Hacker News: zokier

New comment by zokier in "A Tour of Oodi"

zokier — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:52:22 +0000

To me the actual book section of Oodi is not particularly interesting/inspiring/impressive. It's not bad, but it is pretty mundane and gets overshadowed by all the other stuff going on in the building.

New comment by zokier in "A WebGPU implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent"

zokier — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:08:57 +0000

Do you see "Offset Geometric Contact" paper fitting into this project somehow? https://graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/projects/ogc/

New comment by zokier in "Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing"

zokier — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:11:48 +0000

The main peak is under the letter "C" in the "Gale Crater" text on that map.

New comment by zokier in "Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing"

zokier — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:50:01 +0000

I don't think it's cool to hotlink every single raw image from NASAs server here.

New comment by zokier in "Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing"

zokier — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:07 +0000

Here is a map: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity/location-map/

It's nowhere near the peak and is very unlikely to reach it.

New comment by zokier in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

zokier — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:09:52 +0000

on the other hand, basic surveying is centuries old. if you lose square km patch of land, it is not due lack of technology even in the previous century.

New comment by zokier in "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"

zokier — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:10:12 +0000

While everyone is commenting about drm, there is another factor to consider: TLS. These old Kindles definitely do not support up-to-date TLS ciphersuites and understandably Amazon wants/needs to drop insecure ciphersuites from public endpoints at some point. I'm pretty sure that is also the reason why the Wikipedia integration for these old Kindles broke ages ago.

New comment by zokier in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

zokier — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:26:16 +0000

Switzerland also happens to have over 5x population density of USA, and 80% higher household median income based on quick google.

New comment by zokier in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

zokier — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:32:28 +0000

Of the publicly available sources I think CloudFlares Radar is one of the better ones. Silver linings of having such wide dragnet on the internet. It puts Linux market share at 3-4%, with some regional variance

https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=o...

Fun tidbits, Finland is at ~10% (!), and Germany at 6.3%.

New comment by zokier in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

zokier — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:25:35 +0000

> On a different note, this industry used to have so much more fun - just solving puzzles to herd bits - before it was flooded by politics.

when was that, in the 80s?

New comment by zokier in "OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval"

zokier — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:21:59 +0000

> There are a list of allowed restrictions in section 7, lettered A-F

OnlyOffice claims that their restrictions fall under the items b) and e)

New comment by zokier in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

zokier — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:06:52 +0000

Depending on which Copilot you are talking about, it became generally available in mid to late 2023.

New comment by zokier in "OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval"

zokier — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:01:04 +0000

the license explicitly defines what "additional permissions" mean in that context:

> "Additional permissions" are terms that supplement the terms of this License by making exceptions from one or more of its conditions

New comment by zokier in "OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval"

zokier — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:45:12 +0000

OnlyOffice claims that additional terms fall under section 7 of AGPLv3, which explicitly allows adding such terms. I think the point of contention arises from the interpretation of section 7 and more specifically this sentence:

> When you convey a copy of a covered work, you may at your option remove any additional permissions from that copy, or from any part of it.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html#section7

OnlyOffice claims:

> In other words, AGPLv3 does not permit selective application: a recipient either accepts AGPLv3 in its entirety, including all additional conditions, or acquires no rights to use the software.

> Any removal, disregard, or unilateral “exclusion” of conditions imposed under Section 7 constitutes use beyond the scope of the granted license and therefore a breach.

https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/03/onlyoffice-flags-lic...

To me (IANAL etc) that seems questionable. But I also say that the section 7 in entirety is not particularly clear.

It says that you can add requirement of attribution but also that such additional term can be removed, so it seems rather pointless?

See also this post from 2022: https://opensource.org/blog/modified-agplv3-removes-freedoms...

New comment by zokier in "How to turn anything into a router"

zokier — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:57:37 +0000

> Intel and some iteris chipsets are well supported.

Intel chipsets categorically do not support AP mode

New comment by zokier in "Gonon: Building a Clock with No Numerals"

zokier — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:24:01 +0000

As others have already noted, using decimal notation as a base here is problematic in many ways. I'd suggest seximal (base 6) instead. I'd also shift the digits by one, so have 1-6 instead of 0-5, because having empty ring for 0 is not good. The rings also need to be rotated by 30° relative to each other so that "2"s do not overlap like they do now.

60 in base 6 is 140, so in theory you'd need three rings for both minutes and seconds. But because that highest digit can only be 0 or 1 I think there would be other ways to represent it, so you'd manage with two rings. One option is to reverse the colors (/fill the ring).

New comment by zokier in "Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access"

zokier — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:08:08 +0000

I deeply dislike this framing of mega corps vs volunteer devs. It conveniently ignores the huge amount of open source being developed by regular salaried devs as part of their job. Imho that is what we need more of instead of trying to redirect some money to these individuals which to me seems inherently unstable approach.

To make that happen I think companies should be more willing to develop and publish their own patches instead of relying on upstream for anything. Overall I think in the open source world the idea of (centralized upstream) "project" has gotten way overinflated.

New comment by zokier in "CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root"

zokier — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:33:29 +0000

But why bother running Ubuntu at all just to jump through hoops to avoid snaps? Snaps are obviously Ubuntus the thing, so feels counterproductive to run Ubuntu and fight against it.

New comment by zokier in "CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root"

zokier — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:30:46 +0000

Why are you stuck on Ubuntu, what is holding you back?

New comment by zokier in "CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root"

zokier — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:13:12 +0000

which of course raises the question why the fuck snap doesn't use either of these mechanisms?