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Sam and Dario really maxed out their rigs.

kamon AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link

Google is not the payment processor. This is about the app including a link to a donation page on opencollective.com.

Other 501(c)(6) organizations you might have heard of include the Linux Foundation and the Rust Foundation.

kamon Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI

NixOS 25.11 was EOL a month and a half ago. Where's NixOS 26.05?

Ardour does not seem to require a CLA or copyright assignment, so the maintainers don't own the copyright over contributions either way. The contributor would not be able to sue someone over a GPL violation if their contribution is public domain, but what random small contributor is going to participate in a GPL infringement suit anyway? Doesn't change the maintainer's rights to do so with any of their own human-authored contributions.

kamon You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)

Also "The page pool is only created on a real ZCRX-capable NIC (mlx5 ConnectX-6+, Intel E800, NFP)"

kamon Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

Cargo will still pick the latest for transitive dependencies that aren't explicitly specified in your Cargo.toml. This is what Cargo.lock is for.

kamon AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel

> Being in the public domain is not a license; rather, it means the material is not copyrighted and no license is needed. Practically speaking, though, if a work is in the public domain, it might as well have an all-permissive non-copyleft free software license. Public domain material is compatible with the GNU GPL.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PublicDomain

kamon USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

And for Rust, https://github.com/kevinmehall/nusb

kamon USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

USB devices cannot directly address host memory like PCIe or FireWire, but the XHCI controller does DMA to/from host memory, and most USB device controllers have some kind of DMA between USB and the device's RAM.

kamon USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

No need to pretend to be HID. Windows has WinUSB for userspace USB drivers that don't need special signing.

kamon We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster

No, serde-wasm-bindgen implements the serde Serializer interface by calling into JS to directly construct the JS objects on the JS heap without an intermediate serialization/deserialization. You pay the cost of one or more FFI calls for every object though.

https://docs.rs/serde-wasm-bindgen/

kamon CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root

Send a message to a socket-activated daemon running as a UID with write access to the password database.

kamon Solo ASIC tapeout on a budget: detailed write up

See also Luke Wren's Mastodon thread on taping out a RISC-V chip in two weeks: https://types.pl/@wren6991/115572086565318699

kamon Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-...

> Android Studio is unaffected because deployments performed with adb, which Android Studio uses behind the scenes to push builds to devices, is unaffected.

kamon Show HN: Traceroute Visualizer

The calls to the ipinfo.io API are blocked by Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection. No results for Location or ISP without turning that off.

kamon Docker Hub Is Down

> Is there a mirror registry with all the same basic images?

https://gallery.ecr.aws/

kamon OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community

You could put it under a "PostgreSQL OR Apache-2.0 at your option" dual-license, so all contributors give you their code under both licenses, instead of needing to re-license later. The Rust project does this (MIT OR Apache-2.0) to get the patents clause from Apache while retaining compatibility with MIT and GPL.

kamon Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android

That's a bad analogy. No one is complaining about Google providing Android security updates.

This is like a car manufacturer preventing the installation of all unapproved aftermarket accessories by claiming they're protecting you from a stalker installing a tracker on your car.

kamon Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords

The browser that initiated the request is under the control of BAD in step 3.

kamon OSS Rebuild: open-source, rebuilt to last

Nixpkgs pulls source code from places like pypi and crates.io, so verifying the integrity of those packages does help the Nix ecosystem along with everyone else.

kamon Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141

What improvements does WebGPU bring vs WebGL for things like Potree?

kamon Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent

The examples in the repo are using the open-source yosys + nextpnr tooling.

kamon I use zip bombs to protect my server

No, compression formats are not Turing-complete. You control the code interpreting the compressed stream and allocating the memory, writing the output, etc. based on what it sees there and can simply choose to return an error after writing N bytes.

kamon TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days

At least that sounds like it would be a more interesting story than the one where the person who quit a year ago didn't document all the places they manually installed the 2-year certificate.

kamon New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

I think the idea is that if an LLM trained prior to the patent date can reproduce the invention, then either the idea is obvious or there was prior art in the training set; either way the patent is invalid.

kamon Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update

I also looked around AOSP and found the commit for the battery alert icon [1], but no kernel source.

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...

kamon NonStop discussion around adding Rust to Git

This isn't "Rust Evangelists" pushing Rust on Git, it's Git developers wanting to use Rust.

Also, there's already a separate from-scratch re-implementation of git in Rust (gitoxide).

kamon Trump wins presidency for second time

The license is for the use of the broadcast spectrum (a scarce, shared resource), not practicing journalism.

kamon Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

If your site is vulnerable to SQL injection, you need to fix that, not pretend Cloudflare will save you.

kamon Restic: Backups done right

What do you miss about it? In restic, every snapshot has the speed and size of an incremental backup, but the functionality of a full backup.