Hacker News: Bud

New comment by Bud in "Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers"

Bud — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:19:25 +0000

Passive-voice "reportedly" accusations; as the article itself admits, there's no evidence at all that Apple did this. So this would appear to be completely unsupported clickbait.

New comment by Bud in "Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac"

Bud — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:18:08 +0000

You might want to update your information a bit.

https://pogueman.substack.com/p/125-tests-of-the-new-ai-siri

New comment by Bud in "Dario, Please"

Bud — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:03:12 +0000

I guarantee you that no such result would ensue, because said law would be completely unenforceable even with the pre-Trump Supreme Court and legal system. And with the current Supreme Court? Laughably unenforceable.

It's just like you said: this only works if the threat of punishment is credible.

New comment by Bud in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

Bud — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:49:43 +0000

Even the screen itself can be used as a microphone, and a pretty good one, too.

New comment by Bud in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

Bud — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:54:32 +0000

Let's actually not hope that, and let's not indulge the EU regulators' fantasies that they get to dictate the product design of products from non-EU countries.

Force Apple to support all kinds of arbitrary models? That's a comically bad idea.

New comment by Bud in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

Bud — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:55:34 +0000

BBC calling encryption "controversial privacy tech" is deeply disappointing and dangerous.

New comment by Bud in "Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight"

Bud — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 05:55:03 +0000

From their viewpoint, you have to think about what happens if, after they became aware of this vulnerability, there was then a crash because they weren't prompt and aggressive enough in addressing it. That's the kind of thing that ruins your entire company forever.

New comment by Bud in "Stellantis Is Spamming Owners' Screens with Pop-Up Ads for New Car Discounts"

Bud — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:01:21 +0000

Same company that is planning to deprive customers of CarPlay even though virtually all of their customers want it.

New comment by Bud in "Moderna has unraveled"

Bud — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:39:20 +0000

He is, but it's certainly not plausible.

New comment by Bud in "Moderna has unraveled"

Bud — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:37:56 +0000

It raises questions that James Comer keeps raising to attack Fauci, but which never seem to get anywhere close to being proven. It's now been four years. The various libels against Fauci remain unsupported.

New comment by Bud in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

Bud — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:56:49 +0000

It should be noted that massive tree-planting efforts do not magically create "forest". They create tree plantations. Forest is a complex ecosystem that takes some time.

New comment by Bud in "Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28"

Bud — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:47:24 +0000

It's reasonable to say this is wrong. But really, this seems like a tiny subset of users. Who bought a Mac Pro in 2023 after Apple Silicon had been out for 3 years already? Almost nobody, because it wasn't a real performance improvement by that time. For those extremely niche folks for which it was somehow still beneficial, they definitely won't want to still be using such a machine in 2028. They will have moved on to something like an M5 Ultra Mac Studio or whatever form the Mac Pro takes next.

New comment by Bud in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

Bud — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:33:44 +0000

Which shady marketing? Because I found out about the APPro 2 support from Apple.

New comment by Bud in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

Bud — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:31:49 +0000

Not sure what is up with this, but I just flew from Italy to the US with my AirPods Pro 3 and did not experience any issues. So it's apparently not present 100% of the time.

Also: battery life is VASTLY improved on the APP 3. Rated time is 8 hrs and I'm getting closer to 9.

New comment by Bud in "Flock's gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices"

Bud — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 20:57:38 +0000

There's no reasonable expectation of pervasive video/audio capture, permanent recording, and complete AI analysis of all actions in public by all citizens forever, either. But that's the direction in which we're rapidly heading.

New comment by Bud in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

Bud — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:27:45 +0000

Neither of those things occurred, here. Kimmel's remarks were extraordinarily mild, and they also happen to be entirely true.

New comment by Bud in "South Korea will bring home 300 workers detained in Hyundai plant raid"

Bud — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:24:54 +0000

I have an Ioniq 5 and I have had nothing but perfect experiences with my Hyundai dealer. Both for sales, and service. Not that service has been much of a thing, since EVs require so little service.

It's also clearly not just me, as the Ioniq 5 has been rated the EV of the year several years running by multiple publications.

New comment by Bud in "South Korea will bring home 300 workers detained in Hyundai plant raid"

Bud — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:20:20 +0000

Uh, they were BUILDING the factory. Which was then going to provide hundreds of jobs to Americans.

Seems hard to characterize this in any way other than calling it incredibly stupid.

New comment by Bud in "There Goes the American Muscle Car"

Bud — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 03:13:13 +0000

A lot of this is true, but also, look at the safety records of those modern vehicles. They protect the driver a LOT better. A totaled car is just a car. Getting paralyzed or killed is a lot harder to fix.

New comment by Bud in "Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music"

Bud — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:05:59 +0000

This is literally why I've been a professional choral/solo classical singer for 30 years. It works! It's a great way of life.