Hacker News: airpoint

New comment by airpoint in "Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act"

airpoint — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:07:07 +0000

Mostly incorrect. The First Amendment limits the US government, not Ofcom or UK courts. UK law can regulate services with “links to the UK” even if the provider is abroad, and Ofcom’s enforcement does not itself abridge anyone’s US constitutional rights.

New comment by airpoint in "A coherent European/non-US cloud strategy"

airpoint — Wed, 07 May 2025 11:49:01 +0000

The EU has some of the strongest data protection laws in the world, most notably the GDPR which enforces strict rules on how personal data is collected, stored, and used, with significant penalties for violatiions. Independent watchdogs in each country enforce these rules.

Freedom of expression is protected under Article 11 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. While the EU allows limited restrictions (like hate speech, incitement to violence, etc), so do most democratic jurisdictions, including the US and UK.

New comment by airpoint in "Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key"

airpoint — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 05:15:12 +0000

> BBC Weather’s homepage is a content-rich page. Users have a reason to be looking at it and to be looking for an extended period of time.

Most of that rich content is obstructed by them bloody cookie warnings, on first visit. That’s not a very convincing simulation of “I’ve been looking at this page for the last 5 mins!”

New comment by airpoint in "Zulip 9.0: Organized chat for distributed teams"

airpoint — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:48:57 +0000

They keep announcing "design improvements" but whenever I check all I see is an ugly, dated UI I just can't consider serious. Can't be.

New comment by airpoint in "Revolut's Irish mortgages are a game changer, and the banks know it"

airpoint — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 11:05:26 +0000

This is just an ad basically. Right?

New comment by airpoint in "Self-hosting keeps your private data out of AI models"

airpoint — Fri, 24 May 2024 20:04:39 +0000

Upgrading the UI from year 2000 and improving the UX would incite me to consider Zulip as a potential alternative.

Bashing a competitor in a blog post does not.

New comment by airpoint in "Austria is sleepwalking toward a far-right victory"

airpoint — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:27:47 +0000

Sounds like you’ve no actual clue of the history of FPÖ.

New comment by airpoint in "Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case"

airpoint — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 13:13:07 +0000

Your post reads to me as if you thought all users shared the same exact needs as you do

That’d be quite an ignorant POV to take on IMO

New comment by airpoint in "GitHub Actions Are a Problem"

airpoint — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 15:35:09 +0000

Because it’s incomplete and unstable

New comment by airpoint in "Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month"

airpoint — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:08:34 +0000

OK, but am I the only one finding Kagi "super" slow comparing to other search engines? It takes like a good full second to load the results…

New comment by airpoint in "How to Setup a Plex Media Server on Raspberry Pi"

airpoint — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:03:28 +0000

It really doesn't.

In my experience Swiftfin on ATV is at least ten years behind Plex in terms of functionality, reliability, codec support, UI polish and overall UX.

New comment by airpoint in "Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday"

airpoint — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:54:43 +0000

Sorry, I'm being serious, what's the "polished" part referring to?

I've checked Zulip out a few weeks back and it's just the same outdated, quirky look and feel.

New comment by airpoint in "My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)"

airpoint — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 11:33:23 +0000

Thanks for sharing. What does the following refer to in the GitHub Actions explainer:

> …it's free thanks to a generous friends and family plan

New comment by airpoint in "UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k"

airpoint — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:15:25 +0000

You are right on this one. TIL how big Croydon actually is! Thanks!

New comment by airpoint in "UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k"

airpoint — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:13:15 +0000

Same stats, different angle. It can be explained both ways.

New comment by airpoint in "UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k"

airpoint — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 13:17:19 +0000

Incredible salary in the UK != incredible salary in London

New comment by airpoint in "UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k"

airpoint — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 13:11:30 +0000

> they'll just prescribe after the call and send the prescription to my local pharmacy.

Yes, exactly this is all they do now basically, nothing else.

Not sure which app you're using but I've been with Babylon Health for years and it went downhill very much lately.

Before the pandemic I was able to get a call consult within 3-4hrs and book an in-person appt for next day easily.

These days can't get a callback earlier than 2-3 days and bookings for in-person unavailable for WEEKS!

New comment by airpoint in "UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k"

airpoint — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 12:54:21 +0000

Most of Croydons reputation is down to crime rate mate. Overall third highest in London and especially significant and growing in the violence against the person category.

New comment by airpoint in "The RIAA vs. Steve Jobs"

airpoint — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:23:46 +0000

OK, I can see now how you might think the pricing of Mac applications for professionals is crazy.

I asked for a Photoshop alternative for a commercial setting and you basically linked me to a Gimp.

It's like when people ask for an alternative to a managed MS Office 365 service and somebody replies with "just use LibreOffice" lol.

No mate, no. No way!

New comment by airpoint in "The RIAA vs. Steve Jobs"

airpoint — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:02:53 +0000

Which free apps accomplish the same and more than the mentioned $30 app?

I annotate screen grabs daily as part of my job and never found anything that comes close to CleanShot X. Would love to hear what's new and worthy on the market!