HN user

9029

70 karma
Posts0
Comments61
View on HN
No posts found.

Not gp but I really like the sound of my GK Kuntens and 7Hz Zero2s. Both have a rather V-shaped sound signature, some like it and some don't. Though unfortunately the Zero2s feel a bit uncomfortable in my ears when using them for longer

I'd guess the speed improvement in those cases likely came from learning a better technique, like touch typing and using more of your fingers. Afaik a lot, if not most, of the fastest typists are still on qwerty.

That "officially supported" comes with a huge asterisk though. Security bulletins for old android versions already only include backports of high severity patches. On top of that the device also gets no security patches for firmware or kernel, as the hardware and kernel are eol. The FP5 is also on an eol kernel after less than 3 years, not that they were providing kernel updates in the first place. https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-stand...

Linux is good now 7 months ago

I think it could be interesting to explore Universal Blue based distros such as Bazzite for this kind of use cases. The OS comes from a standard OCI container image, which means you can create your own customized one by layering changes on top of an upstream base image.

I feel bad for the unsolicited distro plug though especially since you already have a solution that works well and you are familiar with, but I thought it might still be useful to mention it. I'm not sure if uBlue would even be better vs your current setup. Seems like netboot would still be needed to get the latest version without an extra reboot.

For a lot stuff on my local network I don’t want the hassle and there are loads of use cases in local networks for normal people to just have port 80 no certs on something like 192.x.x.x because there is no easy way to set up public certificates for that and I don’t want everything hostem on cloud - some stuff I want to still host for myself in my local network.

Tbh I don't see what's hard about this. All you need is an A record pointing to your 192.x.x.x, acme capable dns host and a modern reverse proxy. You can even use a free ddns service if you want. Wouldn't bother with this for development, but anything hosted for longer than a few days absolutely yes. Imo not getting browser warnings is alone worth the few minutes it takes nowadays.

I like that Zig allows using relaxed floating point rules with per block granularity to reduce the risk of breaking something else where IEEE compliance does matter. I think OpenMP simd pragmas can be used similarly for C/C++, but that's non-standard.

Steam Machine 8 months ago

This is exactly where Bazzite is convenient since it comes with the latest drivers (including 32-bit) out of the box.

I have used this setup for 6 years or so with KeePassXC and it's fine. Just being mindful of not editing stuff on other devices before the first one has had the chance to sync has been enough to avoid pretty much all sync conflicts. I have only had to resolve those a few times so far, iirc my android client was misconfigured at the time or something.

I still recommend Bitwarden for password management for any "laypeople" since it will just work. Also worth noting that the basic functionality is free.

While we are at it, here are some more useful warning flags I have used: https://github.com/cpp-best-practices/cppbestpractices/blob/.... Some C++-only though, some are a bit opinionated (like -Wsign-conversion) and some useful C-only flags might be missing.

Few C-specific references I found just now, but haven't tried myself yet:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/0885e4a6e7ca93d3aef8... https://github.com/airbus-seclab/c-compiler-security

Also a good idea to regularly run the program with sanitizers, using them in tests is a good way to do that I think. Why not during development as well if the performance is acceptable for that specific program.

Maybe a dumb question but I have always wondered, why does the (authoring?) spec not consider e.g. "doctypehtml" as valid HTML if compliant parsers have to support it anyway? Why allow this situation where non-compliant HTML is guaranteed to work anyway on a compliant parser?

Update on power draw for anyone interested: measured with a cheap AC power meter, I get 2.8-4.2W idle with occasional jump to up to 8W on my M720q with i5-8400T, 16GB ram and a single nvme drive. This is on Debian 13 with ASPM enabled for everything and a few containers running (home assistant, esphome, bookstack, tailscale). According to powertop stats on C-states, it's mostly in package C9 and core C10.

Used Intel 8th gen based mini PCs seem like a pretty good value. 100-150 bucks for a pc from a somewhat reputable brand (lenovo, dell, hp) with slightly better multi core than N150 and ~6W idle if you manage to get it to stay in C10. Some of them have a low profile pcie slot, like M720q and M920q. Also the CPU is socketed so you could technically upgrade it to e.g. i9-9900K, at least the M920q is known to take one as long as you use a powerful enough PSU. Few of them (at least M920q) also support coreboot due to an Intel Boot Guard vuln which could be fun, I'm planning to look into whether it could be ported to my M720q as well.

The difference is that unlike Brave and Vanadium, Firefox doesn't come with an ad blocker. You will have to install uBO. If you want to also trim tracking query params, you will have to enable a non-default filter list. Modifications like these will make you stand out from the average Firefox user. It's the reason why installing more extensions and messing with settings is not recommended when using Tor browser or Mullvad browser. The GrapheneOS project also discourages it (https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing).

But you are still right, I don't have data for this or even a measure for uniqueness, it's just a guess.

While I still use Firefox on desktop, on Android I recently switched from Firefox mobile to Brave out of security concerns and frustrations with performance. It has built-in tracker, query param and ad blocking, and is recommended by the GrapheneOS people as a decent alternative to their Vanadium browser [0]. Additionally, I have a gut feeling a Brave user blends in a bit better with its default ad blocking vs say a Firefox user with extensions and filter lists of their choice, but this might be negligible.

On the other hand the affiliate, crypto and AI shit in Brave are quite disgusting tbh, but at least they can be disabled. I also miss Firefox sync a bit.

[0] https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/111966258971400137