Hacker News: kogir

New comment by kogir in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

kogir — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:09:17 +0000

With secure boot, full disk encryption, and robust backups, this risk should be largely mitigated, right?

That’s what I’m personally banking on. I think anyone with the resources to bypass these would first just use a rubber hose.

New comment by kogir in "Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)"

kogir — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:35:53 +0000

MacOS assumes you won’t full screen every app because all of them ship with large enough, high enough resolution monitors that full screening a single app is a waste of valuable space. Unlike on cheap laptops with 1080p screens.

I suppose you could splurge for a Mac desktop and then get the cheapest, smallest screen possible, but I hope it’s rare.

New comment by kogir in "Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026"

kogir — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:18:21 +0000

Yes, and highlighting a failing in email that cannot be fixed, but which is addressed in other services where confidentiality is desired.

New comment by kogir in "Email verification protocol"

kogir — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 15:21:07 +0000

OIDC is usually limited to a small selection of providers.

New comment by kogir in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

kogir — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:15:36 +0000

Any properly grounded device will do that with specifically incorrect electrical wiring and/or a shoddy charger. Did this happen with a properly wired outlet, and an undamaged Apple charger?

I have doubts that it did, as that would warrant a safety recall.

New comment by kogir in "“The Mind in the Wheel” lays out a new foundation for the science of mind"

kogir — Thu, 15 May 2025 19:41:38 +0000

  Another example for all you computer folks out there: ultimately, all software
  engineering is just moving electrons around. But imagine how hard your job would
  be if you could only talk about electrons moving around. No arrays, stacks,
  nodes, graphs, algorithms—just those lil negatively charged bois and their 
  comings and goings.

I think this too easily skips over the fact that the abstractions are based on a knowledge of how things actually work - known with certainty. Nobody in CS is approaching the computer as an entirely black box and making up how they think or hope it works. When people don't know how the computer actually works, their code is wrong - they get bugs and vulnerabilities they don't understand and can't explain.

New comment by kogir in "Fun with Logitech MX900 Bluetooth receivers (2006)"

kogir — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:58:47 +0000

I really miss the feature of CSR devices that allowed keyboard and mouse use before OS boot, and wish any modern Bluetooth receiver was capable of it. Is it a patent issue?

New comment by kogir in "[dead]"

kogir — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:42:52 +0000

Am I misunderstanding this? Isn’t this just the view, rating, and comment data required to offer the service?

Building an interface to search that data is exactly how you’d evaluate a recommendation engine.

New comment by kogir in "Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control"

kogir — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 23:54:47 +0000

While I’m all for physical controls, especially ones that self-adjust to reflect the state of the remote device at all times, I wonder if the author just doesn’t know you can finely adjust volume in iOS control center by force/long pressing and then dragging.

New comment by kogir in "Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says"

kogir — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:58:47 +0000

wget begs to differ.

Kidding aside, where exactly does it end? How do you consider when you’ve hit “too much” and how many pieces must be split out when you do? Should every product in the Office suite be offered only individually?

New comment by kogir in "Serialization for C# Games"

kogir — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 01:08:55 +0000

This seems to cover many common pain points, but I’ve written my fair share of .NET serializers and for anything I build now I’d just use protocol buffers. Robust support, handles versioning pretty well, and works cross platform.

I’d like to know their reasons for making yet another serializer vs just using pb or thrift.

New comment by kogir in "Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode"

kogir — Mon, 13 May 2024 23:43:09 +0000

I’ve never actually been detained or questioned (but know people who have).

If I were I’d tell them the truth that I feel more vulnerable during the chaos of travel and don’t want any risk that a lost or stolen device could leak anything personal.

Would this satisfy them? No idea. Getting stopped at the border is legitimately a single small concern of many more likely scenarios.

New comment by kogir in "Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode"

kogir — Mon, 13 May 2024 23:31:21 +0000

I’m probably a little odd but I wipe my devices before international travel. All my travel documents are printed. If they want to steal a device, I’ll just replace it.

When I arrive safely I restore from backup and nothing is lost except an hour or so.

New comment by kogir in "Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual"

kogir — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 15:16:46 +0000

READ COMMITTED is great for applications that need a coherent snapshot of the database but not necessarily the absolutely most recent data, which in my experience is actually most apps.

It allows readers to see valid data (relationships are correct), while not blocking writers. It can be the difference between constant deadlocks and super-high throughput without lock contention.

New comment by kogir in "Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included"

kogir — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:42:46 +0000

Everything works fine via iCloud private relay. No account or other mitigations required.

So perhaps it’s not VPNs that are blocked and instead the traffic you’re sharing an IP with.

New comment by kogir in "Intel Previews Sierra Forest with 288 E-Cores, Announces Granite Rapids-D"

kogir — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 18:47:26 +0000

svchost.exe is literally what the name implies. It's a generic service host. You pass it a dll and an entrypoint (via command line arguments and registry keys) and it runs it.

You should look at which thing it's actually running to see what's using all your CPU.

Some articles detailing what it does and how it works: [1] https://nasbench.medium.com/demystifying-the-svchost-exe-pro... [2] https://pusha.be/index.php/2020/05/07/exploration-of-svchost... [3] https://blog.didierstevens.com/2019/10/29/quickpost-running-...

ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood

kogir — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 23:56:02 +0000

Article URL: https://computer.rip/2024-03-01-listening-in-on-the-neighborhood.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39576974

Points: 523

# Comments: 399

Multi-channel Audio Part 2

kogir — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:49:20 +0000

Article URL: https://computer.rip/2024-01-31-multi-channel-audio-part-2.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39232580

Points: 85

# Comments: 32

When the "R" goes missing from R&D (2021)

kogir — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 15:32:23 +0000

Article URL: https://madned.substack.com/p/when-the-r-goes-missing-from-r-and

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39166678

Points: 218

# Comments: 104

New comment by kogir in "Comcast squeezing 2Gbps internet speeds through decades-old coaxial cables"

kogir — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 19:56:13 +0000

Obviously not? Where are you living where even if fiber is available in your city, it’s not just a small section you’d need to deliberately account for in your selection of housing?