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mkayokay··on Don't paste the AI, please
Same but shorter: https://noslopgrenade.com/
mkayokay··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold
Mostly when driving or not being able to hold the phone. E.g. things that don't work: open my garage door using an action in an app; yesterday I wanted to send an address stored in Gmaps to a contact via messaging app; using controls currently displayed by Android Auto without having to touch the screen.
mkayokay··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold
I always ask myself why Google's Gemini integration still feels that bad despite the company having full control over Android, the Play Store, and the Pixel hardware stack. If one could fully operate any feature on the phone with Gemini (and combine actions into workflows and tasks), that would at least for me be the next evolutionary step in "smart" phones.
mkayokay··on Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition
Often kids are playing the game and kids want to play what their friends play and that's most likely not mineclonia.

So first I'd test mods [1] that improve performance. The best thing about java Minecraft is the modding scene.

[1] https://modrinth.com/collection/Dtkcqkms/mods

mkayokay··on Bitchat is now on Radicle
Had the same question then read the whitepaper (section 6).

https://github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat/blob/main/WHIT...

mkayokay··on I built a browser-based P2P file transfer tool using WebRTC
I guess this sort of tool provides a good learning experience for developers or implementing one scratches some other itch, because there are so many one here:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&query=peer%20file%20sh...>

mkayokay··on LG Spyware TVs
TL;DW: Some LG PC monitors (increasing models - also older models) auto install adware via Windows Update as soon as they are connected. Additionally, LG TVs secretly listen in and send pretty much all data back home.

Thanks for the link. I will make sure never to buy any LG product ever again.

Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy a TV (65"+) that isn't a "smart" TV (where smart == exfiltrating data and/or showing ads). If anyone has any recommendations, I would be grateful.

mkayokay··on Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
I'd choose Cambridge, as I am sure that it provides the opportunity to meet a lot of influential people that you might be glad to have in your contacts later on in life, as well as a masters from there will open a lot of doors alone.
mkayokay··on Show HN: I ran 70 MCP servers in a sandbox and logged what they do
This clearly is a copied response from Claude for something like "Summarize RESULTS.md so that i can use it as a comment for HN."
mkayokay··on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach
heavy mouth-breathing
mkayokay··on Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages
So from a quick read, it seems it installed "atomic-lockfile", "js-digest" or "lockfile-js" from npm. A list of affected packages is here [1].

Didn't find any quick info on how to check a system, so I ran the following command to find foreign packages and some date related infos:

> pacman -Qmi

Check the output against the list of affected packages.

Then, you can also grep for those files in various locations: > grep -rl "atomic-lockfile" / --include="package.json" --include="package-lock.json"

> grep -rl "atomic-lockfile" ~/.npm 2>/dev/null

> grep -i "atomic-lockfile" /var/log/pacman.log 2>/dev/null

Don't know if the packages delete themself after they run. I just wanted to provide some basic commands, as all the other infos I found didn't provide any help.

[1] https://md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA

mkayokay··on My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck
I'd recommend that you try and ask this in a more specialized forum (e.g. BGG [1]). Also, if solo playable board games is a must - this drastically reduces the amount of games.

Maybe also consider card games (like Solitaire)?

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/

mkayokay··on Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
Gaming on Linux works pretty good now. Setup is easy thanks to Steam and other launchers (e.g. heroiclauncher).
mkayokay··on Show HN: I built a habit tracker that takes 5 years to "finish"
"Includes a private, local AI Journal."

What is this journal and why does it need AI? Could not find an answer on the page.

mkayokay··on KDE going all-in on a Wayland future
What is the solution regarding the display manager? As SDDMs Wayland support is considered experimental.

What do you guys use/recommend?

mkayokay··on Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N
AFAIK most cars with electric parking breaks need to be set into a special maintenance mode either via OBD-2 or a special in-car procedure to be able to change the pads. Otherwise the breaks Pistons just push together and leave no room for the new pads. At least that is what my 2015 VW would do. But every shop around here has that Software or knowledge.

So Hyundai just upped the game and put some subscription into their service software. Definitely not a consumer friendly move, as changing pads and even disks is not that hard.

mkayokay··on AMD GPUs Go Brrr
I'm running a 6900XT on Arch and have no problems so far. Steam, Heroic launcher and every game i tried so far worked like a charm. You can even OC with LACT [1] if you want to.

[1] https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT

mkayokay··on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
Looks like the comments on Mozilla Connect are not that positive either:

Building AI the Firefox way: Shaping what’s next together - <https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-f...>

mkayokay··on What I Self Host
You could have a look at the following list, as there are a lot of options to choose from in each category: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
mkayokay··on Ask HN: Which cross platform desktop GUI to use instead of Electron?
So far, I have tried Qt directly with C++ and python bindings (pySide6, pyQt), where C++ is definitely the lighter option.

If you consider python bindings, you could also look into JavaFX. It has the advantage of native images or the option of a fat jar containing all platform dependant FX modules. But the resulting files won't be small.

mkayokay··on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
Looks like this is a nice case were the LLM thinks that silence is "thanks for watching" which was discussed on here a few days ago.
mkayokay··on Fixing a loud PSU fan without dying
A new semi-passive 850-watt fully modular PSU is around EUR 130, the Noctua fan around EUR 30.

I guess if you know electronics and how to safely handle the PSU internals, the risk of injury is low, but I personally would not risk it for EUR 100.

Also, if the only problem was the noisy fan, I guess selling it used would have returned most of the investment, leaving him with like EUR 50 in added cost. Compared to the price of a modern gaming PC, that's nothing (also avoiding not risking your life).

mkayokay··on The Fairphone (Gen. 6)
> Ask to put it in a separate room...

Yes, that's what I had to do for meetings that the organizer thought were important enough. Also, in very sensitive areas special rooms with anti-eavesdropping gear are common [1].

> I could turn it off entirely, but what if someone needs to call me for an emergency?

But you would also not be reachable if the killswitch is active ;)

Don't get me wrong, I think a killswitch can make a lot of sense for highly sensitive areas (R&D, politics, military, ...), but I don't think Fairphone 6 are the devices that target this demographic and thus should not include one. Furthermore, current "offline" measure seem to mitigate the problem okay enough to not need such a killswitch - else we would already have phones with such features. And lastly, killswitches can only mitigate parts of the features modern spyware [2] implements and does not protect from simple human-based errors like the United States government group chat leaks [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_compartmented_inform... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_group...

mkayokay··on The Fairphone (Gen. 6)
The easiest solution to such strict privacy needs is to not carry the phones. But then again you also need to worry about other means of espionage.
mkayokay··on The Fairphone (Gen. 6)
I've never heard this request from anyone before, so I guess that implementing such a switch wouldn't "effortlessly at least double their market potential".

What a lot of people talk about is a headphone jack. But even that niche has been filled by USB-C adapters for people that really want them and not only talk nostalgic about it.

mkayokay··on Kagi Reaches 50k Users
Also with regional pricing one must ensure the lock out all those people who want the service cheaper than in their country and try using VPNs or other means. Otherwise you loose even more money.
mkayokay··on Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
I can also recommend Lenovo ThinkCentre MiniPCs or similar brands. Those can often be found cheap when companies upgrade their Hardware. These machines are also power efficient when idling, use even less space than a laptop and the case fan is very quiet (which can be annoying with laptops under load).

I'm currently running Syncthing, Forgejo, Pihole, Grafana, a DB, Jellyfin, etc... on a M910 with an i5 (6th or 7th Gen) without problems.

mkayokay··on Show HN: Sshsync – CLI tool to run shell commands across multiple remote servers
How are commands handled, that require user input? E.g. password for sudo in your example:

  sshsync group web-servers "sudo systemctl restart nginx"
I like that you included a demo in the README, but it is too long for a gif, as I can't pause/rewind/forward. So splitting into multiple short gifs or converting into a video (if GitHub supports them) could improve the experience.
mkayokay··on Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL
For CSV files you can also import them directly into a SQLite file using https://sqlitebrowser.org/

XLSX would be the same workflow with "save as" CSV and then push it into SQLite.

mkayokay··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
I guess you already know, but you do not necessarily need a server for Syncthing if the devices are on at the same time. If they are not, a simple low-power rpi-like device would be more than enough to implement a star topology, with the pi being receive-only.
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