Hacker News: Kipters

New comment by Kipters in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

Kipters — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:18:11 +0000

GDPR only covers PII, this is a randomly generated ID that changes on every install on the OS.

You can mix it with other info to track a user, but it's not enough to de-anonymize someone on its own.

New comment by Kipters in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

Kipters — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:15:58 +0000

> (weird ID, by the way. 16-digits makes sense, but I would have expected it to be hexadecimal)

it's the decimal representation of a 64 bit integer

New comment by Kipters in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

Kipters — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:41:50 +0000

Why not both?

We still need rotating mass to keep the grid stable, which means either building giant flywheels, keep burning gas or bring nuclear into the mix.

One of these can also produce a ton of energy when needed, the other two cant.

We can and should build more renewables, but we can't risk grid stability!

New comment by Kipters in "Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps"

Kipters — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:27:06 +0000

What kind of dystopian horror is this?

New comment by Kipters in "Blender is Native on Windows 11 on Arm"

Kipters — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 07:19:36 +0000

I'm using one to write this very comment

New comment by Kipters in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"

Kipters — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:53:13 +0000

You can use a Python library/tool to control them (https://github.com/sbidy/pywizlight), which means Home Assistant supports them out of the box.

In my setup I have Home Assistant running on an N100 mini PC and that's what I use as an HomeKit bridge.

If possible I'd use ZigBee or Z-Wave bulbs (or even better, switches) though.

New comment by Kipters in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"

Kipters — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:12:04 +0000

I was worried it was that WiZ, luckily it's not Their bulbs are one of the few WiFi bulbs that don't require an app to operate (only for the initial configuration)

New comment by Kipters in "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is a Stone-Cold Masterpiece"

Kipters — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:12:45 +0000

IMO only the first season was really good, while the second one was very bad, I almost wish they had cancelled it after the first instead.

New comment by Kipters in "HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere"

Kipters — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:19:29 +0000

That wouldn't feel very idiomatic - you can do it but would feel wrong

New comment by Kipters in "Sony FX-300 Jackal: A technological marvel of the late 70s (2021)"

Kipters — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:26:45 +0000

At first reading the title I thought it was a new camera in the FX line (along the FX-3 and FX-30) and I was very confused to say the least

New comment by Kipters in "A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#"

Kipters — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 20:51:27 +0000

That's your bias and not the language fault, everything works pretty much the same across every OS, I haven't developed non-UI C# apps on Windows since 2018 (because of course you need Windows to build WinUI and WPF apps, but you have options on macOS and Linux too)

New comment by Kipters in "A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#"

Kipters — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:13:42 +0000

> That's basically modern-day Java, with Lombok and other tidbits.

I wouldn't call Lombok "modern", more like "a terrifyingly hacky way to tackle limitations in the language despite the unwillingness to make the language friendlier" and a far cry from what source generators can do in C#

New comment by Kipters in "A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#"

Kipters — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:12:11 +0000

.NET Core 1.0 was released cross-platform 8 years ago though, there's a ton of new devs for who it has always been cross-platform

New comment by Kipters in "Hack GPON – how to access, change and edit fibre ONTs"

Kipters — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:40:37 +0000

This has been the case in Italy since 2018, but I'm OK with ISP-provided ONTs to be honest, as long as I can use my own router.

The problem here is that the ISP will try to avoid giving any kind of support (even when the problem is on _their_ side) if you opt into BYOD.

New comment by Kipters in "VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use"

Kipters — Tue, 14 May 2024 21:57:39 +0000

AFAIK it's also the primary IDE for Sony and Nintendo SDKs

New comment by Kipters in "Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game"

Kipters — Wed, 08 May 2024 08:13:52 +0000

that's just the first step for getting Doom to run

New comment by Kipters in "Sony overturns Helldivers 2 PSN requirement following backlash"

Kipters — Mon, 06 May 2024 15:28:58 +0000

So unaffected people can't disagree with it because it's not even a nuisance for them? That's kinda selfish.

By the way, many developed countries that have running water and where people also speak English are affected too (and don't think there is no outrage in other languages), including (but not limited to) Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Bahamas, Belarus, Bosnia, Cayman Islands, Estonia, Georgia, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Maldives, Moldova, Monaco, Morocco and even San Marino, which is basically a neighborhood in Italy.

New comment by Kipters in "Sony overturns Helldivers 2 PSN requirement following backlash"

Kipters — Mon, 06 May 2024 15:23:13 +0000

Thanks for the polite comment!

> When did they do this? As I remember they did not promise free upgrades, but was forced to provide them anyway for some games because of the backlash.

It's been a while, but I think it was with Horizon Forbidden West

> PS4 controllers

I agree this one needed a bit more nuance. I understand they wanted to incentivize the new controller features, but it's the fact that the PS5 is technically capable of using those controllers (since you can use them for PS4 games) but Sony chooses to not allow it that's anti-consumer. Also since you can use PS4 controllers to play streamed PS5 games on PC or PS4 itself.

> How did they raise the price of consoles?

In August 2022 they increased the console price by ~10% pretty much all over the world except the US. Microsoft did the same in June 2023.

New comment by Kipters in "Sony overturns Helldivers 2 PSN requirement following backlash"

Kipters — Mon, 06 May 2024 12:39:08 +0000

None. My country is supported by PSN and I have an account as I've owned multiple PlayStation consoles, but does it matter?

New comment by Kipters in "Sony overturns Helldivers 2 PSN requirement following backlash"

Kipters — Mon, 06 May 2024 12:04:50 +0000

Even in more recent times, the entire PS5 life thus far has been riddled with consumer-hostile behavior (promising free upgrades and then walking back from it, forcing people to use the new controllers even if the PS4 ones are perfectly capable to play the new games, increasing prices of games and consoles, bullying companies so they don't support cross-platform play etc)