Hacker News: buggeryorkshire

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Video CDs Break Windows Explorer"

buggeryorkshire — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:06:01 +0000

Most use of VCD I saw was in karaoke, the low res graphics but decent sound worked fine for that - my karaoke DJ mate had hundreds.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "[dead]"

buggeryorkshire — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:56:49 +0000

Jesus this man has issues.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Show HN: I built a free app for New Yorkers to save money on groceries"

buggeryorkshire — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:25:34 +0000

"I built" these days means they ai coded it and have no idea what they're doing. Utter slop.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "BMW iX5 Blows Away the Competition with 460-KW Charging, 435-Mile Range"

buggeryorkshire — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:56:15 +0000

Go look on autotrader in the UK, there's tonnes around that price. Think they had to make room for the 2026 model.

We did the same btw, have a 4 year old Labrador with hip displacia so wanted the estate with the low boot, hence the estate.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "BMW iX5 Blows Away the Competition with 460-KW Charging, 435-Mile Range"

buggeryorkshire — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:38:15 +0000

Cost me £40k for it with 15 miles on the clock. They are definitely having issues shifting them.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages"

buggeryorkshire — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:36:49 +0000

Didn't Google have a previous lawsuit against foundem? Not a fan of Google but foundem were fucking awful.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "BMW iX5 Blows Away the Competition with 460-KW Charging, 435-Mile Range"

buggeryorkshire — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:39:44 +0000

We just bought an Audi A6 Avant Performance which is a year old and about the same spec?

Missus is a BMW person and really wanted another, but they were not competitive. I did a 380 mile journey in it at around 85% battery and it was awesome.

New comment by buggeryorkshire in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

buggeryorkshire — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:06:29 +0000

Having interviewed with them for a SRE role I can definitely see how they are awful. The amount of technical debt is hilarious.

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.