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New comment by yaky in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

yaky — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:38:40 +0000

Blindsight by Peter Watts explores interesting ideas about conscience and intelligence, but these ideas are wrapped in a mediocre action movie plot that becomes nonsensical by the end.

New comment by yaky in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

yaky — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:21:40 +0000

Amazon Prime is the same way. Thanks for paying, please watch ads for first two season of The Boys. Also look at this catalog of movies you can rent for an additional fee.

The "low-cost airline" style of business.

New comment by yaky in "A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives"

yaky — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:33:25 +0000

This is creepily similar to Russia circa 10+ years ago with its "gay propaganda" and "child protection" laws, and strong government support for the church.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/11/russia-law-ban...

New comment by yaky in "A list of fun destinations for telnet"

yaky — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:23:19 +0000

> Rainmaker was pretty great, and it lasted at least as far as 2018. I don’t recall what happened to it.

WeatherUnderground shut its API down in 2018.

New comment by yaky in "PauseOS: Distraction-Free Phone OS"

yaky — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:06:26 +0000

> NO TYPICAL APP STORE

> Instead of unrestricted app stores, we provide a curated selection of essential, distraction-free applications that align with our mission.

That's quite a big undertaking and a lot of control handed over to the manufacturer/maintainer. Phone is still a communication device, so it would be nice to see Signal, Conversations, Element (all of which are FOSS and could be easily rebranded), but then half of the world needs WhatsApp. Or is it distracting because you can contact businesses on it? (Like the Uber example on their page) Many people want banking apps too, do they plan to vet every single banking app?

New comment by yaky in "OpenSCAD is kinda neat"

yaky — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:03:41 +0000

If it's a one-time thing, Prusa Slicer (and some other slicers too, probably) allow adding and subtracting simple shapes. So if, for example, you need to add a hole for a screw, you can do it directly in the slicer without messing with (and breaking the mesh of) an STL.

New comment by yaky in "Smartphone without a battery (2022)"

yaky — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:54:20 +0000

Looks like someone else posted this one though :)

New comment by yaky in "Nokia N900 Necromancy"

yaky — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:20:24 +0000

To quote someone from Hackaday:

> We don't ask "why?", we ask "why not?"

New comment by yaky in "Nokia N900 Necromancy"

yaky — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:27:14 +0000

Thanks!

Maemo Leste is still around, I just tried it on a PinePhone with a keyboard not too long ago.

It's not postmarketOS with a popular DE nor Android, but has a terminal, browser, media player, et.

New comment by yaky in "Nokia N900 Necromancy"

yaky — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:51:44 +0000

It can't be used in a mobile way much anymore, with all 3G and many 2G shut down in the US.

The caps / supercaps are necessary to provide enough current during boot or more resource-intensive tasks.

New comment by yaky in "Nokia N900 Necromancy"

yaky — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:54:00 +0000

I read about lithium-ion and LiFePO batteries on Adafruit a few years ago, and saw similar projects elsewhere. The bootloader stuff is on Maemo wiki, along with tools to flash the device (which is also a bit of dark magic arts to me).

TBH, I didn't / don't exactly have a path. I started with Raspberry Pi (and Linux for the second time) 10+ years ago, which led me to Arduino, which led me to low-voltage electronics in general. At the same time, I had an unreasonable dislike of google, which led me to flashing LineageOS on a test phone, which then became my main phone, which eventually led to PinePhone, which didn't work out, but was fun.

New comment by yaky in "Nokia N900 Necromancy"

yaky — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:41:34 +0000

I've only heard of doing so for 2G: https://hackaday.com/2025/10/06/2g-gone-bring-it-back-yourse...

New comment by yaky in "Nokia N900 Necromancy"

yaky — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:09:08 +0000

There was Neo900, abandoned in 2018. The site is still up though: https://neo900.org/#main

New comment by yaky in "Nokia N900 Necromancy"

yaky — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:15:53 +0000

I looked, but TBH, not sure what to make of "genuine" and "OEM" claims for a battery for a 16–year-old device (or 10-year-old if you count compatible Lumias). Descriptions usually do not mention manufacture dates either.

New comment by yaky in "Nokia N900 Necromancy"

yaky — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:45:50 +0000

Where's the fun in that?

Maemo wiki states that Maemo Leste should be run from SD card. I am actually surprised that the phone can use the SD slot at high enough speed.

Nokia N900 Necromancy

yaky — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:04:29 +0000

Article URL: https://yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239177

Points: 480

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New comment by yaky in "Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years"

yaky — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:23:29 +0000

What issues did you have / still have?

When I started using Matrix, Riot.im did not get notifications in time, or was a battery hog. And Synapse took up a lot of memory, with occasional slowdowns. But then, circa 2022, Synapse improved and Element seems to have worked well and was consistent and reliable on all platforms.

New comment by yaky in "Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years"

yaky — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:57:17 +0000

Author of the article here. Thanks for posting, I've only shared this on Fediverse, but there is a much larger discussion here, I see.

New comment by yaky in "Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years"

yaky — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:47:08 +0000

Author of the article here. Similar happened to me, I had a lot of broken and empty rooms that appeared in some clients but not others, and I could not leave. This is what prompted me to write the room cleaner / admin panel.

New comment by yaky in "Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices"

yaky — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:28:44 +0000

It's Apple more than developers. Even if an app has an older supported version, you cannot install it outright on older iDevices. You have to "purchase" it first (even if it's free) using old iTunes version or a newer iDevice with the same account, and only then, when you "own" the app, the old iDevice will prompt you to install the older version, if it's supported.