Hacker News: blakes

New comment by blakes in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

blakes — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:38:40 +0000

Am I crazy? MSFT has was up about 100% in the prior three years before 2023 as well, and again for the three years before that.

AI has had very little to do with MSFT growth. Pretty sure the 2023 lows were a response to the massive AI spending, and the recovery mostly due to continued Azure services growth.

New comment by blakes in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

blakes — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:02:04 +0000

I don't think MS value has been inflated by AI, if anything it's value has decreased from it's AI investments. MS has mostly been on it's same growth path for the last decade.

New comment by blakes in "ABC News hacks into popular robot vacuum, watches owner through camera"

blakes — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:17:50 +0000

The auto-empty is absolutely worth it. If you want to be very thrifty, get an i7+ from eBay, or a refurbished J5/J7.

New comment by blakes in "How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”"

blakes — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:41:36 +0000

Things like this have been done before: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/12/zwift-uci-cheating-astou...

New comment by blakes in "The rise of the disposable car"

blakes — Wed, 29 May 2024 20:56:20 +0000

There is probably no transmission in a US road car that can be replaced for $500 in labor at an auto shop. Your buddy or some rando may do it, but no shop will for that price. Typical shop rate is $120-$220/hour. Most shops are going to charge a minimum of 4 hours, but probably closer to 8 hours. Have you ever been under a car? The amount of "automation" required to replace a transmission is still in the arena of science fiction.

New comment by blakes in "Xemu: Original Xbox Emulator"

blakes — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 18:04:32 +0000

Out of all the og Xbox games, Kung Fu Chaos provided the most fun and laughs with friends. It honestly still holds up gameplay wise. I still play it sometimes. The minigames were the best.

New comment by blakes in "Spoofing DNS records by abusing DHCP DNS dynamic updates"

blakes — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:18:03 +0000

That's true of DNS, not DHCP. One has to specifically install the DHCP role in a new AD domain.

New comment by blakes in "New Microsoft Exchange zero-days allow RCE, data theft attacks"

blakes — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 23:43:09 +0000

Yeah this is completely unrelated to Teams.

Exchange is actually still fairly prevalent, even among smaller companies. Although many of the smaller orgs that still have on-prem Exchange tend to have a migration plan to M365.

New comment by blakes in "Toyota recalls nearly 1.9M RAV4s to fix batteries that can cause a fire"

blakes — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 19:08:59 +0000

Gonna be the Dunlop Grandtrek PT20, which are terrible tires.

New comment by blakes in "Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users"

blakes — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 03:42:57 +0000

Just so everyone is aware, ReviOS disables the Spectre and Meltdown mitigations, virtualized based security, Windows Defender, turns off and hides the ability to use Windows Update (no future security updates), disables Bitlocker, etc. Many of the performance improvements come from disabling security mitigations/processes. Just something to be aware of. I think all of these settings can be re-enabled through their Revision Tool https://github.com/meetrevision/revision-tool.

New comment by blakes in "NIST Privacy Framework"

blakes — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:08:59 +0000

With NIST frameworks, one needs to explore a bit. Here are some of the stakeholders:

https://www.nist.gov/privacy-framework/request-comment

And here is the PDF that should answer all of the other questions you have:

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/CSWP/NIST.CSWP.01162020.pd...

New comment by blakes in "EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service"

blakes — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 22:08:19 +0000

In the Windows world one would just get a 25Gb NIC and be good to go.

* and supporting network equipment/cabling of course

New comment by blakes in "Current MFA fatigue attack campaign targeting Microsoft Office 365 users"

blakes — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 23:12:39 +0000

I have a lot of experience managing O365/Azure, and these issues all come down to the config of MFA in the O365/Azure tenant. They may even be intentional for "security" purposes.

To be fair, O365 and Azure change all the time. I've seen these issues on neglected O365 tenants, usually MFA was setup years ago and never touched again.

New comment by blakes in "Current MFA fatigue attack campaign targeting Microsoft Office 365 users"

blakes — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 20:01:41 +0000

Sounds to me that MFA is not setup correctly for you or the Azure tenants you are logging into.

New comment by blakes in "Apple Music is the last library focused music service"

blakes — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:43:59 +0000

I miss GPM so much. No one I know in person knew it existed, yet they still get to listen to my rants about Google killing the one true music service.

I too have been finding music discovery difficult since GPM shutdown. YouTube Music is getting better at discovery fortunately, but I'm not finding multiple new albums/artists per week, more like 1-2 new albums or artists every couple weeks.

One of my favorite GPM features was the "concerts in your area", that is the only way I knew that some artists were coming through my city. It was one of the last features they added. The new album release feature was fantastic as well, although YTM has it now and it works pretty well.

Also, GPM would cache music locally on your device as you played it. If you were offline, you could just display explicitly downloaded music along with the cached music, it was the best for driving through the mountains or flights. If you were playing a playlist, it would cache multiple songs ahead of the current song, sometimes I'd get 30 minutes out of service before the music would stop.

I'll probably complain about the death of GPM for many more years.

New comment by blakes in "Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones""

blakes — Thu, 20 May 2021 20:50:56 +0000

Back in the before times, taxi drivers knew how to navigate a city just by memory. Give them an address and they'd probably know how to find it.

Most likely this app was not navigation. Remember, feature phone, probably had less than a couple hundred MB of memory for the entire device. I assume the app would just give the taxi driver address details and what not.

New comment by blakes in "Degoogling My Life"

blakes — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:18:31 +0000

When people say "I've nothing to hide", I usually say it's just like closing the curtains over the windows of your house. You may have nothing to hide, but you still want privacy. It makes sense to most people right away.

I don't remember, but it may have been Snowden that said something like that in one of his early interviews.

New comment by blakes in "Corporate networks weren't designed for working from home"

blakes — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 23:33:17 +0000

Split-tunnel has solved all of our bandwidth and performance issues, and it's so easy.

New comment by blakes in "AMD Launches 12 Desktop Renoir Ryzen 4000G Series APUs: But You Can’t Buy Them"

blakes — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 15:48:37 +0000

If you've got the setup for rackmount, the Dell R7515 has PCIe4, but not 3200MHz memory support I think.

New comment by blakes in "Why we listen to new music"

blakes — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:45:28 +0000

I miss Grooveshark, it's radio feature brought me so much amazing music.

Surprisingly, Youtube Music has pretty decent music discovery in the form of it's radio feature, sort of like Grooveshark.

I wish they would combine Google Music's functionality and organization with Youtube Music's discover-ability and expanded library.