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cunidev

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MSc CS student, Linux enthusiast. Mostly lurk, sometimes write (tuxphones.com / whatever has "cunidev" in it), sometimes post others' thoughts
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cunidev··on How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (2014)
Is there anything similar for Wayland? Its protocol looks considerably more complex than Xorg's, and so are most resources to learn it.
cunidev··on I’m putting a WiFi router into a wall charger
ARM SoCs are complex and often undocumented to anyone outside the company making them. The arch is fine, but many drivers are needed e.g. for clocks (and a lot of reversing has to be done). Having said that, downstream (Android) kernel will probably be fine for a simple use case such as this
cunidev··on I’m putting a WiFi router into a wall charger
> I ended up choosing the Allwinner A33; it’s an older MPU that came out in 2014. Tablet manufacturers used it in their Android devices, and since Android uses Linux, we should get good mainline support.

Not quite. Mainlining ARM chips tend to be a demanding task, and the not-so-widespread A33 is still a work in progress

cunidev··on $8000 of SHIB coin is worth $5.7b (in 400 days)
Yeah, agree. My temporary grumpiness made me jump to conclusions too fast.
cunidev··on $8000 of SHIB coin is worth $5.7b (in 400 days)
I did not know of this system (which makes a lot of sense), although "crypto X pumped" does not seem any similar to the criteria:

> Moderators and a small number of reviewers go through old submissions looking for articles that are in the spirit of the site—gratifying intellectual curiosity—and which seem like they might interest the community.

Anyway, don't want to put the tin-foil hat. I removed the incriminating bit.

cunidev··on $8000 of SHIB coin is worth $5.7b (in 400 days)
More or less so. Welcome to crypto wonderland
cunidev··on $8000 of SHIB coin is worth $5.7b (in 400 days)
Behind this, none. Memes, and speculation, and memes, and Elon Musk.
cunidev··on $8000 of SHIB coin is worth $5.7b (in 400 days)
This does not make it less of a speculative bubble. Yet another tulip breed, in a growing tulip market.

Similarly, the upvote chart for this entry may look like it was shared on some place hours after being posted, and upvoted in bulk: https://upvotetracker.com/post/hn/29024311

[edit: removed "insinuating" bit, against HN guidelines]

cunidev··on How Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%
For what it's worth, Solus uses deltas since 2016. Updates tend to be amazingly fast. Shame that everything else in it is slowly going downhill.
cunidev··on We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft
OK - but why, if at least the majority of the work can be done algorithmically from known 3d projections?

Also, the marketing words are quite... excessive at times

cunidev··on Finland lobbied EU to declare nuclear power sustainable
Isn't traditional nuclear power, while sustainable, also immensely dangerous?
cunidev··on Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Reproduced Snapshot)
To be fair, all bands I knew of listed there were indeed done with serious NS ideology. Even the most famous and "mainstream" Burzum runs a YouTube channel that expresses white supremacy ideas and racist weirdness.

Overall, the list appears reasonable to me and no (to me known) member is particularly surprising.

cunidev··on Copyright claims on YouTube Bach videos
I am not sure of the example that this video pointed out in particular, but most others seem to have "Public Domain Compositions" of many sorts as the "music in the video" tagged by YouTube.

While I agree that it lacks some context, it seems like smaller mislabeled clips were the source of this "violation" rather than the usage of whole copyrighted clips.

cunidev··on Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app
While Telegram is seen as a "wild west" of free speech by many, its centralization and worrying lack of encryption for most "non-secret" chats is something to keep in mind when reading Durov's passionate claims.

- https://www.wired.com/story/telegram-encryption-whatsapp-set...

- https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/amp/multiple-encryption-f...

Also, the optional E2EE encryption is way more limited (e.g., single-device, rather than having a key sharing mechanism) than most other, possibly more genuine, alternatives (Matrix, Signal).

- https://telegram.org/faq#:~:text=Remember%20that%20Telegram%....

cunidev··on File picker meme
This "meme" is the core of most useless, destroying DE wars in the Linux community. An example of how such a limited case can fuel beliefs of one desktop being "better" than the other, and the latter being something to continuously joke on.

The lack of collaboration between desktops is, in my opinion, at the core of the fragmentation that makes Linux desktops still appear so far from their proprietary counterparts.

This is not to say that either desktop is perfect in vision or implementation, of course, but the "GNOME vs KDE flame wars" are just childish talk. Mature criticism and, especially, collaboration is what both desktops need.

cunidev··on Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu
Quite well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG0uAQqeqW4

Here is on a OnePlus 6T running postmarketOS, for comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9qaD5YIPkc

cunidev··on More Casio Watch Mods
In all honesty, the gold Casio doesn't look bad at all with a dress
cunidev··on PipeWire: A server for Linux audio and video streams
Since the first PipeWire integration in Fedora (beta), the majority of my problems with Linux audio, especially on the wireless side, disappeared.
cunidev··on Apple Watch production delayed as engineers wrestle with quality issues
I still don't understand how a watch with declared battery life of 18 hours is considered acceptable, or even supposed to exist in 2021. Any competitor offers at least 5x of such an essential parameter for a wearable.

Necessary edit: don't get me wrong, I understand how useful or good it can be feature-wise, but this is still a huge dealbreaker.

cunidev··on Tesla silently charges $14k when activating Autopilot on non-enabled vehicle
For the sake of completeness, the issue was later "fixed" by the company in the form of a refund

https://twitter.com/deesix/status/1420433764002373636

The story is published by a trusted, verified person, yet no screenshots were attached.

cunidev··on Vatican’s list of films
To be honest, The Pursuit of Happyness is far from the "values" that most religious orders want to give (well, at least from an ethical point of view).

Revolving around the deeply American concept of money and "success" as the solution to everything is a Hollywood cliché that is seen with some suspect by most European viewers nowadays.

cunidev··on Show HN: Magic Mushroom Map
Would this be feasible for normal (edible) mushroom species as well?

Some expensive (and delicious) varieties are quite rare, and a map using data like this could help perhaps.

cunidev··on Some Kobo e-readers can now run Linux, becoming inexpensive e-ink tablets
I personally would use this as a second screen for viewing documentation and similar static things. Also 6" is a bit small for this, but also LaTeX previews would be handy.
cunidev··on British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers
Isn't the article you linked referring to carrier unlocking? Because there are indeed laws regulating that (i.e., stating that after 2 years from the purchase all phones must be unlockable, or stuff like that), but in that case it's just a matter of having the modem run on all carriers IIRC.
cunidev··on British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers
Not even mentioning the hardware bits, I have been collaborating with postmarketOS for a while now, and believe that the main thing we need to make those devices longer-lasting would be an unlockable bootloader by law.

This sounds so logical (why cannot I run, by voiding the warranty, any code I want on my machine, whatever it is?), yet apparently so hard to make openly illegal, since the problem is barely acknowledged in general.

cunidev··on Onyx Boox Mira Pro is a 25 inch E INK Monitor
You are actually right, there is no large evidence of particular lawsuits (outside some maybe justified ones, https://the-digital-reader.com/2015/03/02/e-ink-loses-two-ye... etc.)
cunidev··on Onyx Boox Mira Pro is a 25 inch E INK Monitor
Also, E-ink as a company in general is apparently quite nasty: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143779
cunidev··on Turn your old, cracked Android phone into a backup server
postmarketOS has much more active mainline work though
cunidev··on Windows 11 screenshots leak, show new Start menu and more
Windows 8.2
cunidev··on Can We Please Move Past Git?
An... eccentric redirect to say the least. Open this in incognito tab to kill the referrer
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