Hacker News: _chu1

New comment by _chu1 in "NINA: Rebuilding the original AIM, AOL Desktop, Yahoo and ICQ platforms"

_chu1 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:10:37 +0000

These guys are reverse engineering Skype now too. Really cool stuff.

https://nina.chat/news/120500000101270/icq-now-in-open-alpha...

New comment by _chu1 in "Dumb TVs deserve a comeback"

_chu1 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:54:58 +0000

I only purchase Sony TVs, and I simply just connect an HTPC to them. If there are any smart features, I just choose not to accept the EULA and not to connect it to the Internet.

New comment by _chu1 in "US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19"

_chu1 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:51:06 +0000

This is excellent news!

New comment by _chu1 in "Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far"

_chu1 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:48:20 +0000

The Writing Tools are a gimmick, but the improvements to Siri on the iPhone 16 are great. I haven't used the visual intelligence yet, but I always thought Google Lens was cool, so I hope it works just as well. Image Playground and Genmoji are pretty stupid, I have no idea why they wasted time on that.

Message/email summaries are super weird. They show up when they want to, which is barely at all.

Say what you want about this Apple Intelligence stuff, but it's nowhere near as intrusive or annoying as Gemini or Copilot. You can turn it off and ignore it.

New comment by _chu1 in "Apple put the Magic Mouse's charging port on the bottom again"

_chu1 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:45:05 +0000

Call me old fashioned but I'm fine with a few AAA batteries.

New comment by _chu1 in "New iMac with M4"

_chu1 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:33:06 +0000

When I think cheap and works out of the box, Mac is the last thing on my mind.

New comment by _chu1 in "Honeybee: Calling via XMPP"

_chu1 — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:50:04 +0000

It pretty much is. You will find that barely anyone actively uses XMPP, let alone anyone you know.

New comment by _chu1 in "How to escape Honda's privacy hell"

_chu1 — Mon, 06 May 2024 19:58:31 +0000

Plus them watching people through their cameras.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067178

New comment by _chu1 in "Flock Safety is the biggest player in a city-by-city scramble for surveillance"

_chu1 — Thu, 02 May 2024 12:47:19 +0000

Yes.

New comment by _chu1 in "Flock Safety is the biggest player in a city-by-city scramble for surveillance"

_chu1 — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:34:32 +0000

Why is this legal? Who allows this? What do we do?

New comment by _chu1 in "[dead]"

_chu1 — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:09:32 +0000

Dumbest shit I've read today. Nice job!

New comment by _chu1 in "US House passes bill to ban TikTok if owners won't divest"

_chu1 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:34:59 +0000

No, it hasn't. Never seen anything relatively nice from a Chinese company, even when it's another one of their piles of manure with a different name like OnePlus.

New comment by _chu1 in "Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders"

_chu1 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:18:32 +0000

I'm completely OK with American brands making Americans their primary target again.

New comment by _chu1 in "California Program to Expand Zero-Down, Interest-Free Home Loan to Undocumented"

_chu1 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:47:56 +0000

Clearly they have been just letting homelessness be an issue if they're able to pull all this as of recently to freely house random people for political brownie points.

Defective C++

_chu1 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:44:56 +0000

Article URL: https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/defective.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39634384

Points: 17

# Comments: 9

Escargot – MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger Revival

_chu1 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:38:22 +0000

Article URL: https://escargot.chat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39634308

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

NINA – Reviving Old-School AOL, Aim and Yahoo Messenger

_chu1 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:35:49 +0000

Article URL: https://nina.chat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39634283

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by _chu1 in "A data-driven case for why TikTok needs to be banned before the 2024 election"

_chu1 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:32:06 +0000

Anything that uses slot machine styled reward mechanisms should be outlawed with our consumer protection laws. I support a TikTok ban only due to national security concerns, but that's not to say I believe American social media monoliths are doing anything right in the slightest either yet not to say they should be banned either. I made a post on a different thread about a month ago dissecting specific issues with my generation (Gen Z) and social media where I touch on different areas (I should really make a blog).

Side note : I'm quite interested, is TikTok as popular with Gen Z in Europe as it is in America?

New comment by _chu1 in "Bob_cassette_rewinder"

_chu1 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:11:05 +0000

I live in central Alabama. Would take over 4 hours to walk or bike to get groceries. Not everyone lives in a huge city and the ones in Alabama are too dangerous to walk around in without concealed carrying a firearm (except for Huntsville).

New comment by _chu1 in "Bob_cassette_rewinder"

_chu1 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:49:29 +0000

We keep reusable bags in the car for every time we go to the grocery store. I think the entire country would only benefit from banning single-use plastic bags nationally, and I'm not sure how you could have an issue with that.