Hacker News: PrettyPastry

New comment by PrettyPastry in "How uv got so fast"

PrettyPastry — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:40:20 +0000

I wish this were enough to get the flake8 devs to accept pyproject support PRs.

New comment by PrettyPastry in "Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right"

PrettyPastry — Tue, 14 May 2024 11:45:34 +0000

Does tvOS user switching do anything at all? I tried recently, and all the third party app data was shared across users.

New comment by PrettyPastry in "Microsoft / Activision deal prevented to protect innovation and choice in gaming"

PrettyPastry — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:41:15 +0000

Cloud gaming is great when you are stuck without a console or gaming pc. It runs in the browser, so it works on phones and cheap laptops.

That said, the steam deck provides a better gaming experience than a cloud gaming on a phone.

New comment by PrettyPastry in "An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email"

PrettyPastry — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 20:01:15 +0000

Some services even accept it to create an account, but not to log in.

One never let me change my email or password when I used the +.

New comment by PrettyPastry in "The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website"

PrettyPastry — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:20:42 +0000

> One of the websites doing this, SunTrust Bank, sent the user name and password we entered to a third party, Jornaya, which says it encrypts and discards the data it collects.

Wow. Deep down the page is a nugget about suntrust just giving away your username and password. Big reminder to use unique passwords of every site.

New comment by PrettyPastry in "Copying is not theft, but censorship is (2012)"

PrettyPastry — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 18:01:48 +0000

Interpretation as in a sign language interpretation.

New comment by PrettyPastry in "Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client"

PrettyPastry — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 12:52:42 +0000

You can listen to the iPhone with wireshark using OWASP zap as a proxy.

New comment by PrettyPastry in "Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone"

PrettyPastry — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:18:35 +0000

That does not appear to be the case.

There is a video circulating these comments. It shows someone register their finger without the screen, slap the screen protector over top and unlock with a different, previously rejected finger.

Edit: https://twitter.com/sta_light_/status/1184475413252210688?s=...

New comment by PrettyPastry in "Software made me loathe my car"

PrettyPastry — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 20:01:09 +0000

Unless they start doing the same thing the article describes, charging a subscription for CarPlay.

They literally added extra systems to disable it so they could charge rents.

New comment by PrettyPastry in "Software made me loathe my car"

PrettyPastry — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:57:40 +0000

Does Tesla support CarPlay or Android Auto?

New comment by PrettyPastry in "Progressives Are Regulating Away Equality Benefits of Uber, Airbnb and Google"

PrettyPastry — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 18:00:54 +0000

Let’s not forget Time was purchased by major right wing political influencers.

New comment by PrettyPastry in "[dead]"

PrettyPastry — Mon, 21 May 2018 16:21:27 +0000

> There is no (intentional) intrinsic value to the problem you are solving when you mine a new BitCoin. If you were looking for interesting and valuable solutions to compute, you would almost certainly not pick any of the ones have been found as a result of BitCoin mining.

I agree that Bitcoin doesn’t have an intrinsic value, but I think he is missing the argument people actually make. The value isn’t in the problem they solve, but the power spent to solve it. At least, that is what I have always heard.