Hacker News: tsegers

New comment by tsegers in "Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA"

tsegers — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:59:29 +0000

I believe that the top-level comment you replied to is making the point that there should not be any authority that either allows or disallows what a user can do with the device they own. Purchasing a device should make one that authority, free to decide how much security to trade for how much privilege.

New comment by tsegers in "How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop"

tsegers — Fri, 31 May 2024 17:30:43 +0000

I still use it regularly in 2024 to load data onto embedded devices running U-Boot. It saves me a network cable if one is not otherwise required.

New comment by tsegers in "Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi"

tsegers — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:44:43 +0000

As another paying user of Kagi I wonder what prevented you from using another search engine for the six hours that Kagi was unavailable. Search engines are not like your email provider or ISP in that you're locked in.

New comment by tsegers in "Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer"

tsegers — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 21:10:12 +0000

Here's what I cobbled together for Arduino [1]. It ain't pretty, but it's short and it works.

[1] https://paste.sr.ht/~tsegers/53adaecd734e7159352f152ac1dcc85...

New comment by tsegers in "C uses "&" for the address-operator because 'ampersand sounds like "address"'"

tsegers — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 11:53:09 +0000

I'd argue @ is more suitable for a dereference operation than an "address of" one. It functions that way in an email address too.

New comment by tsegers in "GOTOphobia considered harmful in C"

tsegers — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 19:36:56 +0000

Would you say that the Linux kernel is written by mostly "100% subpar C programmers"? Because it's an extremely common pattern to have multiple goto labels at the end of a function.

New comment by tsegers in "Distributor cancelled an order and we need to move 30k bags of coffee [updated]"

tsegers — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 19:35:00 +0000

How are they possibly not the victims after the distributor orders a vast quantity of product, goes MIA for months, and then proceeds to go "whoops, just kidding, here's your stale product back"?

New comment by tsegers in "EmailTriager"

tsegers — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 19:40:48 +0000

Whats the actual difference between sending ten identical low-effort auto-generated emails and ten unique low-effort auto-generated emails?

New comment by tsegers in "Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia fundraising banners"

tsegers — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:20:16 +0000

> So FreeSoftware/OSS people don't work hard?

That's not a fair conclusion from the parent comment at all. Software developers _do_ have the right to prevent their work from being given away for free. Them _choosing_ to develop FOSS is them voluntarily waiving that right.

New comment by tsegers in "Idiot Proof Git"

tsegers — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:14:09 +0000

Sourcehut's tutorial on send-email is pretty good: https://git-send-email.io/

New comment by tsegers in "Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea"

tsegers — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:39:44 +0000

Using software in accordance with the terms of its licence is not shameful.

New comment by tsegers in "Ace, CodeMirror, and Monaco: A comparison of browser code editors (2021)"

tsegers — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:12:05 +0000

That's exactly what a lot of users that do development on a beefy remote machine from a light machine they use as a terminal want. Ssh+vim+tmux is a pretty common setup. That network request might add 20ms of lag, but means that anything that requires CPU power will be an order of magnitude faster. The unhappy path (a bad or absent connection) is bad, but the happy path is pretty damn happy.

New comment by tsegers in "Littlefs – A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers"

tsegers — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 12:08:53 +0000

The Uno has a _giant_ ecosystem behind it going back over a decade and it's more than enough for most beginner mcu projects. That's the appeal. Other than that, it's a pretty weak chip.

New comment by tsegers in "Littlefs – A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers"

tsegers — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:07:52 +0000

Compiling their example with the Arduino toolchain seems to fill up about 90% of an Uno's 32k flash space. I think that rules it out as usable on anything that doesn't have a larger amount than that.

New comment by tsegers in "Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indian town"

tsegers — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 15:21:28 +0000

And neither would you see headlines about a human child learning to read, yet if a monkey were to do the same it'd be up here in no time. The noteworthy thing here is not the activity performed, but what entity the activity was performed by.

New comment by tsegers in "Sorry, but you're already living in the “Squid Game”"

tsegers — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:17:51 +0000

If someone claims that not a single actor failed to deliver it's a perfectly valid response to use the worst actor as a example to the contrary.

New comment by tsegers in "European Parliament Calls for a Ban on Facial Recognition"

tsegers — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:08:20 +0000

Using basic statistical methods to determine effective policies can result in policies that a lot of people would consider unfair and unethical.

New comment by tsegers in "Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol"

tsegers — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 18:01:38 +0000

I think that the linked article described that messages that arrive out of order can still be decrypted despite the decryption keys being generated in a strict order. As far as I know, the order of the keys that are used to decrypt incoming messages also indicate the order in which the decrypted messages were sent.

New comment by tsegers in "Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application"

tsegers — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 11:06:37 +0000

> Why would anybody need this?

Because they have no experience using a terminal, entering commands and finding documentation

New comment by tsegers in "Ask HN: How to sell apps on Linux?"

tsegers — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 19:18:49 +0000

> and much of the software you will no doubt use to create your premium software was made with this philosophy.

Even the FSF considers selling software a good thing [1]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html