Hacker News: tmjwid

New comment by tmjwid in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

tmjwid — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:49:07 +0000

For the same reason, plugging in an external keyboard is also a no-go since freshly updated iPhones are placed in what's known as a Before First Unlock state, which prevents wired accessories from working until the passcode is entered.

Makes sense why he didn't do this.

New comment by tmjwid in "Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]"

tmjwid — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:14:32 +0000

Yeah POCSAG is not encrypted here in the UK. You can still see all the emergency information from around the country unencrypted in realtime. They even broadcast the details of the emergency and a lot of times it's not nice. You do/did get some bird watching sightings though!

New comment by tmjwid in "Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras"

tmjwid — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:05:34 +0000

I just installed this on my Wyse cam 2 after using the defang hacks for years. This works all the same but it is much better. Having working night vision where it isn't just randomly enabling the IR filter is great.

Upgrade from dafang was easy if you follow the guide on the github wiki. Getting RTSP working was strange as it wouldn't work over IP but did over local DNS entry, but that's the only issue I've found so far.

New comment by tmjwid in "Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games"

tmjwid — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:31:28 +0000

It's always on GamePass as well, I'm not sure if this counts as a sale in these figures. Although I don't think Infinite Wealth was though so not sure.

New comment by tmjwid in "Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet"

tmjwid — Wed, 28 May 2025 09:16:47 +0000

For further listening, Cory has produced a podcast for CBC that might be a good accompaniment to this article called "Understood: Who Broke the Internet?".

New comment by tmjwid in "Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK"

tmjwid — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:27:21 +0000

Yeah my bad.

New comment by tmjwid in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

tmjwid — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:17:34 +0000

I can't imagine many here (UK) will really care, we've had multiple breeches of privacy imposed on us by the powers that be. - Removed incorrect assumption of this not being reported.

New comment by tmjwid in "The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released"

tmjwid — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 21:40:35 +0000

It's an engine port from the decompilation project RE3. A lot to changes to get it to run

New comment by tmjwid in "The paper passport's days are numbered"

tmjwid — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 09:27:12 +0000

My Eink phone can do this (Hisense model), but the sacrifice of using one might be too big just for an on-demand QR code.

New comment by tmjwid in "Raspberry Pi announces branded range of NVMe SSDs and SSD kit"

tmjwid — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:14:01 +0000

I use a HP T640 currently as my main "home lab" server and I'm planning on relocating the old Dell/Wyse Zx0Q to my mums as a backup server.

I run about 20 different containers at the moment and run TVheadend bare metal with 3 DVB-T2 tuners.

Both machine used USB3 - Sata enclosures for extra storage. Work greats. The old Dell machine even did transcoding in JellyFin for 1080p content, which was not expected given how crap the cpu is in it. Everything ran fast and stable.

Check out Parky Towers for in-depth info on many different thin clients.

New comment by tmjwid in "Building static binaries with Go on Linux"

tmjwid — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:05:58 +0000

Jellyfin is one of the bigger ones for sure.

New comment by tmjwid in "PS-HTTPD: A web server written in PostScript (2010)"

tmjwid — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:36:06 +0000

Same here, I think it's a sign...

New comment by tmjwid in "A personal music streaming server that works"

tmjwid — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:19:14 +0000

Qobuz sells popular music in 24bit flac. Bleep and Boomkat sell more obscure stuff.

Your best bet is thrift/charity stores and ripping CDs. Super cheap and plentiful and albums are still put out on CDs.

New comment by tmjwid in "It's getting harder to die"

tmjwid — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:47:36 +0000

When my dad died last year from aggressive relapse of cancer, his death rattle was so intense my mum couldn't deal with it and had to leave the room when it was happening, it's a disturbing experience. She's still traumatised by it today.

New comment by tmjwid in "Show HN: I made an open source and local translation app"

tmjwid — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:28:42 +0000

If I was to guess, it might be RHVoice from FDroid as they are using a custom rom.

New comment by tmjwid in "Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet"

tmjwid — Fri, 24 May 2024 12:22:02 +0000

The HiSense A5, A7 and A9 range of phones could be your answer. Problem is it is a Chinese domestic market phone. A9 does have a GSI of LineageOS with working EINK refresh modes available on XDA so this could be your ticket if the 4G bands are available in your country (basically not the US).

I have an A5 Pro and it works great.

New comment by tmjwid in "Ask HN: To what extent have digital payments replaced cash in your country?"

tmjwid — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 12:28:52 +0000

Luckily, cash is still a majorly accepted payment method over here from my experience. I did my weeks food and charity shop shopping all with cash on the weekend. Markets are still very accepting of cash as an example. We have options still but for how long, I'm not too sure but hopefully indefinitely.

New comment by tmjwid in "UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users"

tmjwid — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:35:52 +0000

No you are right, but my point was that it was an unnecessary observation in my opinion. Pointing out our choice on EU membership brought zero additional discussion to the points they made. Just like our little conversation now :)

New comment by tmjwid in "UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users"

tmjwid — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:28:15 +0000

I wrote to my MP about this and got a response.

They agreed with me that it is "important to protect users' freedom of expression and personal privacy".

They "do not believe it is right for encrypted messages to become decrypted. There must be a balance between our fundamental right to privacy and keeping people safe online, which raises difficult questions for platforms such as WhatsApp".

But they "do not believe that the legislation impacting private messaging will damage this encryption, as a variety of technologies are emerging that could allow for scanning on issues such as child sexual abuse material while retaining the privacy benefits afforded by end-to-end encryption".

They do note however that having Ofcom be the regulator and monitor isn't right, which seems to have been a bit under reported to my knowledge.

Funnily enough, they did not vote on this matter and I shall be finding out why.

New comment by tmjwid in "UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users"

tmjwid — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:09:14 +0000

Mustn't grumble is in my opinion our national motto. We do have dissidence, but is met with contempt and apathy. Look at the national outrage over just stop oil stopping some cars on the a motorway. The rage was baffling, mass psychosis just took over the nation.