Hacker News: tumult

New comment by tumult in "EFF is leaving X"

tumult — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:56:13 +0000

Probably not, and I've never used any of those, and never will. X used to, and then stopped, so I left. Not interested in using a service that asks you to put your effort into it and then tries to turn its control against you. Especially when there are other options.

New comment by tumult in "EFF is leaving X"

tumult — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:56:23 +0000

Banned third party clients and interoperability. Use their software to access your data on their servers, on their terms, or get shut down. Hard to think of anything more anti-internet freedom. I left when they did that, years ago.

They would not be able to enforce it on desktop computers, short of banning every user one-at-a-time, but they can easily blanket-ban it on mobile phones by requesting Apple and Google remove unauthorized third-party clients from their app stores. (Which they will do. Apple even lists unauthorized clients for services controlled by other parties as against the rules. Whatever that means.)

New comment by tumult in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

tumult — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:02:58 +0000

No evidence was ever presented and nobody ever found anything, as far as I can tell?

New comment by tumult in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

tumult — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:58:43 +0000

I disagree. 120hz makes typing, mousing, etc. noticeably more responsive. I never stop noticing it. I never liked having to use 60hz all the time once LCDs were replacing CRTs. The original iMac didn't even let you choose 60hz to run the desktop at -- it only offered higher refresh rates in the menus. (Games could set the display to 60hz if they really wanted to.)

New comment by tumult in "Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux"

tumult — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:50:22 +0000

Oracle lost Google v. Oracle.

New comment by tumult in "The past was not that cute"

tumult — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 08:06:34 +0000

That's from Arnold Henry Savage Landor and I suspect it was fabricated or exaggerated, like many Victorian era British tales of savages abroad.

New comment by tumult in "Mozilla's latest quagmire"

tumult — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:41:27 +0000

No. There is a lot more than that. The AI stuff appears in places in the UI where other things used to, like in right-click menus and when you are entering text into fields. And it's not opt-in. It's on by default. Unless you are willing to search for how to turn it off and open the non-GUI about:config stuff and modify raw settings in a text table (with no descriptions or help text next to them) then you can't even turn it off. Also, the AI stuff takes up disk space.

New comment by tumult in "Apple's "notarisation" – blocking software freedom of developers and users"

tumult — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 13:50:23 +0000

Disabling malware via hash or signature doesn't require the Notarization step at all. Server can tell clients to not run anything with hash xxyyzz and delete it. I mean, just think about it. If disabling stuff required the Notarization step beforehand, no anti-malware would have existed before Notarization. Nonsense.

New comment by tumult in "Apple's "notarisation" – blocking software freedom of developers and users"

tumult — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:23:44 +0000

Nope. Notarization is not code signing. It’s an extra step, after code signing, where you upload your software to Apple’s servers and wait for their system to approve it. It’s more onerous than code signing alone and, with hindsight, doesn’t seem to have been offering any extra protection.

New comment by tumult in "Many lung cancers are now in nonsmokers"

tumult — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 03:17:59 +0000

The indoor level of radon isn't going to be lower than outdoors. Indoors is either the same or higher than outdoors. Your level of exposure to radon will not go up by going outside. That's your background exposure level, and is already baked into the calculation of how much an effect an elevated exposure to radon in your home will have on you. Radon is a serious thing to consider, especially if your home has a basement. Radon mitigation is not a scam conspiracy.

New comment by tumult in "Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube"

tumult — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:21:42 +0000

> Quick appeal grant of course, because it was more about sending a message and making people who want to talk about that kind of software think twice before the next video.

That was talking about a previous video, not the one that is the main subject of this blog post. For the video that is the subject of this blog post, which is just about running your own software to watch media you legally own, the appeal was apparently denied.

New comment by tumult in "Compressed music might be harmful to the ears"

tumult — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:11:07 +0000

The pre-compressed and compressed versions were loudness matched to be the same overall loudness, according to the description. My guess is that they set the compressor to actually make the waveform spikier, without fully understanding what’s going on. Just a guess, though. I can’t check to find out.

New comment by tumult in "Compressed music might be harmful to the ears"

tumult — Fri, 16 May 2025 10:42:35 +0000

Lookhead limiting is more commonly used to sound louder, not compression. Compression is usually done for flavor. It’s not that great at making things louder, because traditional compression actually exaggerated the spikes in amplitude at the start of percussive sounds, which pop and dance music has a lot of, requiring additional work to tame. Modern drum processing usually uses a combination of compression (sometimes with upwards compression), lookahead limiting, and saturation.

New comment by tumult in "Compressed music might be harmful to the ears"

tumult — Fri, 16 May 2025 10:33:21 +0000

It’s possible their compression settings were actually exaggerating the peaks instead of compressing them, and then they did nothing to control those peaks afterwards. This is a really common thing that can happen with a superficial use of compressors. Especially if you did averaged loudness-matching of the compressed signal with the uncompressed signal. It ends up being spikier than before compression. I would entirely believe a waveform with those added spikes would be more damaging than a controlled waveform that had been saturated or limited after compression. I don’t have access to the original publication, so I can’t check and find out.

New comment by tumult in "UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care (2023)"

tumult — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 19:53:49 +0000

68% is horrible

New comment by tumult in "How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan"

tumult — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:14:37 +0000

I am a resident of Japan. This is extremely bad advice. Do not follow this advice.

To csomar: you are willingly spreading harmful advice. Stop it. Stop making people reply to clean up your mess.

New comment by tumult in "Microsoft confirms that Windows 11 Recall AI is not optional"

tumult — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:45:11 +0000

I see this is your first rodeo.

New comment by tumult in "Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player"

tumult — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 05:52:28 +0000

VLC doesn't have perfect compatibility. I think it worked correctly on random video files less frequently than mpv the last time I tried it. And mpv can actually step forward and back frame by frame.

New comment by tumult in "Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech"

tumult — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 22:39:29 +0000

There are a bunch of contributors to these projects. I wrote the C version of Orca (and helped design the second version of its evaluation strategy) but also had help and ideas from other contributors as well. I wrote the Windows version of Uxn, Uxn32, which was a from-scratch implementation, except for a couple of things like the palette mixing table. The code from Uxn32's VM core ended up in other versions of Uxn emulators, which were then modified and improved by the people running those projects. There is not any governing body, committees, or authoritative leadership for these projects. We just talk to each other through various channels and do stuff. It's a collective.

New comment by tumult in "Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election"

tumult — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:15:31 +0000

It is equivalent to all zeroes with the numeric precision used.