Hacker News: i2shar

New comment by i2shar in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

i2shar — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:36:24 +0000

You will appreciate: https://youtu.be/uZV40f0cXF4

New comment by i2shar in "I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud"

i2shar — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:02:48 +0000

Why not just use Bluetooth? I'd be suspicious if the Dishwasher app requested permission to access the phone's microphone

New comment by i2shar in "Sales happen when buyers fear missing out"

i2shar — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:18:31 +0000

There could be both.

I very much identify with the self respecting type your parent describes and try my best to 'punish' sellers who try silly FOMO tactics, by demoting them into oblivion in my books. However, I am still prone to some FOMO with proven, trusted brands.

Anecdote: Several years ago I happened to try out a certain brand of shoes and loved the quality and style and have ever since only bought that brand and have even introduced friends and family members to it. However, I still wait for their deals to show up before picking up a pair and am vulnerable to their "time running out" campaigns. I click "Buy", assured that at least I won't be stuck with a substandard product.

I like to think that if I ever build a product, I would focus on quality and attract the kind of customer I myself am and would never stoop to the lowly FOMO tactics, even for assured short term gains.

New comment by i2shar in "Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)"

i2shar — Thu, 23 May 2024 21:06:04 +0000

Brilliant! Just today, I was listening to a panel of world class artists being asked (now trite) questions on AI taking over their jobs and they concluded something like:

"For mediocrity, turn to AI. If you want masters, call us".

New comment by i2shar in "Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments"

i2shar — Thu, 16 May 2024 04:49:01 +0000

What networking gear do you use inside your home? What router? Do they terminate an actual fiber connection (SFP+) to your home or you get 10GB Ethernet?

New comment by i2shar in "AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server"

i2shar — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:32:54 +0000

Haven’t used NextDNS but have used PiHole and currently running AdGuard Home. But if you are paying $20/year just for DNS encryption/blocking, you may consider upgrading to Mullvad which gives you DNS Ad blocking but also IP anonymity, tunneling etc.

New comment by i2shar in "Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear"

i2shar — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:36:05 +0000

This is well known and well studied. I highly recommend Sapolksy’s lecture on this: https://youtu.be/SIOQgY1tqrU?feature=shared

Start at 12:14 for the relevant topic, but the entire lecture is a good watch.

New comment by i2shar in "BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem"

i2shar — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 05:09:55 +0000

New comment by i2shar in "Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero"

i2shar — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 15:38:02 +0000

I use iCloud to sync. Just locate the vault in an iCloud drive folder called Obsidian. Works beautifully to sync between my different Macs and iOS devices.

New comment by i2shar in "‘Attractive women 16% more likely to secure startup funding’"

i2shar — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:55:49 +0000

But then again,

"Few debates in the history of science have been conducted with such stupidity as the one about intelligence". - Matt Ridley in Genome

ʘ‿ʘ

https://www.amazon.com/Genome-Autobiography-Species-23-Chapt...

New comment by i2shar in "FTC cracks down on companies that impose harmful noncompete restrictions"

i2shar — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 09:34:57 +0000

The best kind of correct answer!

New comment by i2shar in "Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs"

i2shar — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 04:53:23 +0000

If you scroll down on the original post, there's another techemail from Palm CEO Ed Colligan to Steve Jobs [0] in which he says: "Threatening Palm with a patent lawsuit in response to a decision by one employee to leave Apple is just out of line."

So, don't know what Jobs could have done with Google specifically, but safe to assume that it would be something else equally out of line.

[0]: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1422603572814962692

New comment by i2shar in "The State of HTTP in 2022"

i2shar — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 05:30:32 +0000

That's not helpful. You said you wanted to help :)

New comment by i2shar in "Ask HN: Do you use noise cancelling headphones?"

i2shar — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 10:09:21 +0000

Hands down Jabra Evolve 75 (or it's successor). Great noise cancellation for your voice to the benefit of the other end of the line. In a deliberate test, my colleague could hear me talk but couldn't hear music playing 5 feet from me.

https://www.amazon.com/Jabra-Evolve-Wireless-Headset-Stereo/...

New comment by i2shar in "After Obsidian and Logseq, I give Dendron a try"

i2shar — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:00:48 +0000

> but neither is quick.

I had the same experience, so I assigned a keyboard shortcuts Cmd+Shift+F and Cmd+Shift+H for global search and home, and that mitigated it a little bit. These should have had shortcuts out-of-the-box.

It's still a little awkward to get out of the search mode and back to editing mode. What would be ideal is hitting "Esc" should take you back to the listing mode and move cursor back to the last edit location.

New comment by i2shar in "Cool desktops don’t change"

i2shar — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 07:01:26 +0000

Yes, same experience, but I wish there was code formatting in Notes. A lot of my notes are code snippets and Notes fails there. I've recently switched to Obsidian with the iCloud drive backup and trying to get used to it.

New comment by i2shar in "Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users"

i2shar — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:03:33 +0000

Can you elaborate how? From what I know, the two most popular implementations - SAML and OIDC don't rely on 3rd party cookies. They rely purely on HTTP redirects.

New comment by i2shar in "I/O 2022"

i2shar — Wed, 11 May 2022 21:04:03 +0000

Yes, you are missing the sillier "Late 2014", "Early 2019" naming of MacBook Pros and others :)

New comment by i2shar in "The bottom is dropping out of Netflix"

i2shar — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:01:08 +0000

Had done that (obviously), didn't work on Chromecast with GTV. Had called customer support and filed a technical ticket. Nothing happened. Too late now.

New comment by i2shar in "The bottom is dropping out of Netflix"

i2shar — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 20:04:34 +0000

Few months ago I rage quit Netflix because their shows would start autoplaying and nothing I did could disable that. I couldn't read one synopsis distraction free or browse without having to constantly click my GTV remote just to stop the friggin thing from playing. WTF! I'd like to think there were more like me who voted by cancelling their subscriptions. I hope PMs at Netflix who forced this onto their users lost their jobs.