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Bigpet commented on Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19 asahilinux.org/2026/02/pr... · Posted by u/mkurz

sohrob · 22 days ago

I often wonder whether the folks at Apple have the Asahi team on their radar. Are they in awe of the reverse engineering marvels coming out of the Asahi project, or are they indifferent to it?

Bigpet · 22 days ago

I think the dev that was responsible for the bootloader or some security chip having the option to be opened posted on twitter a while ago. Pretty sure he implied or mentioned that this was what he was hoping for.

Edit: this was what I was remembering: https://x.com/XenoKovah/status/1339914714055368704

Bigpet commented on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

sofixa · a month ago

> Or is it cheapo Android Phones picking up the tag and then sending GPS coords into cloud?

AirTags have no integration with Android devices. There's a shitty app from Apple you can install that allows you to scan for AirTags nearby, one shot. It's supposedly against stalkers, but it's practically useless. There a bunch of other community apps with varying features like finding and notifying you there's an AirTag nearby. But you can't even track your own AirTags from an Android device, because Apple have decided you must do it from an iDevice. No browser, no Android app. You can check your iPhone's location via the browser, but not the AirTag.

The Android ecosystem has an alternative thing, but depending on the phone manufacturer you have to opt in to your device being used to track trackers around you.

When I travel to places with low iPhone market share, I always have one tracker of each ecosystem, just in case.

Bigpet · a month ago

Oh, thank for the correction. I must've muddled it up in my mind with the contact tracing integration that had during Covid.

Bigpet commented on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

gusgus01 · a month ago

Russia does pretty widespread GPS jamming and spoofing both in their country as well as across the Baltics and Nordics (and others). If a phone is receiving bad GPS data when it reports sensing the tag, the tag location will reflect that bad GPS data and not reality.

Bigpet · a month ago

Shouldn't most comodity GPS receivers also be GLONASS compatible (I get that Galileo is more niche and might not be included).

Does the Sensor Apple uses not use GLONASS in Russia? Or is it cheapo Android Phones picking up the tag and then sending GPS coords into cloud?

edit: Nvm, I might be dumb, I guess unless your jamming includes all commodity GNSS it's pretty useless.

Bigpet commented on Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end) pdfwithlove.netlify.app... · Posted by u/pratik227

jacquesm · 2 months ago

How much of this is LLM derived and how much of it is yours?

Bigpet · 2 months ago

I don't even care about that. My suggestion to him was earnest. I don't have a problem with LLMs. Just with how people use them. I just don't like "slop". I see the same user-interaction problems every time.

I just don't want people to litter their heavily polished immaculately styled products that have so clearly bad user-interaction design. E2e testing and closing the loop on LLMs does seem to help here.

Though I really would prefer people click around their own product for at least 5 minutes.

Bigpet commented on Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end) pdfwithlove.netlify.app... · Posted by u/pratik227

Bigpet · 2 months ago

Was this done heavily LLM assisted? Especially the PDF Edit tools have user-interaction quirks and bugs that a human developer would catch immediately during the regular manual testing when developing.

I'd suggest you at least try and mitigate that by having the LLM do extensive e2e testing if you aren't interested in using your own product.

Bigpet commented on GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust mullvad.net/en/blog/annou... · Posted by u/km

mintflow · 3 months ago

For the similar reason I do not using any go based proxy code in my MintFlow app, and use rust to implement some proxy protocols.

But my app’s wireguard is natively implemented by fdio vpp plugin, so it’s based on C.

Bigpet · 3 months ago

I would not have guessed that iOS allows enough access to APIs to implement anything vpp-based. Very cool to see. I also enjoyed working with vpp (for the brief 6 months that I had with it).

Bigpet commented on Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015) prog21.dadgum.com/210.htm... · Posted by u/wonger_

TZubiri · 5 months ago

>CSCI 2100: Unlearning Object-Oriented Programming Discover how to create and use variables that aren't inside of an object hierarchy. Learn about "functions," which are like methods but more generally useful. Prerequisite: Any course that used the term "abstract base class."

This is just a common meme that often comes from ignorance, or a strawman of what OOP is.

>CSCI 4020: Writing Fast Code in Slow Languages Analyze performance at a high level, writing interpreted Python that matches or beats typical C++ code while being less fragile and more fun to work with.

I like this one, but see?

Python is heavily OOP, everything is an object in python for example.

I'm wondering if OP took a basic OOP course or would otherwise be interested in taking one? You can learn about a thing you are against, or even form your opinion after actually learning about it.

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Bigpet · 5 months ago

> Python is heavily OOP, everything is an object in python for example.

I strongly disagree. How is everything being called an object in any way "heavily OOP"? OOP is not just "I organize my stuff into objects".

You can write OOP code with python but most python code I've seen is not organized around OOP principles.

Bigpet commented on F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf] db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025... · Posted by u/eatonphil

mgaunard · 5 months ago

it needs a compiler to convert it to machine code, it also has a non-trivial runtime...

Bigpet · 5 months ago

Don't know if you need to compile, you might want to but I think interpreting might seem reasonable if size/complexity is a concern.

Is the runtime really that large? I know with wasm 2.0 with garbage collection and exceptions is a bit of a beast but wasm 1.0? What's needed (I'm speaking from a place of ignorance here, I haven't implemented a WASM runtime)? Some contiguous memory, a stack machine, IEEE float math and some utf-8 operations. I think you can add some reasonable limitations like only a single module and a handful of available imports relevant to the domain.

I know that feature creep would almost inevitably follow, but if someone cares about minimizing complexity it seems possible.

Bigpet commented on John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/OlympicMarmoto

AuryGlenz · 6 months ago

As we all know. People regularly overdose on Facebook and die.

Bigpet · 6 months ago

Could you try to address the obvious point being made instead of trying to obfuscate? There's plenty of bad outcomes besides death. Not all fentanyl users die. If some fent wholesaler were to provide unrefutable evidence that Noone died from his fent you wouldn't go "Oh alright then, nothing wrong with what you're doing".

Bigpet commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber

throwawayoldie · 7 months ago

I've noticed the word "bullshit" is making a big comeback, which is encouraging to me. Because, good Lord, is there ever so much bullshit.

Bigpet · 7 months ago

Very appropriate as well because the machines are given a bunch of feed to digest multiple times and to spew it out the other end as a big steaming pile.