Hacker News: baz00

New comment by baz00 in "Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content"

baz00 — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:45:19 +0000

Indeed. Then again "the news" is well known for carefully editorialising things and conflating unverified sources as facts on and off. General journalistic standards have been compromised because there's a race to get the information in front of people faster than social media and it is now seen as ok to correct it later. This is mostly online though. Print and televised media is usually not as real time.

Everything is a shit show.

New comment by baz00 in "Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content"

baz00 — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:17:00 +0000

I think it would be safer to remove all political posts from social media (both sides) as policy. There is a massive propaganda war on both sides and all it does is amplify sentiment, create further division, hurt more people and compromise security over time.

The press are bad enough at coming up with verified claims from the right people. Social media is 1000x worse.

Of course our current American social media dictators are pretty lax on doing anything positive for society as a whole while it benefits them.

New comment by baz00 in "2.7M Brits still use a 3G only handset"

baz00 — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 07:41:54 +0000

Had no problems anywhere in the UK in recent years on 4G and I've been all over the place.

4G has been incredibly reliable for me. Even on a £10/month SIM only thing, I was up a volcano in the middle of nowhere in Iceland and able to make calls.

New comment by baz00 in "Using Git Offline"

baz00 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:47:44 +0000

Most of the people I work with can barely tell the difference between git and github.

New comment by baz00 in "DARPA Moves Forward on X-65: Plane with no moving control surfaces"

baz00 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:14:27 +0000

I think the point is the signal to noise ratio is poor. But it's less bad than everywhere else I find.

New comment by baz00 in "How to mod any lens for anamorphic bokeh"

baz00 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 12:31:07 +0000

To be fair we were doing this in the 80s with crappy M42 lenses and slightly less scientific method. Pentax 50mm one that came with your GDR clunker could be pushed pretty hard if you were on a budget.

The main reason for this though was to make the bokeh look like it was from a more expensive lens.

New comment by baz00 in "The best way to get unstuck"

baz00 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 10:20:17 +0000

Sometimes we do gold plating intentionally because the new tasks are stupid or will compromise the business and we’re trying to make them go away.

New comment by baz00 in "Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports"

baz00 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 08:52:53 +0000

Conversely my iPhone 13 Pro was taken all round the world and been soaked through, frozen and dropped tens of times in snow and a river. The clear TPU case looked like a water puzzle on a regular basis.

Apple replaced the battery in it last week without a whimper and I expect they would do the same in the future.

If I did this to my MacBook they probably would not. Which is the point.

New comment by baz00 in "Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content"

baz00 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:27:37 +0000

Race to the bottom propelled by the current fad here we come.

Duolingo has been completely fucking useless for me compared to spending a few hours in the country in question though. It's pretty much HOW DO I GO LEFT AT THE BAKERY level of teaching.

New comment by baz00 in "United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections"

baz00 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:20:08 +0000

In software this is a reboot or an apology to a client.

In aerospace this is dead people.

New comment by baz00 in "Apple starts sending 'batterygate' settlement payments"

baz00 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:30:21 +0000

That’s literally what they have done. My iPhone 15 tells me the battery install date, the cycle count, the remaining life estimate and what performance profile it is using which can be overridden.

New comment by baz00 in "Tesla's First Smart Home Partner Is Samsung SmartThings"

baz00 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 20:42:21 +0000

That's two no thank you's in one product!

New comment by baz00 in "Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS"

baz00 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 20:39:19 +0000

Rebuilding this turd with that. Thanks for the info :)

New comment by baz00 in "Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS"

baz00 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:25:51 +0000

It used to be the OS I want. They cut the 10 years LT support to 5 years.

New comment by baz00 in "NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach"

baz00 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:06:28 +0000

I’m not even remotely surprised about this.

New comment by baz00 in "Apple starts sending 'batterygate' settlement payments"

baz00 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 16:03:19 +0000

I think this was done with good intent but could have been handled better. But you can't satisfy anyone these days. All that happens is a YT celebrity does a hit job on Apple and everyone dogpiles on.

Just yesterday I was speaking to someone who was getting fed up of her iPhone 14. She said she'd had it less than a year and it'd been terrible, charged really slowly andw ent slow and she was "going to buy a fucking samsung next time". She let me have a look at it. It was in low power mode and she was using a poundland 5W charger on a chewed up piece of shit cable. Charged it up of my PD powerbank and got her to order an Anker PD charger and a good cable on Amazon and explained what power save mode is.

That's the average user. And when they go looking for solutions they find idiots on YouTube with whole channels devoted to shitting on particular vendors because it's divisive, they get clicks and make money.

On top of this, the woman spends a fortune servicing her Mercedes but will only spend £1 each on a replacement charger and cable. What do you think will happen when her battery craps out?

If Apple tell people that their battery needs replacing some fucker will fire up a video with APPLE GOUGING PEOPLE FOR NEW BATTERIES. Fuck, it's disposable, it's maintenance no different to your car. Take it to the garage and get it swapped out.

New comment by baz00 in "Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal"

baz00 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 12:22:31 +0000

Ok wow I have my mother's old one in the cupboard. Will have to clean it up and test it.

New comment by baz00 in "Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal"

baz00 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 12:21:07 +0000

I dunno their mice are ok. I've got a G203 on the PC and an MX Master 3 on the mac and they are both excellent. The G203 is the best mouse I've used since the MS optical mice.

Only downside is you have to turn all the RGB lights crap off on the G203.

New comment by baz00 in "Thorium – The first browser to score over 600 speedometer points on a Mac M3 Pro"

baz00 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 12:02:35 +0000

Exactly that!

New comment by baz00 in "The Everything NPM Package"

baz00 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 11:21:01 +0000

We have almost buried those.