Hacker News: ZPrimed

New comment by ZPrimed in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

ZPrimed — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:45:12 +0000

outside of the US, whatsapp has a huge chunk of the "private" messaging market. Everything that we usually use SMS or iMessage for, happens via whatsapp in much of Europe and South America.

New comment by ZPrimed in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

ZPrimed — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:30:30 +0000

How does it benefit Apple for their customers to enable their wifi? They are fairly explicit about NOT tracking everything you do and selling it.

OTOH, it benefits the phone owner to use wifi, as it's lower power use than cellular the majority of the time.

New comment by ZPrimed in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

ZPrimed — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:26:08 +0000

A bunch of the morons out there who turn off wifi out in public because they read some random NYPost article about it "tracking" you, would then be bitching to Apple and/or their cell carriers about why their performance is so bad at home when it doesn't auto-join wifi overnight.

I would agree with you that it should operate like a dumb toggle if they didn't have the notification saying that it would auto re-enable again.

New comment by ZPrimed in "The Microsoft Rebrand Registry"

ZPrimed — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:06:54 +0000

There is also Xbox Series S, around the same time as the Series X...

New comment by ZPrimed in "Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken"

ZPrimed — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:20:30 +0000

i have a 3-letter .onl domain that is the first 3 letters of my last name

I have actually needed to use it, because my cell provider (Visible) has absolutely moronic form validation that doesn't recognize a hyphen as a valid character in an email address, even though it very much is. (My main .net domain has a hyphen in it)

New comment by ZPrimed in "GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world"

ZPrimed — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:12:05 +0000

and this is why everything needs 32+GB of RAM and an assload of storage.

LLMs don't have human attention to detail, IME

New comment by ZPrimed in "HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router"

ZPrimed — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:07:40 +0000

crs305 will choke when you start asking it to do NAT. it's a switch. It should be able to hardware-route between VLANs but it's not made for "home router" duties.

New comment by ZPrimed in "HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router"

ZPrimed — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:01:38 +0000

It was, until they came up with v4 around a year ago or so.

It's possible to run v3 under Wine on a Mac but it was kind of clunky. V4 is much nicer (also runs on Linux too).

New comment by ZPrimed in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

ZPrimed — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:10:04 +0000

AFAIK this is because TrueNAS is trying to be all things to everyone, and they like Docker more than BSD jails.

New comment by ZPrimed in "My Students Can't Read"

ZPrimed — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:20:26 +0000

Irony: can't read TFA without bypassing a signin-wall.

New comment by ZPrimed in "CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude"

ZPrimed — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:21:30 +0000

This isn't a 26.5 bug, this is a bug fixed in 26.5.

New comment by ZPrimed in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

ZPrimed — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:00:13 +0000

I think Veronica setup an identical demo copy in a VM and thus could easily screenshot the VM.

New comment by ZPrimed in "I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden"

ZPrimed — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:20:04 +0000

author of the site appears to be an anti-JS fringe person, and that's their method of "protest."

If you switch away and then come back to the tab, they have a popover explaining all of this.

I just went and disabled JS for their silly site.

New comment by ZPrimed in "People Love to Work Hard"

ZPrimed — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:10:31 +0000

this...

i work for a community-focused nonprofit, but the middle managers are ineffectual and problematic, and the c-levels aren't clueful enough to realize the toxicity being created below them (plus are too obsessed with bolstering their own careers to care).

i'm tired of it, despite truly believing in the org's mission.

New comment by ZPrimed in "This system can go fuck itself and burn in hell"

ZPrimed — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:29:19 +0000

I don't disagree with much of what the author wrote here, except for the part about "I'm starving, but I'm vegan so I won't eat SPAM and I won't eat the peanut butter because it is 'processed' and has 'chemicals.'"

Humans are omnivores, veganism is a choice. You don't get to complain about how rough it is when you yourself have chosen to play with hard mode turned on. Obviously if there are health issues that require an altered diet that's a different story, but if that was mentioned I missed it somehow.

Everything else about the story has merit though, the rich are too rich and the US's "safety nets" are awful. Nobody should go bankrupt due to health problems they can't control.

New comment by ZPrimed in "The wonder of modern drywall"

ZPrimed — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:14:21 +0000

yeah, my parents' US home (which was originally my grandmother's) in the eastern half of the US has plaster-on-drywall construction.

it is a bitch and a half for hanging anything (just like plaster on lath), plus it screws up wifi.

Pro tip for finding a stud, if you have access to the bare floor -- stick a drywalling knife / spatula under the bottom trim and poke. you can find the studs that way, and then measure off since 16" is pretty common. Measuring off the edge of an electrical box can work too, but you have to figure out what side of the stud the box is on...

New comment by ZPrimed in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

ZPrimed — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:34:36 +0000

well this certainly goes a long way to explaining why i've been fighting with window resize on tahoe :p

it's stupidly difficult to grab windows by the flat edges, too

New comment by ZPrimed in "Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account"

ZPrimed — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:59:56 +0000

Companies that are limiting what characters people use in their passwords are almost definitely doing something incredibly wrong with security.

(passwords should be hashed...)

New comment by ZPrimed in "Making macOS Bearable"

ZPrimed — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 07:28:24 +0000

This is the way, though. I do exactly the same thing. I was a trackball user for many years on Windows (due to wrist & arm pain from mouse use), but the Magic Trackpad works way better with macOS than trackballs (primarily because the Kensington software is garbage).

New comment by ZPrimed in "The government ate my name"

ZPrimed — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 03:10:51 +0000

If I saw your name in a CRM system, as a USican, I would assume that some dumbass on my team accidentally pasted your last name into the field twice.