Hacker News: bgorman

New comment by bgorman in "Framework Laptop 12 press reviews are live and Framework Laptop 13 in-stock"

bgorman — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:14:13 +0000

I would have bought a Framework laptop but here were the dealbreakers - Ancient Intel processors - AMD option seemed to be accompanied by broken wifi

It's not that hard. Just provide a single modern option that just works. I don't want to troubleshoot device drivers in my spare time.

New comment by bgorman in "Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation?"

bgorman — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:27:17 +0000

Web Attestation, cryptography to the rescue.

New comment by bgorman in "iMessage, explained"

bgorman — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 17:38:08 +0000

My prediction is that Apple will start to use attestation (device check) to lock down iMessage. The problem is that this would require a software update for older devices.

New comment by bgorman in "A LLM+OLAP Solution"

bgorman — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:51:51 +0000

What is an example of a "semantic layer" in this context.

New comment by bgorman in "Arpchat – Text your friends on the same network using just ARP"

bgorman — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 22:34:05 +0000

It is also possible to configure device IP addresses directly with ARP https://jetdirect.printerdepo.com/en/hp-jetdirect-print-serv...

New comment by bgorman in "Safari 17 Link Tracking Protection"

bgorman — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 13:54:07 +0000

I don’t want these features. This will inevitably break certain experiences. Some features like query parameters are part of HTTP and shouldn’t be tampered with.

New comment by bgorman in "Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA"

bgorman — Tue, 23 May 2023 18:08:04 +0000

The current Broadcom is actually a spin-off from HP. This spin-off (Avago) has been on a massive mergers and acquisitions spree over the last decade. This culminated with Avago buying Broadcom and renaming itself to Broadcom.

Some of the crappy Wifi+BT chipsets that were sold under broadcom were actually sold off to another company, Cypress Semiconductor.

New comment by bgorman in "Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used"

bgorman — Mon, 22 May 2023 14:26:26 +0000

You are not able to use it until it is empty. You are paying for X pages a month. If you have printed X pages, you need to pay more.

You don't need to use the subscription model to use a printer, you can use regular cartridges.

New comment by bgorman in "Ignore Microsoft’s whines about the Activision takeover. The CMA did its job"

bgorman — Mon, 01 May 2023 15:37:27 +0000

I think this will ultimately result in more and more companies bypassing the UK. The CMA has proven to make arbitrary decisions unrelated to real competition concerns. While the EU is a large enough market for now, the UK could potentially just be skipped. All European markets are fading into irrelevancy, if the UK decided to be extra difficult to operate in, it will just accelerate its decline.

New comment by bgorman in "UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal"

bgorman — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:37:02 +0000

The logic doesn't make sense, and Microsoft also doesn't have a market power advantage here.

The Xbox Series X/S has been a bit of a boondoggle and Sony is vastly outselling Microsoft this generation. Not to mention the existence of Nintendo, Valve and other PC gaming stores. The argument that this would weaken competition for gaming consoles is laughable.

Sony and Nintendo have exclusive games to gain an advantage. Now an American company wants to do the same thing, and they are blocked.

American companies are being put at a competitive disadvantage due to ridiculous anti-trust interpretations. Basically the CMA and FTC are trying to prevent any American tech company from acquiring another tech company for political points at home. How did we get to this point?

It is extremely dangerous to throw logic out the window, as this results in bureaucrats picking winners and losers.

New comment by bgorman in "I Wrote an Activitypub Server in OCaml: Lessons Learnt, Weekends Lost"

bgorman — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:12:13 +0000

Ocaml code compiles to native binaries, just like Go/Rust.

New comment by bgorman in "Germany begins powering down its last three nuclear plants"

bgorman — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 21:11:30 +0000

Propoganda for childen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Wolke

New comment by bgorman in "Data wrangling in Elixir with Explorer, the power of Rust, the elegance of R"

bgorman — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:36:54 +0000

What is the rationale for using a programming language runtime designed for distributed computing for local data analysis?

New comment by bgorman in "Lindows 4.0 (2003)"

bgorman — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 01:29:58 +0000

What was wrong with KDE3? I never used 2 but I was very happy with 3

New comment by bgorman in "Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design"

bgorman — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 01:22:18 +0000

Much longer. At least since 2014.

https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/intel/7912-...

New comment by bgorman in "Airbnb Is Banning People Who Are ‘Closely Associated’ with Already-Banned Users"

bgorman — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 17:08:31 +0000

AirBnB is a terrible platform for users.

Recently a host charged me a cleaning fee, left me a negative review about not cleaning. I requested that the cleaning fee be refunded, since it was clearly fraudulent. AirBnB declined to refund the cleaning fee. I will never use them again.

I wonder what can be done to prevent companies like AirBnB, PayPal from becoming so user-hostile over time.

New comment by bgorman in "Airbnb nightly rates shot up 36% in 3 years"

bgorman — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:41:33 +0000

I had a similar experience. Airbnb still has not refunded me, and the negative review is still online.

I doubt I will get a refund. But I will certainly never use airbnb again.

New comment by bgorman in "Stripe sets one-year timetable to decide on going public"

bgorman — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 18:50:56 +0000

Wouldn't it be good for the company to let these RSUs expire? How does it benefit the company to make sure these exercise?

New comment by bgorman in "I tried Paragon's ntfs3 and it didn't go well"

bgorman — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 19:20:47 +0000

If only a certain Redmond, Washington company that "loves linux" would be willing to spare a developer for this popular filesystem...

New comment by bgorman in "First LNG tanker arrives at Germany's new floating terminal"

bgorman — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 18:42:56 +0000

Russia has the most nuclear weapons of any country, the largest airborne assault force in the world, the best missile defense system in the world, the second most nuclear submarines (and second best), the third most fighter aircraft, the most tanks.

Russia has a great domestic arms industry/natural resources and can resupply itself in isolation.

People need to realize that Russia's defense is primarily setup to defend its borders.

Any country other than the US would not fare well in a nuclear war with Russia, including China.

China hasn't been at war since the 70s. No one knows how well they would do in a conflict.

You simply cannot ignore nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are a great equalizer, that is why North Korea cannot be invaded from South Korea, despite South Korea having a much better "conventional" military.