Hacker News: corney91

New comment by corney91 in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"

corney91 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:41:50 +0000

Now Chrome can't even remember what addresses you went to more than 90 days ago. It's such a nerfed browser.

New comment by corney91 in "The session you cannot take with you"

corney91 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:14:03 +0000

Tbf to Tailscale they allow any OIDC provider[1]. I wish this was more normalised, then we could have one login everywhere regardless of who hosts it (even if it's yourself).

[1] https://tailscale.com/docs/integrations/identity/custom-oidc

New comment by corney91 in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

corney91 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 06:59:02 +0000

Deezer is the same: set it and forget it once at a platform level.

New comment by corney91 in "British man claims he's unable to watch porn as tattoos confuse age check system"

corney91 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:50:02 +0000

I'm not sure that comparison makes the point you want, here in the UK you already get IDed to buy knives: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sale-of-knives-vo...

New comment by corney91 in "Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks"

corney91 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:11:51 +0000

> And Humble Bundle book collections are DRM free too.

Not all of them. I've had at least one bundle where you redeem it via the Kobo store for DRMed ePubs. Most I've got via Humble Bundle have been DRM-free though.

New comment by corney91 in "GrapheneOS may take legal action against Google regarding Play Integrity API"

corney91 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:49:25 +0000

On GrapheneOS, I have one banking app that works, and one that doesn't because of the linked issue.

Hilariously the message in the app says I can't be signed in because it's detected the phone is "jailbroken/rooted" and I "can still use our mobile site". The phone is not jailbroken or rooted, and using the mobile site on the same "untrustworthy" device is just as risky...

New comment by corney91 in "Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users' permission"

corney91 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:20:50 +0000

That's not the same as consenting to Facebook using their data for whatever Facebook wants.

New comment by corney91 in "Engineer insists Post Office software did a 'good job'"

corney91 — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 06:23:56 +0000

In the UK, the presumption was actually that a machine is operating correctly, which was then reversed in law in 1984 but that was then repealed in 1999. Source: https://davidallengreen.com/2023/09/computer-says-guilty-an-...

New comment by corney91 in "NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching"

corney91 — Tue, 21 May 2024 14:47:35 +0000

Yeah, I think some headsets issue Play when connecting. I had a frustrating moment yesterday on a Macbook:

- I was connected to a video call with Bluetooth headphones.

- It turns out the headphones were also connected to my phone at the same time, because it started ringing via the headphones and I couldn't hear anything on the video call.

- I rejected the call.

- The headphones attempted to resume what I was doing by sending the Play command to the Macbook.

- iTunes then opened covering up my video call window.

- I tried to close with CMD+W, iTunes didn't let me because I wasn't logged in and apparently the login window isn't allowed to be closed by itself.

- I manage to close the iTunes window and try to remember what I was saying on the call.

This was all due to terrible decisions by both Apple and Sennheiser imo.

New comment by corney91 in "Show HN: OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds"

corney91 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:56:07 +0000

I've set the following in Miniflux to stop it deleting things:

CLEANUP_ARCHIVE_READ_DAYS=-1 CLEANUP_ARCHIVE_UNREAD_DAYS=-1

New comment by corney91 in "Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijacked"

corney91 — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:42:46 +0000

Yeah, similarly I use Adguard Home and have this in my upstream config, so I'm hoping I'm safe from this: [/fritz.box/]192.168.178.1

New comment by corney91 in "I figured out how DMARC works, and it almost broke me"

corney91 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:30:33 +0000

> DMARC: Tells other mailservers what to do when the SPF and/or DKIM check fails

It's only "and" in this statement. You can't use DMARC to tell mailservers what to do when only one of them fails, as DMARC passes if at least one passes. The report will say which ones pass or not though.

New comment by corney91 in "Why I use Firefox"

corney91 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:41:57 +0000

FWIW I also use Fennec from F-Droid and I'm getting very slow behaviour and crashes with lots of tabs open (between 10-30). I don't have the theme change or tabs missing though.

I've been meaning to try different Firefox distributions though because switching away from Firefox isn't really an option for the reasons you've stated.

New comment by corney91 in "Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history"

corney91 — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 11:15:11 +0000

> Environmentalists have been some of the more effective lobby groups for locking in fossil fuel use through 1980-2020 when we really should have been transitioning to nuclear power.

If environmentalists are so effective, climate change would have been a higher priority over those decades. It seems likelier to me that there's other, more convincing reasons we haven't rolled out nuclear at a huge scale. For example the following are typically more convincing and applicable to nuclear as well: high costs, high political risk, fossil fuel lobbying.

New comment by corney91 in "My MacBook Setup (the 2024 version)"

corney91 — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 13:58:30 +0000

Thanks! I'll give those a go next time I'm on my work machine.

New comment by corney91 in "My MacBook Setup (the 2024 version)"

corney91 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 21:55:58 +0000

...until you need to close a Finder window and you need to remember to use ⌘W because that can't be quit. Then you need to make sure to ⌘-tab past Finder because it will hang around near the top of recent apps until you've switched to enough other apps to push it to the bottom of the list.

If anyone has a way around this I'd love to hear it, but I think it's basically a side effect of apps being allowed to be open without a window and Finder always needing to run, so seems like an inherent part of the MacOS experience.

New comment by corney91 in "Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs"

corney91 — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:33:35 +0000

DMARC only requires SPF or DKIM to pass, so the mail will pass of it's DKIM signed.

New comment by corney91 in "Scientists simulate backward time travel using quantum entanglement"

corney91 — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 08:30:32 +0000

It's a pretty standard word used in quantum physics.

Source: I did a masters in the subject and remember reading it a lot.

New comment by corney91 in "Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform running Kubernetes and Mesos"

corney91 — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 18:14:02 +0000

Might be a good guess, there's precedent of them changing fundamental techology in a similar timeframe...

2013: "Migrating Uber from MySQL to PostgreSQL"[1]

2016: "Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL"[2]

[1] https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/53683323/migrating-ub...

[2] https://www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/postgres-to-mysql-migration/

New comment by corney91 in "Fairphone 5 review: The most uncompromising repairable phone yet"

corney91 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 09:55:51 +0000

Hey, thanks for the suggestion. I've tried all sorts, from compressed air (useless) to toothpicks (not quite small enough) to thumbtacks (really hard to do carefully). You've reminded me that the other successful tool was a SIM eject tool I found lying around, but even then it's still not reliably charging. It's better with the USB cable one way round compared to the other, which makes me wonder if I've managed to scratch it with the thumbtack.

The irony is one of the main reasons for buying this phone was I didn't want to have to get a new one and transfer everything due to some tiny problem with it. The latest ETA is end of October so I guess I'll wait at least that long before giving up...