Hacker News: Kneecaps07

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

Kneecaps07 — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:22:40 +0000

I don't understand why getting a letter notarized is being treated as some huge ordeal. Pretty much any bank or credit union has a notary on staff. It takes 5 minutes. Many lawyers and accountants are notaries. Many people here probably know someone who is a notary and they don't even realize it.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me"

Kneecaps07 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:25:36 +0000

I write stuff for our internal teams and it's usually for sensitive systems where you can cause a lot of problems if you make a mistake. I will often start the doc by saying "This assumes you know how to use x, y, and z. If not, then you probably shouldn't be doing this." We limit access already, but some of these could be used in a DR scenario by someone who is not super-familiar with the product. I purposefully will not explain certain things because if you can't figure those out, then you shouldn't be doing these steps.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant"

Kneecaps07 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:02:58 +0000

It takes like two minutes to create a tenant. Click Next a bunch, enter a credit card, you're done.

And yes they have different types of accounts and methods of billing. Their customer base is probably in the hundreds of millions. People are going to want options. I don't really see the issue there.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it"

Kneecaps07 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:02:12 +0000

I still miss my Palm Pre. I've sat here since it died and watched Android and iOS slowly adopt the UI that my Pre had 15 years ago. We were swapping between apps with cards and swiping them away a decade before anyone else.

I had multiple friends end up buying the Pre and the non-slidey Pre (I can't remember the name) because they saw what I had thought it was so cool.

Now my LG TV runs WebOS, which I assume is the name with no shared code, but who knows.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode"

Kneecaps07 — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:47:05 +0000

The hotel is at least a known quantity. You have a pretty good idea of what you're getting into, the expectations are clear between all parties, and you're having a fairly consistent experience between different hotels. With Airbnb you have no idea who or what you're dealing with.

With a hotel, I don't have to worry about a doorman asking me who I am and then having to lie, per the host's instructions (yes, this happened to me). I probably don't have to worry about the pictures being of an entirely different unit and having an entire day of my vacation ruined trying to find somewhere else to stay (yes, this happened to me). I know exactly where the hotel is before I hand over hundreds of dollars.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "Ask HN: Is there hope for Microsoft 365 support?"

Kneecaps07 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:10:17 +0000

Edit: Nevermind, I see that you've already done this.

It might be worth it to pony up for an M365 license or two, send yourself an email, and then open a support ticket inquiring why the email was blocked. I would even avoid mentioning that you are the sender. Just pretend you're a regular customer who receives email from your domain and you're wondering why it was blocked and if there's anything that can be done to stop it from happening.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "The best browser bookmarking system is files"

Kneecaps07 — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:03:06 +0000

Didn't Internet Explorer do that? It was just the "Favorites" folder c:\users\username.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city"

Kneecaps07 — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:46:59 +0000

As someone who drank heavily for ten years, I can confirm that this person didn't miss out on anything, except feeling like crap all the time, and money that disappears.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "JP Morgan fined by SEC for deleting email records"

Kneecaps07 — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 12:48:05 +0000

Everyone thinks it's malicious. I'm more likely to believe it was a poorly-trained IT person who thought they were in the test environment, or something along those lines.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print"

Kneecaps07 — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:44:01 +0000

If you use it through your Prime subscription you can now only listen to their playlists. You can't specify a specific album by a specific artist.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print"

Kneecaps07 — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:42:54 +0000

A monopoly just means you control the prices of a particular market. Amazon, in my opinion, absolutely has control of the ebook market. If they lower prices, everyone else has to lower theirs to keep up.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "Microsoft Unveils Its Own Version of Nvidia's RTX Super Resolution"

Kneecaps07 — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 13:33:35 +0000

That is literally the "Games" pane you can turn on in the settings. It's just the store for their games. It's not the default Edge experience. You only see that when you purposefully turn it on.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "Royal Caribbean to use SpaceX's Starlink to provide internet onboard their fleet"

Kneecaps07 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 12:12:40 +0000

You could just not purchase the internet package?

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "Airbnb employees can live and work anywhere"

Kneecaps07 — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:38:49 +0000

I found this really interesting. I remember in a previous job, I moved to a lower cost of living city in the same state. My employer told me about about how they were considering lowering my salary because of this. They weren't billing any less for my time. I wasn't any less productive.

I got out of there soon after and found a better place in the new city.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "Cities should not pay for new stadiums"

Kneecaps07 — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 11:51:40 +0000

People in Buffalo aren't happy about this, but the Bills are a BIG part of this city's identity. The Bills owner (an oil billionaire, by the way) is threatening take the team to another city if the state doesn't help pay for the stadium.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "Analysing the AI of Super Mario 64"

Kneecaps07 — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 16:38:44 +0000

I think they're more talking about how in Zelda you can break into everyone's house, steal their money and smash all their pots, and they never acknowledge how you've violated them.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "I got pwned by my cloud costs"

Kneecaps07 — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:12:10 +0000

There's an argument to be made for quality of life for your employees. As someone who has transitioned from on-prem server management to mainly cloud work, my job happiness has skyrocketed. I haven't set foot in a data center in three years and I do not miss it one bit.

Dealing with hardware failures, hardware vendors, confusing licensing, having to know SKUs, racking new cabinets, swapping hard drives, patching servers - it's all awful work. When you go cloud only, you can be more productive instead of dealing with some of that nonsense work.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "Dark Web – Justice League"

Kneecaps07 — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:07:01 +0000

> Through this effort, millions of dollars in ransom payments have been recovered

I'm curious about who gets this money? I certainly have never heard of a company getting their money back from the feds.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’"

Kneecaps07 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 17:22:45 +0000

A union offers other protections. Right now, your employer can (I'm assuming) just fire you for whatever they want. If you have a union and a proper contract, then they need justification and the union will back you up.

New comment by Kneecaps07 in "New FDA-approved eye drops could replace reading glasses for millions"

Kneecaps07 — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 13:45:28 +0000

> "I was in denial because to me that was a sign of growing older, you know, needing to wear glasses"

Seriously? I had to start wearing glasses when I was 11.