Hacker News: billysielu

New comment by billysielu in "Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint"

billysielu — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:21:53 +0000

Does Apple pay tax on that 30% to the EU for sales in the EU?

New comment by billysielu in "Kill the Alarm Clock (2017)"

billysielu — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:49:45 +0000

All the other critters manage just fine. People can too.

New comment by billysielu in "Kill the Alarm Clock (2017)"

billysielu — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:12:38 +0000

The sun should dictate when we sleep. Sunrise is nature's alarm clock. Sadly we've messed that up with electric lighting inside and outside.

New comment by billysielu in "Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic'"

billysielu — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:51:56 +0000

I've unsubscribed before only to find myself subscribed to a bunch of similar things instead. Clicking a link confirms your address reaches a person and is therefore worth spamming. Plus the risk of phishing. Plus the dark patterns in the unsubscribe UI.

New comment by billysielu in "Steps For Better Online Privacy"

billysielu — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 08:45:29 +0000

A site about privacy with a cookie approval wall. Couldn't make it up.

New comment by billysielu in "New Microsoft Edge"

billysielu — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:32:28 +0000

Can you use ublock origin on android with edge?

New comment by billysielu in "Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?"

billysielu — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:30:27 +0000

I did it before for weight loss, it worked amazingly, but the weight came back on just as easily. It would have to be a permanent lifestyle change, and I'm not convinced that's safe.

New comment by billysielu in "Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?"

billysielu — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 18:53:46 +0000

Windows because of Windows Updates.

New comment by billysielu in "Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?"

billysielu — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 18:53:01 +0000

Twitch for not moderating chat.

New comment by billysielu in "Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?"

billysielu — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 18:49:45 +0000

Android because 2-3 years of updates is far shorter than the lifespan of the hardware.

New comment by billysielu in "Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?"

billysielu — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 18:48:19 +0000

Amazon Music on Android because every time I open it it shows a full screen ad for their music subscription service.

New comment by billysielu in "Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked"

billysielu — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 10:18:55 +0000

We value your privacy. Accept.

New comment by billysielu in "De-escalating social media conflict"

billysielu — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 07:35:52 +0000

If someone is abusive and you want to tell them that behavior is not acceptable you are also at the same disadvantage.

New comment by billysielu in "Choose Boring Technology"

billysielu — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 10:32:35 +0000

is there a video of this being presented somewhere?

New comment by billysielu in "How to pick a random number from 1-10"

billysielu — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 13:24:38 +0000

It's not random if you're forcing it to be uniform. May as well skip the math and do this instead:

Divide all the people into groups of 10. Have the members of a group play each other at whatever, e.g. arm wrestling, to produce a rank from best to worst. Their rank becomes their answer.

Now everyone will reply with a number as close to uniform as the total number of people is divisible by the number of choices.

New comment by billysielu in "Longest-running oil spill in history releasing more than 4,500 gallons per day"

billysielu — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 21:59:40 +0000

pay/privacy wall, why even bother posting this link...

New comment by billysielu in "Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox"

billysielu — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 12:50:01 +0000

IMO Brave is the best Android browser. Blocks ads by default and performs much better than Firefox.

New comment by billysielu in "Switch from Chrome to Firefox"

billysielu — Thu, 30 May 2019 17:06:00 +0000

I did switch to Firefox and then they broke all extensions so I switched back. Chrome just works better.

New comment by billysielu in "DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts"

billysielu — Mon, 20 May 2019 21:05:11 +0000

I've been through this before and some posts 'came back'. The only way to be sure is to delete your account. If you really want an account just make a new one.

New comment by billysielu in "WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones"

billysielu — Tue, 14 May 2019 08:18:56 +0000

"update the app" is the sum of the advice?

how about telling us how to check if this exploit was used, how to remove the spyware, etc?