Hacker News: alsetmusic

New comment by alsetmusic in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

alsetmusic — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:52:41 +0000

Where are the third-party ads that interrupt the content I wasn’t able to read? And the popover telling me about singles on my area? Why haven’t I been offered a subscription to a newsletter so I can receive daily updates and offers to pay for additional services?

You’re right. It’s a good start, but there’s still a lot to do.

New comment by alsetmusic in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

alsetmusic — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:52:06 +0000

I dunno. Everything's Bigger, Better, Whatever. I don't wish for anyone to suffer, but I did think it was funny when they lost power in a winter storm and I did think it was funny when Ted Cruz tried to abandon them and was caught.

New comment by alsetmusic in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

alsetmusic — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:50:22 +0000

Well, there's an admin killing clean energy so I think we know where that anger belongs. Dems suck too, but what can you do. One is worse, clearly.

New comment by alsetmusic in "Hyperspace"

alsetmusic — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:44:34 +0000

The app store identifies apps with paid features. You shouldn't be entirely surprised.

New comment by alsetmusic in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

alsetmusic — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:57:12 +0000

I don't think they said that at all. I'm pretty sure they were saying that the thing to think about / discuss is the thing that happened, rather than the hypothetical.

New comment by alsetmusic in "Don't use your phone while you poop"

alsetmusic — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:34:47 +0000

Ages ago, I let my partner borrow my first iPad after I'd upgraded. She'd take it into the bathroom. I never touched it because of that and I probably cleaned it when she gave it back to me.

New comment by alsetmusic in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

alsetmusic — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:42:49 +0000

I can't believe how stupid the world has become. At least my young niece and nephew will have terrible air to breathe after I'm gone. Next, let's pay people to detonate nuclear bombs next to our homes.

New comment by alsetmusic in "The myth of Snow Leopard"

alsetmusic — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:06:22 +0000

> while botching the core fundamentals of UI design and functionality, as with the UI disaster that was Liquid Glass

This is why Apple nerds (like me) are hopeful that John Ternus will refocus the company. Steve said that companies that want to make good software should make their own hardware. I only learned that Alan Kay said that first when looking to make sure that I had this quote correct.

Alan Dye is gone. The guy who was completely unqualified to lead UI design is no longer in charge. Tim Cook will soon move to a new role. The business guy is stepping aside. An actual engineer with no business degree is gonna be in charge. Maybe things will become sane again. I hope so.

Fwiw, Apple nerds who care about UI design would enjoy the recent Talk Show episode (Daring Fireball, John Gruber, the Markdown guy) ep with Louie Mantia. He's a designer who expresses why Dye was unfit for the job in a satisfying way.

Just woke, probably typos and mistakes.

New comment by alsetmusic in "The myth of Snow Leopard"

alsetmusic — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:58:23 +0000

> When you have a bunch of windows open but you click on the desktop, the windows go off to the edges so you can see the desktop.

It's one of the first things I turn off.

New comment by alsetmusic in "The myth of Snow Leopard"

alsetmusic — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:53:03 +0000

> with claims that the release introduced bugs and had quality problems.

I mean, what software is bug-free? Fewer bugs is a big deal. Less-severe bugs is a big deal.

New comment by alsetmusic in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

alsetmusic — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:44:44 +0000

Neat app. Would be helpful if I could adjust text size. It's small enough that immediately looked for that setting. I don't think it exists, which means I'm disincentivized from using it. My vision is that of a middle-aged person and I already needed glasses in grade school.

New comment by alsetmusic in "Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm"

alsetmusic — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:06:24 +0000

As a strong supporter of unions, that's the end of my donations. I've probably donated fewer than a dozen times, but definitely more than five or six. I felt reasonably good about it and went on with my day, no hesitation about supporting them. That's done.

Fwiw, unions often have support pages where you can donate or buy merch to support. One of my favorite tshirts advocates for a union that was trying to form at a huge retail chain (looking at you Starbucks Workers United). I did a quick search and this[0] appears to be them.

0. https://www.wikiworkersunited.org

New comment by alsetmusic in "Only 8.9% of sites block AI crawlers, but 94.8% are never cited in AI answers"

alsetmusic — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:09:16 +0000

This makes sense. A handful of websites hold most of the “trusted” info because they’re massive. I don’t expect you to quote my blog with only three entries. The real trick would be getting AI companies to stop hammering sites that don’t show up in answers, but even if they don’t use a source for an answer, crawling still provides value.

New comment by alsetmusic in "MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150"

alsetmusic — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:03:40 +0000

The first non-MacOS OS I ever booted was MkLinux. On a PowerPC 9500. I convinced my mom to drive to a Borders book store to get a book about it. There were no books about Linux at that location in whatever part of the 90s. It booted to a CLI and I had no idea what to do. I didn’t have a second computer to look up commands (as though I’d have the vocabulary to find enough info on a dialup connection to restore usability same-day). I think I reinstalled MacOS 8 or 9 same evening. I needed my computer back!

Computers are pretty great. I throw VMs around like they are candy, now. What an embarrassment of riches we have with modern tech! Side note: I remember the first time I got two computers to talk and how exciting that was. And just the other day, a post about 25GbPS networking (not me, Jeff Geerling).

Apologies for typos. Just woke.

Edit: clarification about 25

New comment by alsetmusic in "Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio"

alsetmusic — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:59:06 +0000

Dang, here I was feeling slick with 10Gb between my MBP and Mac mini and NAS. That’s the thing, it could always be bigger / faster / more. It’s enough for my workflow, but it’s fun to see people push further.

New comment by alsetmusic in "The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade"

alsetmusic — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:47:56 +0000

Assisted a an internal-client with a 12 yo Dell all-in-one yesterday. I recognized his voice, as this was the third or fourth time. Knowing the landscape ahead of assisting him allowed me to be a super-star. He already seemed to like me, but I cleared a lot of BS by telling him what was possible from memory of the setup. Learning how bad it was was a different conversation, less fun.

New comment by alsetmusic in "What's slowing down the AI buildout"

alsetmusic — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:17:35 +0000

Ew apartment buildings have them where I live, though a limited number so I can imagine that their use fluctuates. Someone who can’t reserve an open charger can’t move in. Someone who can’t get the floor plan they want is less likely to sign a lease even if a charger is available.

This is in the Bay Area, fwiw.

New comment by alsetmusic in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

alsetmusic — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:39:56 +0000

To be fair, that'll happen in New York if you protest the internationally-illegal sale of real estate in Palestine taking place in a synagogue. Here's the event, a law was passed protecting religious institutions from protest (but was really for this).

https://theintercept.com/2026/05/11/real-estate-expo-israel-...

New comment by alsetmusic in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

alsetmusic — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:34:47 +0000

Sure, but our economy stomps most East Coast states (hello, New York!) and we aren't neighbors of the confederacy.

New comment by alsetmusic in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

alsetmusic — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:30:01 +0000

We were setting off fireworks in the street in the middle of the afternoon (cause you'd buy a bunch and gradually deploy in the days leading up to the event). We shot off a rocket, which was one of mine. There were fire trucks shortly after putting out a blaze in an open lot. 1980s, I was <10 years, my older brother and his friend were pretty sure we caused it.

I have no way to know if we started that fire, but regulations exist for a reason and people who live in at-risk areas understand that they could lose their homes.