Hacker News: voidnullvalue

New comment by voidnullvalue in "Patrick Stewart has died"

voidnullvalue — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:27:23 +0000

Growing up without a good male role model, I am eternally grateful to Patrick Stewart's performance of Picard.

His performance (as well as how the character was written) still today illustrate what I view as an ideal male archetype. Fair, honest, in control of his emotions yet passionate. Thank you for the gift your performance has given me Mr Stewart. My life would likely have turned out a lot worse without a solid example of that a good man could be

New comment by voidnullvalue in "Scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass"

voidnullvalue — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:01:37 +0000

For those who don't care to be held hostage by the journalist as he forces you through a long winded narrative: gold and silver nano particles are embedded into the glass

New comment by voidnullvalue in "Show HN: Computer use on the phone itself: a 2B model that operates Android apps"

voidnullvalue — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:43:26 +0000

Why would I use this over ADB?

New comment by voidnullvalue in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

voidnullvalue — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:22:04 +0000

That movie was an abomination. The studios should he ashamed of what they made. The studio didn't even wait till Adams was cold in the ground before they drove through his screenplay with a bulldozer

New comment by voidnullvalue in "A story about Magic (Jargon File)"

voidnullvalue — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:54:43 +0000

Of all the ancient hacker lore, this is probably my favorite bit. What are some of y'alls favorite tales? Famous, your own stories, I am not picky!

A story about Magic (Jargon File)

voidnullvalue — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:54:43 +0000

Article URL: https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972367

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by voidnullvalue in "Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours"

voidnullvalue — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:24:47 +0000

I'd guess that most of the Home Assistant user base is "IT people".

I don't see HA as a consumer established product, as much as Nabu Kasa would like otherwise.

Then again, this is just my guesswork. I have 0 clue the demographics of Home Assistant users

New comment by voidnullvalue in "Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours"

voidnullvalue — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:47:23 +0000

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-no-rbac-role-based...

This thread is relevant. Their permissions system is just on entities, and isn't a real EBAC system.

New comment by voidnullvalue in "Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours"

voidnullvalue — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:41:05 +0000

Ok so i am wrong to want interface panels to control things with Home Assistant because I have kids?

New comment by voidnullvalue in "Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours"

voidnullvalue — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:36:04 +0000

Nabu Kasa keeps ignoring the elephant in the room of security and permissions. They have no native ability to set user groups and permissions. There is no serious RBAC. I guess it doesn't sell cloud subscriptions. I cant keep my children from affecting devices they shouldn't. I ended up replacing my automation with mqtt

New comment by voidnullvalue in "[dead]"

voidnullvalue — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:10:32 +0000

It absolutely is a waste of time, but was a fun waste of time.

It works now. Updates will never come from directv for this box

Once this hardware dies it's not getting repaired. I really enjoy reusing appliances like this. An old MiFi hotspot is the mqtt server for my house

I built a FIDO2 hardware key. OpenAI says it isn't hardware enough

voidnullvalue — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:41:31 +0000

Article URL: https://voidnullvalue.github.io/openai-fido2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885469

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by voidnullvalue in "The smart home graveyard is getting crowded"

voidnullvalue — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:45:04 +0000

Ya but that would increase complexity and costs. Currently I can use some Meross branded stuff because it can be provisioned without their cloud nonsense and is mqtt. Other bespoke devices are esphome with mqtt control (no home assistant)

New comment by voidnullvalue in "The smart home graveyard is getting crowded"

voidnullvalue — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:42:48 +0000

python

New comment by voidnullvalue in "The smart home graveyard is getting crowded"

voidnullvalue — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:27:28 +0000

I quickly realized that the only rational (for me) home automation solution would be 100% cloud free, off the shelf hardware. No overly complicated, security poor Home Assistant, everything is mqtt

New comment by voidnullvalue in "Minimal Phone 2"

voidnullvalue — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:53:34 +0000

I never understood these things. Just buy a kaios phone for less than $60

New comment by voidnullvalue in "Minimal Phone 2"

voidnullvalue — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:50:59 +0000

This is why I won't buy a phone without an unlockable bootloader.

First thing I do is flash lineageos+microg then root.

New comment by voidnullvalue in "Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs"

voidnullvalue — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:40:51 +0000

Normally I am with you. I like doing strange things with computers for the sake of doing them. My comment was motivated more by what appears to be a waste of resources that are currently scarce, just for internet clicks

New comment by voidnullvalue in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

voidnullvalue — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:35:29 +0000

What properties do LLMs possess that make human-animal moral status analogies appropriate?

New comment by voidnullvalue in "PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand""

voidnullvalue — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:42:12 +0000

That quote logically implies that people should be paralyzed to act on any novel information. There is no such thing as a discovery that occurs in a vacuum without some prior art. "Standing on the shoulders of giants"

Then again, its a silly illogical movie