Hacker News: buggeryorkshire

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

buggeryorkshire — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:23:51 +0000

I don't think the clients are open source?

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields"

buggeryorkshire — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:45:58 +0000

That's exactly my memory too, using a tab was second nature and it irked me when I went to gui apps with a mouse and the tab order was wrong, mainly with visual basic apps.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Brands got worse on purpose"

buggeryorkshire — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:59:53 +0000

So glad they called out Solovair as a replacement for Doc Martens.

My first pair of DMs lasted me 7 Glastonbury Festivals - and if you'd ever been there you know the muddy ones are a mare, I average 40000 steps a day at the festival and just trying to lift your feet up in thickening and warming mud is a nightmare. Only threw them as I couldn't bear to clean them.

Next two pairs of DMs after moving the manufacturing to Thailand? Crap. Didn't even last a single festival, soles came apart, waterproofing was non-existent.

Solovair are fantastic. They're using the original tooling in the original DM factory. Expensive but worth it.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "How Does Offline Bitcoin Signing Work Step by Step"

buggeryorkshire — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:01:10 +0000

Yup. Is this post from 2019?

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild"

buggeryorkshire — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:04:23 +0000

My Pixel 8 Pro is more secure than your iOS 18 handset Apple don't care about.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Update Now Warning Issued to All iPhone Users"

buggeryorkshire — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:18:31 +0000

I don't think I've ever something so incorrect.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Russia Bans Roblox"

buggeryorkshire — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:08:28 +0000

I was working at a place in the UK where I only had BPSS but everybody else in the office had top clearance as they worked on military stuff, this was when The Guardian were doing the Snowden stuff.

It was easily the best way of clearing the office for some peace - mention the front page of the newspaper and everybody would lock their laptops, pick up their papers and walk.

From what I can gather the fact you know something you shouldn't, even though it's in the national news, it causes problems when renewing your clearances, so...

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "iPhone Pocket"

buggeryorkshire — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:44:13 +0000

This is actually Apple doing this? What is going on there?

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware"

buggeryorkshire — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:09:30 +0000

It's reliant on a bounty iirc for the server and device side code to be open-sourced. Will be about an hour after that I reckon and I cannot wait to contribute.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Smart Beds Helped Them Sleep on a Cloud. Then the Cloud Crashed"

buggeryorkshire — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:02:52 +0000

"have a buffer of days"

Interesting. So if your product cannot connect to the cloud/subscription, but still works, why is there an issue with it working fully locally?

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Eating capitalism: How our food got hijacked by profits"

buggeryorkshire — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:57:55 +0000

> If you go to Italy there are no mc donald's

Eh? https://www.mcdonalds.it/

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Ford locking basic navigation behind a subscription"

buggeryorkshire — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:12:45 +0000

Really? It's a rounding error. Both are essentially video mirroring protocols with some bidirectional stuff for speed / fuel level etc.

Compare that to the effort made to do your own satnav, or integrate an existing one, then get back to me.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Ford locking basic navigation behind a subscription"

buggeryorkshire — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:08:39 +0000

Good point. Though certainly Google Maps (through AA) lets you download the route in advance so you don't technically need data.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Ford locking basic navigation behind a subscription"

buggeryorkshire — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:47:37 +0000

Toyota want a subscription for AA/CP? For something with a one-time development cost and nothing ongoing after?

Wow.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Ford locking basic navigation behind a subscription"

buggeryorkshire — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:42:26 +0000

The built-in nav is always awful anyway.

My partner replaced her 11 year BMW 5 GT with a new X4 last month. The nav is slow (probably updates the view twice a second) and out of date. I think it needs new roads updating via a USB stick.

The Android Auto and Carplay integration are fantastic though - silky smooth (better than the phone they're coming from) and always up to date.

Who ever uses those built-in things?

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Facebook and Instagram to offer ad-free service in UK for up to £3.99 a month"

buggeryorkshire — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:59:03 +0000

Ad-free, but is it tracking free?

I think we know the answer to that one.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "As many as 2M Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day"

buggeryorkshire — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:33:04 +0000

When I worked for Cisco via an acquisition every single person I knew refused to use Webex in lieu of Google Meet etc

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "An Interactive Guide to Rate Limiting"

buggeryorkshire — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 14:27:53 +0000

Yup, thank you.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "An Interactive Guide to Rate Limiting"

buggeryorkshire — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:43:52 +0000

No mention of CGNAT which caused me many problems at a previous role?

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today"

buggeryorkshire — Thu, 15 May 2025 13:54:48 +0000

We've had issues with Carplay and AA over wired and non wired connections in our motorhome (camper van for you yanks)

So we've got a 5g router with wifi in there - if that's on whilst you're driving the phone, whether iphone or android, will not connect to the headunit so no Carplay / AA.

These things are still extremely buggy which is hilarious considering how long they've been around.

(not to mention losing the connection on both AA and Carplay when going through a toll booth in France)