Hacker News: jonpalmisc

New comment by jonpalmisc in "Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")"

jonpalmisc — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:46:01 +0000

Was really hoping for a phonetic spelling somewhere on that page…

New comment by jonpalmisc in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

jonpalmisc — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:19:43 +0000

Eh, I kinda hope not. Codeberg's latency even for just browsing is pretty bad (in my experience) and also is only sporting a single 9 of uptime [1].

I wish Codeberg the best, but I thought it was a questionable choice for Zig and feel similarly for Ghostty—doesn't seem like a strict improvement.

[1] https://status.codeberg.eu/status/codeberg

New comment by jonpalmisc in "Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock"

jonpalmisc — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:16:33 +0000

This still leaves your device in an AFU (after first unlock) state, with user data decrypted, and should not be treated as secure.

The only thing you can do (to protect your data from forensics, etc) is to return it to BFU by shutting it off.

New comment by jonpalmisc in "The Orange Pi 6 Plus"

jonpalmisc — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:04:46 +0000

Looks like the SoC (CIX P1) has Cortex-A720/A520 cores which are Armv9.2, nice.

I've still been on the hunt for a cheap Arm board with a Armv8.3+ or Arvm9.0+ SoC for OSDev stuff, but it's hard to find them in hobbyist price range (this board included, $700-900 USD from what I see).

The NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nanos looked good but unfortunately SWD/JTAG is disabled unless you pay for the $2k model...

New comment by jonpalmisc in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

jonpalmisc — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:27:53 +0000

There is a documented list of things that Lockdown Mode affects [1], this is not one of the advertised ones. There are a bunch of other (undocumented) things it affects (some of which are bugs :/), but I don't believe it has any affect on notification storage.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120

New comment by jonpalmisc in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

jonpalmisc — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:18:17 +0000

Settings > Notifications > Notification Content > Show: "Name Only" or "No Name or Content"

I've had this enabled to prevent sensitive messages from appearing in full whilst showing someone something on my phone, but I guess this is an added benefit as well.

New comment by jonpalmisc in "Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V"

jonpalmisc — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:21:16 +0000

Going to take a guess the author is not a Spanish speaker :p

New comment by jonpalmisc in "Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs"

jonpalmisc — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:44:10 +0000

The licenses (from major foundries/vendors) are indeed usually quite restrictive; however, the hard part has always been enforcing them. It's not surprising to me that Google hasn't built any guardrails around this.

After all, gating by IP address? What happens if someone from the marketing team logs on from an airport? All of the slides revert to Arial?

New comment by jonpalmisc in "Rebasing in Magit"

jonpalmisc — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:05:12 +0000

> You seem to think that the interface obliges a program into a certain performance pattern.

I think all software (or at least, any text editor) regardless of interface type should launch instantly. But it's more unjustifiable with TUI programs.

New comment by jonpalmisc in "Rebasing in Magit"

jonpalmisc — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:30:49 +0000

Personally, I don't buy into this argument. I think having a globally shared buffer state, etc. is an antifeature. Plus, there's no reason that starting a TUI program should be that slow.

Either way, this only addresses startup time too. The rest of the issues: text insertion lag, `project-find-file` being slow in large repos, etc. all remain.

New comment by jonpalmisc in "Rebasing in Magit"

jonpalmisc — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:26:47 +0000

Not using Emacs.app because you aren't on macOS, or using some other build/setup? If the latter, I'm curious.

New comment by jonpalmisc in "Rebasing in Magit"

jonpalmisc — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:16:40 +0000

Tangential, but I really wish there would be a performance renaissance with Emacs.

Native-comp was a good step forward, but Emacs is still so much slower than Neovim, even in the case of launching and immediately quitting, with no config:

    $ time emacs -Q -e kill-emacs
    /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw -Q -e kill-emacs  0.18s user 0.03s system 98% cpu 0.213 total
    
    $ time nvim -es --cmd 'vim.cmd("q")'
    nvim -es --cmd 'vim.cmd("q")'  0.02s user 0.01s system 82% cpu 0.034 total

Even with a very minimal set of packages, text insertion, etc. is slower, and opening Magit (when it hasn't been loaded yet) takes about a second due to slow package loading.

Emacs is my favorite editor, full stop.

But every time I open Neovim or Sublime for quick tasks, it's always painfully apparent how much faster they are when I CMD+Tab back to Emacs.

New comment by jonpalmisc in "MacBook Neo"

jonpalmisc — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:40:21 +0000

I think it's purely a pricing & supply chain thing. Certain iPads have M-series chips in them, now certain MacBooks have A-series chips in them.

Also, the chip used has no impact on the viability of merging macOS and iOS anyway.

New comment by jonpalmisc in "MacBook Neo"

jonpalmisc — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:36:04 +0000

The Developer Transition Kit (DTK) ran on the A12Z chip. I don't think this should be interpreted as a signal of iOS/macOS unification.

New comment by jonpalmisc in "Monosketch"

jonpalmisc — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:59:14 +0000

For a native macOS app, there is also Monodraw [1], which is great.

[1] https://monodraw.helftone.com

New comment by jonpalmisc in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

jonpalmisc — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:48:01 +0000

There is a setting as of iOS 26 under "Privacy & Security > Wired Accessories" in which you can make data connections always prompt for access. Not that there haven't been bypasses for this before, but perhaps still of interest to you.

New comment by jonpalmisc in "Can you slim macOS down?"

jonpalmisc — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:30:26 +0000

Not bad, but different DAWs cater to different workflows. To me (and most), Bitwig feels much more optimized for creating electronic music than recording guitar or drums. It wouldn't be my first choice for the latter workflow, where I'd prefer REAPER or Logic. You also still have the issue with plugin compatibility and that 99% of commercial plugin vendors don't support Linux.

New comment by jonpalmisc in "Can you slim macOS down?"

jonpalmisc — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:45:40 +0000

For me: pro & creative apps. GIMP/Inkscape will never replace Photoshop/Illustrator/Affinity. Ableton, Logic, Pro Tools, etc. are not available on Linux and with the exception of REAPER, the alternatives are awful. And even with a Linux-compatible DAW, very few plugins are available on Linux.

On macOS, I can work on hobby software & graphics/music.

New comment by jonpalmisc in "Tauri binding for Python through Pyo3"

jonpalmisc — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:58:20 +0000

The times of browsers having weirdly different rendering behavior are mostly gone, in my experience. I'm sure ~98% of Electron apps that expect Chromium would render just fine/same under WebKit as well.

New comment by jonpalmisc in "[dead]"

jonpalmisc — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:32:58 +0000

This guy has a GitHub account [1] full of AI slop fake bug reports—this can be ignored.

[1] https://github.com/JGoyd