Hacker News: datapolitical

New comment by datapolitical in "Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents"

datapolitical — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:04:09 +0000

This really is not going to be safe on something like Mac or Windows until it’s built into the OS.

But given how fast agents are moving, I would be shocked if such tools were not already being built

New comment by datapolitical in "Let's Talk About the Bidet, the Bathroom's Best-Kept Secret"

datapolitical — Sun, 11 May 2025 19:16:34 +0000

I’ve always found this YouTube video on Bidets fairly instructive: https://youtu.be/zQx-ZbSQSBM?si=7YB6FYq6xdpH5wn3

New comment by datapolitical in "First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV"

datapolitical — Thu, 08 May 2025 23:49:33 +0000

Illinois does not have party registration.

New comment by datapolitical in "AT&T applies to end obligation to service landlines in California"

datapolitical — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 12:56:53 +0000

And there are internet providers there https://go.silverrapid.com/internet/

New comment by datapolitical in "An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it"

datapolitical — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:08:03 +0000

AirTag data is encrypted with a key that resides only on your devices. It cannot be decrypted by Apple.

New comment by datapolitical in "An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it"

datapolitical — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:01:36 +0000

If your job is paying you to beat up pregnant women, would you still say that it was primarily on the corporation?

People are responsible for their own moral choices.

New comment by datapolitical in "FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provider One Owl"

datapolitical — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:24:15 +0000

Politicians do not use the same companies. There are very specific firms that primarily handle political communications and text messages and phone calls.

And political communications are exempt from CAN-SPAM

New comment by datapolitical in "Hacker mods an M1 Mac mini to receive power over Ethernet instead of AC"

datapolitical — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 08:37:03 +0000

Can you explain

New comment by datapolitical in "Blood–brain barrier opening with ultrasound device in patients with glioblastoma"

datapolitical — Tue, 09 May 2023 07:51:37 +0000

His comment was frank, but it wasn’t insensitive. It’s important to be able to distinguish between those two things.

New comment by datapolitical in "Dad says glitch in ‘Find My iPhone’ app directs angry strangers to his home"

datapolitical — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 20:36:53 +0000

Apple’s location database uses the location of Wi-Fi routers to get proper GPS locations. If someone is spoofing his routers MAC address, then that could fix it.

New comment by datapolitical in "How to participate in Monday’s oral arguments re: Internet Archive"

datapolitical — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 12:00:08 +0000

Someone would spin up a nonprofit and buy the assets and keep it going

New comment by datapolitical in "Alameda County admits tallying error in ranked choice voting"

datapolitical — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 07:25:54 +0000

SF publishes the cast vote record…does alameda not?

With the full CVR it should have been obvious they were fucking up the count, because anyone could replicate it.

New comment by datapolitical in "Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit"

datapolitical — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 01:49:42 +0000

I could see doing this in cargo assuming the planes could land themselves.

But most likely it’s just a negotiating tactic to get a related concession like reduced training hours.

New comment by datapolitical in "AT&T Long Lines – A Forgotten System (2018)"

datapolitical — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 11:00:45 +0000

My grandfather Fred executive produced the see it now broadcast mentioned in the article. It was noteworthy at the time because it was the first time someone showed both coasts of the US at the same time on the same screen, live.

I never knew the tech behind it until now.

New comment by datapolitical in "The “Oscar movie” is dying"

datapolitical — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 05:55:42 +0000

Other way around. See above.

Source: my family is in the Academy

New comment by datapolitical in "Enabling the Future of GitHub's REST API with API Versioning"

datapolitical — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:16:26 +0000

Well, you don’t need the header

New comment by datapolitical in "Ask HN: Why is it so hard to disrupt Ticketmaster?"

datapolitical — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:13:10 +0000

The answer is that Ticketmaster gives 50% of their revenue to the venue, which is a pretty good deal for the venue, so they have every incentive to keep that relationship going

New comment by datapolitical in "Six months as a full time pancreas"

datapolitical — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 08:24:34 +0000

Except type one diabetes is only partially affected by genetics. A woman with type one diabetes has less than a 4% chance of passing it to her child.

The biggest risk right now to our genetic success is overwhelmingly the fact that the people most likely to reproduce are the ones with the least amount of education.

New comment by datapolitical in "USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in 2023"

datapolitical — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 09:51:35 +0000

Depending on the size of the entity. Small organizations qualify for a discount in filing fees.

https://www.uspto.gov/patents/laws/micro-entity-status

New comment by datapolitical in "Show HN: Lunar XDR Brightness control"

datapolitical — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:57:43 +0000

Your software looks amazing, unfortunately I use a Windows computer at work. What’s the best equivalent?