Hacker News: gergles

New comment by gergles in "Wi-Fi over Coax"

gergles — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:33:34 +0000

FWIW the only commercially-available MoCA 2.5 product I've found that you can actually buy as an end user is the one at gocoax.com (not affiliated.)

I've been very happy with their product.

New comment by gergles in "Google Maps SDK is crashing"

gergles — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:32:22 +0000

Any chance we could get the link changed to something that doesn't have a Google loginwall? I'm not going to sign in to a Google account to read a bug report.

New comment by gergles in "Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists"

gergles — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 20:29:56 +0000

In addition to being NSFW, it's also a print, and I would be annoyed if I got it and didn't realize that. I think it's very easy to skip the line that says "limited edition print" especially given the material description being the original materials.

New comment by gergles in "At-home Covid-19 exposure and immunity testing"

gergles — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:57:25 +0000

And of course they're not working with insurance companies or anything to make this accessible to anyone outside the HCOL bubble who have giant amounts of disposable income to sign up for an unknown commitment to a $130 a month "membership".

Just sell the damn test and don't worry about 'growth hacking' during a pandemic.

Upgrading Messaging on Android in the U.S. with RCS

gergles — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:38:27 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.google/products/rcs/upgrading-messaging-android-us-rcs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21537441

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gergles in "Pair Locking Your iPhone"

gergles — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:41:49 +0000

It's not in the keychain. You can back up /var/db/lockdown, though.

New comment by gergles in "macOS Catalina"

gergles — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 01:45:00 +0000

There are 64 bit versions of the Microsoft Office apps. Do they not work in Catalina?

New comment by gergles in "SNES Cartridges and Enhancement Chips"

gergles — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:49:45 +0000

This is true (the royalty varying on the size of the memory) but the royalty was also significantly higher if there was any custom hardware involved on the cart - specifically because you actually had to purchase the "Game Pak" from Nintendo, so they would charge you "whatever they could get away with" for enhancement chips.

New comment by gergles in "How to Make the Most of Apple’s New Privacy Tools in iOS 13"

gergles — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 15:53:56 +0000

No, of course not. All numbers texted do, when you start a new conversation thread (to check if the number is enrolled in iMessage), though.

New comment by gergles in "WARP is here"

gergles — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:54:37 +0000

Yet they did it anyway, so it sounds like they sure did make the determination on what's good or bad, just accompanied with some hand-wringing in a blog post.

Real humility would have been not making the decision and instead lobbying for someone with the 'political legitimacy' to do so.

Cloudflare pretending like they're neutral in one corner while gleefully cutting off service to anyone who offends cancel culture in the other is gross, and they certainly shouldn't be praised for it.

New comment by gergles in "Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition"

gergles — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:20:57 +0000

It changed, but not really that recently.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

Note specifically the step where the addon must be signed before it can be installed in this fashion. "Developer edition" does not require you have Mozilla's permission to install addons.

New comment by gergles in "Rental firm walks away from Tesla order after quality dispute"

gergles — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 20:26:07 +0000

Tesla's network is not open-access, there is authentication involved so that even if you implement the physical standard you can't use their chargers without their consent.

New comment by gergles in "Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights"

gergles — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 19:25:23 +0000

Google still isn't the seller of record, though.

> Note: All bookings are made with the relevant airline or online travel agency.

New comment by gergles in "Adblocking: How about Nah?"

gergles — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 15:12:56 +0000

Regrettably, nobody bothers to mention that JavaScript is really what's to blame for all of this. If unnecessary use of JavaScript earned the same sort of derision that "best viewed in IE 6" banners did, we wouldn't be where we are today.

That genie is too far gone to put back in the bottle, but that's the real problem with the online advertising 'ecosystem'. JavaScript enabled pop-up ads, it enables tracking, it enables coinminers and other malware.

New comment by gergles in "Users hate change"

gergles — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 23:08:19 +0000

I imagine you’re being downvoted because your post comes across as another smug designer/product person saying “I know better than you, you uneducated philistine”, with a side of “you just haven’t seen it done right and your personal experience is wrong.”

I’m sure Reddit’s abortion of a redesign has went through hundreds of rounds of UX testing and has been signed off on by the masters of the field, but it’s still slow, unnecessary, and buggy. It does everything worse than the existing design, except perhaps for increasing some sort of pointless dashboard metric users don’t care about.

New comment by gergles in "BlueJeans also runs a webserver when installed on macOS"

gergles — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 03:17:17 +0000

You left out the portion of the article that says only apps you built yourself don't need to be signed/notarized.

Apps distributed over the Internet, like, you know, the ones we're talking about, must be notarized according to your own source.

New comment by gergles in "BlueJeans also runs a webserver when installed on macOS"

gergles — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 02:42:58 +0000

Today, on July 9, 2019, yes you are not forced to be part of the developer program.

Apple has announced that is changing very soon[0] and you attacking everyone who already knows this as 'conspiracy theorists' is kind of insulting.

0: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin... - "Beginning in macOS 10.15, notarization is required by default for all software".

You can only have software notarized as a member of the developer program.

New comment by gergles in "Improving Security and Privacy for Extensions Users"

gergles — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:35:17 +0000

I really think whoever approves these to go on the Google blog needs to cut the Newspeak titles of these announcements, as it seems like they are almost always saying the exact opposite of the title in the article.

Nerfing adblockers does not "improve security and privacy for extension users" in any meaningful way, and it is, IMO, a revealing glimpse at the attitude Google has if they think it actually does.

New comment by gergles in "Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company"

gergles — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 11:13:38 +0000

Click "report a problem" in the invoice link they email you after a purchase. It isn't very obvious.

New comment by gergles in "Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API"

gergles — Wed, 08 May 2019 05:01:28 +0000

The cheap one supports add-on sensors, it just doesn't include any.