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New comment by kalmi10 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

kalmi10 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:50:36 +0000

There are many small shops that swap batteries just fine in an hour, at least in Europe.

New comment by kalmi10 in "Making Hard Things Easy"

kalmi10 — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 13:23:10 +0000

This method is really simple for Chrome, Firefox and other OpenSSL apps: https://wiki.wireshark.org/TLS#using-the-pre-master-secret

You set an environment variable to instruct the app the write a file that Wireshark can use to decrypt its traffic, and change a setting in Wireshark to use that file, and that's it.

You will even be able to see decrypted WebRTC traffic.

New comment by kalmi10 in "Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine"

kalmi10 — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 17:32:55 +0000

It can pick up on inconsistencies, especially when pointed out, and can say it was wrong, and try to reconcile the information.

New comment by kalmi10 in "Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)"

kalmi10 — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:13:12 +0000

This sounds like an easy way to keep the players in sync. That is important if you have multiple players nearby each other on the same corridor.

New comment by kalmi10 in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022"

kalmi10 — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 17:58:28 +0000

Displays often support input switching using DDC/CI, so a simple script should allow you to switch all the displays over.

New comment by kalmi10 in "Google is shutting down Stadia"

kalmi10 — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:20:48 +0000

https://killedbygoogle.com/

I miss Google Reader and Google Wave the most.

New comment by kalmi10 in "Norway to track all supermarket purchases?"

kalmi10 — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 19:31:56 +0000

I think the idea is that if one in a loyalty program, and it provides them with some discount/benefits, then they are more likely to shop there instead of at some other chain. This way they spend their money at that chain, and that is good for the store. It's just one more way stores are competing with each other. It also provides the chain with some data, but I am uncertain of its utility. I don't really believe it to be useful for them in general for anything other than targeting.

New comment by kalmi10 in "Ask HN: Why did the ruble stabilize and what's going on?"

kalmi10 — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 11:05:29 +0000

The way she put it led me to believe that there were significant non-rubel monetary assets inside the country, which I could totally believe to be true.

New comment by kalmi10 in "Ask HN: Why did the ruble stabilize and what's going on?"

kalmi10 — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 10:28:41 +0000

I remember hearing on France 24 (from Anastasiya Shapochkina iirc) when the sanctions were just being introduced that the sanctions would effectively make it cheaper for Russia to finance the war as most their monetary assets are in foreign currencies while most of their expenses are in rubel.

New comment by kalmi10 in "Unikernels"

kalmi10 — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 12:07:10 +0000

Took some clicking around to find a good description of what this actually is: https://kontainapp.github.io/guide/overview/#a-new-approach-...

New comment by kalmi10 in "You can list a directory containing 8M files, but not with ls"

kalmi10 — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 22:47:54 +0000

I once had a directory on OpenZFS with more than a billion files, and after cleaning it up with only handful of folders remaining, running ls in it still took a few seconds. I guess some large but almost empty tree structure remained.

https://0kalmi.blogspot.com/2020/02/quick-moving-of-billion-...

New comment by kalmi10 in "Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering"

kalmi10 — Wed, 12 May 2021 15:40:27 +0000

Google Sheets is canvas-based. I don’t remember anyone being upset about that.

New comment by kalmi10 in "Unc0ver Jailbreak for iOS 11.0 to 13.5"

kalmi10 — Sun, 24 May 2020 08:59:43 +0000

I remember reading that card transactions have different costs aspects for the parties involved depending on if the card is actually physically present at the time of purchase. And iirc Apple managed to convince the banking sector that Apple Pay is equivalent to chip card security, so that they get better rates.

According to reddit, Apple Pay works on jailbroken devices, but still, something like this might be at play in all the other similar scenarios.

New comment by kalmi10 in "Why build this blog, or anything, on IPFS?"

kalmi10 — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:17:39 +0000

Good point about the experimental Tor support and the Onion IPFS gateways.

Is there a reasonable way to use untrusted gateways while upholding the data integrity guarantees? I think it should be possible in theory.

New comment by kalmi10 in "Why build this blog, or anything, on IPFS?"

kalmi10 — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:07:36 +0000

I understand that no one is going to tamper with the data. Everybody (who is running a full node) is gonna get what they ask for, but then they are gonna go and announce it to the world that they have it, and that worries me privacy-wise.

New comment by kalmi10 in "Why build this blog, or anything, on IPFS?"

kalmi10 — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 21:41:15 +0000

The thing I worry about with IPFS is privacy. If you use IPFS directly (as intended, not via a public gateway), and you visit a site, then you are automatically going to be seeding (like a torrent) the visited content, and thus you will be announcing/broadcasting the fact to the world that you (your node/your IP) have visited it. My current understanding is that this cannot really be avoided, since one needs to be able to find the nodes that have the content for any given hash.

New comment by kalmi10 in "CalVer: Calendar Versioning"

kalmi10 — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 17:02:05 +0000

I found this in the FAQ:

If I want to share a calendar with my spouse, do I need to get two subscriptions? No. You can just create a normal subscription for yourself, and an "Associate" subscription for your spouse. Then share the calendar with the second account, and that's it. However, Associate accounts can't create their own calendars. So in order to have a personal calendar (that you can't see), your spouse will have to get a normal subscription too.

New comment by kalmi10 in "DoH Privacy Enhancement: Do Not Set the User-Agent Header for DoH Requests"

kalmi10 — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 03:54:59 +0000

The sites still get your UA. This was about your DNS server getting your UA.

New comment by kalmi10 in "German Regulators Tell Tesla to Stop Advertising Cars with Gas Savings in Price"

kalmi10 — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:05:08 +0000

Somewhat unrelated, but the first time I bought something in a physical store in the USA, i thought i was being ripped off, because the final price came out different than the one that was listed next to the item. I had no idea that it was standard practice to exclude taxes from the displayed price.

New comment by kalmi10 in "Scheduling in React"

kalmi10 — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 08:12:02 +0000

Relevant: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/10/wasm-threa...