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New comment by ejj28 in "A faster heart for F-Droid"

ejj28 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:17:00 +0000

The cloud isn't the only other option, they could still own and run their own hardware but do it in a proper colocation datacenter.

MinIO developers introduce update stripping community edition of UI features

ejj28 — Mon, 26 May 2025 09:32:18 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1kva3pw/avoid_minio_developers_introduce_trojan_horse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44095612

Points: 16

# Comments: 0

Microsoft's Edit on Windows is a new command-line text editor

ejj28 — Tue, 20 May 2025 13:22:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/669318/microsoft-edit-on-windows-command-line-text-editor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44041327

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by ejj28 in "Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode"

ejj28 — Wed, 14 May 2025 01:46:30 +0000

I think it would end up exactly like the last time they tried that with the mobile-oriented Windows 8. Nothing has changed since then that would make an attempt any easier. Windows has far too much legacy cruft and everything's spread across a dozen different GUI toolkits and design languages. They still haven't even managed to completely eliminate Control Panel after 13 years of trying.

New comment by ejj28 in "DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently"

ejj28 — Sun, 11 May 2025 17:24:42 +0000

"fundamental rights" implies an ideological belief that those rights should exist for all humans, regardless of whether any country recognizes them or not.

New comment by ejj28 in "Worlds first AMD GPU driven over USB 3"

ejj28 — Sat, 10 May 2025 00:10:50 +0000

I think that if the main goal here was speed, they'd just be using Thunderbolt instead of creating this solution that seemingly only uses regular USB3, and I'm very interested to hear how this works exactly.

New comment by ejj28 in "Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball"

ejj28 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 02:07:16 +0000

Considering how much higher-end gaming mice can cost these days, $144 CAD for a niche mouse really isn't that bad in comparison.

New comment by ejj28 in "Small, Light, Robust Phones for a Type 1 Diabetic Child"

ejj28 — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 04:52:13 +0000

They're using it to receive data from the continuous glucose monitor and to run Android APS, which is an open source closed loop 'artificial pancreas' system. Some pumps (like the Tandem T:slim X2) will receive data directly from the CGM, so you technically don't need a phone in that case - but a phone is still useful as it can constantly share blood glucose data with other people (in this case, probably the parents).

New comment by ejj28 in "Ghost artists on Spotify"

ejj28 — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:16:34 +0000

I think this is just Google Assistant being Google Assistant - It's awful at playing music, I've had Google Assistant play remixes, cover versions, or the right song but playing out of a 'Top Hits of x Year' or whatever compilation album instead of the original album.

However, whenever I used Spotify's own voice control via my Spotify Car Thing before they bricked it, it got me the exact song I wanted every single time, so I doubt there's some nefarious scheme on Spotify's part.

New comment by ejj28 in "For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)"

ejj28 — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 15:56:32 +0000

I used to work at a Canadian KFC and it's just like you guessed, occasionally we'd have a special sandwich for sale for a limited time that had strips of bacon on it. Normally we wouldn't have any pork products on the menu, and when we did have bacon I'm pretty sure it was microwaved.

New comment by ejj28 in "Air-Bus Hijacking: Silently Taking over Avionics Systems"

ejj28 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:05:13 +0000

I don't buy that hijacking a plane and disappearing it and covering it all up, in the process generating extreme publicity, is anywhere near a practical method of kidnapping a person or acquiring a "ghost airliner", and it would be an incredibly risky and brazen 'real-world test of the capability'.

New comment by ejj28 in "HP bricks customers laptops with faulty automatic BIOS upgrade"

ejj28 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:52:08 +0000

I really liked my old 2013-era HP Elitebook, but honestly every other HP laptop I've come into contact with (and I used to see a lot at the laptop repair shop I worked at) has just sucked.

New comment by ejj28 in "The NSA advises you to turn your phone off and back on once a week"

ejj28 — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 03:19:14 +0000

Does anyone else feel like this is basically a bunch of nonsense 'advice' designed to lull the public into a false sense of security? Especially considering this is coming from the NSA.

What is any of this supposed to protect against besides potential 0days being used by governments (both foreign and domestic)? It's not like phones are generally extremely vulnerable to the extent that this is necessary, and if you're legitimately under threat of being targeted by someone with access to an arsenal like that of the NSO Group's, this is very weak advice. Not connecting to public wifi and not downloading attachments isn't going to save you when you're hit with a zero-click exploit.

New comment by ejj28 in "Spotify Car Thing will be discontinued"

ejj28 — Thu, 23 May 2024 22:19:12 +0000

The Car Thing is using the same voice control that used to be in the app, it's the only way you could still use their voice control up to now.

New comment by ejj28 in "Spotify Car Thing will be discontinued"

ejj28 — Thu, 23 May 2024 17:45:16 +0000

Hardly an alternative unfortunately.

The biggest benefit of the Car Thing for me was flawless voice control that leagues ahead of Google Assistant, the Car Thing was much more than a screen that showed album art.

New comment by ejj28 in "Spotify Car Thing will be discontinued"

ejj28 — Thu, 23 May 2024 17:40:18 +0000

Really upset by this, I love my Car Thing and the voice control Spotify built into it is second to none - it's quick, always hears me perfectly even with noise in the car, and most importantly, it actually plays what I want it to play.

It seems like it's integrated with my music history, so if I ask it to play a song that I listen to a lot but it has a very common name, it'll still get it right - it's like magic.

Google Assistant is absolute trash in comparison, even on the (rare) occasion that it finds the right song, it's super slow and half the time it won't even start the music. And good luck asking it to play a song that shares a name with a movie, it'll think you're trying to play the movie.

Really disappointed that Spotify is going to stop me from using a piece of hardware that I paid for, and by making me switch to Google Assistant is going to make listening to music in the car hell.

New comment by ejj28 in "Product Roadmap"

ejj28 — Wed, 08 May 2024 01:52:30 +0000

Seems to me like it's not. I rarely hear about it, I've never seen anyone link to a Bluesky post, and it has weird limitations due to it being on top of a new federated protocol (which I still don't understand the purpose of when the internet's already kinda settled on Mastodon/ActivityPub as the go-to for decentralized social media).

Even as they talk now about addressing the stuff that's missing from Bluesky like DMs and videos (which, no wonder it hasn't taken off when those features are absent), it still sounds like even when those features launch, they'll still be subpar. DMs not part of the AT protocol? Did they just not think of DMs when they designed the protocol? And only 90 second videos? Really? In my opinion, Bluesky isn't going to take off if this is the roadmap.

New comment by ejj28 in "Meta Horizon OS"

ejj28 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:42:04 +0000

I think this is at least better than nothing for companies who want to build standalone headsets and not just headsets that are dependent on PCs. Up until now everyone's had to make their own OS and store and hope that people care enough to port over apps and games.

At the very least, this could lead to more high-end standalone headsets being available. Not every 3rd party headset has to be competing with the Quest line of headsets, so the lack of revenue from the store might not matter to some companies.

New comment by ejj28 in "Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python"

ejj28 — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:52:45 +0000

Actually, I'm pretty sure that binaries for Python 3.9 aren't available on Ubuntu 20.04 without adding an apt repository to get them from, so your statement that you "can apt install it" isn't entirely correct in this case - by default, binaries aren't available, and therefore pyenv has to compile Python 3.9.

New comment by ejj28 in "Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages"

ejj28 — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 18:48:34 +0000

This is the only reason I have Yuzu installed - I own Tears of the Kingdom legitimately but the Switch is such a piece of underpowered, overpriced junk that I'll never replay the game on real hardware, when I can instead be playing at 1440p and 60fps with all kinds of enhancements on PC.