Hacker News: michrassena

New comment by michrassena in "New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges"

michrassena — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:33:17 +0000

It's neat that this exists, and I'm happy that people are still funding these kinds of projects.

But 6x17 panoramic cameras exist at a price point with money left over for film and processing, a much larger negative, instant shutter, flash sync, wireless, more space than a nomad, etc.

New comment by michrassena in "QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image"

michrassena — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 01:57:31 +0000

I hope the QNX can fix their antiquated password process on this site. Apparently I still had an account from the last time they opened things up, and I asked for a password reset. I received a six character temporary password by email and used that log in. Then when I changed the password (which wasn't prompted for when I logged in, I had to hunt down the change password option), I was limited to alphanumerics and 20 characters. Edit: I'll also add that the entire process of setting up an account, getting a license, granting yourself a license, then downloading the software center all just to download the Raspberry Pi image was a lot of roundabout steps for something I'm going to play around with on the weekend and never look at again. I know this is an exercise to gain customers, but still a hassle even for those familiar with the process. Ultimately it reads as if QNX is deathly afraid of giving something away.

New comment by michrassena in "FreeBSD: How Can We Make It More Attractive to New Users?"

michrassena — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:18:19 +0000

I can connect to wifi on my old Thinkpad running Haiku. There's no reason FreeBSD shouldn't have full support for wifi out of the box. Even OpenBSD has better wifi support. After many years, reasons start to look like excuses. Make it work.

But at the end of the day, if I work a long time at it I can get FreeBSD to do everything Linux can do. But that's kind of the problem. New users are casual users. What does FreeBSD offer that Linux, MacOS and Windows don't that isn't related to running services on big hardware?

FreeBSD just ends up being like another distro people hop to occasionally, find it doesn't support all their hardware or the software they're used to, and they hop to something else.

New comment by michrassena in "A RP2040 based DECstation 3000 emulator that can run DECWindows"

michrassena — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 01:58:17 +0000

I'm looking over at my Decstation 5000/260 with the burnt-out power supply. Maybe this is what I need to get that feeling back.

New comment by michrassena in "The Web Site to Remember National Semiconductor's Series 32000 Family"

michrassena — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 05:10:57 +0000

I was pleased to see a page with photos (and PDF documentation) of the Ceres systems which were used to develop the Oberon operating system.

http://cpu-ns32k.net/Ceres.html

New comment by michrassena in "Boot legacy PCs from NVMe storage"

michrassena — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 01:00:00 +0000

I'm doing something similar with the VisionFive 2, boot is on the SD card, the NVME does the rest.

New comment by michrassena in "At last, the Raspberry Pi shortage is finally coming to an end"

michrassena — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 01:18:47 +0000

I've ordered something now to at least get in the queue for the next time. Hopefully by then, some Zero 2 boards will be available.

New comment by michrassena in "At last, the Raspberry Pi shortage is finally coming to an end"

michrassena — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 01:21:59 +0000

It looks like it's not possible to order one unless you've ordered something from Pimoroni before 12 May 2023. The only one in stock currently is the Pi Zero. So unfortunately it's still the same story. Yeah, we had lots of stock, but it's gone now and you couldn't order it anyway. I hope it gets better soon, and all this pent-up demand doesn't collapse once stocks are full.

New comment by michrassena in "At last, the Raspberry Pi shortage is finally coming to an end"

michrassena — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 17:32:03 +0000

I think I've only ever used the row of GPIO pins on the Pi for UART, and for running the dog-slow screens that use up most of them. These days, I'd put Micropython on a Pi Pico or other MCU for GPIO.

New comment by michrassena in "At last, the Raspberry Pi shortage is finally coming to an end"

michrassena — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 17:30:06 +0000

I have a small stack of Raspberry Pi boards that I bought one at a time over the last few years. My issue with them is I could never buy three or four at once. I was always hit with the full shipping cost on something that weighs an ounce. As far as I know this has always been the case in the US.

I want to be able to buy a few at a time, like any other product.

New comment by michrassena in "Connect to your Raspberry Pi over USB using gadget mode"

michrassena — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 20:16:56 +0000

I'm currently trying to do this on my little stack of Pi Zero and Zero 2 boards. I remember at some point this worked great, and then I couldn't get it to work again. So far I'm not having any success. The Pi doesn't show up as a USB device using lsusb on the host. Working my way through a stack of micro-usb cables. Maybe they all are charge only. Anyone have recent success with 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu on the host end?

New comment by michrassena in "Inferno-OS: distributed operating system where everything is a file"

michrassena — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 03:02:42 +0000

I'm disappointed to see that the binaries for the Raspberry Pi aren't available anymore at the bitbucket linked on https://github.com/yshurik/inferno-rpi.

I've run Plan9 in the paste on Raspberry Pi and found it to be a neat experience. Inferno I've only run under Windows, and which seemed kind of pointless.

New comment by michrassena in "Copyright Registration Guidance: Works containing material generated by AI"

michrassena — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 04:25:50 +0000

Is the lack of human authorship the gist of the argument? Can you claim copyright on the output from a compiler? Or is this like work for hire, where you just give instructions to the creative professional?

New comment by michrassena in "On Taking Photographs"

michrassena — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 04:19:57 +0000

I've encountered something like this attitude, though it's more a reverence for the newest, flashiest gear in online forums. Certain camera brands bring it out in people, like certain car and computer brands used to.

Oddly, photography is generally an asocial pursuit, at least as an amateur. So what does it matter what the photographic community thinks. If you're in business, they aren't customers, and if you show your work, they aren't the audience.

New comment by michrassena in "On Taking Photographs"

michrassena — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 04:10:59 +0000

I agree, Flickr has lost its spark. It might be dying, it might not. But whatever it had is gone.

New comment by michrassena in "Some Ubuntu security patches are now behind 'Ubuntu Pro', a paid product"

michrassena — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 04:41:36 +0000

It's a perverse incentive for sure.

New comment by michrassena in "Some Ubuntu security patches are now behind 'Ubuntu Pro', a paid product"

michrassena — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 04:28:31 +0000

Thanks, that explains things a bit better. It sounds like it's better to not use the universe repository at all in that case. I don't suppose I can just switch over to Debian for those packages, can I?

New comment by michrassena in "Some Ubuntu security patches are now behind 'Ubuntu Pro', a paid product"

michrassena — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 04:24:17 +0000

So is this in fact a good thing reframed as something negative because Canonical is asking for money?

New comment by michrassena in "Some Ubuntu security patches are now behind 'Ubuntu Pro', a paid product"

michrassena — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 04:22:47 +0000

So if I'm reading sources.list correctly, universe repositories don't receive security updates from the Ubuntu team. Is it now the case that they do, as long as you've enrolled in Ubuntu Pro?

That makes it sound as if Canonical has taken some kind of responsibility for making these packages secure at a cost for more than five devices.

New comment by michrassena in "The limits of "computational photography""

michrassena — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 04:11:47 +0000

I don't think we're that point yet, but there's some amazing work on deconvolution for seeing around corners.