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New comment by infinityplus1 in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

infinityplus1 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:40:01 +0000

Internet exploder

New comment by infinityplus1 in "I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back"

infinityplus1 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:06:25 +0000

I tried switching to Safari 2-3 years back after getting a new M1 Air . After using it for a few hours, websites would just stop working and only fix was to restart the browser. After a few times, I gave up and went back to Firefox.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions"

infinityplus1 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:53:20 +0000

I would pay for a Jarvis style holographic AI, even if not fully AGI.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)"

infinityplus1 — Sun, 26 May 2024 09:53:57 +0000

Cloud computers are just someone's else computer. Amazon and Microsoft engineers can make the same mistake too. Take backups and test them regularly and you'll be OK.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "New MacBook Setup"

infinityplus1 — Fri, 24 May 2024 05:19:01 +0000

Sublime is way faster for opening large files.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "New MacBook Setup"

infinityplus1 — Fri, 24 May 2024 05:18:24 +0000

I tried to switch to Safari and used it regularly for a few weeks on my M1 air. Every so often, web sites would simply stop opening after using Safari for a few hours and only a restart of Safari would fix it. I didn't have any patience to file a bug report. So I just switched back to Firefox.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "Building a Large Japanese Web Corpus for Large Language Models"

infinityplus1 — Wed, 01 May 2024 13:18:49 +0000

This sounds like damned if you do, damned if you don't for OpenAI. If OpenAI doesn't implement these "filters" in results, then people would have been up in arms same way. Facebook and Twitter are already complained about a lot for allowing hate speech similarly.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "Apple's New Core Technology Fee Is a Core Technology Fleece"

infinityplus1 — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:51:10 +0000

Yes by law I meant the DMA. You said in your comment that there is a need to differentiate between what Apple can do and what they should do and the author didn't mention specific DMA provisions to make his argument more concrete.

What I mean is that yes Apple is entitled to do whatever they want with their IP. But this entitlement is granted by the EU itself. EU may decide whatever they want and Apple can't really fight much against it. So instead of causing drama, it would be easier to just give up and exit EU.

At this point it is upto EU consumers to provide their opinions on what they want to happen next.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "Apple's New Core Technology Fee Is a Core Technology Fleece"

infinityplus1 — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 06:42:05 +0000

If Apple doesn't like it, they can just take their ball and go home. People will probably do just fine without them. If a huge need is felt for Apple to be back, then the law will change.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop 6 for Business and Surface Pro 10"

infinityplus1 — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 05:57:41 +0000

>Most people want battery life

Maybe for their personal device. But for work provided device, who cares if it is decent enough. Most people just keep them connected to power while working on a desk anyway (in my opinion).

New comment by infinityplus1 in "Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop 6 for Business and Surface Pro 10"

infinityplus1 — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:04:22 +0000

Snapdragon X surfaces will launch in near future as well. Hope they are more competitive with Macbooks.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop 6 for Business and Surface Pro 10"

infinityplus1 — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:02:32 +0000

Most people don't want desktops. So powerful laptops are preferred. Macbooks don't support Linux officially. But Intel laptops do support them. So no matter how fast and efficient Macbooks are, people will still buy decent Intel laptops instead of the best Macbooks.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "Introducing GNOME 46, "Kathmandu""

infinityplus1 — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:26:35 +0000

The improvements seem extensive. Nice to see progress happening.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "Show HN: Material Files – Open Source Material Design File Manager for Android"

infinityplus1 — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:46:56 +0000

Yes. ES File Explorer is the best. I only resort to these material file explorers when installing any APK as newer Android versions have restricted APK installation from ES File Explorer.

Material UI file explorers have too much wasted screen space and unnecessary slow animations, lack of bottom positioned controls etc. and it makes managing files slow and frustrating.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "How do we stop Meta in 2024? We fix the information loop"

infinityplus1 — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:05:05 +0000

Just spread a hoax that Meta is going to shut down because Zukerberg thinks he has earned enough money and there is no need to earn any more. Plenty of people will buy it.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

infinityplus1 — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:20:05 +0000

Apple gets 36% of Google's advertising revenue from Safari's default search. So Apple is earning from Google's advertisements.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-witness-a...

New comment by infinityplus1 in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

infinityplus1 — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:19:25 +0000

Apple gets 36% of Google's advertising revenue from Safari's default search. So Apple is earning from Google's advertisements. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-witness-a...

New comment by infinityplus1 in "Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta"

infinityplus1 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:31:09 +0000

See my comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38625808

Though I must say I never organize tabs except pinning them.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta"

infinityplus1 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:29:41 +0000

It is for the same reason people prefer to sleep or hibernate there PCs instead of shutting them down. You don't want any breaks in your flow. Closing tabs and opening them again from bookmarks is annoying.

I keep tabs like production and development Firebase console, Github, Gmail, Trello, Slack, Google Cloud logs, documents/spreadsheets, Google searches, documentation/articles for features/bugs etc.

It makes my work faster since I everything I need is always available in the tab bar. Feature/bug related tabs are closed only when they are fully done and deployed to Production.

New comment by infinityplus1 in "Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions"

infinityplus1 — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 04:29:53 +0000

Just pin the tab to keep it at a fixed place. I pin Gmail and Slack as these are frequently accessed by me.