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thatguy27on LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

Nope, still malware. Arguing that people can technically read the TOS is (maliciously?) ignoring the social contract that most of us live by (i.e. don't trick people and screw them).

thatguy27on Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign, here is what it looks like

I hate it.

thatguy27on Claude's Cycles [pdf]

Guesses as to why Knuth made the em dash grey?

thatguy27on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes

It would appear that you know wrong.

thatguy27on The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out

So… Vouch?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961

https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349

https://nitter.net/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559

thatguy27on 3D-printed fan-less and pump-less liquid cooler can deliver 600 watts of cooling

That's really not appropriate for the topic at hand. And what happens when the technology improves and the 1 kW ~= 3.65 kW relation changes?

thatguy27on How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam – Camo Studio with OBS

Shows up on the Pixel 7 as well.

thatguy27on You cannot outsource understanding

Non-sequitur.

thatguy27on South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates

So does South Africa. However, capable administrators are severely lacking.

thatguy27on Cregit-Linux: how code gets into the kernel

Has anyone managed to build cregit [1] recently?

[1] https://github.com/cregit/cregit

thatguy27on Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent

The guy in the video went full Art Jimmerson [1].

[1] https://www.espn.com/mma/ufc/story/_/id/38827608/art-jimmers...

thatguy27on SeL4 Device Driver Framework 0.4.0

A pretty cool video on seL4 where they give the red team root access on a Linux VM running inside of seL4, which controls a helicopter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s5FDX5PkZI

thatguy27on SeL4 Device Driver Framework 0.4.0

A few completely uncurated L4Re links:

https://github.com/kernkonzept/manifest/wiki#tutorials

https://l4re.org/rpi.html

https://l4re.org/doc/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqm6GOniQ_k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGjAxsEAWRI

thatguy27on SeL4 Device Driver Framework 0.4.0

>is that even it's design purpose?

It is not. The closest thing you'll get to it that has the features you mention, is Qubes OS [0].

When it comes to the L4 family, Google's adoption of seL4 [1] might be interesting to you, and possibly L4Re [2] [3], which is open source (not their tooling, though) with commercial support.

Edit: there's a bunch more open source activity in this field, but I'm not familiar with it.

[0] https://www.qubes-os.org/

[1] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/10/announcing-kataos-...

[2] https://l4re.org/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8jxINR-q40

thatguy27on Why Today's Software Sucks

Why is there a question mark in the title on HN? It is not a question, and the source does not contain a question mark.

thatguy27on LineageOS 21 review: Smartphone sustainability starts with software [video]

Wish there was a phone where the camera on LineageOS is as good as the stock. On my Samsung Galaxy S7 using the camera on non-stock in painful (takes seconds to focus, when it focuses at all).

thatguy27on FDA approves first medication to reduce allergic reactions to multiple foods

Hi,

Would you mind telling me what immunotherapy you get, specifically for cats? I'm currently on Grazax for grasses etc. I would love to be able to get a cat, but I am quite allergic and get flu-like symptoms after a while. (Also, my blood tests don't show that I'm allergic to cats, so that complicates things).

thatguy27on Star Trek: Borg – Remastered

Having seen the AI up scaled versions of DS9, I would be surprised if that ends up being something I want to watch. I definitely don't see the point of changing the aspect ratio.

thatguy27on How to make self-hosted maps that work everywhere and cost next to nothing

He already has ;)

thatguy27on Bricks Can Absorb Traffic Noise – Thesis Preso on Helmholtz Resonators [video]

Are there datasheets and/or design guides for the bricks you linked to?

thatguy27on Australian World Map

Not a vector map, but a highish-resolution of ODT's Hobo-Dyer Equal Area Projection [South at top]:

https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/SS7730456_7730456_118706...

thatguy27on MagicEdit: High-fidelity temporally coherent video editing

No code...

thatguy27on LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6

This, a thousand times.

thatguy27on Git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git

I tried https://github.com/google/git-appraise-web, with a review made only locally, not pushed to the remote, but it doesn't seem to work. Did I miss something? I went up to accepting the request, so the command line is working, but the web GUI - at each step - only shows a closed request [0], and clicking on it gives an empty page.

[0] https://ibb.co/HTg8Jfc

thatguy27on Simple Networking in Linux

"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011) [0] explains the difference.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4

thatguy27on The Physics of Readability

Not sure about the reason, but I'm not signed in on Twitter and I only see "A few ways to reduce cognitive load for developers using your codebase…"

thatguy27on Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) Abuse in Azure Ad

Your dictionary definition / denotation is not the connotation "novel" has in research.

thatguy27on Bidet Shower – Hand Bidet, Commode/Toilet/Bum Shower, Health Faucet, Bum Gun

Thanks. It does not look like I can get Amcor/Bemis products in the Netherlands. I was hoping to take the guesswork out of it and avoid buying something crappy. If anyone around here could offer a suggestion, I would appreciate it.

thatguy27on Bidet Shower – Hand Bidet, Commode/Toilet/Bum Shower, Health Faucet, Bum Gun

Care to recommend a model one can retrofit?

thatguy27on “Smart Gun” that uses biometrics to authenticate

Once they've overpowered you, they could just smash in your skull with your gun, or with a brick.