Hacker News: astafrig

New comment by astafrig in "Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes"

astafrig — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 03:53:32 +0000

What does being a ‘fanboy’ mean in this context?

New comment by astafrig in "Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography"

astafrig — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:18:34 +0000

Using the cameras to estimate depth information is not really a better solution than using the LiDAR sensor because the cameras are so close together that the effective range for parallax depth estimation and the effective range of the LiDAR sensor are very similar.

New comment by astafrig in "Hackers Stole Flock Camera Software Revealing How Company Tracks Cars and People"

astafrig — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:12:47 +0000

> At the same time, about every two minutes, code checked that the camera was still running and logged the message, “Who’s a good boy?!” More than 12,000 of those messages appear in the recovered logs.

I'm not sure why 404 has decided that the number or content of watchdog messages is so significant, but in other coverage of this article, (namely non-technical people making short-form technology 'content'), people seem to be really clinging onto this.

New comment by astafrig in "Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework"

astafrig — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:41:50 +0000

In addition to the third-party installation capability mentioned by siblings, Japan also has a regional capability for reassigning the side button to a third-party voice assistant (`com.apple.developer.side-button-access.allow`).

New comment by astafrig in "iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com"

astafrig — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:43:52 +0000

The only thing Safari seems inferior at is draining batteries.

New comment by astafrig in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

astafrig — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:43:02 +0000

If you’re trying to quantify fun, you’ve already well and truly missed the point.

New comment by astafrig in "TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years"

astafrig — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:30:41 +0000

Doesn’t it? I do trust the manufacturer of the thing that I keep within arms reach from the moment I get it, and which knows more about me than I do, to have better security than whatever the hell a TUYA is that controls the lights.

New comment by astafrig in "Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries"

astafrig — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:46:49 +0000

My experience with phones like that are that they tend to fall apart when subjected to impact, which is pretty counterproductive to features like, I don’t know, being able to use the phone immediately after an impact (car crash, fall).

New comment by astafrig in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

astafrig — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:05:49 +0000

> google's ai says

Copy-pasting AI output is uninteresting and rude.

New comment by astafrig in "Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries"

astafrig — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:16:33 +0000

'Solved' by having measurably worse ingress protection than leading smartphones?

New comment by astafrig in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

astafrig — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:46:18 +0000

How do you think that this wouldn't "work in the current timeline"? This sounds like a deep misunderstanding of media.

New comment by astafrig in "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"

astafrig — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:02:03 +0000

How is the title misleading?

New comment by astafrig in "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"

astafrig — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:18:11 +0000

Everything involving geography is a regional feature because it takes time to create things for physical stuff across the physical world; its not just some arbitrary limitation like streaming media.

New comment by astafrig in "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"

astafrig — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:39:23 +0000

> no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch

I regularly use hiking and topography maps on my Apple Watch with the first party maps app, so it sure what you’re talking about

New comment by astafrig in "Zed 1.0"

astafrig — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:36:40 +0000

Some of these are questionable, but 3 and 5 stick out. Being included makes it sound like whoever wrote this list doesn’t really know what Zed is?

It’s a local text editor. The only thing an account gives you is access to their specific flavour of coding agent and a collaboration server.

> If your payment lapses, they reserve the right to delete your account and all associated data with no liability.

Pretty much the only associated data is your payment info.

New comment by astafrig in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

astafrig — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:47:21 +0000

> Your statement uses the presence of bugs to indicate a product is worth using.

This is not correct; "If a product is worth using, then it has bugs." (P→Q) does not imply its converse "If a product has bugs, then it is worth using." (Q→P). Buginess is presented as a necessary condition of being worth using, not a sufficient one.

It does, however, imply "If a product has no bugs, then it is not worth using.".

New comment by astafrig in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

astafrig — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:47:22 +0000

The thing they “didn’t want to [do]” was infringe on the Linux trademark.

New comment by astafrig in "Apple Business"

astafrig — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:16:29 +0000

> including a new option coming this summer that will enable businesses in the U.S. and Canada to place local ads in Maps during key search and discovery moments.

The enshittification knows no bounds.

New comment by astafrig in "“This is not the computer for you”"

astafrig — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:21:22 +0000

What else is a shame is claiming that some single language feature supports a foregone conclusion that the writing's been 'molested'. It's hard to imagine what a constructive comment this could've been with the minimum of effort to know that the author has written this way consistently since at least 2021, before the first public release of ChatGPT.

New comment by astafrig in "“This is not the computer for you”"

astafrig — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:13:41 +0000

I think this’d be a good comment if it weren’t for the superiority complex :/