Hacker News: miduil

New comment by miduil in "Knoppix"

miduil — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:43:35 +0000

Kinda wild that in primary/early middle school basically Knoppix and Wienux live distributions set me up for what has later become a career working with Linux/DevOps/SRE. Can't thank everyone who made Linux so accessible to people at a young age enough.

New comment by miduil in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

miduil — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:02:34 +0000

same just cancelled it and left Elon Musk as a reason

New comment by miduil in "Magnetoelectric antennas could transform how underwater robots talk"

miduil — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:52:28 +0000

I was just looking into the topic recently, there is a decent graphic explaining how fiber is already used for submarine communication for quite some time.

Page 13 shows the diagram of an undersea fiber network separating into durable heavy and lightweight wires.

    Sea surface
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        |
        | near-surface armored cable
        |
     [Depressor]
          \
           \  fiber cable
            \  0.010 inch diameter
             \ up to 40 km long
              \
            [Float pack]
                 \
                  \ 50 m secondary cable
                   \
                 [Vehicle]

https://sundowner.colorado.edu/seefeldt/ptc-2005_2016/2013_p...

New comment by miduil in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

miduil — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:51:22 +0000

You can skip inotify tools altogether and do use systemd like this to trigger `rm -rf`:

    `~/.config/systemd/user/remove-thunderbird-dir.path`

   [Unit]
   Description=Watch for unwanted ~/thunderbird directory
   

   [Path]
   PathExists=%h/thunderbird
   Unit=remove-thunderbird-dir.service
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=default.target

New comment by miduil in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

miduil — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:09:14 +0000

It's poisoning the filesystem cache, if you don't have a setuid binary handy you just poison anything else that gets executed by the host.

New comment by miduil in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

miduil — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:12:40 +0000

Yes, it demonstrates that it's possible to harden well - at least for some cases. It appears depending on the environment hardened kernel / runtime environments are pretty much possible to have safeguards working today already.

New comment by miduil in "Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE"

miduil — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:07:36 +0000

This again does not work under Android, at least in termux compiled with clang/gcc.

Horribly Complicated Electric Guitar Keyboard (2013)

miduil — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:16:00 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2013/04/12/horribly-complicated-electric-guitar-keyboard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867236

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

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

miduil — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:39:22 +0000

I wonder if this is the reason for Google not majorly renewing their Pixel line since Pixel 9 till 11.

New comment by miduil in "Helium is hard to replace"

miduil — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:54:39 +0000

New MRI only use 7 Liters (25 Cups) instead of ~1500L (~330Gallons) of liquid Helium due to better sealed magnets.

https://mriquestions.com/uploads/3/4/5/7/34572113/philips_bl...

New comment by miduil in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

miduil — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:40:21 +0000

But lossy-codecs job is to utilize psychovisual tricks to discard as much high-frequency information as possible, whilst remaining similar visual effects. If you increase the brightness in RAW and then re-encode the JPEG - more noise is being pulled up in the visual spectrum, therefor less of that information (filesize) is discarded.

For example, if you render Gaussian noise in photopea and export as JPEG 100% quality, it has 9.2MB. If you reduce the exposure by -2 it goes down to 7.8MB. That's partially because more parts of the noise are effectively black pixels, but also I believe because of the earlier mentioned effect.

New comment by miduil in "Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent"

miduil — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:06:12 +0000

Good for them, I cancelled my subscription simply because Linux support is so awful. It's impossible to watch in 4k, and even with 1080p you frequently get automatically downgraded to lower res bitrate whenever the window isn't focused. Absolutely daunting.

New comment by miduil in "Kona EV Hacking"

miduil — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:32:04 +0000

> [...] due to some dipshit blonde not paying attention [...]

Wow, instantly stopped reading after this. I can't comprehend how someone would even remotely have the courage writing such in a public posting.

New comment by miduil in "Japanese Woodblock Print Search"

miduil — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 08:58:34 +0000

Wow, that's wonderful. There is a store that sells original Woodblock prints in Vienna, close to the Opera. Every time I'm passing by I take a few moments to look and reflect on those prints, it's great recognizing some on this website now.

New comment by miduil in "How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?"

miduil — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:44:24 +0000

> Arguments against proactive MRI scanning always seem to have a whiff of status quo bias to them

More and more European countries are currently adopting Lung Cancer screening programs. It's usually limited to people with a certain amount of cigarette-pack-years, but still gives the opportunity for driving more of the innovation you're talking about. I think the main challenge at the moment is that nothing in healthcare is prepared of looking at those scans effectively, a radiologist has full medical education + additional specialization - without effective procedures you'll never be able to provide full-body scans with any meaningful impact.

New comment by miduil in "FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap"

miduil — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:25:12 +0000

Hehe, I'm eagerly waiting for this one as well as I'd be extremely happy to replace some hack to run docker images with `systemd-nspawn` served from the nix store.

New comment by miduil in "Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down"

miduil — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:23:11 +0000

What a story. Be friendly to your neighbors, otherwise they might turn off your TV!

When I was living in Berlin, the entire apartment complex had a WhatsApp group and people would (of course it's Berlin) party a lot. People would ask each other to turn down the volume, which worked for the most part - at least for severe partying. Best messages were like "you've been partying all night, it's 2pm, I need some silence to have a meeting.

Back then I was dreaming of some shared application, people could put on their phone or laptop and then the collective could decide or at least hint through that software that the volume was up too high.

New comment by miduil in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

miduil — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:31:36 +0000

Platform was dying for years before it was finally financially interoperable, before that they've lost over a year worth of contents due to some corrupted hardware. I can't exactly remember for sure that this happened during a migration, but the corruption of the main database was the main cause to lose that data.

In the end, there was just not enough money to justify keeping it alive.

New comment by miduil in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

miduil — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:53:23 +0000

Yeah because soup.io (Blogspam Link today) simply lost its data because they didn't migrate and the hard drive crashed.

New comment by miduil in "Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland"

miduil — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:51:49 +0000

Checkout the Settings panel, in the GitHub screencast this feature is shown in the there.