Hacker News: nichch

New comment by nichch in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

nichch — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:56:00 +0000

The "just wifi" is about getting your true geolocation so regulated gaming platforms can operate legally. Ironically, I bet whatever API they use can be intercepted by a kernel level process.

They also have VM checks. I "accidentally" logged into MGM from a virtual machine. They put my account on hold and requested I write a "liability statement" stating I would delete all "location altering software" and not use it again. (Really!)

New comment by nichch in "OpenVPN Is Open to VPN Fingerprinting"

nichch — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 04:08:53 +0000

Mullvad uses both OpenVPN and Wireguard

New comment by nichch in "Optical or Digital: Minimum focusing distance on iPhone 15 Pro Max 5x camera"

nichch — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 07:50:07 +0000

At the bottom of Settings > Camera, there is a setting called “Macro Control”.

If enabled, it displays an icon when the lenses are auto swapped and pressing it swaps them back.

New comment by nichch in "The “faces of Amazon” ex-employee stories site has mysteriously vanished"

nichch — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 04:59:16 +0000

Most recent archive (2022): https://web.archive.org/web/20221024011918/https://sites.goo...

New comment by nichch in "Oracle sends legal notice to rename company over 'JavaScript' trademark"

nichch — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 23:28:28 +0000

The full name of the company seems to be “Rust for Javascript Developers Ltd”

Disclaimer: I hate Oracle

New comment by nichch in "Internal Tech Emails: Mark Zuckerberg: “VR / AR Strategy”"

nichch — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 04:34:18 +0000

Anecdotally, I’ve shown VR to 15 or 20 people and nobody has gotten motion sick or felt nauseous.

One person got dizzy, but only when guardian became visible.

New comment by nichch in "Google calls in help from Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. fight"

nichch — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 14:18:44 +0000

> What about uploading every binary you run to their server to check if its “approved”?

My understanding was macOS only checked the signature of third party executables before first run.

Windows may let you run it first, but any unknown executable (not just a hash, the file itself) gets sent to Microsoft by default. [0]

[0] https://medium.com/sensorfu/how-my-application-ran-away-and-...

New comment by nichch in "Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far"

nichch — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 02:14:06 +0000

Yet those types of organizations are already scraping this data behind the scenes. Twitter’s API restrictions hurt well intentioned actors.

New comment by nichch in "Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms"

nichch — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 17:07:24 +0000

I wonder how open and shut those DUI cases really are. In Michigan, they’ve recently discovered their THC test would return positive with the presence of CBD.

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2022/08/michigan-polic...

New comment by nichch in "Building a fast all-SSD NAS on a budget"

nichch — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 22:48:16 +0000

I was thinking the same thing, but wouldn’t these be okay if his workload is mainly WORM?

New comment by nichch in "We are removing the option to create new subscriptions"

nichch — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 22:52:22 +0000

Could you elaborate on the Australian laws?

New comment by nichch in "Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources"

nichch — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 06:56:26 +0000

I’m hoping the full API becomes open again.

New comment by nichch in "The State of Web Scraping 2022"

nichch — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:02:42 +0000

Economic value and actual usage.

New comment by nichch in "Graviton2 and Graviton3"

nichch — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 02:42:40 +0000

Unlikely for now. The ball has just started rolling with the M1.

New comment by nichch in "Twitter starts to require login to view tweets"

nichch — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:51:31 +0000

I can confirm this as recently as June 2021

New comment by nichch in "Our lawsuit against ChessBase"

nichch — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:03:46 +0000

> Due to Chessbase’s repeated license violations, leading developers of Stockfish have terminated their GPL license with ChessBase permanently.

What do they mean by this?

New comment by nichch in "The Pirate Bay Away from the Keyboard (2013)"

nichch — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 21:43:55 +0000

I’d suggest a link change to this, given the advertisements on TPB

New comment by nichch in "Valve Steam Deck"

nichch — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:41:20 +0000

The Steam Link continues to be very useful for my girlfriend and I. It’s plug and play and we haven’t had issues with compatibility or controllers like we have trying to set steam up on a Pi 4.

New comment by nichch in "Teaching open-source software in North Korea"

nichch — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:04:51 +0000

Wouldn’t it be the duty of the platform in this situation?

New comment by nichch in "Steam required additional 57.51 GB download for a review"

nichch — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 16:05:05 +0000

Epic has no DRM. Steam’s “DRM” is non intrusive and optional. The EGS is a CEF application and is probably less resource efficient than it should be.