Hacker News: CamJN

New comment by CamJN in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

CamJN — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:02:35 +0000

The kid behind the counter at most places is neither paid nor trained enough to identify if the digital card in my phone’s wallet comes from their app or if I made it myself.

As long as it scans they don’t care.

New comment by CamJN in "State of Homelab 2026"

CamJN — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:16:01 +0000

My local backups certainly cost more than $180/year just in hard-drives alone.

New comment by CamJN in "DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems"

CamJN — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:49:37 +0000

Honestly the laws don’t consider open source operating systems at all. They’re meant for the overwhelming majority who are using commercial operating systems. They imagine something like android or iOS or windows where yeah they ask the question during user creation and then handle the age gating in their app stores, anything outside that model isn’t something they’re going to spend any time thinking about, because why would they?

New comment by CamJN in "Ask HN: Apple terminated our dev account over a rogue employee"

CamJN — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:16:35 +0000

Unfortunately you probably need to think abou this from the point of view of an anti-fraud/abuse team. How would you differentiate between a business that had an employee go rogue and a business deliberately trying to cause harm and get away with it?

Claiming you fired the party responsible isn’t very convincing, honestly, especially if it’s hard to verify: was it an alias? did the employee only exist on paper? are they still around just not “employeed”, were they a designated patsy? Nor are claims that you revamped your security, which doesn’t address the root problem of whether it was intentional behaviour or not. And what’s worse, the natural urgency and appeals to emotion that you include in your story are unfortunately widely used tactics by scammers to try to get a human to bend rules to their benefit, and reviewers are trained to treat them as such. You need hard evidence.

How can you demonstrate that you didn’t know what the employee was doing? Have you reported the employee to the police? Is there a criminal case you can point to? Simply having a bad process before could very easily have been an intentional way to avoid knowledge of wrong doing, another common tactic used by criminal orgs.

Best of luck.

New comment by CamJN in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

CamJN — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:34:31 +0000

I don’t care what your website does, not one tiny bit. I care that the majority of websites are shit, and therefore the web platform should be as minimal and isoltated from the device as possible.

New comment by CamJN in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

CamJN — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:00:50 +0000

Absolutely nothing listed on that site as unsupported by Safari has any business being part of the web. In fact several supported APIs should be chucked too. Fuck giving websites motion data or push notifications.

New comment by CamJN in "Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights"

CamJN — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:24:08 +0000

I've been on a flight where a set of parents took away their child's tablet, not for being noisy but as punishment for some other bad behaviour. What resulted was 6 hours of a child screaming on an 8 hour flight. Aside from wanting to punt the little shit out the door, I was almost impressed at the kid not giving up after a few minutes, and then hours when nothing changed.

New comment by CamJN in "Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights"

CamJN — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:12:22 +0000

But on a plane they'll have already been asked by a flight attendant either by the time the plane takes off, or as soon as it stops climbing. So clearly this isn't working on the people this rule targets. In fact I think this rule is actually the ideal response from the airline and should be adopted everywhere, as anyone who is so unconcerned with the wellbeing of others as to play audio on their device without headphones shouldn't be allowed to fly, as they're obviously happy to fuck up everyone's day, and won't follow instructions.

New comment by CamJN in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

CamJN — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:05:44 +0000

Apple literally made step by step instructions for compiling and running your own kernel on Apple silicon. Not sure how you think asahi Linux works otherwise. Sure the drivers are anywhere from bad to non existent but that’s not the same thing as being unable to run your own kernel.

New comment by CamJN in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

CamJN — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:57:06 +0000

Today, literally today. My pihole updated, broke its own dns, stopped working, and broke dns for every device on my network.

New comment by CamJN in "Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon"

CamJN — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:57:18 +0000

As someone who tried every TTS in existance a few years ago for some product work, Apple’s is so consistantly better that we wound up getting a bunch of apple stuff just for the TTS.

New comment by CamJN in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

CamJN — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:11:52 +0000

My Sennheiser momentum 3 wireless (the cans not the in-ear ones) are cable-optional and do noise cancelling with the cable attached as long as they have battery left. In case you're like me and REALLY need that combo of features.

New comment by CamJN in "Package managers need to cool down"

CamJN — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:14:20 +0000

Compiling native extensions that link against libraries that can’t be included in the package for license reasons. That’s probably the one reason that simply can’t be removed.

New comment by CamJN in "Gitas – A tool for Git account switching"

CamJN — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:52:30 +0000

Doesn’t work for cloning, obviously. The way I handle it is I have ssh look at the hostname and path passed by git and decide which identity to use. This is very easy in openssh 10.0+ using the command matching syntax, and more difficult to varying degrees on earlier versions of openssh, depending on your OS.

New comment by CamJN in "Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3"

CamJN — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:29:18 +0000

it's this part: "The top SKU has a similar performance and efficiency profile to the base M5 processor along with faster graphics performance." that is naive, this has been the standard lie told by intel as long as Apple silicon has existed, "Ignore everything we've ever done or promised before, our NEXT gen will be as fast and power efficient as apple! We promise this time!". It has never been true, and honestly I don't think it CAN be true when they have to give over a full third of their transistor budget just to decoding the abomination that is x86_64.

New comment by CamJN in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

CamJN — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:22:31 +0000

The lack of a divot prevents iFixit from selling an overpriced single use tool that exactly matches the divot shape for $50 USD that just so happens to be the exact same shape and material as a $0.05 guitar pick. Totally unacceptable, won't anyone think of the environment?!?!?!?!

New comment by CamJN in "Nonviolence"

CamJN — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:23:14 +0000

Because it was created as a reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement and was designed to imply that the existing status quo, where the USA acts like black lives don’t matter, isn’t a real problem.

New comment by CamJN in "Show HN: No more writing shitty regexes to police usernames"

CamJN — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:56:50 +0000

I hate to say it but checking if a string is ~= some identifier might actually be something an llm might be useful for, since it doesn't need to be 100% accurate and does need to evaluate the string against a massive number of potential transformations.

New comment by CamJN in "Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything"

CamJN — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:57:27 +0000

Well for this particular functionality whatever you use (website, app, etc) must have a valid apple developer certificate, so either the website must be up, the app's backend server must be up, or an offline app's bundled certificate must still be valid. All of these things will eventually stop being true regardless of the form the app/website takes.

New comment by CamJN in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

CamJN — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:24:47 +0000

Tower is also very good. Probably just due to having used it more, I prefer it over Fork, but I can get by if I have to use a computer not licensed for Tower.