Hacker News: twiclo

New comment by twiclo in "Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera"

twiclo — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:27:51 +0000

The problem isn't this developer being lazy or 15 years late, it's that this hardware wasn't built for Linux and only blessed groups (with a lot of money) get access to binary blobs. The FSF has a project to reverse engineer these blobs but it takes time. Same problem Linux used to have with laptops.

If you're looking for a daily driver the most reliable I've seen is the furi phone. Those guys are passionate and have put in a pathological amount of time to getting calls working world wide. They can only pull it off by supporting one phone that they sell.

New comment by twiclo in "Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005)"

twiclo — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:53:08 +0000

I have a HAM level understanding of wireless communication and want to expand it. This book and the ones you listed seem like they'll go over my head. Any recommendations on an "101" style text book?

New comment by twiclo in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

twiclo — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:50:54 +0000

The get a percentage cut of the sale price of a house.

New comment by twiclo in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

twiclo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:57:44 +0000

Turning my Unihertz Jelly Star into an Xperia Play like device. Basically I want to add a slide up controller to this tiny phone. I was reminded of my Gameboy Micro while watching a review of Mina the Hollower on it and now I'm determined to play that game on this tiny thing. No idea if it will actually run.

Learning FreeCAD to create a sliding insert between the body of the phone and the screen. If I can pull that off the rest should be easy.

Unfortunately the controller board will have to connect to the phone over BT although it will use the phone's battery. I wanted to connect it over USB internally but there's no bus on this phone and trying to hijack the lines running to the USB C port would be feature creep that would stop the project. Another idea was to take over an I2C line going to some peripheral I don't care about but I think that would require a custom android kernel so BT it is.

By the way this phone is awesome. Highly recommend for anyone who wishes they didn't need to carry a smart phone.

New comment by twiclo in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

twiclo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:28:55 +0000

One of my 5 sources is from Fight the New Drug and you turn to an ad hominem because I guess Mormons can't make good arguments and it's ridiculous to say that people can be addicted to porn. Sounds like you're in denial of that for yourself.

We don't have to choose between two evils. If adults want to watch porn they need to prove they're an adult. You wouldn't say we should stop age verifying people for online gambling just because there are "dark web" gambling websites.

New comment by twiclo in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

twiclo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:38:54 +0000

I agree with you. I plan to not be pressured by what other parents are doing. But that pressure is real and many parents end up thinking it's what's best. It's better that they have friends and a phone than neither of the two.

New comment by twiclo in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

twiclo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:34:11 +0000

What law requires that? From what I've seen laws like the one in Utah require any account to be in "child mode" until you can prove you're an adult.

Also these law makers don't want their kids on social media.

New comment by twiclo in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

twiclo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:27:05 +0000

Parents will get their kids phones worrying that they're missing out. The more parents do that the more the kids without phones are actually being left out. If the government puts restriction on these things than parents are much less likely to worry.

I've heard of parents of children for a certain grade getting together and all signing a pact that the kids won't have phones until a certain point, say 16. It only goes into effect if something like 75% of the parents for that grade sign on. I like that idea.

New comment by twiclo in "Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms"

twiclo — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:15:35 +0000

You should call her

New comment by twiclo in "DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems"

twiclo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:33:28 +0000

Can anyone tell me exactly what these laws do? Is it just going to ask for a birthday when I run `adduser`? What's the point? Is it meant for one admin account to restrict other user accounts?

New comment by twiclo in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

twiclo — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:08:03 +0000

> Sex objects

New comment by twiclo in "Kagi Small Web"

twiclo — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:22:41 +0000

I haven't used this but looks someone created a self hosted version of Microsoft's Recall

https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall

New comment by twiclo in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

twiclo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:44:52 +0000

From the guidelines:

What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

If the story was about a German national then yes, I would still say this is political and doesn't gratify my intellectual curiosity.

New comment by twiclo in "Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager"

twiclo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:23:13 +0000

I'm still on Xmonad mainly because I've only tried hyprland and it couldn't handle the master/slave stack the way xmonad does. On River, when I create a new window will it be inserted above the current selected window even if the current window is the master?

Also, when it was split up what did he call his window manager? Looks like the River repo is just for his display server/compositor

New comment by twiclo in "Chess engines do weird stuff"

twiclo — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:25:56 +0000

Her?

New comment by twiclo in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

twiclo — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:42:33 +0000

I think they'll loosen that for Australia after this.

New comment by twiclo in "Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available"

twiclo — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:47:20 +0000

I set it up for my small company 5 years ago. Couldn't be happier with it honestly.

New comment by twiclo in "Notes on Being a Man"

twiclo — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:23:20 +0000

Surely you're not saying that young men in history were sleeping with prostitutes at the same rate young men today look at porn.

New comment by twiclo in "Notes on Being a Man"

twiclo — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:12:38 +0000

No one is going to take you seriously if your argument is the tired, long debunked, wage gap argument. Women make less than men because they choose to. In recent years when you compare single working men to single working women, women are out-earning men. They're graduating college at higher rates.

There are countless other statistics that paint a clear picture that men are struggling. At what point will you actually care?

New comment by twiclo in "Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting"

twiclo — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:26:13 +0000

Came in here looking for a summary. Thank you, moving on.