Hacker News: remix2000

New comment by remix2000 in "Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes"

remix2000 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:49:27 +0000

I think it depends on the context? It's in an ID card's design goals to be provably valid, so it's pointless to not publish its public keys, but something like SSH pubkeys, uhh, should I really be so eager to just publicly dump all of mine…?

New comment by remix2000 in "Get your Windows license refund"

remix2000 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:56:34 +0000

Clearly a computer is a laptop if you can use it comfortably while it’s sitting on your laps.

New comment by remix2000 in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

remix2000 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:47:56 +0000

Nah, DBus itself is plain bad interface design. Perhaps they could just piggyback off Binder if DBus itself weren't beyond saving. Also, despite a common sentiment online, it's not at all a complex process to implement a Binder userspace (given you have a sensible IDL in the first place, that is…)

Wrt/ torvie's narcissistic snarks linked above, the most important task for a kernel is still to facilitate fast IPC. The only viable forms of IPC in Linux are UDS and Binder. The former is slow and clunky. The latter is not a valid choice for DBus. So DBus devs have to manage slow, clunky, ill-suited legacy IPC. When a kernel can't be bothered to accommodate one of the most important operating systems built upon it, that seems really bad.

New comment by remix2000 in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

remix2000 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:42:54 +0000

Every [Linux based] OS usually needs some sort of HAL to wrap [ioctl] driver calls into APIs that can be consumed by more than one process at a time. Nokia/Moblin/Sailfish use Freedesktop style HALs, i.e. stuff like Wayland, Pipewire, anything accessible over DBus (which also implies extremely slow IPC by any standards; mach ipc on apple's darwins is probably faster [sobs]).

Basically I'm suggesting that we might need a whole new OS on top of the Linux kernel.

New comment by remix2000 in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

remix2000 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:04:54 +0000

Switching from Android style Linux HAL to FreeDesktop style Linux HAL… I honestly think we need more Linux HAL options than just those two, when one is threatening to self-destruct and the other is arguably the single worst interface design ever conceived, by all measurements.

New comment by remix2000 in "RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)"

remix2000 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:37:01 +0000

> Who's an end user.

I think in this context it'd be any netizen who does not hold a significant amount of power to influence other [unrelated to them] netizens?

New comment by remix2000 in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

remix2000 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:13:36 +0000

I don't use the dummy plug for display, it's only that consumer nvidia gpus won't have working 3D acceleration if there is nothing physically connected to the card. My dummy plug doesn't support the resolutions I run games at anyway.

EDIT: Ok, correction, I bothered to go unplug the dummy plug and it still works. So I was wrong, Sunshine does not need a dummy plug at all, not even on Nvidia. Now it remains a mystery why I have one in the first place if it's useless after all…

New comment by remix2000 in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

remix2000 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:12:06 +0000

Now you try working with a fake in your head's place! :þ But yeah, real head (a monitor; doesn't have to be on) also works just as well, and even no head at all works, just won't accelerate 3D. Arbitrary resolutions also work. My only complaint with sunshine is that the webui authentication is really broken. Fortunately I don't need to go there much.

New comment by remix2000 in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

remix2000 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:05:38 +0000

Nvidia GPUs refuse to accelerate 3D w/o an output connected; if I had a Radeon, I wouldn't need the plug, it's just an Nvidia thing I believe.

Afaict, Moonshine relies on a separate graphical session running on your monitor and that's how it gets around that limitation of Nvidia GPUs. If I had a monitor plugged in to my box, Sunshine would work just as well.

New comment by remix2000 in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

remix2000 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:19:32 +0000

But Sunshine _is_ headless, I would know if it weren't, I'm using it as such (albeit with a dummy plug, but that's just a hardware limitation).

New comment by remix2000 in "Regressive JPEGs"

remix2000 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:20:34 +0000

Wow, Firefox never fully loads the page, while WebKit fails to load it altogether, instead it displays "Operation was cancelled" in system font after a short freeze. I didn't manage to see the images change in any way as the post would suggest though, which left me confused.

New comment by remix2000 in "Cloudflare Drop"

remix2000 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:43:27 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application always been there waiting to be discovered

New comment by remix2000 in "Beer CSS – Build material design in record time"

remix2000 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:31:23 +0000

I thought I'm the hardest to impress gremlin out there, but despite what the comments here look like, this is the best looking and practical MD3 CSS I've seen to the time. Not fond of promoting ethanol consumption though.

New comment by remix2000 in "Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not"

remix2000 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:19:39 +0000

Missed opportunity of tricking llms into mining crypto xþ

New comment by remix2000 in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

remix2000 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:55:55 +0000

Here in northern Europe, there just isn't enough sunlight to not become deficient, so a vitamin D supplement is a must.

New comment by remix2000 in "Steam Machine launches today"

remix2000 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:00:09 +0000

Isn't CEC available for all in-tree GPU drivers using DP-to-HDMI passthrough? (although I do imagine Nvidia would still be preferred for a custom build, perhaps with a USB CEC injector)

New comment by remix2000 in "Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2"

remix2000 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:15:59 +0000

You could run java literally anywhere it matters with not too much effort, but ios store terms would never allow for mods anyway (neither would ps/xbox/ninty store probably), so you could just as well redirect effort to optimize for platform specific audiences, AKA in this case kids wielding their parents' credit card.

New comment by remix2000 in "GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2"

remix2000 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:12:49 +0000

Well the difference here is that you're overly simplifying complex biology and many other factors whereas llms are in fact actually simple mathematical models. As always, the devil lies in the details. Dismissing intricacies is a useful tool for daydreamers, not so much for engineers.

New comment by remix2000 in "GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2"

remix2000 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:30:23 +0000

Calling llm slop "hallucinating" is so counter-productive imo. After all, LLMs are just a variant of markov chains and as such this technology isn't able to discern falsehoods from truths. It's like trying to use a barometer to tell the time.

New comment by remix2000 in "CSSQuake"

remix2000 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:26:25 +0000

It seems like this CSS Quake needs JS to run…