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jokoon

4,247 karma · joined April 7, 2013

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Interests: Programming

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jokoon··on IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
I don't understand, after all this time, why ipv4 still dominates
jokoon··on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
you laugh, but bringing people back to reality might require using screens to do it
jokoon··on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
Make a social network that is centered around people who live in a 1 kilometer radius

Make them interact and do things, generally they will be less toxic because it will reduce their online disinhibition effect.

Make them have meals, meet, walk at the park, whatever.

jokoon··on Crafting Interpreters
the parser does
jokoon··on Crafting Interpreters
I stopped reading when he started using the visitor pattern
jokoon··on Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)
so barely 2 or 3 times better than xz

not really worth it

jokoon··on Changes to Android Open Source Project
Why is it so difficult to build those images?

Android is open source, does that mean brands don't release the drivers, or the scripts involved in making the images?

Are those drivers and scripts proprietary?

jokoon··on How Markdown took over the world
I wish there was a markdown renderer, that doesn't use HTML

It would be insanely faster to render

jokoon··on Changes to Android Open Source Project
I wish I could understand why it is so difficult to build an un-googled android image.

One reason, I guess it's not possible because it's a complex OS?

But is the real obstacle being smartphone brands not publishing their hardware drivers?

It is so easy to install linux on a PC, yet I don't see the same happening for android while it's actually running a linux kernel, so it really begs the question.

jokoon··on New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis
I have read claims that there were fake documents inserted in those leaks, who aimed at pushing disinformation.
jokoon··on Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression
I tried intensive workout

It's unhelpful because I got tired, and then I stopped workout entirely

Now I just do fast walking and it's nice

jokoon··on When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe
this really needs a TLDR

after reading a summary, this title is very click-baity

The title reads like "a cat got into a nuclear plant, got contaminated in a and spread radioactivity with cat litter stuck to its paws"

jokoon··on Linux Runs on Raspberry Pi RP2350's Hazard3 RISC-V Cores (2024)
I don't even know what would be the point of such device, and if there really is a market for it for tech companies. I would say yes?

As a consumer, all I want if a very minimal "phone", with wifi, touch screen, battery, but no 4g or mobile networking, and linux on it. Just the cheapest, smallest, wifi, battery-powered, touchscreen LCD device that could exist that can run executables.

People are going to say "but just buy a cheap phone", but I cannot really run custom software on those, I can't expect to install a custom system image, and generally even cheap phones CPU SOC are way way too powerful. Open source phones are generally crazy expensive and very powerful, and I am not going to buy those.

With the range of hardware that exist out there, I think such device could cost about 60 euros, and it would be more interesting than a RPI.

The RPI is an amazing product, but it lacks an all integrated consumer device with an actual screen and battery. Of course I can already build one with a compute module etc, but it's not really portable and not designed around a flat battery.

jokoon··on How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
What are free, good alternatives to github?

Is gitlab still relevant?

jokoon··on Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
It adds up but it would require to rewrite all software, which would be pretty costly.

I agree with the sentiment but it's a bit too late now.

The problem is with how software is designed around being cheap to write.

jokoon··on I changed my personality in six weeks
"believes", or "can prove"?
jokoon··on I changed my personality in six weeks
I don't think that's very interesting. Personality disorders or mental health, those matter much more and are real problems for a lot of people.

Personality matters only because it allows health professionals to differentiate what is a problem from what is not.

It's not so hard to change behavior when mental health is not an obstacle or is not involved. Changing personality sounds like a nice luxury for people who don't have mental health problems or personality disorders

And even then, I don't really see the point of changing personality, since a personality is not a real problem, only personality disorders (the medical term) really are problems.

And then there are thought patterns that can be shaped by mental illness that stay even after symptoms go away, those might be changed with CBT.

jokoon··on US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover
hum

wouldn't the dutch use force to fight the US if the US ever attempted that?

that could turn the EU into an enemy of the US

jokoon··on Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time
Does it require annotations or can it validate any c code?

It's odd that so many people promote rust, yet we don't even use static analysis and validators for c or C++.

How about enforcing coding standards automatically first, before switching to a new language?

jokoon··on What you need to know before touching a video file
I wish he talked about avidemux.

It's a simple tool which is great for many things, it has filters and there are most of the formats. I think it uses ffmpeg under the hood.

It's an old tool but it's fine for most things, when ffmpeg is to fastidious to use. ffmpeg is still what I use, but some more complex tasks are just more comfortable with avidemux.

jokoon··on Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop
This is sadly why windows will always prevail. You can't expect volunteers to deliver correct drivers, even if they spend a lot of time reverse engineering things.

It's 2025 and I would have expected the linux foundation or canonical to at least create a label "linux compatible" or "linux tested", so that brands can license it, and maybe spend money to collaborate with hardware vendors so they can write correct drivers, but that has not happened.

I am not saying linux/OSS is at fault here, but I am confused why the situation is still so bad. You can even find several governments ready to use linux, but it's not reliable enough yet, or maybe they're too tech-illiterate.

Open source/linux folks are so politicized against capitalism, proprietary software and patents that they excluded themselves from the economy. Only valve and the steam machine might have a chance of changing that situation but it's not even guaranteed.

jokoon··on Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker
To me it feels like rust is barely readable sometimes. When I read some rust cost, I am often incapable to guess what it does, so it does not feel intuitive.

I wish they made something simpler. At least C and C++ have a low barrier of entry and any beginner can write code.

I don't think the borrow checker forced rust to be such a complicated language.

jokoon··on Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
I am willing to enter the consulting meat grinder, if you have any tip

I get regularly contacted my them, but they don't hire me

jokoon··on Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
I am french, good C++ scores on senior tests, still out of a job

I lack a degree though

jokoon··on Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system
I wish they would make a demonstration
jokoon··on Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts
after cleaning up? I don't think so

I don't know how large is a single mail without image or attachment, though

jokoon··on Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts
I realized my inbox takes a lot of memory, even after a manual cleanup, it was still taking 5GB, despite regularly removing automated things and others.

I tried using takeout to have a more accurate listing. I thought I could open it with thunderbird, I failed, I then tried to open it with some python lib, also failed.

jokoon··on All Delisted Steam Games
death stranding is in there

I remember that many games I had in my wishlist became "blank" or removed, and I was unable to know what games were those

jokoon··on Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views
does it make a mesh?

doesn't seem very accurate, no idea of the result with a photo of large scene, that could be useful for level designers

jokoon··on Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls
Do you really think I believe sugar is as much addictive as heroin? Because I don't.

Sugar is addictive, so talking about "individual decision-making" of millions of people like you did, like they lack willpower, is not going to improve the situation regarding the obesity epidemic.

You should do a bit of research of what can be found in supermarkets in developed countries of the EU, and what sort of food norms they have.

Of course you can put any problem on the fault of free will if you really want.

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