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New comment by coded_monkey in "AI is a technology not a product"

coded_monkey — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:42:43 +0000

I mean, one of the last big things Jobs did was buy Siri and he reportedly saw it as the next big interaction model. Apple just messed it up by letting it get progressively worse ever since.

New comment by coded_monkey in "1.5M GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot"

coded_monkey — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:37:29 +0000

Which was pointed out by a HN user in the comments of that post. This article claims they suddenly found out the same thing through research. Sure.

New comment by coded_monkey in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

coded_monkey — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:28:33 +0000

I hate to be the Apple fanboy but an anecdote is far from “patently incorrect”. Never had any issues with my AirPods with third-party devices.

New comment by coded_monkey in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

coded_monkey — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:16:31 +0000

You are mistaken. Merchants are allowed to round to the nearest 5 cents and you can’t do anything about it (except pay by card). Of course, budget stores like Lidl and Aldi still use them but any other corporation is not going to care.

http://www.nederlandsemunten.nl/Artikelen_over_munten/De_cen...

New comment by coded_monkey in "Show HN: Pooshit – Sync local code to remote Docker containers"

coded_monkey — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:19:01 +0000

There is nothing “industry way” about letting CI automatically deploy your production environment.

New comment by coded_monkey in "Why our website looks like an operating system"

coded_monkey — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:53:31 +0000

I’m interested to hear which country forces a cookie banner for any cookie, because the EU only requires it for tracking cookies and this website does net specify whether it’s used for that purpose.

I’ve created websites with a cookie banner “because it’s required” even though there were no cookies involved. The idea that every website needs a cookie banner is more hurtful than the cookie banners themself.

New comment by coded_monkey in "YouTube is a mysterious monopoly"

coded_monkey — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:05:21 +0000

It took a little while but YouTube has stopped recommending shorts after doing exactly this. They still appear in my subscription feed but it’s less bothersome because they’re from channels I actually watch.

New comment by coded_monkey in "The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android"

coded_monkey — Wed, 14 May 2025 16:53:48 +0000

> As others have also observed, permissions such as MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE have been rampantly abused in the past, often in horrific ways.

The lack of consideration for this point in this thread scares me. The amount of data that can be taken from a device through a permission like this is likely huge and it’s not just about “protecting users from themselves”. I wouldn’t feel safe enabling it for any app, and while syncing all data on the device sounds very useful, it’s a damned if they do, damned if they don’t scenario for Google.