cards.

The cards seem to accept cash

New comment by jolmg in "Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes"

jolmg — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:28:48 +0000

I don't understand why you'd want to advocate for creating a new monopoly. Having a rich, diverse market of competing search engines would be the ideal.

New comment by jolmg in "I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care"

jolmg — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:06:33 +0000

> and should be generally mandated?

or even encouraged?

New comment by jolmg in "I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care"

jolmg — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:02:32 +0000

More likely than not, a human would be remote controlling it, at least at times. So, they're there, you just can't see them seeing you.

I think this is more of a cultural problem. Aging is a normal part of life.

New comment by jolmg in "Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms"

jolmg — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:49:25 +0000

For Mother's Day, possibly, but it's not always the case. Thanksgiving is on the 4th Thursday of November.

New comment by jolmg in "I’ve banned query strings"

jolmg — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:06:46 +0000

It's arbitrary to a degree like the difference between using an attribute or child element in XML, but it's not entirely arbitrary. If you want to include data in the URL that's not part of the hierarchy of the path, query strings are good for that.

New comment by jolmg in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

jolmg — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:28:27 +0000

> and the 'realism' of video games plateauing.

I used to think the plateau was here when the Xbox 360 and PS3 came out.

New comment by jolmg in "The bottleneck was never the code"

jolmg — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:10:14 +0000

Yeah. This one shows a graph:

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/grammar-parser-maintenanc...

Solid red dots are articles you've visited.

New comment by jolmg in "Why TUIs are back"

jolmg — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:53:32 +0000

Ctrl-C also works.

New comment by jolmg in "Open source does not imply open community"

jolmg — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:31:27 +0000

Weren't holes 1's? Were there machines where it was backwards?

New comment by jolmg in "Patch applies fake diffs from commit messages"

jolmg — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:47:04 +0000

I've changed my mind regarding the email format not being a problem. I was thinking of emailed git commits as this ad-hoc thing, but I forgot that `git-format-patch` and `git-am` exist. It's not just an incompatibility between them and `patch`. If you have a line `---` in your git commit message, `git-format-patch` will not somehow escape it, resulting in git-am truncating your git commit message. The email commit format is kinda bad. Github `.patch` exports are just being compatible with `git-am`, so I don't think it's a bug with them.

This is Re:

> I do not yet know whether the bug belongs to GNU patch, GitHub’s .patch export, or the broader patch-format contract.

I don't think this is a problem with GNU patch or the patch format per se, just the emailed commit format. I think the patch format's good because it allows it to be embedded in other texts and also allows comments or extended syntax between hunks. For example, the lines

  diff --git a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
  index 15ba592236e845..725a49a0eee72e 100644

not being part of the hunk and probably being seen as a comment by `patch`.

Simply changing `git-am` to accept commit messages being indented in the email format would allow Github fix the issue of their .patch exports being incompatible with `patch`, in addition to fixing that bug about commit messages being truncated when they have a `---` line.

New comment by jolmg in "Patch applies fake diffs from commit messages"

jolmg — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:17:21 +0000

> It matters (to me) because `wget`/`curl` plus `patch` is not some exotic lab setup.

If the point is to be able to do `curl https://...deadbeef.patch | patch -p1`, you can just change the extension provided to Github from `.patch` to `.diff`. That way, it just includes the hunks. E.g.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/dca922e019dd758b4c1...

I don't see it as a problem with the email format, because I can't imagine someone just patching from an email without looking at the email first.

New comment by jolmg in "APL\? (1990)"

jolmg — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:06:55 +0000

One can also click the download button top-right

New comment by jolmg in "A programmable watch you can actually wear"

jolmg — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:59:18 +0000

Would be nice to be able to rely on a bit of the same tooling as other general purpose computing devices.

New comment by jolmg in "A programmable watch you can actually wear"

jolmg — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:45:22 +0000

Hmm... I don't have an ESP32-S3 to test, but looking at one of the esp32s3 linux builds online[1], the binaries are compiled for the xtensa arch. So it does seem to run natively rather than through some kind of emulation. Linux's source does have an arch/xtensa/ directory, so that arch seems to be supported on some level by the kernel. ESP32-S3's docs also mention having an MMU[2], though it's possible it's not sufficiently featureful.

[1] https://github.com/hpsaturn/esp32s3-linux/releases/tag/0.0.4

[2] https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/stable/esp32s...

New comment by jolmg in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

jolmg — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:26:26 +0000

Was a bit disappointed that, in the Spanish dub of X-Men, it isn't pronounced "Profesor Javier".