fhackenberger's comments

On: Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts

[fhackenberger]

I'd strongly disagree, as there are examples of societies that don't exhibit these traits. See the Kogi from Colombia for example. A necessity environmental condition seems to be that social groups size stays within certain limits (around 120 as I remember).

On: I switched from Htmx to Datastar

[fhackenberger]

Funny, the next cycle is starting ;-) I remember Vaadin which was a great framework just before angularJS took off. Now Datastar seems to give it another try and bring everyone back to server calls...

[sudodevnull → fhackenberger]

I really like the ideas of hmx I just didn't find the actual implementation was complete enough to make performant apps... So I fixed it

On: Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste

[fhackenberger]

There's a successful one running purely on donations in Berlin: Resi https://www.resi-ressourcen.org/

[GouacheApp → fhackenberger]

Awesome!! Thanks for sharing :)

On: Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic

[fhackenberger]

Cargo bike?

[Saline9515 → fhackenberger]

It isn't very different than a car if you want to reach the same level of features.

On: Show HN: A singing synthesizer for the browser with automatic 3-part harmony

[fhackenberger]

This is such a great way to practice! Thank you for creating it! Could you perhaps add pitch indicators on the side and multi touch support? Or maybe it's open source?

On: Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells

[fhackenberger]

I'm not deeply into that topic, but the pan I use that's made of iron was 'burned-in' using linseed oil several times to create a non-sticky surface. Whatever that has as negative side-effects aside, that layer might trap the iron additives quite effectively.

On: Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra

[fhackenberger]

Would love to see Elgatos response to your writeup :-)

[squarefoot → fhackenberger]

Same here. I can totally imagine the excitement in their engineers eyes after reading this fascinating writeup, paired with their managers anger while they ask for a better way to protect the company's IP.

[1-6 → fhackenberger]

It’ll have to come from Corsair who now owns Elgato. IMHO, they’re a ‘conventional’ company with stock listed on the exchange. If they respond I will be pleasantly surprised.

[aftbit → 1-6]

Buy one share of their stock, then call investor relations and ask them why a hobbyist was able to fix the LED bug that their support claimed didn't exist while their whole expensive engineering team was not.

[carlmr → aftbit]

>while their whole expensive engineering team was not

Question is maybe not if they could, but if they were allowed to. If the project is already out of development and a bug is detected, sometimes there's only a barebones team left that barely gets the time to do basic maintenance.

[KeplerBoy → fhackenberger]

Now i am curious if they know what causes their LED troubles or what causes the underlying memory corruption.

On: Postzegelcode

[fhackenberger]

There's a very similar system in Germany with a hashtag code from Deutsche Post since 2020, called #PORTO:

https://www.deutschepost.de/de/m/mobile-briefmarke.html

On: Inside North Korea's Forced Labor Program

[fhackenberger]

Even if that were true, who paid for all this? It's mother nature, who's in such a bad shape that we'll soon start paying the price for it again and all the workers that this system has and still is exploiting in other countries (directly through bad working conditions/unfair pay or indirectly through pollution where they live). Please look up 'capitalism externalities' for reference.

On: Turing Complete Transformers: Two Transformers Are More Powerful Than One

[fhackenberger]

Paper written by one transformer?!