Hacker News: CursedUrn

New comment by CursedUrn in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

CursedUrn — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:28:52 +0000

I can understand them being frustrated

New comment by CursedUrn in "Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act"

CursedUrn — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 03:55:30 +0000

The US owner would still be obliged to follow the UK rules, apparently. It's unclear how punishment will be enforced exactly.

New comment by CursedUrn in "YouTube restores SineVibes channel after Peter Kirn & Ars Technica get involved"

CursedUrn — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 02:45:36 +0000

Especially one you can't even get into contact with, besides automated rejection messages.

New comment by CursedUrn in "YouTube restores SineVibes channel after Peter Kirn & Ars Technica get involved"

CursedUrn — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 02:44:00 +0000

This is why we need an online Bill of Rights.

New comment by CursedUrn in "CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised"

CursedUrn — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:37:19 +0000

This isn't true. You can search Twitter for 'cis' and find endless unbanned accounts.

New comment by CursedUrn in "CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised"

CursedUrn — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:43:20 +0000

This is a good point. It's rather ludicrous to see the people who have been acting as thought police for years with a list of banned words and mandatory terms suddenly now caring about free speech just because someone else is making the list. I'd like to think they've learned their lesson, but I think they just want to be in control of the words again.

New comment by CursedUrn in "Hackers crack Subaru's connected services to access data, door locks and more"

CursedUrn — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:37:43 +0000

You can't even control the services yourself on a Windows PC anymore, let alone something embedded like a car.

New comment by CursedUrn in "Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad"

CursedUrn — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:16:49 +0000

I agree with your critique. We really shouldn't be celebrating when a simple text editor requires literally millions of lines of code to run.

New comment by CursedUrn in "Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages"

CursedUrn — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:04:41 +0000

Making a webcam work on every hardware configuration is very difficult. I don't think this is possible.

New comment by CursedUrn in "Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency"

CursedUrn — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:51:09 +0000

Just be aware that these "fixes" aren't 100% complete and will likely break in the future when Microsoft patches Windows. For example, when people tried to block telemetry in Windows 10 via the hosts file, Microsoft first moved the telemetry servers from named domains to a series of new IP addresses, then after a year or so they patched the telemetry sending code to bypass the hosts file. Similarly if you ran the scripts to disable Cortana/Windows Search, that worked for a while but nowadays you'll find SearchApp.exe doing Cortana work in the background whether you like it or not.

New comment by CursedUrn in "Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses"

CursedUrn — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:28:23 +0000

I take it you've never seen HYPER-REALITY? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs

New comment by CursedUrn in "Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users' permission"

CursedUrn — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:20:40 +0000

Hopefully other states and countries sue them too. Facebook has taken massive liberties with our private data and they should be held accountable for it.

New comment by CursedUrn in "YouTube's eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio"

CursedUrn — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 22:40:26 +0000

Does that mean youtube is AI generating your voice to "add it back" after silencing that part of the video? Does it ever generate different words to what you actually said?

New comment by CursedUrn in "FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days"

CursedUrn — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:07:41 +0000

There are lots of subtle ways carriers can punish unlocked phones. I tried using an unlocked Samsung flagship with a Verizon MVNO and it never worked properly. They even told me that various features wouldn't work such as Wi-Fi calling. Had to go with the main carrier anyway, so I might as had a locked phone. If the FCC pursues this rule they need to cover all the loopholes and even then it will probably be years of malicious compliance like we're seeing from Apple in the EU app store ruling.

New comment by CursedUrn in "Windows 11 adding ads to Start Menu"

CursedUrn — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 01:07:51 +0000

Microsoft has also been attempting to block StartAllBack and similar programs: https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/01/microsoft_windows_11_...

New comment by CursedUrn in "Dutch Police regularly force people to give up footage from doorbell cameras"

CursedUrn — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:27:25 +0000

I'd be more concerned over the massive amount of cheap Chinese cameras that have flooded the market and are likely sending video to the CCP.

New comment by CursedUrn in "There has never been a better time to game on Linux"

CursedUrn — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:33:56 +0000

You can't fix all of it. Microsoft is very aggressive about re-enabling certain "features" and new ones arrive regularly. Try watching Performance Monitor during the night, you'll be surprised at which files Microsoft are accessing regularly without your consent.

New comment by CursedUrn in "There has never been a better time to game on Linux"

CursedUrn — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:21:04 +0000

It's probably a reference to Notepad getting AI features in Windows 11

New comment by CursedUrn in "Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36M Xfinity customers"

CursedUrn — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:58:14 +0000

Doesn't Comcast collect browsing history too? This data breach could be a big one

New comment by CursedUrn in "I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]"

CursedUrn — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:30:39 +0000

I meant it would violate the laws in the victim's country. There are certainly laws against installing malware on someone else's machine in lots of countries.