Hacker News: f233f2

New comment by f233f2 in "Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024"

f233f2 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 21:40:56 +0000

You can't realiably poll from a mobile phone. Your app may not be allowed to execute any code, let alone make a network request for hours, or maybe forever.

New comment by f233f2 in "Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024"

f233f2 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 21:16:33 +0000

It's like that because mobile clients need cooperation from the server to have push notifications, and you can't have IMAP servers cooperate in that regard :-) so the outlook servers fetch the mail for you and then send you the notifications.

I wouldn't have microsoft read my email either, of course. Thankfully in windows you have dozens of clients to choose from.

New comment by f233f2 in "Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024"

f233f2 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 21:07:02 +0000

Probably because the new outlook can only access microsoft servers, so they synchronise icloud to outlook server-side and you only access outlook client-side.

New comment by f233f2 in "Thunderbird 115.4.0"

f233f2 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:37:06 +0000

Thunderbird is improving so much and so fast since they left Mozilla. I wonder if the same could work for Firefox.

New comment by f233f2 in "Sky Asked Govt. To Target Pirate IPTV Resellers via New Dedicated Police Unit"

f233f2 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:03:52 +0000

You buy IPTV stream passwords (or whatever is used to log in) from some guy and once he knows your card details he can use them for anything else, yes. That's how it works.

New comment by f233f2 in "[dead]"

f233f2 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:04:55 +0000

Title is false. He was selected for additional screening and he doesn't have any proof that it was because of his name. Also he wasn't stopped from boarding the flight, he was just screened more exhaustively than others.

I was expecting better from the BBC... oh wait I wasn't.

New comment by f233f2 in "Spain's efficient high-speed trains have transformed people's lives"

f233f2 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:16:55 +0000

Unfortunately, no, prices haven't dropped for Renfe fares.

Coupled with: https://twitter.com/el_pais/status/1716776148049285585

There clearly is a reason for all of this: they don't want you travelling if you are poor.

New comment by f233f2 in "Spain's efficient high-speed trains have transformed people's lives"

f233f2 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:00:53 +0000

+1, Iryo and Ouigo are recent and they are losing money. Renfe has always been tremendously expensive - more expensive than a car or plane.

These train travel success stories are anti-personal transportation propaganda. They want to push you to using trains and then they will raise the prices - they want you not travelling anywhere if you are poor.

New comment by f233f2 in "Leaving Twitter"

f233f2 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 20:06:22 +0000

The article does not say that he's being forced to engage with dissenting opinions.

New comment by f233f2 in "Off-duty pilot allegedly tried to shut off engines on Alaska Airlines flight"

f233f2 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:29:07 +0000

>Federal officials allege Joseph David Emerson tried to shut down the engines in midflight and had to be subdued by the two pilots.

Why couldn't he? Does it take a long time to press the button, do you need several people to press it at once...?

New comment by f233f2 in "EU Chat Control Bill Postponed"

f233f2 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:26:07 +0000

This is pushed by people in the EU who aren't elected, so the only solution is to lobby for our countries to leave the EU.

New comment by f233f2 in "EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income"

f233f2 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 08:52:04 +0000

Rich people can hire private security. Poor people can't. In terms of raw numbers, law enforcement's job is to protect poor people from other poor people.

New comment by f233f2 in "EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income"

f233f2 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 08:43:10 +0000

Uber drivers are poor people.

New comment by f233f2 in "EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income"

f233f2 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 08:39:35 +0000

Poor people cause much, much, much more work to law enforcement and the judicial system than rich people.

New comment by f233f2 in "EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income"

f233f2 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 08:30:22 +0000

If we are to tax people because they benefit from public services, then poor people should be taxed more than rich people since they benefit from those services more.

New comment by f233f2 in "My website is one binary (2022)"

f233f2 — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 08:48:56 +0000

That website contains

New comment by f233f2 in "Twenty-four hours in an invisible epidemic"

f233f2 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:09:51 +0000

Not to mention forced dark theme is very hard to read for those of us with astigmatism.

New comment by f233f2 in "Windows 11 Pro's On-by-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45%"

f233f2 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:33:41 +0000

It's absurd that this web site is advocating for people to disable bitlocker.

Also there is no source for the 45% figure.

New comment by f233f2 in "Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested"

f233f2 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:15:52 +0000

If he was making such statements (I'm not following this), does that mean that his lawyers were indeed being used by him to pass letters and that this is not propaganda?

New comment by f233f2 in "Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better"

f233f2 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 08:30:39 +0000

Correct.