Hacker News: wisplike

New comment by wisplike in "Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices"

wisplike — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:52:36 +0000

Maybe Im a conspiracist but it seems there is a recent concerted effort to lock OS platforms down. Just last week apple added an age verification system to uk iPhones. No legal req. as far as I can tell

New comment by wisplike in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

wisplike — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:34:23 +0000

Order is on the verge of breakdown I wouldn't be surprised if they just lose their voice/get kicked out.

Trump etc are tearing down international order. The ramifications of this will be decades long.

New comment by wisplike in "Honda is killing its EVs"

wisplike — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:31:33 +0000

Dont forget about good old externally excited motors like what Renault uses, no rare earths needed.

New comment by wisplike in "MacBook Air with M5"

wisplike — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:23:14 +0000

no idea, space started typing a "}" followed by a space. Few other keys started doing wonky things aswell.

New comment by wisplike in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

wisplike — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:20:41 +0000

I thought moltbook was just a bit of fun...

New comment by wisplike in "MacBook Air with M5"

wisplike — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:28:56 +0000

> I wish it was different

Amen to that, my keyboard on my m1 air recently failed. I was horrified to find out it is literally riveted to the frame. I got this close to buying a new one. Something annoyed me about this perfectly good laptop being rendered compltely useless and I ended up buying a replacement keyboard, ripping out the old one and shimming this one with paper. Its not perfect but here I am typing from it.

But you are 100% right, there is just nothing better on the market. The gap is so big.

New comment by wisplike in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

wisplike — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:47:52 +0000

Curve pay works great btw!

New comment by wisplike in "Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation"

wisplike — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:12:52 +0000

The land/Wh required for solar/wind and battery compared to nuclear is strikingly different.

Nuclear will always be in the backseat for the foreseeable.

New comment by wisplike in "Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation"

wisplike — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 08:51:57 +0000

Nuclear is incredibly energy dense, can be stockpiled for a long time and is extremely safe. Yes its expensive but its one those industries any serious nation needs to subsidise for the energy security it offers and the countless high skill jobs it fosters.

New comment by wisplike in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

wisplike — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:00:02 +0000

How are these discovered?

Is it just a well informed guess or do people decompile these programs?

New comment by wisplike in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

wisplike — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:00:07 +0000

My knowledge on this is the tower should be able to optimise beams without location information. Channel information can be relayed back to the tower for beam optimisation. The tower needs to know the signal path characteristics but not explicitly the location.

Not disputing that location data is used for beam optimisation just that I dont believe it is required.

New comment by wisplike in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

wisplike — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:19:04 +0000

Patents is why it took them so long.

New comment by wisplike in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

wisplike — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:18:11 +0000

That would almost certainly not get anywhere near the accuracy of a GPS location.

New comment by wisplike in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

wisplike — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:16:32 +0000

Anyone know why apple specifies this feature requires a supported carrier? Why would the carrier matter?

New comment by wisplike in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

wisplike — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:49:30 +0000

Why Meshcore over Meshtastic?