Hacker News: IOT_Apprentice

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

IOT_Apprentice — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:04:30 +0000

BetterTouchTool is $25 for a lifetime license with upgrades.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "IMDB created my account for merely visiting the site"

IOT_Apprentice — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:20:12 +0000

It will be interesting for someone to track this activity and see what the trigger is for this to occur.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

IOT_Apprentice — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:17:08 +0000

A lifetime license for BetterTouchTool with ALL its features is $25. The time the author spent on this is well over that amount.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

IOT_Apprentice — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:48:49 +0000

It means she came up with the idea and partnered with someone to build the code. Pretty simple to understand.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

IOT_Apprentice — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:47:32 +0000

I’ve watched Milla on social media discussing this project, she is working with a developer who is a friend of hers to have it go forward.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

IOT_Apprentice — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:20:32 +0000

And then France sent Khomeini back to Iran on a chartered Air France 747 & stifled that. France also built Dimona nuclear plant in Israel in 1963 and then tested multiple times nuclear weapons in Algeria from 1960-1966 in the Algerian Sahara & mountains & allowed Israel to observe these explosions.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

IOT_Apprentice — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:05:06 +0000

If Israel & the US prevail, Israel will treat Iran as the do their other neighbors, bombing them whenever they feel like it and murdering your relatives there. Take a look at Syria where they installed the head of Al-Qaeda/HTS. The IDF has carried out 600 attacks there since 2024 till present. They have attacked the following areas since 2023: Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Syria & Yemen.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

IOT_Apprentice — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:41:30 +0000

So LinkedIn’s 1st CEO Reid Hoffman who was all up in relationships with Epstein & Bone Saw, yakking it up with monsters is the place to store your employment history? To provide a blue checkmark? To feed into copliot & be sold to AI weapons vendors & gruesome thugs like Palantir’s CEO & Chairman? Yikes.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

IOT_Apprentice — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:41:42 +0000

They will set their DNS servers to drop all incoming connections to X. That can be done in each country. They can use Deep Packet inspection tools and go from there. If the decision is EU wide then they will roll that out.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown"

IOT_Apprentice — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:37:17 +0000

Do you mean Sunni vs Shia? I don’t think that is a reasonable statement by you. Will you also apply that term to Ireland?

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown"

IOT_Apprentice — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:32:53 +0000

The government was ignoring Starlink until it was being used by western clandestine agencies & Israel to foment violence and burning down property. People were being paid for each act of violence they committed, by those spy agencies.

The Iranian government then used Chinese tech to block Starlink, shutdown the external internet and the violence stopped.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown"

IOT_Apprentice — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:23:22 +0000

Palestinians certainly aren’t in the occupied territories. Nor are Christians. Israel is an apartheid state which legalizes taking farms, homes and whatever else by “settlers “ using violence to steal and murder.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown"

IOT_Apprentice — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:18:01 +0000

Sure, just ignore the sanctions applied against the people of Iran by western colonialist countries for decades upon decades. You think that hasn’t had an impact on society there? When my wife and I were planning our wedding here in the US 26 years ago, I spoke with someone in the state department then about allowing her family members to attend our wedding in the USA. They were very clear that, they would not allow that as the goal was to impose US restrictions on the citizens of Iran rather than just the government.

Imagine economic sanctions for much more than 30 years, western spy agencies actively engaged in espionage and injury against your country. What would your economy be like?

Is it any wonder nations are engaged in BRICS to escape American global hegemony?

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

IOT_Apprentice — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:04:06 +0000

Wow. I remember Ubid, and I bought several things from it. It would become problematic when folks would bid up things far beyond the starting price.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

IOT_Apprentice — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:18:24 +0000

If I am able to find what I’m looking for and purchase it via AI why must I be subjected to advertising & promotion of items in have zero interest in? Amazon has made finding what I want painful. I suspect eBay is just as painful (I see to work there).

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "Design Thinking Books (2024)"

IOT_Apprentice — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:01:07 +0000

I’d retort that software developers aren’t domain experts either. At the end of the day you either luck out if domain experts and actual users are involved in eliminating toil (in the sense that Google defines that) and optimizing the user experience, while reducing friction in applications and providing insights into data.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "Design Thinking Books (2024)"

IOT_Apprentice — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:55:01 +0000

Yet I suspect that mechanical engineers are not writing software for companies in the large. There are software developers doing so.

I suspect that they should be consulted by data science folks as domain experts.

That said won’t AI replace both? ;)

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown"

IOT_Apprentice — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:42:17 +0000

I’m sure you have proof of this. Prevents them how? Iranians have been traveling in and out of their country for decades.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "Scott Adams has died"

IOT_Apprentice — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:22:03 +0000

He was also a holocaust denier bro. Ponder that for a while.

New comment by IOT_Apprentice in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

IOT_Apprentice — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:23:14 +0000

It appears to be lack of competence given they lied about the initial features of Apple Intelligence.

First, they touted features that no one actually built and then fired their AI figurehead “leader” who had no coherent execution plan—also, there appears to have been territorial squabbling going on, about who would build what.

How on earth did Apple Senior Management allow this to unravel? Too much focus on Services, yet ignoring their absolute failures with Siri and the bullshit that was Apple Intelligence, when AI spending is in the trillions?