Hacker News: mscrivo

New comment by mscrivo in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

mscrivo — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:53:50 +0000

WPA3 support for one would be nice, so I don't have to create a separate, insecure, SSID just for it.

New comment by mscrivo in "The Pain That Is GitHub Actions"

mscrivo — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:37:03 +0000

To expand on this, CircleCI lets you easily ssh into a run so you can debug it as if you were debugging it on your own machine. I cannot tell you how many times this has saved me countless hours because you don't need to wait for your changes to build and then subsequently fail repeatedly, drastically shortening the iteration cycle.

New comment by mscrivo in "A brief history of code signing at Mozilla"

mscrivo — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 23:09:33 +0000

I've actually got an action for this (based on fork, so can't take full credit): https://github.com/mscrivo/signtool-code-sign

you can see a usage example here: https://github.com/mscrivo/OotD/blob/main/.github/workflows/...

New comment by mscrivo in "Intel-undervolt: CPU undervolting and throttling configuration tool for Linux"

mscrivo — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:36:27 +0000

I was directly replying to the parent's question of whether there were any uses of SGX that were not anti-consumer. Signal's use of it, is very much in line with my thinking of what constitutes pro-consumer.

I agree though, we're all getting slightly off topic

New comment by mscrivo in "Intel-undervolt: CPU undervolting and throttling configuration tool for Linux"

mscrivo — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 02:12:08 +0000

Here's one: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

New comment by mscrivo in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

mscrivo — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:39:26 +0000

not sure "non-apple watches" is accurate here. I can do all of those things with my Pixel watch

edit: as comment below points out, I was missing the obvious context of paired with an iPhone.

New comment by mscrivo in "PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril"

mscrivo — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:15:17 +0000

Application level connection pools are not enough if you're using something like k8s and have your "application" running across hundreds of pods, each with their own application level connection pool. pgBouncer helps tremendously in that situation because all those pods will use a single pool. We cut down avg open connections dramatically by doing that from over 1000 to less than 400.

New comment by mscrivo in "Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier?"

mscrivo — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 01:06:17 +0000

Italy's obesity rate is not 42%. That's the rate for 2 year olds, which is bad in and if itself. The obesity rate overall is about 10% though, which is amongst the lowest in oecd counties.

New comment by mscrivo in "Zeroing in on Decarbonization"

mscrivo — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:21:00 +0000

Ontario, Canada is even further ahead, having eliminated coal completed by 2014. They botched much of it, with setting up bad contracts, which led to a lot of wasted taxpayer dollars. Even still, it shows it's possible and the outcome was fantastic. Complete elimination of smog days and far lower incidence of asthma cases.

New comment by mscrivo in "New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available"

mscrivo — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:47:16 +0000

Why are they still using Killer WiFi NIC's on these things. They are absolutely terrible. We have a bunch of XPS 13 and 15's at our office (9360's up to 9570's) and every single one of them has random connectivity problems on our office WiFi and people's home networks.

We've had to replace all of them with Intel 9260's and the problems instantly disappear. I don't know how this is not a customer support nightmare for them, and why they continue using them given the relatively low cost of the Intel cards.

New comment by mscrivo in "Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store"

mscrivo — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 19:14:51 +0000

This is not much of an issue with newer versions of Android. see Tim Sweeney's tweet about the situation: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/102553539172465049...

New comment by mscrivo in "Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes"

mscrivo — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:03:59 +0000

They put "suggestions" for 3rd party apps right in the start menu. There's no way they're intelligently suggesting those apps either because they pop up almost immediately after a fresh install, and are often about games.

New comment by mscrivo in "Studying how the brain relinquishes childhood memories"

mscrivo — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:37:23 +0000

Not sure that's quite right either. I have no recollection of any events before the age of 10 or so.

New comment by mscrivo in "Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your Phone's Mic"

mscrivo — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:46:06 +0000

Magisk (Android root utility) has the ability to hide itself very well. Google Pay and most, if not all, banking apps are not able to detect it. It is a cat and mouse game for sure, but so far the Magisk developers are keeping ahead of that curve.

New comment by mscrivo in "How to sell a $300 chocolate bar"

mscrivo — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:32:15 +0000

So disappointed Videri doesn't ship to Canada, it looks very good.

New comment by mscrivo in "Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack"

mscrivo — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 13:36:08 +0000

Why not just keep it connected to your headphones/earbuds wire all the time? Clunky, I admit, but at least you won't lose it.

New comment by mscrivo in "AVX-512, what’s useful for us"

mscrivo — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 19:29:32 +0000

AVX code is known to make the CPU run way hotter than usual. Perhaps that caused throttling that made general code running at the same time, or within a short span thereafter, perform worse?

New comment by mscrivo in "Docker for Windows 17.11 with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update"

mscrivo — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:46:37 +0000

Windows 10 or Server 2016 1709 or higher.

New comment by mscrivo in "Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced"

mscrivo — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 21:08:06 +0000

That's still not clear. It doesn't say they will start charging for original quality shots taken before 2020. To me it just seems like if you want to keep storing original quality shots taken AFTER 2020, then you will have to pay for that going forward.

New comment by mscrivo in "Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced"

mscrivo — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:47:20 +0000

That's insidious if that's the case. I (and probably) many others took it to mean that photos taken through that date would enjoy unlimited storage permanently, not that they would start charging after that date. Would be nice if we could get some clarification.