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New comment by thecosmicfrog in "Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android"

thecosmicfrog — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:47:01 +0000

Looks interesting. Good work. Do you have plans to open source the code?

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "The Dangers of SSL Certificates"

thecosmicfrog — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:27:54 +0000

Oh absolutely, I wouldn't use this for any production system. It would be a toy hobby project. I just find the notion of turning a no-degradation failure mode into a gradual-degradation one fascinating for some reason.

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "The Dangers of SSL Certificates"

thecosmicfrog — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:57:15 +0000

> the failure mode is the opposite of graceful degradation. It’s not like there’s an increasing percentage of requests that fail as you get closer to the deadline. Instead, in one minute, everything’s working just fine, and in the next minute, every http request fails.

This has given me some interesting food for thought. I wonder how feasible it would be to create a toy webserver that did exactly this (failing an increasing percentage of requests as the deadline approaches)? My thought would be to start failing some requests as the deadline approaches a point where most would consider it "far too late" (e.g. 4 hours before `notAfter`). At this point, start responding to some percentage of requests with a custom HTTP status code (599 for the sake of example).

Probably a lot less useful than just monitoring each webserver endpoint's TLS cert using synthetics, but it's given me an idea for a fun project if nothing else.

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86"

thecosmicfrog — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:23:04 +0000

What is "PI lock"? A cursory web search didn't reveal much.

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]"

thecosmicfrog — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 01:12:16 +0000

+1 for LGR. Also adding TechMoan to that list.

GitHub Actions policy now supports blocking and SHA pinning actions

thecosmicfrog — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:02:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-08-15-github-actions-policy-now-supports-blocking-and-sha-pinning-actions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44922498

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

GitHub Actions policy now supports blocking and SHA pinning actions

thecosmicfrog — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 01:36:19 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-08-15-github-actions-policy-now-supports-blocking-and-sha-pinning-actions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44919279

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Kubernetes will solve YAML headaches with KYAML

thecosmicfrog — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:21:57 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-is-getting-a-better-yaml/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44894020

Points: 2

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New comment by thecosmicfrog in "Windows XP Professional"

thecosmicfrog — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:37:24 +0000

"WIN32.RUN might have unexpected behaviors on browsers that are NOT Chromium-based (Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.)"

What would be the reasons this wouldn't run on Firefox? Genuine question from a non-web developer.

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK"

thecosmicfrog — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:08:29 +0000

As far as I've seen, it's generally just the WASM modules that crash, and not a full sim crash to desktop (CTD). But considering the WASM modules are usually running all of the aircraft logic, systems, flight control computers, etc. then it tends to mean a complete flight loss since you can't... well... control the aircraft anymore. I'm not sure what kind of automatic restart logic exists for crashed WASM modules, if anything. It would be interesting to see if module crash recovery is possible.

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK"

thecosmicfrog — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:01:53 +0000

Yep, that's the flight sim community in a nutshell.

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK"

thecosmicfrog — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:56:37 +0000

One of the biggest factors for any flight simulation add-on is performance, and so most of the major add-on developers are building C++ modules (compiled to WASM) to eek out as much performance as possible. My understanding is that it's also possible to write some things in JavaScript (and perhaps TypeScript), but performance takes a hit. I would assume Lua falls into that same performance trap, as I know Lua can be used for X-Plane add-on development, but it's (again) considered the less performance-centric approach as compared to C++.

I recall at least one add-on developer for X-Plane (Zibo [1]) migrating some of their Lua code over to C++.

[1] https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/138974-b737-800x-zib...

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK"

thecosmicfrog — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:06:20 +0000

DLSS also blurs the cockpit displays quite badly when there's anything moving on them (airspeed/altitude tape, etc.). It looks like temporal blur, which is interesting because the same blur doesn't happen with their TAA (*temporal* anti-aliasing) implementation.

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK"

thecosmicfrog — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:01:53 +0000

"WASM crash?" must be one of the top live chat comments on flight sim streams these days.

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard"

thecosmicfrog — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:36:32 +0000

No, the Airbus A320 cannot dump fuel.

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "Canonical Ubuntu Infra Outage"

thecosmicfrog — Thu, 29 May 2025 18:50:36 +0000

It seems to be affecting mirrors for APT, so `apt update` is broken.

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "The Kubernetes Gateway API through beginner's eyes"

thecosmicfrog — Thu, 15 May 2025 02:47:48 +0000

That was a fun read - thanks!

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "I Passed the CKA and Built the Kubernetes Scenario Book I Wish I Had"

thecosmicfrog — Thu, 15 May 2025 02:37:27 +0000

I'd be interested in reading about different scenarios. Could you share the book? Thanks!

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "There are two types of dishwasher people"

thecosmicfrog — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:49:36 +0000

I'm using the Miele dishwasher powder myself, mainly because it's the only one I could find at a reasonable price that wasn't tablets:

https://shop.miele.com.au/en/cleaning-and-accessories/miele-...

New comment by thecosmicfrog in "There are two types of dishwasher people"

thecosmicfrog — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:32:47 +0000

Especially if you use a small amount of detergent in the pre-wash compartment. Most people (at least in Europe) just use a single tablet in the main wash section. I've seen a massive improvement by putting a teaspoon amount of detergent in with the pre-wash. The ever-wonderful Technology Connections sent me down this path.[1]

Without detergent in the pre-wash compartment, only water is used to pre-soak the dishes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04