Hacker News: ripdog

New comment by ripdog in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

ripdog — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:19:21 +0000

Well, I think the issue is in the AMD GPU driver. So, presumably it works on the Frame natively? Surely... Right?

New comment by ripdog in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

ripdog — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:24:59 +0000

For good reason. Last time I checked (this year), Alyx crashes Mesa (i.e. your Vulkan layer) when the player enters an in-game load zone. This happens with native linux and the proton windows version.

New comment by ripdog in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"

ripdog — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:11:48 +0000

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/releases

Trivial to self-host, and gives you full control of blocking.

New comment by ripdog in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"

ripdog — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:10:27 +0000

That's something people should run themselves. I run Adguard Home on my router. Unlike the main Adguard product, Adguard Home is fully FOSS. It's been rock-solid for me, and improves on pi-hole in various ways - like full IPv6 support.

New comment by ripdog in "RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source"

ripdog — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:26:58 +0000

But do real apps actually use them directly? Or only through the userland libraries?

Just FYI, the https://www.darlinghq.org project is doing MacOS app compat on Linux - i.e. building the userland libraries.

New comment by ripdog in "RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source"

ripdog — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:08:54 +0000

The real link: https://www.cappuccino.dev/aristo/

Looks great, so sad that it's yet another web framework. Kinda smacks of GNOME, though.

New comment by ripdog in "RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source"

ripdog — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:06:32 +0000

I honestly think the kernel interface is by far the easiest part of building a MacOS compat layer. The userland is gigantic, super complex, and totally closed source. That's the hard part.

AFAIK all macos software only talks to the kernel via userland APIs - so there's no particular benefit to basing ravynOS on XNU anyway. (Just the opinion of a layman.)

New comment by ripdog in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

ripdog — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:05:09 +0000

Because more-or-less all code in the kernel increases the attack surface and makes general security improvements more difficult. Removing code of all types makes maintainability easier, so old, unmaintained code is an easy sell for removal.

>This is the opposite of what my parent was hoping to see, extended support for old/obscure hardware because we have LLM.

That would only happen if the linux project was happy to accept LLM-generated fixes without human review - which they aren't. If human review is necessary, then unleashing LLMs to produce fixes and improvements to thousands of linux drivers is a detriment, not a benefit. The amount of code would just be too much, and reviewers would be swamped.

New comment by ripdog in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

ripdog — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:06:34 +0000

They're being removed due to a lack of maintenance. If anyone cared about that hardware and fixed the bugs, surely they would be kept.

New comment by ripdog in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

ripdog — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:19:55 +0000

So, devuan?

New comment by ripdog in "Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels"

ripdog — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:35:54 +0000

Windows has containers?

New comment by ripdog in "Free software scares normal people"

ripdog — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:42:40 +0000

I'd argue that's more because the average person has no interest in installing a new OS, or even any idea what an OS is.

Most people just keep the default. When the default is Linux (say, the Steam Deck), most people just keep Linux.

New comment by ripdog in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

ripdog — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:51:00 +0000

Because latency matters when gaming in a way which doesn't matter with AI inference?

Plus cloud gaming is always limited in range of games, there are restrictions on how you can use the PC (like no modding and no swapping savegames in or out).

New comment by ripdog in "A new experimental Google app for Windows"

ripdog — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 02:06:09 +0000

AFAIK it's not really possible to implement Everything in Linux because Everything relies on reading the entire file list at once from the NTFS metadata, allowing it to index at incredible speed. On Linux, there are dozens of filesystems which likely make it impossible to achieve the same.

That said, I do wonder why Linux gone search is always so slow even on indexed files.

New comment by ripdog in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

ripdog — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:39:27 +0000

It's incredibly obnoxious when people type "in my country" as if we're all supposed to just... know where they live. It's also incredibly common. Why do people do this?

New comment by ripdog in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

ripdog — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 04:55:32 +0000

Thank you for the correction, I did get that wrong. To be clear, there was no easy solution to get reliable, low latency DNS responses from my own resolver without breaking keepalive by forcibly caching entries longer?

New comment by ripdog in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

ripdog — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:14:51 +0000

Well that's the experience I had. Obviously caching was enabled (unbound), but most DNS keepalive times are so short as to be fairly useless for a single user.

Even if a root server wasn't in the US, it will still be pretty slow for me. Europe is far worse. Most of Asia has bad paths to me, except for Japan and Singapore which are marginally better than the US. Maybe Aus has one...?

New comment by ripdog in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

ripdog — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:35:41 +0000

Not a hardware issue, but a physics problem. I live in NZ. I guess the root servers are all in the US, so that's 130ms per trip minimum.

New comment by ripdog in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

ripdog — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:31:21 +0000

>Or just run a resolver yourself.

I did this for a while, but ~300ms hangs on every DNS resolution sure do get old fast.

New comment by ripdog in " and (2020)"
ripdog — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 09:35:59 +0000

Um, so, how are Mozilla supposed to get the hundreds of millions of dollars a year it costs to pay engineers to maintain an evergreen browser without Google's funding?

Hacker News: ripdog

New comment by ripdog in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

New comment by ripdog in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

New comment by ripdog in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"

New comment by ripdog in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"

New comment by ripdog in "RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source"

New comment by ripdog in "RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source"

New comment by ripdog in "RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source"

New comment by ripdog in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

New comment by ripdog in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

New comment by ripdog in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

New comment by ripdog in "Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels"

New comment by ripdog in "Free software scares normal people"

New comment by ripdog in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

New comment by ripdog in "A new experimental Google app for Windows"

New comment by ripdog in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

New comment by ripdog in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

New comment by ripdog in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

New comment by ripdog in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

New comment by ripdog in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

New comment by ripdog in " and (2020)" ripdog — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 09:35:59 +0000 Um, so, how are Mozilla supposed to get the hundreds of millions of dollars a year it costs to pay engineers to maintain an evergreen browser without Google's funding?

New comment by ripdog in " and (2020)"
ripdog — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 09:35:59 +0000

Um, so, how are Mozilla supposed to get the hundreds of millions of dollars a year it costs to pay engineers to maintain an evergreen browser without Google's funding?