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New comment by Moeancurly in "I only use Google Sheets"

Moeancurly — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:37:06 +0000

I still have my copy of [SciLor's Grooveshark.com Downloader][1] for posterity's sake :)

[1]: http://www.scilor.com/grooveshark-downloader.html

New comment by Moeancurly in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

Moeancurly — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:26:34 +0000

That's it, thanks!

New comment by Moeancurly in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

Moeancurly — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:17:05 +0000

I haven't been able to find the comment again, but I am 95% certain he admitted to editing the production DB long before this incident. I think it was an IAMA with kn0thing, where they admitted something along the lines of editing the DB to fix typos in titles. Not quite as bad, but no surprise he continued the behavior.

New comment by Moeancurly in "Correcting the Record on Meta’s Involvement in Nebraska Case"

Moeancurly — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:47:31 +0000

Is there a good (for the end user) reason that Messenger does not have E2EE enabled by default?

From The Verge's article[1]:

> However, campaigners note that Meta always has to comply with legal requests for data, and that the company can only change this if it stops collecting that data in the first place. In the case of Celeste and Jessica Burgess, this would have meant making end-to-end encryption (E2EE) the default in Facebook Messenger. This would have meant that police would have had to gain access to the pair’s phones directly to read their chats. (E2EE is available in Messenger but has to be toggled on manually. It’s on by default in WhatsApp.)

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/10/23299502/facebook-chat-me...

New comment by Moeancurly in "Ask HN: Does your org use a password keeper?"

Moeancurly — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 13:57:26 +0000

> There's a feature where you can even share the login to a site on it, but they can't view the password - only lastpass can fill it up.

Is there anything that stops someone from letting LastPass fill the field, then use the browser tools to change the form field from `password` to `text`?

New comment by Moeancurly in "Amazon.com announces fourth quarter results [pdf]"

Moeancurly — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 22:17:57 +0000

Okay? My question is for people who canceled their subscription and regretted it, not sure what your point is here.

New comment by Moeancurly in "Amazon.com announces fourth quarter results [pdf]"

Moeancurly — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 22:00:37 +0000

I have an annual subscription that renews in March

New comment by Moeancurly in "Amazon.com announces fourth quarter results [pdf]"

Moeancurly — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 21:59:17 +0000

Only 22 orders placed in 2021, and a spot check of ~15 of the items would ship "free" anyways. I don't care enough to check every single item, but of the ones I checked I could not find a single one that would have an added shipping cost.

The "2 day guarantee" doesn't really exist anymore, so I have to ask - what am I paying for?

New comment by Moeancurly in "Amazon.com announces fourth quarter results [pdf]"

Moeancurly — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 21:43:39 +0000

Does anyone without Prime really miss it? Or did you cancel and regret it? Mine is up for renewal at the end of this month, fairly certain I'm not going to renew regardless of a price hike.

New comment by Moeancurly in "MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released"

Moeancurly — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 16:43:23 +0000

I've been using a MikroTik router at home for 6+ years; I would say that RouterOS is absolutely NOT "easy for a noob". It's on the prosumer side of things, but you need to be willing to sink your teeth into some fairly gritty network configuration workflows.

Anyone posting on HN will likely be able to figure out the basics, but it is definitely much less polished than other prosumer products such as Ubiquiti and the documentation can be a little rough around the edges.

New comment by Moeancurly in "“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says"

Moeancurly — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:10:07 +0000

I had this almost exact experience with Philadelphia Rock Gym. They sent a couple emails "threatening" to send my account to collections over $50 I did not authorize them to bill me for (repeatedly said in writing to cancel my account, they kept my membership open anyway). I just ignored them, nothing ever came of it.

New comment by Moeancurly in "Square Banking"

Moeancurly — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:21:50 +0000

Rough day to announce your next big product, for sure. Currently unable to access my business account.

New comment by Moeancurly in "Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales"

Moeancurly — Mon, 03 May 2021 14:48:24 +0000

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotting_fee

New comment by Moeancurly in "All-new iMac features the M1 chip"

Moeancurly — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:49:51 +0000

I'm almost certain there are products that look nearly identical to this in Black Mirror. If not, it looks like it belongs in an episode.

New comment by Moeancurly in "Apple TV 4K Gets A12 Bionic"

Moeancurly — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:47:49 +0000

I wonder if a U1 UWB chip be precise enough to detect if if the ATV has moved. Using 1 HomePod mini as a reference point, and more precision with more HomePods.

The location of the screen could be learned with some "Apple Magic," i.e. an AR setup process using an iPhone

New comment by Moeancurly in "533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online"

Moeancurly — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 17:50:02 +0000

I believe they mean it can't effectively be sold if everyone has it. It loses value as a commodity if anyone can access it, but the value of the data is still in tact.

New comment by Moeancurly in "533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online"

Moeancurly — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 17:44:46 +0000

What's being sold as convenience is really just creepy spying

New comment by Moeancurly in "Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in Public Spaces (2019)"

Moeancurly — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:57:55 +0000

At one point I did the same, until I also had to read a long random string to a CSR over the phone. Now I use real-sounding fake answers.

New comment by Moeancurly in "HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n"

Moeancurly — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:06:38 +0000

Which makes this jailbreak somewhat moot, for now at least. It makes more sense to buy an inexpensive Bluetooth speaker rather than risk bricking your $300 Homepod that has no data port

New comment by Moeancurly in "Robinhood reports outage as markets rebound"

Moeancurly — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 22:23:08 +0000

You could very well be right, according to this[0] post on Twitter:

> Hey @RobinhoodApp did someone forget to add isleap() to your python module? Imagine losing thousands of dollars because someone didn’t code for the leap year. It’s looking for 3/03 data and throwing errors out the ass. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESIuB4nXYAAYImF?format=jpg

[0]: https://twitter.com/jtech63/status/1234600045787394048