Hacker News: naitgacem

New comment by naitgacem in "Reading the news is the new smoking"

naitgacem — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:23:03 +0000

Exactly my thoughts. I thought it was going to suggest something better, but it was really just suggesting ignorance is bliss.

New comment by naitgacem in "Which year: guess which year each photo was taken"

naitgacem — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 11:14:44 +0000

On Firefox Windows I see the number 4 with some line over it.

New comment by naitgacem in "Which year: guess which year each photo was taken"

naitgacem — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:08:24 +0000

There are indeed no emojis on that comment for me, are you using a different client?

New comment by naitgacem in "Emulating an iPhone in QEMU"

naitgacem — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:14:54 +0000

LineageOS, the "successor" to CyanogenMod of the day

New comment by naitgacem in "Emulating an iPhone in QEMU"

naitgacem — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 16:22:50 +0000

I'm running a custom ROM on a Galaxy S8 (so without project treble) and I've been pleasantly surprised!

Even something as niche as the swipe on fingerprint sensor to pull notifications drawer down still works!

Everything from phone calls, camera, fingerprint, all the essentials work pretty much flawlessly.

New comment by naitgacem in "Compiler Options Hardening Guide for C and C++"

naitgacem — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:20:50 +0000

I have been always stuck with C99, what is the "post" C23 way that will zero initialize a full union?

Or am I misunderstanding this?

New comment by naitgacem in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

naitgacem — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:06:30 +0000

IANAL stands for "I am not a lawyer"

This reminded me of this one time my father used the term "annales" which in french apparently means "past exams" or something :P

New comment by naitgacem in "Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024)"

naitgacem — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:00:26 +0000

I this this ought to be an iterative process, such as study principles so that you don't start from absolute scratch, then make a wheel that sucks, study some more and do more resarch yourself, rince and repeat until satisfied.

There is so much nuance that doesn't get captured in all the study you can do about how a certain thing is made.

New comment by naitgacem in "Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024)"

naitgacem — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:55:56 +0000

Even with numbers, some locales use a comma `,` as the decimal seperator, and some use the dot `.` so that can cause headaches out of the box.

New comment by naitgacem in "DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse"

naitgacem — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 05:43:52 +0000

Can someone point to where i can read some context?

New comment by naitgacem in "Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the Starlink Admin Panel"

naitgacem — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:04:17 +0000

Did you perhaps forgot to edit and add the link? I'm interested in hearing about that

New comment by naitgacem in "SVC16: Simplest Virtual Computer"

naitgacem — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 05:58:32 +0000

Hi. Care to share the source code perhaps?

New comment by naitgacem in "I Sent an Ethernet Packet"

naitgacem — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 13:04:46 +0000

I think the middle ground of generating code using MX and taking it from there using cmake is a really good place to start.

New comment by naitgacem in "I sent an Ethernet packet"

naitgacem — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:59:22 +0000

Renode offers a similar approach, one could even route all stimulated packets into Wireshark. It's really powerful when it works

New comment by naitgacem in "I Sent an Ethernet Packet"

naitgacem — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:56:59 +0000

I've done a similar thing with the exact same microcontroller! However it was on the "Black pill" board.

It was really fun and surprisingly helped me get ahead in the networking class I'm taking.

New comment by naitgacem in "Accountability sinks"

naitgacem — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 05:47:45 +0000

In my country they enacted this system for student management that is national.

It handles signups, restauration and housing services, grades, everything.

One example is that the grades are entered by professors and mistakes happen all the time, for everyone, due to the insane server load.

There's no one to complain to, because the excuse is always "it's the system, not us"

New comment by naitgacem in "Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)"

naitgacem — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 09:39:27 +0000

Unfortunately once one company does something and gets away with it, or makes even more money, everyone will follow.

I was looking at Thinkpads and was somewhat shocked to see they started doing that too!

New comment by naitgacem in "The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t"

naitgacem — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 09:18:22 +0000

Android adopted an approach in a similar spirit.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/ab

New comment by naitgacem in "Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)"

naitgacem — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 09:02:18 +0000

Upon reading the title at first glance, I thought this was going to be how "effecient" computers nowadays. Such as MacBooks and such, who started this efficient computers thing in the recent times. And they are, but as a result computers are all worse off for it. I mean soldered RAMs and everything is a system on a chip.

New comment by naitgacem in "Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts"

naitgacem — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:32:51 +0000

I commented asking them politely to rephrase in better English since it was uncomprehensible, or at least append what they intended to say in their preferred language. They didn't like it...