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darknavi··on I'll be stepping back from leading product for X
And how much they (like all other social media) put their mobile web experience into limp mode for no good reason.
darknavi··on RamenHaus
This website reminds of me a small site I want to make.

For years I have taken pictures of bathroom sinks. My main curiosity with them is the crazy variance of proportions and layout of the bowl and the faucet(s). It all started because there are so many sinks where you basically have to touch the sink bowl just to wash your hands because of the faucet choice. So I want to make a similar website which shows the bathroom sinks of the world!

darknavi··on Rear center fuel tank adds roughly 20k liters and extends range by 1k NM
Seattle to Joburg is brutal. It's ~23 hours of flying with a lay over somewhere like Dubai. As much as a 23 hour flight sounds terrible, it's hard for me to express how much dread I felt getting back onto a plane right after a 13 hour flight. I'd rather just hunker down for the full day I think.
darknavi··on The coolest use for the Vision Pro
off topic: Is the sentry banner at the top of the blog an ad? It seems to be, but it's also embedded fairly naturally and uBlock isn't blocking it.

Am I so used to shit-tier ads that a "tasteful" ad confuses me?

darknavi··on Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago
"Life finds a way"

- Dr. Ian Malcolm

darknavi··on Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles
> November 3, 2025: Reported.

> November 10, 2025: No response, followed up.

> November 17, 2025: No response, followed up and copied some additional people on the thread.

> November 20, 2025: It was no longer possible to access any of the internal APIs. The primary vulnerability was now fixed.

> July 27, 2026: Published

Quite the generous timeline on this person's behalf.

darknavi··on Latest Airbus single aisle aircraft innovations
New Zealand allows you to book three seats in a row and covert it to a bed which seems like a nice alternative.
darknavi··on Patreon laying off 20% of staff
Well, they _had_ 465 employees...
darknavi··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
Why not use passkeys in LastPass? Then the passkey travels with you to your devices/apps.
darknavi··on My Homepage Has a Pulse
A fun idea. I've been playing with all sorts of ideas for static websites and trying to figure out ways to make them feel more "live".

I was wondering about the heartbeat updates and replaying the data in "real-time" the next day is a really nice touch and allows a single deployment a day.

darknavi··on John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
Right to watch five YouTube videos on how to fix my horrid soldering job.

I wouldn't trade it for the world though, we need more tinkering.

darknavi··on Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D
I'd love to see a view with all/many trains. In London I was constantly wondering what the criss-cross of underground lines looked like.
darknavi··on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
TempleOS was largely written in HolyC, a C/C++ JIT'd hybrid.

Very neat things from Terry Davis, it's too bad mental health is not taken as seriously as it could be in our society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

darknavi··on AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
Value is in the eye of the beholder.

I open source my vibing projects because someone might find them useful. I don't shop them around, I just work in the open because I find it fun and interesting.

darknavi··on AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
I personally find the barrier of starting new (FOSS) projects much lower now days.
darknavi··on EV Stupidity Checklist
The guy car-jacked a teenager and managed to hit ~7 cars by plowing through a red light.

He was clearly off his meds or something. Preaching about "people following him", that he "was a man of god", and that we needed to believe him.

The cops then dragged him off the car (as per one of the videos!).

darknavi··on C++: The Documentary
FASTBuild has been a game changer for our team recently if you have extra hardware sitting around.

https://www.fastbuild.org/docs/home.html

darknavi··on Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
I agree, the default change logging using something like semantic-release would result in this, which feels way off:

# Bug Fixes

- foo bar'ing

darknavi··on The dead economy theory
> that keeps users in the platform

Alright but if it'd just let me open a damn web link without smashing the link four times just to open an in-app browser frame I'd really appreciate it.

darknavi··on WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants
Beyond the environment
darknavi··on EV Stupidity Checklist
To each their own, I really enjoy my 2018 Model 3 glass roof. Although a stress fracture from no where would really annoy me.

For what its worth I've had a crazed man preach from on top of my Model 3 roof and it still looks brand new :)

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Sbne4ATVZgD74Hon7

darknavi··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
> monopsony

I had to look it up as well. I assumed it was a play on words about Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony (the three big video game console players).

darknavi··on Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife
So this is who I get to "blame" for LLMs constantly saying "I want to use `rg` but I see that it's not installed on this system...".
darknavi··on The real cost of owning a home
> House maintenance and projects have taken up most of every single weekend of mine for the past few years.

Mine come and go but it's no where near every weekend since I've purchased in 2019. What sort of things occupy this much time?

darknavi··on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]
I guess it depends on the EV. We one-shot Seattle to Portland because it's only ~180 miles. I can't imagine spending 2-3 hours charging on that trip.

We'll spend ~20-30 minutes charging on the way home but that's it.

Now if we're talking about the traffic in Tacoma or around JBLM that's a different story!

darknavi··on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]
Definitely different than raod tripping in an ICE. We road trip in our Model Y and end up stopping often regardless of charging for snacking, stretching, walking the dogs, etc.

I remember talking to a coworker would couldn't accept taking 10 hours to drive somewhere instead of the 8.5 hours you can make it in an ICE. But then again we are definitely people who puts on road trips.

darknavi··on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]
Cold soaked batteries are definitely less ideal but if you can plug in at home, planning your charge times and pre-conditioning the car while plugged in significantly reduces the range effects (and preheats the cabin for you!)
darknavi··on Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server
Just waiting for the Gavin Belson edition box.
darknavi··on Inkscape 1.4.4
I normally change mine to `project.svg` but that's just my preference.
darknavi··on Inkscape 1.4.4
It allows the user to change the default from drawning.svg, but that is still the default out of the box.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7801

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