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New comment by de6u99er in "Ask HN: Mac users – has Mac-to-Android texting broke for you, since macOS 26.5?"

de6u99er — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:46:07 +0000

If you try to text an Android number from your Mac and the "Send" button is grayed out or the message fails, it usually means a setting called Text Message Forwarding is turned off on your iPhone.

New comment by de6u99er in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

de6u99er — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:55:45 +0000

It's the same issue with Tesla collecting camera feeds through their cars to use it for macbine learning.

Those videos can also be a used to track people. IMHO each Tesla owner sending video data to Tesla's data centers is violating privacy laws!

New comment by de6u99er in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

de6u99er — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:10:31 +0000

That's not correct, at least not here inEurope.

You can disable saving your activity In this case you chat's win't be stored or used.

If you use Gemini through Google Workspace, all chat's won't leave the workspace environment and won't be used for LLM training (as of now).

New comment by de6u99er in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

de6u99er — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:07:28 +0000

That's not correct. If you didable activity your data won't be used. You eon't have daved chats and can inly have one.

New comment by de6u99er in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

de6u99er — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:32:35 +0000

It's very simple. Parents can configure parental controls on their children's devices.

I personally think, Facebook and Twitter need to be taken down because Zuckerberg and Musk are using the ppatform to interfere with politics.

New comment by de6u99er in "GHC now runs in the browser"

de6u99er — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:21:40 +0000

Serious question. Is Haskell still a thing?

New comment by de6u99er in "I have two Amazon Echos that I never use, but they apparently burn GBs a day"

de6u99er — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:16:33 +0000

This is click ait, right?

New comment by de6u99er in "Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos"

de6u99er — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:37:52 +0000

I remember when Facebook hired George Hotz. The idea was to circumvent phone security and privacy settings.

New comment by de6u99er in "Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it"

de6u99er — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:22:11 +0000

So first the data wasn't there, and suddenly it is there. I think the only way to prevent tis in the future is to litigate against those individuals who knowingly lie for a company.

New comment by de6u99er in "The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami"

de6u99er — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:07:07 +0000

I am certain most of Bitnami's engineers don't agree with those decisions.

New comment by de6u99er in "The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami"

de6u99er — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:58:27 +0000

At my last gig I avoided Bitnami container images and Helm charts wherever possible. We (me plus an AWS consultant) used Karpenter Autoscaler, Envoy Gateway API, Gatekeeper OPA, Loki/Prometheus/Grafana Stack, EDB Postgres Operator, ... and deployed all through a single comprehensive terraform script to an EKS cluster. I tried to keep reliance on one single company as low ad possible. I even had a Plan B to replace S3 with MinIO in case the company decided to move to another cloud provider or an On Prem Kubernetes cluster.

My recommendation to everyone is to avoid Cloud Vendor Lock-In from the start, and even if it's more initial work, to try to have as much as possible running on Kubernetes.

New comment by de6u99er in "Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year"

de6u99er — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:40:14 +0000

The fish rots from the head down.

New comment by de6u99er in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

de6u99er — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:08:16 +0000

>However, developers who appreciated the anonymity of alternative distribution methods will no longer have that option.

Don't be evil Google!

New comment by de6u99er in "Paracetamol disrupts early embryogenesis by cell cycle inhibition"

de6u99er — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:20:32 +0000

Can the effects of a drug on the body be reversed after a person stops taking it?

New comment by de6u99er in "Romhack.ing's Internet Archive Mirror No Longer Available"

de6u99er — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 23:47:06 +0000

Blog post says at the bottom: >We are open to alternative solutions and support on the matter.

New comment by de6u99er in "Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky"

de6u99er — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:36:46 +0000

Since I started reporting them ad "Unwanted sexual content" I am seeing significantly less half naked persons desperately begging for sttention. But there's still the issue of all the comic and manga crap labeled as art. Bluesky needs to correctly identify and relabel those as comics and manga.

Would be nice if others would report them too, because there are kids on BlueSky and they don't need to see their uncles/aunts or neighbors sticking their butt into a camera.

New comment by de6u99er in "The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]"

de6u99er — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:25:55 +0000

>He mentioned that he does not want people to nag him about it and that “It's brought up every single year, I'm hoping this is the last ”. Finally putting an end to a 13 year old mystery.

Ouch

New comment by de6u99er in "Left to Right Programming"

de6u99er — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:06:32 +0000

You can always start with the FROM clause and then add the SELECT clause above it if it's a out auto-,completion.

I usually start with: ``` select * from

as limit 5 ```

New comment by de6u99er in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

de6u99er — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:40:11 +0000

That's great. How does Whisper compare to Google Gemini's transcription capabilities?

New comment by de6u99er in "Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings"

de6u99er — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:37:37 +0000

Thank you for sharing! This is one of the coolest articles I have seen in a while on HN. I did some searches and I think the search results looked very useful so far. I particularly loved about your article that most of the questions I had while reading got answered in a most structured way.

I still have questions:

* How long do you plan to keep the live demo up?

* Are you planning to make the source code public?

* How many hours in total did you invest into this "hobby project" in the two months you mentioned in your write-up?