Hacker News: gabeio

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.

New comment by gabeio in "Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible"

gabeio — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 23:59:20 +0000

> No, that's not how things are implemented normally, exactly because they wouldn't work.

I used to work for a gov't contractor. I wrote a ~10 line golang http server, just because at the time golang was still new (this was years ago) and I wanted to try it. Not even 2 minutes later I got a call from the IT team asking a bunch of questions about why I was running that program (the http server not golang). I agree the practice is dumb but there are definitely companies who have it setup that way.

New comment by gabeio in "Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware"

gabeio — Mon, 26 May 2025 22:07:24 +0000

This is not a “breach” the article hints at a trojan which scrapes or exfiltrates credentials off of user computers not a singular provider’s database.

New comment by gabeio in "Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware"

gabeio — Mon, 26 May 2025 22:02:53 +0000

Security Keys are an independent device. I believe you are thinking of Passkeys which can live on the phone or in a password manager like 1Password.

If you do go with a security key it’s typically recommended to have at least 2 so that if one dies or is lost both have the same level of access. So long as you add them both/all to every account you need to access.

New comment by gabeio in "Spammers are better at SPF, DKIM, and DMARC than everyone else"

gabeio — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:15:55 +0000

Most banks that will work with. For what ever reason the bank I now use knows most vpn providers and completely blocks all traffic from them so using a vpn is not an option either. The “vpn” I’ll have to use is tunneling back to my home ip. It’s actually quite frustrating.

New comment by gabeio in "Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised'"

gabeio — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:39:06 +0000

> you can't solve political issues with technological solutions. Sure you can use VPN, but they always can block more. As the last resort they will have a whitelist of government-approved IPs you can connect to

You are in a thread specifically talking about blocking swaths of the internet because of football games.