Hacker News: CatWChainsaw

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "The Great SaaS Gaslight"

CatWChainsaw — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 23:55:32 +0000

So do you support media-streaming services being able to modify or deny you content because that's part of the true price?

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "A New Browser from Perplexity"

CatWChainsaw — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 23:47:24 +0000

And there's already huge vulnerabilities. Whoda thunk.

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy"

CatWChainsaw — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 20:12:33 +0000

Fascism is definitionally when government and companies team up to screw everyone else.

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account"

CatWChainsaw — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:05:46 +0000

wine, WINE, or both?

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account"

CatWChainsaw — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 17:37:23 +0000

They want everyone using Microsoft accounts so they can turn computer usage into a subscription service, plus with Recall you get perfect telemetry. Panopticon is here and you pay for the pleasure.

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account"

CatWChainsaw — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 17:33:28 +0000

Addressed in another comment: close all loopholes, then make using your computer a subscription service. It's a great business decision. It's a horrendous decision in all other respects.

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Windows 11: Removing bypassnro Script to Enhance Security and User Experience"

CatWChainsaw — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 17:29:46 +0000

You were downvoted, but once this is fully closed it's obvious they'll remove local account creation entirely within a year.

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome"

CatWChainsaw — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 02:26:31 +0000

Why would you say that? How is the current timeline not already shitty enough for you?

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Toward a Passwordless Future"

CatWChainsaw — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 02:22:55 +0000

Still a no from me. Right now passkeys are just a way for services to exert more control over users. I don't see that changing for decades at minimum.

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Bambu denies their own documented restrictions [video]"

CatWChainsaw — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:17:16 +0000

The Streisand Effect exists and yet every company thinks they're the special snowflake that will get away with it.

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Calm tech certification "rewards" less distracting tech"

CatWChainsaw — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:42:02 +0000

If it doesn't make as money as addition tech it will lose.

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption"

CatWChainsaw — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:22:26 +0000

Well, now it isn't even that we can't be convinced. Companies have decided that they like this way of operating so they are refusing to offer what you propose. They're more than happy to double-dip and lock people into hard-to-cancel subscriptions while continuing to hoover as much data as they can, though.

But even if they did offer what you suggest, the next move would be to keep people poor so they wouldn't want to "waste" money on that option anyway.

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption"

CatWChainsaw — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:20:12 +0000

It's like nobody actually learned anything from the Honey scandal!

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

CatWChainsaw — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:38:08 +0000

"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make!"

- Originally Lord Farquaad, emulated by every modern billionaire

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

CatWChainsaw — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:17:27 +0000

It's always been filled with smug self-important techbro shitlibertarians (edit: with egos more fragile than literal snowflakes). Luckily, what's they've sent around is starting to come back and they reeeeally don't like consequences.

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "How Can a Major Bank Like Capital One Be Offline for 24 Hours?"

CatWChainsaw — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:05:36 +0000

If they're going to cheat consumers out of billions of dollars by lying about the interest rates on their savings accounts then they should at least provide better service so you can see your money getting pissed away without interruption, ffs.

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15"

CatWChainsaw — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:13:44 +0000

Unless compelled by the court? Or compelled to change the design so that it can be accessed?

Obsessively. I wouldn't do that for free.

Just because no one complained (except, you know, I did...) doesn't mean no one else found it obnoxious, but rather not worth arguing about. It reads like a redditor trying to add on to their reply after the fact to sound better than they did originally. I'm sure that's part of the reason why HN's edit window is so short.

You're annoying, easy as.

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles"

CatWChainsaw — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 17:50:07 +0000

Only if by "just short" you mean they get life without possibility of parole or pardon in max security and never see another screen as long as they live.

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles"

CatWChainsaw — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 17:42:23 +0000

According to your economic masters, yes, because engagement is a proxy for revenue.

New comment by CatWChainsaw in "Orbit by Mozilla"

CatWChainsaw — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 19:22:13 +0000

Not until another browser with MV2 commitment picks up the banner that Firefox drops.