<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: neobrain</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=neobrain</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:15:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=neobrain" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where are you getting GPS from? Grandparent commenter talked about bluetooth beacons and parent suggested reading the docs.<p>The contact tracing APIs very deliberately avoided GPS for exactly the reason you mention.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:41:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194949</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just curious, has suspend (to RAM) been working for you?<p>For me the nvidia driver just keeps waking up the system instantly - but my setup is deviating from the upstream flake in a few ways, so I'm just wondering if it's worth setting up the system from scratch if it's working for other people.<p>Other than that, can fully second that the flake is working great. Only gotcha is that CUDA-enabled packages (including Firefox) require using the flox binary cache unless you want to compile them from source, but then the package versions can lag behind a bit (and debugging nix cache issues is surprisingly difficult).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:17:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153225</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, this had been temporarily permitted until recently, and AFAIK they continue doing so illegally at the moment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:57:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795744</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795744</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For context, this refers to "Chat Control 1.0", allowing facebook and other messaging providers to scan chats for harmful content (which they had been <i>temporarily</i> allowed to do by a recently expired law).<p>This is still problematic, but the far more dangerous Chat Control 2.0 that would weaken end-to-end-encrypted messengers like Signal is not being discussed here.<p>Not to diminish the gravity of the new development, but the defeatist "no way to prevent this" narratives that are already popping up here are getting old -- when in fact it looks like 2.0 is off the table for good because protest against it has proven effective.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:43:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795630</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "The end of my AArch64 desktop experiment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>See <a href="https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/#speakers" rel="nofollow">https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/#speakers</a><p>The effect is understated there, perhaps because Apple speakers are actually somewhat usable without this feature. For the X13s, the speakers might as well not exist in the current state on Linux.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:15:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733914</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "The end of my AArch64 desktop experiment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unlikely. I've been daily-driving the predecessor (X13s). While it's usable and technically all drivers are there, it's far from "without pain" due to endless number of small but annoying quirks. Just to give you an idea: boot fails 4 out of 5 times, external displays aren't recognized unless plugged in/out several times, sporadic resets during overnight sleep, etc. On top of that speakers will sound prohibitively tinny due unimplemented software-side speaker protection. I haven't tried T14s, but at least the audio issues will still apply there.<p>Apple devices supported by Asahi are a <i>far</i> more polished experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:14:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48731007</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48731007</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48731007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "My main Android phone is now 99% Google free"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems to be mainly brought up by people <i>concerned</i> they'd lose banking apps than people who actually have issues. It's <i>rooted</i> phones that often get blocked, whereas those that run LineageOS/microG without rooting are largely fine.<p>Yes, there are certainly banks that block more aggressively, but if you look at e.g. iodéOS's forums most of them work fine: <a href="https://community.iode.tech/t/banking-finance-and-insurance-apps-editable-list/8309" rel="nofollow">https://community.iode.tech/t/banking-finance-and-insurance-...</a><p>Anecdotally, I've also seen a lot of stories of people reaching out to support about overblocking actually seeing success. Apparently there are often enterprise reasons for the block and it literally just needs a customer to complain for engineering to be able to act.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:49:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48718598</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48718598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48718598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Is there some special feature I'm missing? I would only call it a marginal improvement. If that. I fail to see what the big deal is.<p>Among the "GPU rendered terminal" options, afaik Ghostty is the only one that has proper search/context menus, tabs, and scroll bars. I'm sure it's easy to get by without, but compared to the overall value-add of these terminals (which exists indeed but isn't tremendous either) I find it quite a significant downgrade, so I appreciate that Ghostty has both.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:54:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636768</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "Deno Desktop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With Dioxus, program logic compiles to native code instead of running it through a JS engine, and it ships its own HTML renderer (Blitz) instead of bundling a whole browser. So it's a lot more lightweight and performant than Electron.<p>As a minor bonus, the live-reload is also faster than what frameworks like React do. It truly has subsecond latency, which isn't exactly a game changer but is nice when iterating on visual details of an app.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:14:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48627254</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48627254</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48627254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>(for context, you're replying to the author of an alternative nix input pinning mechanism, which means... they're probably aware of all that and yet they chose their wording like this anyway)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 10:34:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307071</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307071</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "Proton Meet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They <i>are</i> hiring specifically for that: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonDrive/comments/1spx14d/proton_is_hiring_a_linux_desktop_employee_for/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonDrive/comments/1spx14d/proton...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 20:43:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041535</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "Self-updating screenshots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nothing public yet, but this is the Nix output for taking the screenshot, to be executed via `nix run .#screenshot`:<p><pre><code>        outputs.apps.x86_64.screenshot = {
          type = "app";
          program = toString (pkgs.writeShellScript "screenshot-script" ''
            set -euo pipefail

            EMU_SDK="${androidEmulatorComposition.androidsdk}/libexec/android-sdk"
            ADB="$EMU_SDK/platform-tools/adb"
            EMULATOR="$EMU_SDK/emulator/emulator"
            APK="${self.packages.${system}.debug}/myapp-debug.apk"

            SRC_DIR="$(${pkgs.git}/bin/git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
            AVD_HOME="$(mktemp -d)"
            trap 'kill "$EMU_PID" 2>/dev/null; wait "$EMU_PID" 2>/dev/null; rm -rf "$AVD_HOME"' EXIT

            # Create AVD
            AVD_DIR="$AVD_HOME/screenshot.avd"
            mkdir -p "$AVD_DIR"
            cat > "$AVD_HOME/screenshot.ini" <<EOF
            avd.ini.encoding=UTF-8
            path=$AVD_DIR
            target=android-${platformVersion}
            EOF
            cat > "$AVD_DIR/config.ini" <<EOF
            AvdId=screenshot
            PlayStore.enabled=false
            abi.type=x86_64
            avd.ini.encoding=UTF-8
            hw.cpu.arch=x86_64
            hw.gpu.enabled=yes
            hw.gpu.mode=swiftshader_indirect
            hw.lcd.density=420
            hw.lcd.height=2400
            hw.lcd.width=1080
            hw.ramSize=2048
            image.sysdir.1=system-images/android-${platformVersion}/google_apis/x86_64/
            skin.dynamic=yes
            tag.display=Google APIs
            tag.id=google_apis
            disk.dataPartition.size=2G
            EOF

            echo "==> Starting emulator..."
            ANDROID_AVD_HOME="$AVD_HOME" ANDROID_HOME="$EMU_SDK" \
              "$EMULATOR" -avd screenshot -no-window -no-audio -no-boot-anim \
              -gpu swiftshader_indirect -no-snapshot 2>&1 &
            EMU_PID=$!

            echo "==> Waiting for boot..."
            for i in $(seq 1 90); do
              BOOT=$("$ADB" shell getprop sys.boot_completed 2>/dev/null | tr -d '\r') || true
              if [ "$BOOT" = "1" ]; then
                echo "    Booted after ~$((i * 2))s"
                break
              fi
              sleep 2
            done
            if [ "$BOOT" != "1" ]; then
              echo "ERROR: Emulator failed to boot" >&2
              exit 1
            fi

            # Enable dark mode
            "$ADB" shell cmd uimode night yes

            # Install and launch
            echo "==> Installing APK..."
            "$ADB" install -r "$APK"
            "$ADB" shell pm grant com.me.myapp android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
            "$ADB" shell am start -n com.me.myapp/.MainActivity
            sleep 3

            # Navigate to settings screen by tapping "Notification Filters" button
            # This uses uiautomator to find the button by text for robustness
            "$ADB" shell uiautomator dump /sdcard/ui.xml
            BOUNDS=$("$ADB" shell cat /sdcard/ui.xml \
              | ${pkgs.gnugrep}/bin/grep -oP 'text="Notification Filters"[^>]*bounds="\K[^"]+' \
              || true)
            if [ -z "$BOUNDS" ]; then
              echo "ERROR: Could not find Notification Filters button" >&2
              exit 1
            fi
            # Parse bounds "[x1,y1][x2,y2]" to compute center tap coordinates
            X1=$(echo "$BOUNDS" | ${pkgs.gnused}/bin/sed 's/\[\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\)\]\[\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\)\]/\1/')
            Y1=$(echo "$BOUNDS" | ${pkgs.gnused}/bin/sed 's/\[\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\)\]\[\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\)\]/\2/')
            X2=$(echo "$BOUNDS" | ${pkgs.gnused}/bin/sed 's/\[\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\)\]\[\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\)\]/\3/')
            Y2=$(echo "$BOUNDS" | ${pkgs.gnused}/bin/sed 's/\[\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\)\]\[\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\)\]/\4/')
            TAP_X=$(( (X1 + X2) / 2 ))
            TAP_Y=$(( (Y1 + Y2) / 2 ))
            "$ADB" shell input tap "$TAP_X" "$TAP_Y"
            sleep 2

            # Capture and process screenshot
            echo "==> Capturing screenshot..."
            "$ADB" shell screencap -p /sdcard/screenshot.png
            "$ADB" pull /sdcard/screenshot.png "$AVD_HOME/raw.png"

            # Crop to content: remove status bar (top 128px) and empty space below
            # Per-App Overrides, then resize with high-quality Lanczos filter
            ${pkgs.imagemagick}/bin/magick "$AVD_HOME/raw.png" \
              -crop 1080x1100+0+128 +repage \
              -filter Lanczos -resize 540x \
              "$SRC_DIR/fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/phoneScreenshots/settings.png"

            echo "==> Screenshot saved to fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/phoneScreenshots/settings.png"
          '');
        };</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 17:05:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998995</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998995</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most people don't realize that the Asahi team ship features only once they work without quirks. For the set of supported hardware features, Asahi is much closer to a macOS experience than to an average x86 Linux laptop experience.<p>Meanwhile, Linux on my Lenovo X13s "works" but has tons of quirks: Boot fails 2 out of 3 times, the device hard-resets sometimes when waking up with a display connected, and the speakers are unusable due to lack of active overheat protection (and somehow this affects even external speakers). It technically works, but it's incredibly frustrating to use in practice.<p>If you plan to use Linux and don't <i>need</i> an ARM laptop, there's little reason to prefer a Qualcomm device over an x86 one currently. On the other hand, M1/M2 easily outperform a broad class of x86 laptops, and they have a Linux experience that's for many use cases close to on par with official vendor support.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:26:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920698</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "Self-updating screenshots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>+1 for this approach. For a mobile app, I made Nix spawn an ephemeral Android emulator instance for generating up-to-date screenshots, requiring no prior setup and leaving no lingering data around after running. Setting it up wasn't that high-effort in my case either; coming up with the idea was the hard part, the Nix code was one-shot by your favorite LLM.<p>Granted manually updating the screenshots isn't the most laborious task in the world, but the "upload-apk + take-screenshot + transfer-back-to-PC + edit" process is usually barely annoying enough that you end up almost never doing it otherwise (similar to the OP's experience in the closing paragraph).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:59:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918887</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918887</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quite the contrary, actually: <i>not</i> using a browser extension makes you much more susceptible to phishing attacks, since your password manager won't be able to protect you from copy-pasting credentials into an imposter website.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:17:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888614</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "Parallel agents in Zed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just injecting this here: What I've been missing is an equivalent for GitHub's "blame prior revision" feature to quickly follow through the history of individual source lines.<p><a href="https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/42583" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/42583</a><p>Thanks for building an awesome product :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:36:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874115</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874115</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>tl;dr for opt-out as per <a href="https://cli.github.com/telemetry#how-to-opt-out" rel="nofollow">https://cli.github.com/telemetry#how-to-opt-out</a> (any of these work individually):<p>export GH_TELEMETRY=false<p>export DO_NOT_TRACK=true<p>gh config set telemetry disabled (starting from version 2.91.0, which this announcement refers to)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:22:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862569</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article is specifically <i>not</i> referring to information that's sent to Apple servers - it's about information on the phone only, accessible through forensics tools with physical device access.<p>Signal's server-side push notifications only contain a "wakeup" message. The actual message popup is displayed after decrypting the message contents locally on the device. Of the things you mentioned, only the time of notification is visible to Apple/Google.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:12:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709157</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If some provider like Proton states they are pricacy-focused and protect your data from governments, but can still offer loads of your private data when ordered to, that damages their privacy claim.<p>"Loads" of private data? When has this allegedly happened or how would it technically even be possible?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:31:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625048</link><dc:creator>neobrain</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neobrain in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you create an account, it may be worth looking into "starter packs", which are lists of accounts around specific topics to follow. That's an easy solution if you run into the "I don't know who to follow and there's no algorithm that'll tell me" problem.</p>
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