Hacker News: __michaelg

New comment by __michaelg in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

__michaelg — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:52:19 +0000

Finally establishing the concept of Feiertag on the internet. Come back tomorrow.

New comment by __michaelg in "Raspberry Pi Pico does line rate 100M Ethernet"

__michaelg — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:42:42 +0000

> receive side uses a per-packet interrupt to finalize a received packet

This has made much faster systems not being able to process packets at line speed. A classic was that standard Gigabit network cards and contemporary CPUs were not able to process VoIP packets (which are tiny) at line speed, while they could easily download files (which are basically MTU-sized packets) at line speed.

New comment by __michaelg in "Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijacked"

__michaelg — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:51:46 +0000

This is stupid clickbait title, and the article isn't even very precise. Yes, that whole fritz.box situation is known and bad. But the problem discussed here doesn't nearly apply to every situation. Specifically, the box's builtin resolver (which is still used by default by a lot of things) knows not to forward fritz.box requests to the outside. That is, `dig google.com.fritz.box` and everything else say NXDOMAIN when you're using the builtin DNS.

New comment by __michaelg in "Ceefax Simulator"

__michaelg — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 09:15:12 +0000

Germany's public broadcaster still offers an official website to see their current teletext: https://www.ard-text.de/

New comment by __michaelg in "Lichee Console 4A – RISC-V mini laptop: Review, benchmarks and early issues"

__michaelg — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:19:37 +0000

Yup, something is strange there. There are 14in x86 laptops that consume 7W or 8W in idle (with the screen turned on but on minimal brightness).

New comment by __michaelg in "Microdot"

__michaelg — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:18:47 +0000

Given the title I really wanted this to be a small and portable graphviz reimplementation...

New comment by __michaelg in "Scientists unveil fire-safe fuel"

__michaelg — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:23:55 +0000

Reminds me a little of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Impact_Demonstratio... which deliberately crashed an airplane. The fuel contained an additive that was supposed to limit the post-crash fire, but wasn't as effective as hoped for.

New comment by __michaelg in "Microsoft Designer"

__michaelg — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 09:55:57 +0000

I read "Stunning designs in Flash" at first, and it almost made sense.

New comment by __michaelg in "U/Ubuntu/Ubuntu/Ubuntu/Ubuntu/Ubuntu/Ubuntu/Ubuntu/Ubuntu/Ubuntu/Ubuntu/project/"

__michaelg — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 23:31:00 +0000

rsync at it again?

Salesforce to cut staff by 10%, close some offices

__michaelg — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 11:47:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/salesforce-cut-staff-by-10-close-some-offices-2023-01-04/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34244487

Points: 32

# Comments: 5

New comment by __michaelg in "maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps"

__michaelg — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:02:16 +0000

I think my critique is somewhat correct in that you seem to suggest that this change was made to allow for expanding the permissions from one product to all products, which I don't think one can derive from the things we know.

I think I was somewhat wrong in that I may have suggested that you said this was the only reason (which you didn't explicitly) and also in that I dismissed that they factually can use these permissions from other products now, i.e., no matter whether it was intended or not, the permissions set for other products is broader now.

New comment by __michaelg in "maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps"

__michaelg — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 13:11:53 +0000

Meta: my answer here is probably also a good example of motivated reasoning because I likely read a bit more into what the author wrote than is factually in the blog post. Oh boy.

New comment by __michaelg in "maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps"

__michaelg — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 13:04:15 +0000

> [...] though I'm sure they're just beginning to transfer their services to the main google.com domain.

This and the wording across the article imply more than the factual changes. But granted, hooby's comment above is probably more correct than what I wrote.

New comment by __michaelg in "maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps"

__michaelg — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 12:58:29 +0000

Upvoted, this looks more correct than what I wrote.

New comment by __michaelg in "maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps"

__michaelg — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:52:20 +0000

This is a fantastic example of motivated reasoning. This "change" (which apparently isn't even new) can have so many different reasons, some of which are less harmful and some of which are probably worse (privacy-wise) than the one mentioned here. There is no indication that re/mis-using permissions is specifically what they wanted to do here, there is also no example of them doing it right now. Don't get me wrong, there is also no evidence that this isn't the real reason and that they wouldn't do that in the future. But the blog post basically list a single symptom and jumps right to the one conclusion that fits what the author expects.

Amazon: A team update from Dave Limp

__michaelg — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 18:45:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/a-team-update-from-dave-limp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33628341

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by __michaelg in "I am fine without a smartwatch"

__michaelg — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 22:48:32 +0000

Or you just update your F-91W to a somewhat smart watch: https://www.sensorwatch.net/

New comment by __michaelg in "Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager"

__michaelg — Mon, 30 May 2022 20:37:37 +0000

Side note: If you need to say this:

> (click on the icons for more information)

then you almost certainly have an unintuitive design and know it, but instead of fixing it you just doubled down on it.

Klarna – Company announcement from CEO regarding layoffs

__michaelg — Mon, 23 May 2022 16:06:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.klarna.com/uk/blog/company-announcement-from-ceo-sebastian/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31480805

Points: 89

# Comments: 128

New comment by __michaelg in "Cheat Engine contains GPL-licensed code but disallows commercial use"

__michaelg — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:43:57 +0000

Thank you. Someone had to.