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herogreen··on Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
You can block this banner using ublock origin: right click on it > Block element > Create
herogreen··on Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
Or less than Minecraft (2B)
herogreen··on Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support
The radio firmware could be executed on different CPU than the Android kernel and communicate with a standard protocol ?
herogreen··on PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder
Some reasons why non-technical folks might be interested in the Pinephone:

1) avoid the privacy issues of Android & iOS 2) have the confidence that as long as their hardware work, they will have updates 3) buy from a brand that will allow you (or a third party) to fix your hardware (Pine64 sells you spare parts, and at reasonable prices!) 4) have an user-replaceable battery 5) have an affordable smartphone (I know, there are 30$ android phones but they tick none of the above points)

The points 2 to 4 will interest an increasing number of people this century, imo

edit: typos

herogreen··on PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder
I just tested: Firefox is able to play reasonably well a Youtube video at 720p 25fps.
herogreen··on PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder
Well, it is easier to place all the components in a bigger phone :)

I too prefer small screens, but I bought a Pinephone anyway to support the effort and help testing.

Typed from Firefox on my Pinephone Braveheart running Mobian (works fine for me).

herogreen··on Ask HN: What websites do you visit every day?
hackaday.com/blog
herogreen··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
Alma (co-op) | Software Engineers | Grenoble, French Alps, France | Onsite | Full-time | language: French

Alma was founded 41 years ago as an operation research company working on sheet nesting for CAM (have a look at the demo of our saas offer: https://demo.powernestlib.com/ ). Over the years Alma has been diversifying into other areas such as sheet cutting, 3D robots programming (e.g. for welding), IT services and health-care: https://www.alma.fr/en/

Alma is a cooperative: a new employee becomes an associate one year after joining. All shareholders are employees and at the shareholder meeting each associate has 1 vote (regardless of their seniority/capital).

You must speak French or be willing to learn it: English would be ok for technical discussions but less practical for coffe-break discussions, shareholders meetings, etc. We may be able to help for visas. Our offers (in French): https://recrutement.alma.fr/listeoffre.asp Please use this page to candidate to an offer, or contact rh AT alma.fr and mention that you are coming from HN.

herogreen··on Collapse OS – bootstrap post-collapse technology
Unless the apocalypse is due to a solar flare similar to the Carrington event, which could destroy a lot of computers.
herogreen··on Long-time nuclear waste warning messages
I think the task of propagating such information could suit well the Church of Reality: http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdom/welcome_home/
herogreen··on A new release for GNU Octave
I really like matplotlib: while it is not intuitive and the documentation is sometimes lacking, there are a lot of examples online and stackoverflow answers all my questions.

That said I may use matplotlib much less than you do (I used it a lot when I was a student, now maybe 6 times a year).

herogreen··on Turn any camera into a webcam with a $13 USB/HDMI video card
What is the advantage of a mirrorless camera in the webcam use case ?
herogreen··on Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible
Even if the app was perfect, I would not use it (less suported platforms, waste space, gathers more data, etc).
herogreen··on Iron Powder Passes First Industrial Test as Renewable, Carbon Dioxide-Free Fuel
But would solar price be the same if the world global energy mix used no fossil fuel ? My belief is no, not at all, unless we used nuclear which can give an energy density similar to fossil fuels. But I have no research data to back this claim.
herogreen··on Tax working from home 'to support vulnerable jobs' – Deutsche Bank
We also need to launch war-like economies to get our green houses gases emission close to zero, asap!
herogreen··on Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC
If one of the usb port allow OTG someone can hack a driver to turn the 400 into a keyboard (albeit a very bloated one as it would be running a full OS!).
herogreen··on Linux PinePhone has physical kill switches for its cameras, mic, data, BT, Wi-Fi
This button could easily be added by a third party protection case using the GPIO that is available on the pogopins at the back of the phone.
herogreen··on Microsoft to remove all Windows downloads signed with SHA-1
Any idea why they do not simply publish safer cryptographic control sums for these downloads ?
herogreen··on GitHub buries 21 TB open-source code in Arctic vault for 1k years
And the recipes to build the hardware required to run the program.
herogreen··on Deno will stop using TypeScript
If compilation times are a problem with typescript I do not see how Rust will help.
herogreen··on ULX3S: Hackable FPGA that runs Linux on RISC-V
And DOS, NES, Amiga, Apple I, Apple II, Z80 ! I am new to FPGAs so it is a bit difficult to know what to expect from a given number of LUTs, but you can compare between models: the big version of ECP5 in ULX3S has 85k LUTs while the previous well open-source supported FPGA (iCE40) had only up to 7.7 k LUTs, so more than a 10x jump :)
herogreen··on ULX3S: Hackable FPGA that runs Linux on RISC-V
Also newsworthy: Lattice drops recent EULA clause forbidding fpga bitstream reverse engineering https://hackaday.com/2020/06/06/lattice-drops-eula-clause-fo... therefore 2020 could be a milestone for open FPGA toolchains!
herogreen··on Way to keep your cool running a Raspberry Pi 4 (2019)
Nice test, it could be cool to have people repeating it to see how much the "silicon lotery" influences the temps.

Also there a few model of cases on ebay/aliexpress that would be interesting to test such as https://m.aliexpress.com/item/4000509636456.html (with a heatsink added)

herogreen··on The Raspberry Pi 4 Is Now Available with 8GB RAM
Also noteworthy: "Not to be left out, today we’ve released an early beta of our own 64-bit operating system image."
herogreen··on Docker Expands Relationship with Microsoft
What do you mean by type and wait ?
herogreen··on Welcome to C# 9.0
I would like to know what is the future of Mono now that dotnet core is crossplatform and Microsoft bought Xamarin.

Mono remains the best (only?) solution to call C# from C++ in a crossplatform way using embedding.

herogreen··on Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust
Except if the watermark is terribly designed, that will not work. There is a lot of information that you can hide from the eye in a video.
herogreen··on The 5th-generation Waymo Driver
Yet depth from stereo is, to some extent, AI because the matching of pixels that corresponds to the same physical point is not trivial and uses heuristics.
herogreen··on Is Recycling a Waste of Time?
On top of that most of the recycling is actually downcycling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downcycling
herogreen··on “Abrupt thaw” of Arctic permafrost releasing more CO2 than predicted
But which metric do you use for "percent of damage" ?
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