Hacker News: craftyguy

New comment by craftyguy in "FCC Closes Robocall Loophole"

craftyguy — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 22:13:08 +0000

that might be the "Court's job", but that doesn't mean they will be doing their job without extreme personal/political bias that allows them to bend the lens to their liking.

They are 100% reacting to people's wishes, even if CWuestefeld thinks they are not.

New comment by craftyguy in "FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware"

craftyguy — Thu, 19 May 2022 14:24:58 +0000

> Do you want privacy on your phone?

lol. There is no privacy on your phone if you have Google's spyware on it. So your point is complete bullshit.

New comment by craftyguy in "Google's most ridiculous trick to force users into adding phone number"

craftyguy — Tue, 03 May 2022 19:17:02 +0000

> The only solution I can see is buying a burner phone to avoid these situation

Or, you know, stop fucking using google.

New comment by craftyguy in "Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources"

craftyguy — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 23:43:21 +0000

Meh. He's not the only person on Earth pushing for a Mars mission.

> I can bet car manufactured will return to same-old same-old in no time.

I'd bet against you. Not sure if you noticed, but gasoline prices are skyrocketing. This isn't the first time this century and it definitely won't be the last time. EV will happen whether musk autopilots his way into a highway median or not.

> scapegot in one of the political fights and get "cancelled".

Maybe you shouldn't "cancel" your spellcheck.

New comment by craftyguy in "Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources"

craftyguy — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 23:37:25 +0000

> He's already said that he'd follow all local laws so it would be interesting to see if he can find the elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to shout down those not our your "side".

At least in the US, there is no law that says non-government things have to offer "free speech" to customers. Womp womp.

New comment by craftyguy in "EFF: Twitter Has a New Owner. Here’s What He Should Do"

craftyguy — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 23:33:14 +0000

> This is after we had CORPORATE control of twitter (which they apparently applaud)

... they aren't aplauding it. They are offering suggestions now that twitter is under new ownership, since the previous owners were inept. It's likely that musk is equally inept (or worse.)

New comment by craftyguy in "I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed"

craftyguy — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 21:05:43 +0000

As someone why buys a lot of cycling parts online, there are many mom/pop bike shops with web storefronts, that are very reasonably priced and often include "free" shipping. Stop giving bezos your money, you have no excuse.

New comment by craftyguy in "I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed"

craftyguy — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 21:04:23 +0000

> I was blown away that Amazon would transfer me to a scammer

You shouldn't be. The amazon store's core business model is allowing scammers to sell garbage to unsuspecting buyers.

New comment by craftyguy in "Soviet Military Maps of North America and UK"

craftyguy — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 07:49:38 +0000

canada isn't even in the top 10 countries with the smallest population density: https://wikiless.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies...

New comment by craftyguy in "Bob Saget has died"

craftyguy — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 04:18:44 +0000

you don't need to go to shitter... it's right there in the article (that you and OP read... right?? lol...)

New comment by craftyguy in "Switching to Windows"

craftyguy — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:30:33 +0000

All of that 'telemetry' collection isn't free. OS choice definitely matters, some OS vendors will insist on default sevices and 'require' the ability to arbitarily enable more for you as they see fit over time.

You don't own your PC running windows, microsoft does.

New comment by craftyguy in "U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings time permanent"

craftyguy — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 17:39:05 +0000

The text of the bill hasn't been submitted yet, so we don't know what 'other purposes' is.

So in typical 'hacker' 'news' fashion, this has been upvoted based purely on title alone!

New comment by craftyguy in "U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings time permanent"

craftyguy — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 17:37:39 +0000

> unpopular opinion - I like daylight savings.

lol. the title is literally about making DST permanent. What's 'unpopular' about that?

New comment by craftyguy in "Why FSF Endorsing PureOS Matters"

craftyguy — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:35:27 +0000

They mean 'free' as in freedom, not 'free' as in beer. There's a (huge) difference.

New comment by craftyguy in "Show HN: Slyde – A new privacy-focused general social network"

craftyguy — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 21:49:40 +0000

They're so focused on privacy, they only tested it on a browser that spews 'telemetry.'

New comment by craftyguy in "Show HN: Slyde – A new privacy-focused general social network"

craftyguy — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 21:47:50 +0000

It appears to be another silo for (as the 'owner' put it elsewhere) reducing 'complexity' (i.e. mastadon is too hard because users have to choose an instance). Instead they want you to use their walled garden. It's a bit silly to claim any focus on privacy when you still have to absolutely trust one group of random people on the internet with no option to host it yourself, etc.

New comment by craftyguy in "RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub"

craftyguy — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 19:33:21 +0000

I don't feel sorry at all for Microsoft. They have a long history of harassing developers (e.g., [1]. It's nice to see them bear some of that for once.

1. https://www.infoworld.com/article/2676459/microsoft-sues-lin...

New comment by craftyguy in "Almost half of all jobs lost during pandemic may be gone permanently"

craftyguy — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:18:41 +0000

The title doesn't mention feelings or thoughts, so I have no idea what you are going on about. OP is correct, this title this title tries to masquerade opinion as fact, and is total misleading clickbait.

New comment by craftyguy in "The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider"

craftyguy — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 17:32:13 +0000

Society generally gets more out of research than a bunch of gainfully employed physicists.

New comment by craftyguy in "How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)"

craftyguy — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 17:29:09 +0000

They didn't say 'all', they said 'many'. So your one example doesn't 'beg to differ' much in the way of OP's point.