HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

vimredo

35 karma · joined May 4, 2025

submissionscomments
vimredo··on The Death of Physical Media
It just seems like a perfectly fine simplistic blog; how is it bizarre?
vimredo··on But can your calculator run Linux?
For that project to work, you have to replace the brains of the PicoCalc with something that can run Linux, so you might as well just connect the display of a Ti-84 up to a Raspi with an adapter board and advertise it as "running Linux".
vimredo··on SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
Personally, I self-host it myself. All the hosts I tried either errored often, or gave search results that were complete garbage.
vimredo··on Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo
At the bottom: 'This content is created by the owner of the form. The data you submit will be sent to the form owner. Never give out your password.' It's very clearly just a Microsoft 365 form, and most likely it's just going to take your info and not send you a CD.
vimredo··on A Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea
I might've misread the article, but wasn't it not the CEO who caused this, it was some marketers who chose the slogan and the branding, who then shipped it off to managers, who approved it without even looking at what they were approving?
vimredo··on I am giving up on VM Gaming
Apples aren't oranges. Making achievements in nuclear power will, 99% of the time, not apply to hydro. What are you trying to say?
vimredo··on Haiku
> But I had no web browser that was supported.

This might be a new development, but there's like 3 different forks of Firefox that are packaged. See: `pkgman search firefox`, or something like that. I used Floorp, and it worked well, especially considering it was running with 4 gigabytes of RAM on a VM on a system that already had a bunch of applications open.

vimredo··on IPv6 is the only way forward
I looked through RFC 2373 and found precisely nothing. Which RFC?
vimredo··on IPv6 is the only way forward
It works fine for me on NixOS (Linux), with a recent kernel version and no weird config options - or at least I think so.
vimredo··on IPv6 is the only way forward
The brackets are only needed for URLs, scp, and a few other things, due to the fact that ports are specified with colons. Usually you don't see them in a CIDR.
vimredo··on IPv6 is the only way forward
> 4) if you browse a website from a native world-reachable ipv6 address, you're fingerprinted by it and it's overwhelmingly unique to you.

IPv6 privacy extensions exist & are enabled by default in most (if not all) operating systems today, which (this is my understanding; take it with a grain of salt) create what essentially are extra IPv6 addresses, used for outbound traffic, that aren't generated via your MAC address.

vimredo··on Run Linux containers on Android, no root required
I don't understand what this would be useful for. The Linux terminal app on Android (check Developer settings if you want it) already exists and it uses hardware accelerated virtualization, while this uses QEMU with TCG. The Linux terminal app also supports running a DE (No VNC - as in no VNC, not NoVNC - required!), has full shell, full root, all the features of Podroid, and hell, you could even swap out the terminal if you wanted to. The only advantage to this seems that it supports Android 14, 15, and 16. Am I missing something, or does this have no purpose?
vimredo··on Run Linux containers on Android, no root required
Why wouldn't it? All you need is a binder device for Android IPC and root access to launch Waydroid. It should work perfectly fine when installed and used with Wayland.
vimredo··on I hate: Programming Wayland applications
I might be mistaken, but isn't this what libraries like winit exist for? It might not be just for wayland, but it seems like it supports everything you mentioned other than drag and drop.
vimredo··on Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
I don't understand? I did some basic research, and it doesn't seem like these cameras have air quality sensors. How exactly would some Android cameras reduce pollution?
vimredo··on Steam Frame
Cell phones and other mobile devices only transmit non-ionizing radiation (perfectly safe glorified invisible light), and studies have been done regarding this topic, returning inconclusive results. It's most likely perfectly safe.
vimredo··on Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?
If that was enough to change him that much, then something's really wrong. I doubt it was just games, personally.
vimredo··on Steam Frame
The LTT video on the Steam Frame mentions an optional spacer for glasses and that Valve is working on getting prescription lenses for the Steam Frame.
vimredo··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
The G in G-Drive stands for Government, not Google. It tricked me too.
vimredo··on Show HN: SSH-hypervisor – like SSH, but each user gets their own microVM
It uses Alpine Linux, which includes busybox as coreutils by default.
vimredo··on Ask HN: Does anyone know why charm.li is offline?
It looks like there's a torrent with all the data and code[0, 1], which only takes up about 750GB, so a $60 1TB SSD (or an even cheaper hard drive) would fit it. Might want to take a look at it, but it looks like you'd need to run the server software to extract the PDF files from the compressed database provided.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanic/comments/1iq0qjh/operation... [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20250711000650/https://charm.li/... (download our data link)

vimredo··on How to Alienate Your Users: A guide for responding to open source help requests
Did people forget that first impressions are important? I'm not reading your article if the first thing I see is an AI-generated image.
vimredo··on Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC
For Linux to gain 5% marketshare, I really doubt it "barely works" on a "limited set of hardware that it was designed for". It can run headless on basically anything better than a Pentium, and it mostly just works on average hardware (except fingerprint sensors and Nvidia). I've had no problem with Linux on all my hardware, and I have a feeling the last time you looked at it was 2013.
vimredo··on NeuralOS: An operating system powered by neural networks
I did a similar thing when I was younger, except with Batch.
vimredo··on Connet.dev – high performance reverse proxy to connect devices privately
This reminds me a bit about gsocket[1], except that it seems slightly more configurable and not just intended to be a backdoor.

[1]: https://gsocket.io/