Hacker News: gafage

New comment by gafage in "Fntastic announces shutdown four days after releasing "The Day Before""

gafage — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:18:07 +0000

The second paragraph clearly states that it is a game.

New comment by gafage in "Beeper Mini is back"

gafage — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:32:02 +0000

I don't see any practical difference between whatsapp and imessage. iphone has so many apis such as callkit that make apps that use them feel like first parties. I think the only real difference is that you can use the built-in messages to read and send sms... which nobody uses anymore.

New comment by gafage in "Beeper Mini is back"

gafage — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:23:09 +0000

This has nothing to do with android. iphone comes with an app store and that app store contains lots of messenger applications. Users overwhelmingly download one or several messenger applications from the store and use them instead of imessage. What's the similarity to IE here? IE had over 90% of browser share at some point.

New comment by gafage in "Beeper Mini is back"

gafage — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:14:16 +0000

It is less of an issue because of market share. MS crushed Netscape with IE. imessage is not used in the EU

New comment by gafage in "Eleanor Cross"

gafage — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:07:35 +0000

What privileged? What do you mean?

New comment by gafage in "BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed"

gafage — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 23:17:37 +0000

What's that irc client?

New comment by gafage in "Austin sees mass exodus of ex-Silicon Valley tech companies, here's why"

gafage — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 12:57:16 +0000

And there must be people who feel exactly the opposite.

As long as there are options then we can all be happy. I guess.

New comment by gafage in "Single-Dose Psilocybin for Major Depressive Disorder: Randomized Clinical Trial"

gafage — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 23:44:03 +0000

Not all depression is "I have no will to live".

New comment by gafage in "Is Grok Basically Just an OpenAI Wrapper?"

gafage — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 19:46:51 +0000

It makes no sense to me that one would train a chatbot on chatgpt conversations and not filter strings that literally say "openai" and "chatgpt". Extreme incompetence.

New comment by gafage in "New York approves the first congestion toll in the US: $15 to enter Manhattan"

gafage — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 19:02:27 +0000

>owning a car already puts you in the upper tier of wealth in the world

In the context of Greater London this is absurd.

New comment by gafage in "New York approves the first congestion toll in the US: $15 to enter Manhattan"

gafage — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 18:48:20 +0000

Low emission zones should be called instead "no poor people zones" which is what in practice they are.

New comment by gafage in "Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service"

gafage — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 14:27:47 +0000

>The Spanish right wing establishment isn't comfortable when not confidently in power, either by directly being in power, or by being sure whoever is in power wouldn't dare to change course on certain policies.

Could say exactly the same about the socialist party. Or any other party, really.

Also: the party that you call right wing is as progressive as the socialist party. They have never done and will never do any change that is not progressive. Last time they were in power they raised taxes, did nothing to the homosexual marriage, abortion, and domestic violence laws, etc etc.

New comment by gafage in "Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service"

gafage — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 12:08:12 +0000

It's not the same when you do it because you need it to be the president.

I don't agree with pardons; it's something that simply shouldn't exist in this day and age. It doesn't matter to me what brand of progressivism does it.

New comment by gafage in "Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service"

gafage — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 11:47:15 +0000

That's a bit of an over-simplification of what actually happened these weeks. Or a tremendous over-simplification, rather.

Not that I really care about the outcome (two parties could've won, and they are both progressive, so I will be unhappy either way), but the methods have crossed a few red lines.

New comment by gafage in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

gafage — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:06:14 +0000

So basically you are making my own argument: we use tons of different apps. What would be the selection screen useful for?

Going further: if we download different messengers, it stands to reason we can download different browsers, therefore if safari is the most used it's because it's the one we choose.

New comment by gafage in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

gafage — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:59:16 +0000

>And a default messenger selection screen.

What for? Everybody in the EU already uses whatsapp. That shows how unnecessary these selection screens are.

New comment by gafage in "5Ghoul: Unleashing Chaos on 5G Edge Devices"

gafage — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:40:03 +0000

You don't need a baseband exploit for that, just a jammer.

New comment by gafage in "Amazon's humanoid robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate"

gafage — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:34:00 +0000

What's the point of automating stuff for Amazon if then the gains are taxed?

New comment by gafage in "Hot Dog Linux"

gafage — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 10:34:40 +0000

Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages and accents can be removed and the result is perfectly understandable.

New comment by gafage in "Swedish court rules against Tesla in dispute with postal service over deliveries"

gafage — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:49:35 +0000

Tesla should leave the market and let Swedes buy automobiles from their own brands... like... err... Saab which no longer exists... or Volvo, which now belongs to a Chinese conglomerate...