Hacker News: yonatan8070

New comment by yonatan8070 in ""Long-Term Support" doesn't mean what you think"

yonatan8070 — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:54:59 +0000

I wouldn't call it marketing fluff, it's a technical term that's often misunderstood.

"Long-Term Support" doesn't mean what you think

yonatan8070 — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:39:51 +0000

Article URL: https://pointieststick.com/2026/05/23/long-term-support-doesnt-mean-what-you-think/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251264

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

yonatan8070 — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:19:05 +0000

Bluetooth tethering is a thing, and I believe is enabled by default on Android, maybe it's using that?

For me on Android 16, the setting is in Network & internet > Hotspot & tethering > Bluetooth tethering

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

yonatan8070 — Sun, 10 May 2026 03:22:25 +0000

I feel like the parent comment was sarcasm

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents"

yonatan8070 — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:32:20 +0000

> It's not X, it's Y = AI pattern.

Yeah, a human has never used this pattern before! Good thing AI always leaves this digital signature which is never wrong, so you always know if the person on the other end has used AI.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"

yonatan8070 — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:42:59 +0000

Another issue I've noticed is they're sometimes very resourceful. For example when Codex can't directly edit file due to sandboxing restrictions, rather than asking "hey can I apply this diff on the file", it'd ask for permission to run a `cat EOF` command to re-write the whole file, which the UI doesn't surface properly (just shows the first line...).

This sounds similar to what's described in the "Claude deleted my DB post", it decided "I need to do X", then searched for whatever would let it do X, regardless of intended purpose.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Days without GitHub incidents"

yonatan8070 — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:19:20 +0000

I'd say certianly yes. At my company we've set up an experiment: we've forked our monorepo and gave several agents (OpenClaw, Claude code, GH Copilot reviewer, Codex) full R/W access and a Slack channel where we give them tasks and they carry them out. The fork shows 490 commits ahead, 10 commits behind our real repo (we're only a couple people, and use "Squash and merge" on PRs).

They naturally produce bugs at an astonishing rate, and we don't review the code ourselves, but the project is growing faster than their context windows, and I believe we'll drop it soon.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "The USB Situation"

yonatan8070 — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:31:29 +0000

Lenovo has re-invented this particular wheel to fit in laptops, some ThinkPads come with a proprietary Ethernet port which is around the size of USB-C, just with Ethernet signals. And you can get a passive breakout adapter to convert it to RJ45 (idk if it's included with the laptop).

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/cabl...

New comment by yonatan8070 in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

yonatan8070 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:47:29 +0000

I don't really run heavy loads on my home server, so I haven't thought of that

Makes sense, thanks!

New comment by yonatan8070 in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

yonatan8070 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:31:40 +0000

It's undoubtably a cool solution, but in why do you need to remotely do a hard power cycle? Won't just SSHing in and rebooting be enough?

New comment by yonatan8070 in "My audio interface has SSH enabled by default"

yonatan8070 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:29:24 +0000

I agree that it shouldn't have SSH enabled, but I do like that the firmware isn't encrypted or signed, so it's not hard to mod it, at no cost to thr manufacturer

New comment by yonatan8070 in "My audio interface has SSH enabled by default"

yonatan8070 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:13:17 +0000

Having the firmware image just be a boring old tarball + hash sounds super nice. I wish more devices were this open, and I hope Rode won't see this and decide to lock the firmware upgrades down.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

yonatan8070 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:44:37 +0000

Sounds serious to me

It's highly unlikely that the people behind an attack like this would come out (non-anonimously) and take credit. And it's unlikely they'll be caught. So does it matter to most peoplee if it's Russians, Americans, Iranians, North Koreans, or some other country?

If you're a 3-letter agency, you'd want to know and potentially arrest them, but as a random guy on the internet, or even a maintainer, I really don't think it matters.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Your hex editor should color-code bytes"

yonatan8070 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:13:26 +0000

That looks super cool! Now I just need a reason to look at hex files

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

yonatan8070 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:01:55 +0000

I went on the configurator page briefly, like 400$ for 32GB IIRC.

They don't ship to where I am so I didn't stay long

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

yonatan8070 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:56:39 +0000

At least it's available in the UK

I've wanted to get a Framework for a long time now, but their lack of shipping to Israel (and active prevention of using Freight forwarders) has prevented me.

If they were willing to sell me the 13 Pro, I'd sell my Yoga Pro 7 in a heartbeat to replace with a 13 Pro

New comment by yonatan8070 in "FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer"

yonatan8070 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:18:06 +0000

I'm curious, what's the motivation for not having a graphical environment at all?

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors"

yonatan8070 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:01:47 +0000

I've assisted my grandparents with the same UIs many times, it's just harder to learn things the older you are.

For example, there was a service my gradmother used pretty frequently, which required a password change once every 6 months. She memorized the regular login flow, but she always called us for help when the flow broke and asked her to invent a new password, provide the old password, and confirm with an SMS code.

None of it is inherintly complex or difficult, but when you're at that age, and not super tech-savvy to begin with, computers are super confusing.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "The Orange Pi 6 Plus"

yonatan8070 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:40:56 +0000

Yup, I'm working a lot with Jetsons, and having the Orin NX on 22.04 is quite limiting sometimes, even with the most basic things. I got a random USB Wi-Fi dongle for it, and nope! Not supported in kernel 5.15, now have fun figuring out what to do with it.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

yonatan8070 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:17:55 +0000

Who's pirating Resolve? Doesn't it have a generous free version?