Hacker News: FearlessNebula

New comment by FearlessNebula in "Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving behavior: lawsuit"

FearlessNebula — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:43:11 +0000

Are these apps able to track location and accelerometer data from the background? Or does this only apply to people who open something like GasBuddy while driving the car?

New comment by FearlessNebula in "Flybywire A380x – an open source study level A380 simulation"

FearlessNebula — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:49:56 +0000

Flybywire, the creator of the renowned A32nx, released their A380x in alpha today.

Flybywire A380x – an open source study level A380 simulation

FearlessNebula — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:49:56 +0000

Article URL: https://flybywiresim.com/notams/a380x-full-speed-ahead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42008640

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by FearlessNebula in "Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise"

FearlessNebula — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:04:08 +0000

Google uses a proprietary version control system called Piper

New comment by FearlessNebula in "The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster"

FearlessNebula — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:39:25 +0000

Anton Yelchin was killed due to traumatic asphyxiation when he thought he parked his Jeep and got out of the car and it then rolled into him and crushed him against a gate. Arguably the blame falls on GM for building one of those stateless shifters that always pops back to the center.

New comment by FearlessNebula in "The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers"

FearlessNebula — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 22:20:58 +0000

Except for that time it was pointed at a major DNS provider[1] and pretty much killed a good chunk of the internet for the better part of a day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS_attacks_on_Dyn

New comment by FearlessNebula in "Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It"

FearlessNebula — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 21:50:11 +0000

The market is really difficult right now, most people don’t have the option to just find a remote work company. A significant amount of people who were laid off can’t find any company right now

New comment by FearlessNebula in "How the data center site selection process works at Dropbox"

FearlessNebula — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 12:54:35 +0000

I haven't used OneDrive but the iCloud Drive and Google Drive clients are similarly terrible. I one time had 5 GB of complex nested file structure in iCloud Drive and it totally froze up. I tried 2 different Mac's, an iPhone, and an iPad and none of them were able to sync up with the server to get those 5 GB out of the cloud. I had to request a GDPR to get a .zip file of my data... this was the impetus for me to switch to Dropbox although after the way they handled their layoffs I am looking to switch to Syncthing as soon as I have the time to set it up and get familiar.

New comment by FearlessNebula in "How the data center site selection process works at Dropbox"

FearlessNebula — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 12:52:11 +0000

Hence why I use Cryptomator to encrypt my data. Apparently OneDrive marks this as ransomware and sends you scary emails but does not lock your account. So far Dropbox does not seem to care about Cryptomator at all.

Edit: Not to defend Dropbox, but just saying there is a mitigation if you need it.

New comment by FearlessNebula in "Let's make sure GitHub doesn't become the only option"

FearlessNebula — Tue, 02 May 2023 13:56:44 +0000

Was it a self hosted github instance?

New comment by FearlessNebula in "Gitlab’s Startup Acquisition Process"

FearlessNebula — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:36:16 +0000

Why does everything need to be acquired these days? Why do we consolidate everything into a few big companies? Why can’t we just have technology spread out across multiple players.

New comment by FearlessNebula in "Why Is Colorectal Cancer Rising Rapidly Among Young Adults?"

FearlessNebula — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:09:41 +0000

This is just wrong. First of all, IBS != IBD. Second of all, IBD doctors will flat out recommend high fiber Mediterranean style diets for anybody who is not in an active flair.

New comment by FearlessNebula in "Age of Empires 2 is now on Xbox"

FearlessNebula — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 21:16:09 +0000

It’s not, but the controller get surprisingly close in my amateur opinion

New comment by FearlessNebula in "Apple: $52,000 Mac Pro Is Now Worth $1k"

FearlessNebula — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:57:54 +0000

> Have been thoroughly "osbourned" by the ARM macs.

Moot point, Apple won’t delay the release of their new chips to preserve resale value on customers devices, that’s nonsensical.

New comment by FearlessNebula in "Data-Free Disneyland"

FearlessNebula — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:51:30 +0000

What the heck is Disney doing with location data inside the park? And why facial recognition? To fight crime?

New comment by FearlessNebula in "Data-Free Disneyland"

FearlessNebula — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:48:30 +0000

Yeah and what are the odds Disney is correlating their license plate scanners with anything in the park? I’d assume the license plates only get looked at if a crime occurs

New comment by FearlessNebula in "Age of Empires 2 is now on Xbox"

FearlessNebula — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:29:14 +0000

Was curious what others think. I gave it a try on game pass and the controls are really well done.

Age of Empires 2 is now on Xbox

FearlessNebula — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:29:14 +0000

Article URL: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/10/25/the-console-age-is-coming-to-age-of-empires/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34616205

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by FearlessNebula in "FCC threatens to disconnect Twilio for illegal robocalls"

FearlessNebula — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 18:37:02 +0000

I think AWS has a service?

New comment by FearlessNebula in "US general warns troops that war with China is possible in two years"

FearlessNebula — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 17:12:18 +0000

I wonder if we could bring the people and their families over?