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New comment by butlike in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

butlike — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:31:06 +0000

Ahh I see. Thanks.

New comment by butlike in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

butlike — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:30:23 +0000

From a technological standpoint, sure. I'd argue when you're staring down the barrel of 19,234 duplicate file deletions, with names like `image01.jpg`, `image02.jpg` instead of `happy_birthday.jpg`, there's a level of perceptual cognitive trust there that I just can't provide.

New comment by butlike in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

butlike — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:28:00 +0000

Ahh but there's the rub. If I buy the software one time, I never have to think about it again and I never have to add it to a spreadsheet/peripheral software.

New comment by butlike in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

butlike — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:24:56 +0000

Better is 'longer lasting and less disposable.'

Your comment got me thinking about if technology is actually better, but that's a whole new discussion. We wouldn't need the fireproof furniture if we all used the local sweat lodge for bathing or the mess hall yurt for cooking. We wouldn't need wind-resistant clothing if we didn't make personal rockets that go 200mph to travel long distances to arrive at the same amenities (just in a different city).

New comment by butlike in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

butlike — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:19:26 +0000

It seems to me you're advocating for waste, as I'm not seeing the "plenty of reasons why completely disposable cheap clothing isn't a bad thing" argument.

Replacing shoes wasn't necessary because there were cobblers. For clothing; tailors. I'd much prefer to get a set of clothing, then work with it over the course of its lifetime, over sending it to the landfill after one tear.

New comment by butlike in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

butlike — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:53:08 +0000

So now the ancillary question from your example is: "Is hand-spun cotton better than industrialized polyester?"

New comment by butlike in "Caffeine, cocaine, and painkillers detected in sharks from The Bahamas"

butlike — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:24:25 +0000

One. Job.

New comment by butlike in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

butlike — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:20:36 +0000

It's not the idea, it's the implementation. It still takes time and effort to reverse-engineer, LLM assistance or not.

New comment by butlike in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

butlike — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:19:14 +0000

Who maintains the list of all of these a la carte subscriptions? Your credit card company? Seems like a pain to have to review it every month and discern the service from the ACH transaction name. Additionally, it would be a reactive approach, as you would already need to be charged for the month you didn't want in order for it to show up on the ACH ledger.

I don't have a problem with paying subscriptions, I have a problem with the subscription list itself becoming untenable.

New comment by butlike in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

butlike — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:16:50 +0000

The issue I have with UI replacements is that I now have a dependency that MUST be installed, otherwise I have to learn how to UX again from scratch. If I ever get a new Mac, I now MUST install boringBar, otherwise it will be like learning a new OS workflow, akin from switching from Mac to Windows. If Apple ever updates anything to where the plugin would stop working, I now need to do the same adaptation. It's fun for a while to do things like this, but in my older computing age, I can't bear the cognitive effort, so I tend to just use mostly-default UI.

New comment by butlike in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

butlike — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:07:49 +0000

The path is different than the filename though. If I want to find duplicates, it will be impossible if the filename changes. In my use case

/User/user/Images/20240110/happy_birthday.jpg

and

/User/user/Desktop/happy_birthday.jpg

are the same image.

New comment by butlike in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

butlike — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:05:35 +0000

I'm not sure I follow. maps.google.com still resolves?

New comment by butlike in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

butlike — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:12:03 +0000

It's one of those topics that's evergreen for a perennial article. If there's a slow month of ad revenue, just write up a "Who is Satoshi" article, end it with "we may never know" and collect the paycheck. Honestly, I expected better from the NYT.

New comment by butlike in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

butlike — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:52:46 +0000

I've always assumed it was Hal Finney, the first recipient of bitcoin from Satoshi, who died of cancer. I mean, if your new creation shakes out, you have a way to pay your hospital bills. Also I feel the only person who wouldn't be tempted to withdraw the money would have to be the dead creator of the coin/protocol.

New comment by butlike in "Afrika Bambaataa, hip-hop pioneer, has died"

butlike — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:41:47 +0000

Should they ban Mein Kampf?

New comment by butlike in "Afrika Bambaataa has died"

butlike — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:41:03 +0000

Is TikTok how the practice of censoring one's own swears came about? I've seen it on a lot of social posts and have been wondering. Besides it being hokey (why use the word to then immediately self-censor), it also instantly dates the poster as someone too new to the world to be able to make an interesting post. That last part is just an opinion, though.

New comment by butlike in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

butlike — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:50:05 +0000

What a world that would be. Would change the game of 'deer hunting' for sure.

New comment by butlike in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

butlike — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:45:48 +0000

So it will reach equilibrium unless literally anything disrupts that equilibrium. Got it.

New comment by butlike in "The Importance of Being Idle"

butlike — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:12:42 +0000

Less phone usage makes for less phone usage. It gets easier. Now I don't particularly care what the messages are if they come outside of my designated "message checking time."

Anecdotally, I'd give it 3 months of "reduced phone usage mindfulness." For further reading, check out the wikipedia article on ∆FosB expression, which is a gene expression which essentially tells your body to keep doing things that release dopamine. It takes about 3 months for the ∆FosB expression to decay.

New comment by butlike in "The Importance of Being Idle"

butlike — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:39:09 +0000

Perpetual Do Not Disturb is a better stopgap