Hacker News: favsq

New comment by favsq in "Every Day Is April Fool’s Day Now"

favsq — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 15:50:45 +0000

Before, only people with resources and skills could afford to create fake content. Now everybody can. How is this not an advancement, taking into account you can't take away the ability to create fakes from people with resources?

New comment by favsq in "Meta wants EU users to apply for permission to opt out of data collection"

favsq — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:06:15 +0000

You should configure your browser properly so it doesn't contact 3rd parties while you are browsing.

New comment by favsq in "Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT"

favsq — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 11:56:42 +0000

Is this coming from the same community that has always said that copyright has to be abolished?

New comment by favsq in "Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT"

favsq — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 11:46:52 +0000

In what way does ChatGPT behave like they own the world?

New comment by favsq in "Meta wants EU users to apply for permission to opt out of data collection"

favsq — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:46:49 +0000

Have you considered not using their services if you don't want to pay with your data in exchange for their computing power, data storage, engineering time, etc?

New comment by favsq in "The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained"

favsq — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:43:39 +0000

I tried that and it didn't work for me.

New comment by favsq in "AAD misconfiguration led to Bing.com results manipulation, account takeover"

favsq — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:31:06 +0000

For that price I would just sell it to the Mossad.

New comment by favsq in "Dumb phones are on the rise in the U.S. as Gen Z looks to limit screen time"

favsq — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 20:38:15 +0000

It makes sense because many specialised IoT appliances are 2G-only. At least that's the way it's happening in the EU. For example in Spain 3G will be phased out in 2025 while 2G will be phased out in 2030.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G#Phase-out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G#Phase_out

New comment by favsq in "Dumb phones are on the rise in the U.S. as Gen Z looks to limit screen time"

favsq — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 19:56:30 +0000

Dumbphones are 4G. 4G voice service requires VoLTE but mobile operators have to whitelist phone models, the phone has to have the IMS in the internal database... all in all don't expect VoLTE to work. So voice downgrades to 3G. But 3G is being shut down by many operators and more to come. So voice downgrades to 2G, but 2G has a very low limit of concurrent calls, let's say a few dozen. So it's possible that your dumbphone won't work at all.

New comment by favsq in "Qt Creator 10 Released"

favsq — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 19:24:32 +0000

>One of them is.

None of them I'd say. I'd argue moc is not C++

New comment by favsq in "The new Microsoft Teams, now in preview"

favsq — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:24:46 +0000

I have seen the comparison video and I am unimpressed. A company with the legacy in software development that Microsoft has should be ashamed of how slow both versions load and how jittery everything seems.

It is 2023, how can they find it acceptable that loading is so slow that UI elements appear one by one? That's something I expect from a computer running Windows 95 on a 386DX.

New comment by favsq in "The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks"

favsq — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 07:38:22 +0000

Or you can buy an ICE vehicle and charge to 100% in one minute. Your choice, really.

New comment by favsq in "China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu"

favsq — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 22:08:42 +0000

>The US did not enter a new armed conflict in 2022.

It didn't?

New comment by favsq in "EU Commission doesn't understand what's written in its own chat control bill"

favsq — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:43:12 +0000

The fact that something needs to be done does not mean that this needs to be done.

New comment by favsq in "Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy"

favsq — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:59:52 +0000

galansito?

New comment by favsq in "EU countries approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting cars"

favsq — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:07:26 +0000

oh we are in a covid lockdown. you can't get on this bus!

oh it says here you have emitted a lot of co2 this year. you can't rent this car until next year!

oh you were in an anti-goverment demonstration a few months ago so we know that you are headed to another one. you can't move from your 15-minute city!

you really think these are hypotheticals?

New comment by favsq in "EU countries approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting cars"

favsq — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:38:01 +0000

>Rental cars for the occasional exceptions, ownership for whoever has to use them regularly, that's still basically fine.

I'm really looking forward to the government knowing and controlling where I can go!

New comment by favsq in "I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one"

favsq — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 11:42:36 +0000

Most phones don't allow you to downgrade your version of the OS. Definitely iPhone doesn't.

New comment by favsq in "I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one"

favsq — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 11:39:56 +0000

>Because consider how much time you spend trying to not harm the environment in your free time: shopping for sustainable products, bringing your reusable cup, recycling.

That's saying that people should share your views on politics, which is not rational.

New comment by favsq in "Apple Music Classical"

favsq — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:01:31 +0000

applemusic.apple? why not music.apple? smh