Hacker News: ciabattabread

New comment by ciabattabread in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

ciabattabread — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:19:04 +0000

Needs some Alanis Morissette background music.

New comment by ciabattabread in "Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year"

ciabattabread — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:52:08 +0000

> The guest only has to deflect the "tough" question a few times and then nothing else happens, they just move on.

How about 12 times? See BBC News’s Jeremy Paxman interview with Michael Howard - https://youtu.be/IqU77I40mS0?si=NpW7cSqi2eXsQt8s

New comment by ciabattabread in "SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades"

ciabattabread — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:42:29 +0000

> This is getting into Sovereign Citizen type reasoning

Getting? The dog whistle is a bullhorn.

New comment by ciabattabread in "SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades"

ciabattabread — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:40:58 +0000

Wow, a lot of words to say you wish you owned slaves. Usually, these types of arguments were cloaked by going after FDR.

New comment by ciabattabread in "Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content"

ciabattabread — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:31:35 +0000

When you tap some of the menu items in the “Saved to iCloud” section, they don’t have the normal grey item highlight that happens with the rest of the settings app.

New comment by ciabattabread in "What went wrong for Yahoo"

ciabattabread — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 02:30:47 +0000

> but the old servers still worked until the AOL outage 2 days ago.

So that explains why my dad's email suddenly couldn't send outgoing messages (the configuration, for years, was outgoing.yahoo.verizon.net with normal password). After what felt like an hour, what worked was changing it to smtp.mail.yahoo.com and using OAuth.

New comment by ciabattabread in "Do not download the app, use the website"

ciabattabread — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 20:37:54 +0000

> Maps: 81 M

Is MapKit considered iOS or Maps?

New comment by ciabattabread in "Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash"

ciabattabread — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:37:23 +0000

I have one of those "annual plan, billed monthly". How the hell do I figure out when I initially signed for it? Along the way, I got two free months for getting a Logitech mouse, does that change my annual month?

New comment by ciabattabread in "'Naive' science fan faces jail for plutonium import"

ciabattabread — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 02:54:38 +0000

> Id like to see a system where judging those who have supposedly done wrong is done almost entirely by the community, not the government. Government/security forces (including police) intervention should be a last resort.

I'm sure all those children abused by priests will agree with you.

New comment by ciabattabread in "Help Identify the Photographer Who Captured Many Images of 1960s San Francisco"

ciabattabread — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:28:15 +0000

I thought we had already solved this mystery, but I was thinking of a different 1960's San Francisco photo archive discovery -- the Kodachrome slides in a cabinet left on a street.[0]

[0] https://sfmemory.org/TiffanyCabinet/

New comment by ciabattabread in "43K fewer drivers on Manhattan roads after congestion pricing turned on"

ciabattabread — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:44:51 +0000

Cold encourages suburbanites to stay in their warm home instead of going on a night out.

New comment by ciabattabread in "43K fewer drivers on Manhattan roads after congestion pricing turned on"

ciabattabread — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:22:01 +0000

It was also really cold in NYC last week.

New comment by ciabattabread in "Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s"

ciabattabread — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:51:01 +0000

Ugh, Packard Bell. Being our first computer, we had no idea that Navigator program was pointless until months after. And I think it was another year before we realized it was capable of true color resolution (It shipped with 256 colors as the default).

New comment by ciabattabread in "Show HN: Kate's App"

ciabattabread — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:22:52 +0000

"Simple" "Safe" "Private": Marketing buzzwords without any proof or a reputation.

No idea who this person is. Could be some 15 year old scammer in Florida. Could be a billionaire heir in London. No contact information. The domain registration is hidden.

What is this "product" solving that is not much different from a shared Google Doc?

New comment by ciabattabread in "Nordstrom family to take company private"

ciabattabread — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:59:30 +0000

They had the failed Canada expansion, but they smelled like roses compared to the crash and burn of Target Canada.

New comment by ciabattabread in "After dropping Apple App Store, Disney+'s revenue dropped by 16% and Hulu by 27%"

ciabattabread — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 02:23:38 +0000

It would be more helpful if the article provided a year-to-year comparison.

New comment by ciabattabread in "Apple Watch with Android"

ciabattabread — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 20:08:31 +0000

Notice the wording - "I decided not to give any more money to Apple years ago". So by his criteria, he's okay.

New comment by ciabattabread in "Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season"

ciabattabread — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:16:02 +0000

I wonder that too. They been doing this for a while now around the big shopping holidays. And yet, I never hear about any major disruptions.

Maybe the union needs to change tactics?

New comment by ciabattabread in "Moon"

ciabattabread — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:13:30 +0000

We used to have those educational multimedia CD-ROMs back in the '90s. Look up Microsoft Encarta 97 on YouTube.

New comment by ciabattabread in "Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy"

ciabattabread — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:56:51 +0000

How much in additional HVAC costs result from having high ceilings though?