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New comment by Poacher5 in "Puppy PPE"

Poacher5 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:32:57 +0000

Pls use an image host that I can view without having to turn on my VPN - signed, a brit.

New comment by Poacher5 in "Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure"

Poacher5 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:02:51 +0000

It's an interesting idea but these things have never taken off in the past. I'm speaking from a UK-centric position here, but there's a pretty strong ethos that guidebook creators should get paid for the work that they do and there's also a responsibility attached to a professional guidebook that doesn't exist on a crowdsourced platform. UKC can only take you so far, and 25 quid for a copy of whatever SMC book you need is hardly onerous. Any donut can add "Shit Chosspile E8 6C **" to the UKC database but if it's in the SMC book it's probably worth having a look at.

New comment by Poacher5 in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

Poacher5 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:02:45 +0000

The BBC's "impartiality" is frequently it's biggest downfall - It's a very standard UK joke that if the BBC was discussing if the earth was flat you'd get a 5 minute interview with a top geographer or physicist from Cambridge followed by an equally credulous 5 minute interview with a madman in his basement claiming it's all the work of the lizard people.

The covererage of the Genocide in Palestine (and I'm betraying my view just by calling it that) just brings this into incredibly sharp relief as there are, to a first approximation, no real centrists in that discussion. And yet you still get the same 5 minutes of interview for a doctor on the ground in Palestine and for Ben Gvir, presented as if there's some kind of happy middle ground that everyone can broadly agree on.

New comment by Poacher5 in "CarPlay Is Additive"

Poacher5 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:26:25 +0000

This is huge for me - I'm in rental cars every other week or so 'cause I fly a lot for work and getting to factories in the boonies isn't really doable on public transport. I used to spend 20 minutes in the europcar car park every single time and then have to log out of everything when I dropped the car off. Now I just hook up Android Auto and I'm back into the same podcast I had on the flight, my itinerary is planned in already and I can head straight to my hotel. Still have the old problem with smart TV's though. Can't usually be fucked to login for two nights so I just watch TV on my laptop.

New comment by Poacher5 in "Amazon seller reveals glimpse of shadow bribery market"

Poacher5 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:41:56 +0000

B&Q in the UK went exactly the same way - used to be pretty reliable, and I didn't mind paying the extra to have all the things a home DIYer might need without going to half a dozen different builder's merchants and trade suppliers. Then they opened their store page up to anyone who wanted to list anything even tangentially related to home improvements and predictably it's a huge heap of drop-shipped rubbish and it's all been SEO'ed to the Nth degree to appear higher in the search rankings than anything actually sold by B&Q.

New comment by Poacher5 in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

Poacher5 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:08:23 +0000

Same's true in the UK, but honestly they're some of the best drivers out there 'cause they've been hustling in farm equipment since they were tall enough to reach the pedals. I've seen farmers get picked up from my old local by their kids in a tractor before when they were too drunk to drive home.

New comment by Poacher5 in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

Poacher5 — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:16:56 +0000

But there was a place in which to do nothing - whether it was a scrappy patch of land that's now a big-box store, or a permissive neighbour's garden who has now put up a fort knox of ring cameras, or a mall that used to tolerate kids just screwing around that now has a fleet of rent-a-cops. Third spaces aren't just trendy urban cafes, especially as a child. Having a place that feels like "your bit" is increasingly rare.

New comment by Poacher5 in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

Poacher5 — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:54:53 +0000

And there are no other students at any college other than CS students? I'm not sure why a biologist or a literature student would need to be au fait with Google's admittedly fairly unfriendly email management setup.

New comment by Poacher5 in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)"

Poacher5 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:59:08 +0000

What does this have that Youtube Vanced/Revanced doesn't already do for the cost of about half an hour of your time messing with sideloading and getting a clean youtube APK file? I already block all shorts through that. It's not perfect, but you admit you're playing whack-a-mole with the filtering just the same as the Revanced devs.

New comment by Poacher5 in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

Poacher5 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:25:32 +0000

They're basically bank receptionists for old people who will type details into the same system that the general public has access to. They also handle cash for small businesses (I worked in a cafe during university and we'd regularly have to do runs into town to deposit rolls of bills and get more change to float the till)

New comment by Poacher5 in "3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide"

Poacher5 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:39:30 +0000

This is knitting as a method of mass-production. It's not cannibalizing hobby knitters making hats and gloves for their loved ones at Christmas. The comparison to AI music doesn't work because that is trying to occupy the same space as musical artists.

New comment by Poacher5 in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

Poacher5 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:17:35 +0000

There's a noticeable increase in sleep disorders and related conditions in the far west of the single time zone [0]. I think when it's on the order of a single hour's shift for daylight savings the effects are pretty negligible but they are measurable.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY9mXPcloaM

New comment by Poacher5 in "World first: Plane hooks a skydiver out of the air"

Poacher5 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:56:19 +0000

The Red Bull branding almost goes without saying at this point.

New comment by Poacher5 in "A Phenomenology of Spotify and Vinyl"

Poacher5 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:26:54 +0000

There's something about the connection between people you get with physical media as well, beyond just the "playing it for other people" effect in the article. - I have a collection of a few hundred records I've mostly inherited from my Dad, my Uncle and a few of my Dad's friends who were getting rid. It's a very lovely experience to pull a record out at semi-random and try to work out who's collection it came from and when and why they might have bought the object I'm listening to that day.

New comment by Poacher5 in "I'm the Amazon Worker the Media Doesn't Want You to Meet"

Poacher5 — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:55:01 +0000

I can believe either of these explanations. This employee also seems to be an outlier in terms of amount of shit they have to deal with. I worked at an FC for a month and a half while waiting to start a graduate job, and all of our shifts were 8 hours plus, with hilarious lack of clarity on start time, finish time and break times. Also, if this guy is able to actually enjoy being on splitting (the yellow sticker job he alludes to) then he's the only person I've ever met who can.

New comment by Poacher5 in "We need physical audio kill switches"

Poacher5 — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 21:48:05 +0000

Unless something's changed since I bought my big maglite, the outer ring only controls the beam pattern, and the button just gives you on and off. Things might have got fancier in the meanwhile, but mine still does what it needs to.

New comment by Poacher5 in "Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments with Google Maps"

Poacher5 — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 21:00:24 +0000

There's an excellent book called "Flight Sim X For Pilots" that's essentially just a walkthrough of flight school, starting in a piper cub and gradually progressing through to instruments flying and multiengine flying. I think it's probably a bit dated now, but it's an excellent source of information for how to do things properly in a sim, since it's aimed at real aspiring pilots.

New comment by Poacher5 in "How Gov.uk Notify reliably sends text messages to users"

Poacher5 — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 17:01:32 +0000

From the article: "If we ended up sending only a small number of messages through one provider over the long run, they might not be massively incentivised to be a provider in the future."

Gotta keep the service provider happy to ensure they still go along with the program.