Hacker News: freeAgent

New comment by freeAgent in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"

freeAgent — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:04:03 +0000

If you stop having a period for a few months and then start again, it may be worth buying some location data during that time to see if you were near any medical offices that may have offered illegal abortion services.

New comment by freeAgent in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

freeAgent — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:42:49 +0000

He should have been touching the wheel. Tesla nags you if you don't exert varying force on the wheel, so it's not possible for him to not touch the wheel during the trip unless he was using some sort of defeat device.

New comment by freeAgent in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

freeAgent — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:17:51 +0000

Apple requires notorization for applications outside their store too.

New comment by freeAgent in "OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says"

freeAgent — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:38:22 +0000

This sort of stuff continues to ramp up as everyone rushes to train LLMs while governments are pushing for ID verification that would make it impossible to use the web (or even one's own computer) anonymously. It's a very dark time for anyone who cares whatsoever about privacy or digital sovereignty.

New comment by freeAgent in "Car Seats as Contraception"

freeAgent — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:35:27 +0000

Traveling with kids in car seats via any method other than one’s own vehicle is almost not worth the hassle. I always rent a car and car seat on the other end, or purchase a car seat for family to put in their car for us. I’ve also purchased strollers to stash with the same family. I’d rather buy all this than lug it through airports for “free.”

New comment by freeAgent in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

freeAgent — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:50:49 +0000

It depends on your role. People in sales have it open all the time since it's a legitimate research tool for them.

New comment by freeAgent in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

freeAgent — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:41:36 +0000

They never got Office or any Adobe (or similar) apps working, which is a huge miss.

New comment by freeAgent in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

freeAgent — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:39:58 +0000

I’m sad because the WiFi on my M1 MBA is dying/dead and there’s no way to replace it without swapping the whole “logic board.” Apple also doesn’t support any USB WiFi adapters in recent versions of MacOS, so it’s now tethered to a wired network connection. I’m just waiting for the M5 refresh to hit at this point. Anyway, all that’s to say that at least some M1 hardware is going to to the trash heap soon :(

New comment by freeAgent in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

freeAgent — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:26:09 +0000

I've noticed this as well and it's infuriating. It's extremely unintuitive and I constantly find myself missing the resize zone.

MacUpdater Officially Deprecated

freeAgent — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:43:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.corecode.io/macupdater/#dep

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465853

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by freeAgent in "Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers"

freeAgent — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:12:08 +0000

See Spyware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware

"Programs designed to monitor users' web browsing, display unsolicited advertisements, *or redirect affiliate marketing revenues* are called spyware."

New comment by freeAgent in "What Happened to Abit Motherboards"

freeAgent — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:10:13 +0000

The DFI LanParty UT Ultra-D (Socket A) is my favorite motherboard of all time. It was basically purpose built for overclocking. I got to a stable 250Mhz (500Mhz DDR) on that board and ran it stable like that for years, though I did put an active heatsink/cooler on the northbridge.

New comment by freeAgent in "Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers"

freeAgent — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:59:48 +0000

It actually does fall under the definition malware. Specifically, Honey hijacks affiliate marketing tags and replaces them with their own. This falls under the definition of the “spyware” category of malware.

New comment by freeAgent in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

freeAgent — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:05:13 +0000

Unfortunately, it’s impossible to donate to Firefox development. Donations to Mozilla expressly do not got to pay for Firefox since Firefox is for-profit and they’ve decided to not accept money from users. So I guess we are already “the product.”

New comment by freeAgent in "Affinity Studio now free"

freeAgent — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:37:13 +0000

It would be great to patch the v2 apps into an "offline mode." Then you don't have to worry about maintaining the license servers.

New comment by freeAgent in "Apple M5 chip"

freeAgent — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:11:00 +0000

The original M1 was released in base form before Pro/Max/Ultra variants. I think that pattern may have repeated for M2, but I'm not sure.

New comment by freeAgent in "Apple M5 chip"

freeAgent — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:00:16 +0000

I have a Samsung QD-OLED monitor from 2023 which has very noticeable burn-in at low brightness levels. This is from the era of "OLED burn-in has been solved," and it's soured me on OLED monitors since I do photography as a hobby and don't want burn-in affecting how I see images on my screen. I think it's fine for televisions, but I don't like it for PC use where I have static windows on my screen for a long time. I even used dark mode and still got burn-in pretty quickly, for example where it draws the border between side-by-side windows (so, a vertical line down the middle of my screen). Once I noticed that, I started resizing my side-by-side windows so their border isn't in the same place every day, but the damage is done.

New comment by freeAgent in "Apple M5 chip"

freeAgent — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:40:48 +0000

QA then was taken pretty seriously because, unlike today, they could not just issue a patch over the internet and expect their users to find, download, and install it. Much of the '90s was pre-internet era for many people, and it was certainly before today's world of having auto-updating apps, good search engines, etc.

New comment by freeAgent in "California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing"

freeAgent — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 04:27:03 +0000

Yeah, it's crazy that when you register to vote, the DMV turns around and sells that contact information on to any political campaign/operation that wants to pay for it.

New comment by freeAgent in "Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe"

freeAgent — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:03:24 +0000

My thoughts exactly. This is what Google have promised to implement starting next year.