Hacker News: kaszanka

New comment by kaszanka in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

kaszanka — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:19:06 +0000

People have already been imprisoned for this, one case I can think of off the top of my head is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse_Security#AT&T/iPad_emai....

New comment by kaszanka in "The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility"

kaszanka — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:49:17 +0000

I wonder how Turbo Vision (still the only good TUI framework) does on screen reader accessibility.

New comment by kaszanka in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

kaszanka — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:16:26 +0000

Surprisingly only the headings (2.05) and links (3.72) fail the Firefox accessibility check, the body text is 5.74. But subjectively it seems worse and I definitely agree with you that the contrast is too low.

New comment by kaszanka in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

kaszanka — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:59:56 +0000

Is https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli not 'the flagship agent' itself? It looks that way to me, for example here's a part of the prompt https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/e293424bb49...

New comment by kaszanka in "Arm AGI CPU"

kaszanka — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:16:08 +0000

Is it AGentIc ai infrastructure? Or AGentic aI infrastructure? Or AGentic ai Infrastructure?

I expected better from the people who brought us the ARM architecture, with A, R and M profiles.

New comment by kaszanka in "GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor"

kaszanka — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:33:02 +0000

Also in Polish, which would mean "dog".

New comment by kaszanka in "I cracked a $200 software protection with xcopy"

kaszanka — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 03:52:06 +0000

> no winhttp.dll, wininet.dll, or ws2_32.dll. offline validation only. all crypto is local, so theoretically extractable.

You can't possibly know that by the mere lack of these DLLs from the import directory.

New comment by kaszanka in "PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage"

kaszanka — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 02:27:55 +0000

TIL! That's neat, I wonder how much RAM that client uses compared to the desktop one.

New comment by kaszanka in "PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage"

kaszanka — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:56:46 +0000

That's still not a fair comparison, because on a console you don't have the option to do any of that.

New comment by kaszanka in "An initial investigation into WDDM on ReactOS"

kaszanka — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:21:24 +0000

> after booting my VM KDE just flashed because my external GPU was gone but everything went back working without a need for relogin.

What GPU are you using and how did you configure this, if you don't mind me asking? On my end I just can't unload the driver for it if I let KDE start with the external GPU available.

New comment by kaszanka in "AMD Turin PSP binaries analysis from open-source firmware perspective"

kaszanka — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:45:02 +0000

Good post on troubleshooting the failure to boot, but from the title I was kind of hoping for something like decryption and analysis of the blobs' contents, rather than just metadata. Very "cool" that 3 megabytes of unauditable malware (the public blobs) are still not enough to even boot the platform...

New comment by kaszanka in "Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1"

kaszanka — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 22:50:44 +0000

Anyone can do this by changing the author and committer date. Take a look at https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo, linked in the comments here, for example.

New comment by kaszanka in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

kaszanka — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:52:36 +0000

This is basically what most of the challenge types in go-away (https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away/wiki/Challenges) do.

New comment by kaszanka in "How to Firefox"

kaszanka — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:16:25 +0000

Probably even non-vetted firmware-to-browser chains, by requiring boot attestation to open a TLS connection or something.

New comment by kaszanka in "Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)"

kaszanka — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:55:17 +0000

To be even more pedantic, it's also not present on Android.

New comment by kaszanka in "ZeroRISC Gets $10M Funding, Says Open-Source Silicon Security Inevitable"

kaszanka — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 01:25:23 +0000

Oh joy. So when this sort of stuff comes to mobile phones, at least when the McDonalds app refuses to start on your pocket general purpose computer (because it's not running software that Google considers 'trustworthy') you'll be able to confidently say that the RTL for the part of the chip that is ultimately responsible for betraying your interests is open source. Surely consolation enough for missing out on your burger discount.

I like to bring up McDonalds as an example because IIRC it requires the highest, 'strong integrity' verdict from SafetyNet/Play Integrity/nom-du-jour. Maybe they should rename it to something with Open in the name when OpenTitan comes to Chromebooks.

New comment by kaszanka in "UEFI-Only Support for AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics and Later"

kaszanka — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:45:25 +0000

BAR resizing (which is all that Smart Access Memory means, as far as I can tell) is just done by the kernel writing some value to the right field in PCI configuration space, why would it require firmware support (and if so, why would CSM preclude that support)?

New comment by kaszanka in "They have not been trained for this"

kaszanka — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 23:31:51 +0000

Here's the live recording link for those who missed it and are too impatient to wait for the cleaned-up one: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/relive/233cb1d4-4833-538...

New comment by kaszanka in "Sora is here"

kaszanka — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 02:20:58 +0000

This is well on its way thanks to Microsoft's aggressive push to put a TPM in every Windows 11 PC.

New comment by kaszanka in "Oasis AI"

kaszanka — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:45:18 +0000

This time it's sadly just another case of a web developer who thinks he knows better than you what browser you should use, it works fine with

  // ==UserScript==
  // @name     oasis.decart.ai Firefox fix
  // @version  1
  // @run-at   document-start
  // @match    https://oasis.decart.ai/*
  // ==/UserScript==
  
  unsafeWindow.chrome = 1;