Hacker News: fizwidget

New comment by fizwidget in "Safari Technology Preview 248 Released"

fizwidget — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:28:30 +0000

In iOS at least, it tells you in Settings > Safari > Extensions. E.g. if I tap into one of the AdGuard ones I see:

“"AdGuard — General" does not have permission to read or transmit content from any web pages.”

Ones that have more permissions will say so.

New comment by fizwidget in "PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)"

fizwidget — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:30:44 +0000

The timing surely is due to Sony’s recent announcement that they’re retiring physical media.

New comment by fizwidget in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

fizwidget — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:51:28 +0000

To be fair there are examples of freeform text tags in OpenStreetMap already, e.g. “description”.

New comment by fizwidget in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

fizwidget — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:47:35 +0000

Affiliate links being included in the app, despite community objections? The lead dev using donations to pay for holidays? Those are a couple that come to mind.

New comment by fizwidget in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

fizwidget — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:30:11 +0000

Unless I’m mistaken they both ultimately use OpenStreetMap data. So, effectively the same coverage of trails.

AllTrails has its whole review system sitting on top of course.

New comment by fizwidget in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

fizwidget — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:56:41 +0000

The discussion is not just about online multiplayer games though, it’s about games in general. There is no good reason why buying a singleplayer offline game need be a “service”.

New comment by fizwidget in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

fizwidget — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:38:25 +0000

They said “can”, not “has”. Given that it’s a closed platform that Sony has complete control over, they certainly can do it.

You can doubt that they will, but that’s just hope rather than a legal or technical guarantee.

New comment by fizwidget in "Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see"

fizwidget — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:26:29 +0000

It’s not quite that detailed but iOS’s builtin “app privacy report” does give a fair amount of info, including a list of domains accessed.

New comment by fizwidget in "Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see"

fizwidget — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:20:53 +0000

Because 99% of apps would request it & not function without it, desensitising users into blindly accepting it. Most apps do have a legitimate reason for accessing the internet, so a binary yes/no wouldn’t achieve much anyway.

I just don’t think it’s an effective way of solving the problem.

New comment by fizwidget in "There are no instances in ATProto"

fizwidget — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:27:41 +0000

This blog does a great job of explaining the architecture. In practice though I’d thought the “problem” was that Bluesky (the corporation) runs the main app and hosts almost all of the user data.

So at the protocol level it’s decentralised, but in practice the system is still very centralised (in terms of who controls it).

Not saying this is necessarily Bluesky’s fault, but it’s how things have played out so far right?

New comment by fizwidget in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

fizwidget — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:53:11 +0000

I still use smart playlists in Apple Music. Your comment seems to imply they removed that functionality?

New comment by fizwidget in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

fizwidget — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:26:36 +0000

Even on an iPhone you can back up your library to Google Photos or other services. You just can’t do so directly through Apple’s Photos app.

New comment by fizwidget in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

fizwidget — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:50:12 +0000

In my experience iOS 26.4 did largely fix it btw. Update if you haven’t already.

New comment by fizwidget in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

fizwidget — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:47:28 +0000

What? Apple support their phones for a very long time. I got 8 years out of my previous iPhone.

New comment by fizwidget in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

fizwidget — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:22:00 +0000

You can assign the action button to run a shortcut, which opens up thousands of possibilities for what it can do.

New comment by fizwidget in "Bugs Apple loves"

fizwidget — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:28:38 +0000

Surely that’s by design? If stopping the alarm was “easy”, a half-awake person could accidentally stop it rather than snooze it.

New comment by fizwidget in "Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?"

fizwidget — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:29:29 +0000

It opens the door to tech-illiterate users being tricked into disabling security features, doesn’t it? Not saying I agree with it but I imagine that’s the motivation.

New comment by fizwidget in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

fizwidget — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:25:55 +0000

No, I’ve downloaded the entire library to a new Mac. It worked fine.

New comment by fizwidget in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

fizwidget — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:03:42 +0000

That doesn’t sound right. My photo library is larger than my iPhone’s storage yet downloads fine on my Mac. Just need to make sure “optimise storage” is enabled on the iPhone and disabled on the Mac.

Once everything’s downloaded on the Mac, you can either export through the Apple Photos menu or just copy the “originals” directly from the Photos bundle.

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

fizwidget — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:08:21 +0000

The ban is being enacted by the Australian Labor Party, which the Murdoch media is certainly not friendly with. If it ends up favouring Murdoch, it won’t have been deliberate.