Hacker News: gabeio

New comment by gabeio in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

gabeio — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:41:07 +0000

> Until siri can reliably handle "Navigate to ", offline and using pre-downloaded maps

Yeah, that's unfortunate considering you can have it do nearly all of that (download maps, navigate to business all while offline), except asking siri to do it for you.

> I once had a car that hid the backup cam behind a legal disclaimer every time you turned it on.

My car pops up a dialog telling me (in a paragraph+) to pay attention while in semi-autopilot which I have to click "ok" on to get back to the map. It's very ironic, and extremely dangerous.

New comment by gabeio in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

gabeio — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:09:38 +0000

Those are the only two options to finding quality candidates?

Try talking more about the meta of coding itself. Get into the developers head by _talking_ to them and understanding how they would approach and attack different problems. You can show them code and ask them what they would do differently / how they would go about implementing X-Y-Z. Just because you can write foobar doesn't mean you understand how to apply algorithms or w/e specific problems [your] team has. It's _far_ better to understand how they would solve a problem over their syntax anyway.

New comment by gabeio in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

gabeio — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:02:08 +0000

I believe they are referencing the person who wrote the program, not the name itself.

New comment by gabeio in "Let’s Encrypt: Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident – Resolved"

gabeio — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:11:45 +0000

> This is a compliance incident

Uh. I don't know if I like the sound of that...

New comment by gabeio in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

gabeio — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:19:12 +0000

https://archive.is/bSQhD You can view their link here.

New comment by gabeio in "AirPods Max 2"

gabeio — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:54:35 +0000

Do they brick less? I bought a pair for my husband and after a year they were bricked, apple support basically told him to buy a new one. I will never waste my money on the max line ever again.

New comment by gabeio in "I'm a project manager, to the engineers: how replaceable do you think my job is?"

gabeio — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:23:13 +0000

Anyone “smart” enough to connect an ai agent to a payroll systems will get what they deserve.

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

gabeio — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:47:05 +0000

I use it all of the time! I actually love it but I use it for grayscale mode, nothing actually critical. And yeah it triggers randomly but I am never upset to be without color.

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

gabeio — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:45:02 +0000

No they are talking about the new camera button on the same side as the power/siri button. Which is semi-ironic considering the volume buttons still work fine as camera buttons they just don’t also handle zoom (you can slide your finger on the button to adjust zoom). I honestly am more annoyed at the button than enjoy it, yet another button I accidentally press when I nearly drop my phone and now have the camera app open.

New comment by gabeio in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

gabeio — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:50:38 +0000

> despite an insignificant fraction of customers using such a feature?

Isn't that the exact same argument against Lockdown mode? The point isn't that the number of users is small it's that it can significantly help that small set of users, something that Apple clearly does care about.

New comment by gabeio in "Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell"

gabeio — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:41:28 +0000

Wouldn’t that mean they could still exfiltrate it to another jira site they control?

New comment by gabeio in "Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights"

gabeio — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:54:22 +0000

? I use firefox all of the time and I don’t believe I have been marked as a “bot”? I rarely hit website captchas/browser checks. Do you have anything to read that says otherwise?

New comment by gabeio in "Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me"

gabeio — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:10:29 +0000

> It's also a page that's never visited by humans.

Never is a strong word. I have definitely visited robots.txt of various websites for a variety of random reasons.

  - remembering the format
  - seeing what they might have tried to "hide"
  - using it like a site's directory
  - testing if the website is working if their main dashboard/index is offline

New comment by gabeio in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

gabeio — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:11:00 +0000

The string “null” or actually null? I have recently seen a huge amount of bot traffic which has actually no UA and just outright block it. It’s almost entirely (microsoft cloud) Azure script attacks.

New comment by gabeio in "Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia"

gabeio — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 04:27:56 +0000

You should give kagi a whirl I rarely need to go past page 1 or even the first result for most queries.

New comment by gabeio in "I've Had It with Microsoft"

gabeio — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:18:00 +0000

I do not consider auto-upgrading people to pay more for something they probably aren’t already using “transparent”. Most especially if they didn’t mention in the email that there is a way to keep the existing price.

New comment by gabeio in "iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification"

gabeio — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:47:40 +0000

> I imagine passport cards as well

As someone who has a passport card, I can confirm it definitely has an RFID chip in it. Ironically they come in a protective sleeve.

New comment by gabeio in "iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification"

gabeio — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:43:13 +0000

> either because they never bothered, or because their state wanted to charge extra for it

Or because their state barely managed to rolled it out at all and since they already have a passport card it makes no huge difference now. Not arguing just annoyed at my state.

New comment by gabeio in "Working on databases from prison"

gabeio — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:10:45 +0000

Fair I was thinking of the substance abuse definition, and hadn’t included enough into that word.

New comment by gabeio in "Working on databases from prison"

gabeio — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:08:05 +0000

> When you focus on rehabilitation and not just punishment

From a book I recently read on the subject they seem not just to focus on rehab and lack of punishment. If there are disputes with others within the facilities the ones in the dispute must sit down and talk through their issues and find a resolution. This helps ingrain proper anger management & helps re-acclimate them to normal society where violence is rarely the best option. And it makes a ton of sense, if they never are taught how to talk out their issues they will go back to how they have handled those issues all along.