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rag-havon More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

Would be great to see some way to run WireGuard on kindle or kobo devices

rag-havon Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

I buy the books of my favorite authors on kindle store, while sailing the high seas to read the books on my Kobo. I don't buy all the books I read though.

rag-havon Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?

Hackernews hug of death maybe

rag-havon Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (2017)

Any examples of good HDR in games?

rag-havon Indian crypto exchange coindcx drained of $44M in security breach

Maybe they are used in dark market activities?

rag-havon Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading

What do you mean by network build?

rag-havon Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023

Maybe the reason for CoW being triggered is reference counting. Does anyone know?

rag-havon Make your database tables smaller

I don't have any experience with this. But isn't content management exactly the type of use-case in which the total data will be more than the RAM.

rag-havon What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained

Given author's apparent history with LastPass, the tone comes across more as "told you so" to me.

rag-havon I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India (2020)

> Also was being pressured by the government (indirectly) to take it down

Why am I not surprised.

rag-havon Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?

I wrote a beginner's guide on this topic a while ago https://medium.com/nybles/efficient-operations-on-disjoint-s...

rag-havon SpaceVim 2.0

> fixing it every time a random extension updates

You could pin your extensions in packers. Not sure about other plugins managers though.

rag-havon Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code?

> Some companies have policies against hiring developers with experience on some OSS projects

Can you please elaborate on this?

rag-havon Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to average cost of mining

The hardware would sell for a loss. But if they eat losses for 2 weeks, they could continue to extract profit from their hardware.

rag-havon Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to average cost of mining

How are they stealing from soceity?

rag-havon Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to average cost of mining

> you can probably heat the house the same with less energy

No, a 1000 watt heater is just as efficient as a 1000 watt computer in heating.

rag-havon Patreon cuts deep inside creators’ pockets

> The crypto bros totally miss the point in understanding this too.

I am not sure what you mean by this, but bitcoin transactions do have fees which are determined in an open market fashion.