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movsxon JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers

You might find this[0] interesting.

[0]: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539760/racing-the-beam/

movsxon Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

Well, it's simple. Don't do it.

movsxon Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

Plot twist: It's actually a D-flip-flop. :-)

To be honest, I've never encountered an IRCd where it is NOT a single command through NickServ. Setting up SASL authentication takes another single command, as far as I know. Of course, this does not involve certificate issuance through openssl command line. As for cloaking, one typically needs to ask the staffers. In Libera the process is automatic if you just want the user cloak, but let's say it's two commands: joining a channel, and saying "!cloakme" or whatever. :-) Glad to see another fellow IRCer, by the way. o/

movsxon IRCv3

What about the registration you find so painful? It takes a single command to register a nick, if that's what you mean.

movsxon IRCv3

I feel like this is completely missing the point of what IRC is.

I appreciate its text-only nature and would never want to see image/video embeds and/or voice chat in my client.

movsxon Bitwarden Dual License Model

I'm sorry, I should have pointed out what I was replying to.

> A PW manager relying on only a single password as the encryption key - and one that you type in frequently, mind you - has always been a little of a design issue to me.

Yes, I meant 2FA via FIDO2. It strengthens up the entrance to your vault. No key? No entry.

movsxon Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?

How does DD-WRT compare to RouterOS?

movsxon Bitwarden Dual License Model

Just curious, why Namecheap?

movsxon Bitwarden Dual License Model

I'm surprised, actually. I expected at least an order of magnitude more. In my humble opinion, this is still a lot of memory -- probably an order of magnitude (or even two) more than what is realistically required for the task. But this is just my own philosophy, and I do realize that the days of careful memory utilization are long gone.

Thanks for sharing.

movsxon Bitwarden Dual License Model

Are you aware of Yubikeys?

movsxon Bitwarden Dual License Model

Presumably, it's a memory hog. What is your RAM usage?

movsxon Bitwarden Dual License Model

Besides being slow, I found it buggy as hell. For instance, I wanted to log in with my Yubikey on my phone, and it flat out refused to let me in despite the master password and the PIN being 100% correct. There's even an open issue on Github about this, that they're doing absolutely nothing about, demonstrating the incompetence further at some really grand scales.

movsxon Bitwarden Dual License Model

I do not like the idea of self-hosting VaultWarden because I generally do not like the idea of application software requiring so much random access memory for even the simplest tasks. So, my idea was to use something like pass[0] or passage[1] (pass[0] + age[2]) on a remote server, but the problem arises when Yubikeys come into play.

I am in no way, shape, or form, endorsing this PonyApp thingy and cannot vouch for it as I haven't audited it. But judging by what it says on the tin, it does appear like a candidate to solve the specific problem I have.

[0]: https://www.passwordstore.org/

[1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage

[2]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

movsxon Ask HN: A way for HN to verify "founders" and give them extra voting power?

I do not understand. Why is this a problem?

movsxon Bitwarden Dual License Model

I have been eyeballing PassPony[0] as a replacement.

The fact that they still do not support Yubikeys is holding me back from switching, but I expect this to be ironed out soon.

[0]: https://passpony.app/

movsxon Ask HN: Can you suggest an interesting skill?

Same.

movsxon Show HN: An atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams

Another day, another slopped out systems design resource. Life as usual.

movsxon There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027

Might someone know whether banking apps worldwide will work?

movsxon The Secret Life of Circuits

It is clearly a reference to a smoking gun. I think the cover is beautiful.

movsxon The Secret Life of Circuits

I respectfully disagree.

I'm not sure who exactly this book is for, but it's certainly not for absolute beginners. There is a huge delta between the target audience and the level of understanding and experience someone not knowing a first thing about electronics would typically have.

I can clearly remember sitting there reading about component parasitics, without even having a clear idea how an ideal component behaves, and so on. I was just lacking buckets of context, and it was a painful read with lots of assumptions about the reader's background.

On the other hand, I still think it is a great book, like pretty much everything else from NoStarch. I just disagree on it being suitable as a first book in electronics.

That said, I'm looking forward to the day when I will be on an adequate enough level to read it again -- this time, in its entirety.