Hacker News: isodev

New comment by isodev in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

isodev — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:32:50 +0000

And the “side effect” of polluting the ocean? SpaceX is more of a let’s only do things half way kind of company it seems.

New comment by isodev in "Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order"

isodev — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:09:30 +0000

I hope there is a secondary effect to all this - that websites, operators and web apps look for alternatives instead of always using Cloudflare (who themselves are a kind of LaLiga just in a different vertical).

New comment by isodev in "Vivaldi 8.0"

isodev — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:24:39 +0000

> you are the product

Then we need to have a discussion about that because in case of Vivaldi you are in fact not the product.

New comment by isodev in "Codex-maxxing"

isodev — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:15:32 +0000

Anything with “maxxing” in the name is most likely not good for you

New comment by isodev in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

isodev — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:33:18 +0000

This is ridiculous, and what do you have to show for $1.3M? So many sustainable projects that can meaningfully improve the planet with even half that funding and he is just converting water and cash to CO2. The scope of the waste is so fucked up, criminal even.

New comment by isodev in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

isodev — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:18:48 +0000

Now can we agree that App Stores as only means of getting software and call home components you can’t disable or replace are a bad idea? We’re slowly normalising that everything happens on whats is effectively a device managed by either Apple or Google.

New comment by isodev in "First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5"

isodev — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:41:20 +0000

I’m surprised Apple is still not dogfooding their allegedly safe language Swift. Or was the whole exercise of Swift 6 mostly marketing

New comment by isodev in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

isodev — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:43:12 +0000

That's perhaps where the part about educating less tech-savvy folks comes in. There are even professionals in tech under the mistaken belief that Apple meaningfully adds value in exchange for one's freedom to use one's device as one chooses. Big Tech loves normalising the story how only they can help

New comment by isodev in "LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb"

isodev — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:47:52 +0000

Correction, we hate making money at the expense of other peoples rights and liberties. It's kind of frustrating to have to explain that to US folks over and over again... all that "freedom" in their things is apparently very decorative.

New comment by isodev in "NZ Government to Disestablish the BSA"

isodev — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:25:58 +0000

Does NZ have a right wing government right now? Nothing in the history of anything has ever improved with “Self regulation” so it must be useless policy season.

New comment by isodev in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

isodev — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:37:30 +0000

Oh great, Apple is sherlocking yet another category of apps (and not to mention Apple always had a convoluted and gatekeepy approach to letting passes show up in the Wallet app)

I guess there is no appetite for “antitrust” in the US right now.

New comment by isodev in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

isodev — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:43:17 +0000

This is not possible. Any product sold in the EU, regardless of where it is shipped from, must comply with EU rules and standards (e.g., safety, environmental, digital market rules…). Customs can and do block non-compliant imports.

If Apple wants to keep any of their other services and products, they will also be subject to consumer protection regulation meaning they can’t geoblock consumers and they have to ensure their unsafe products don’t end up with EU citizens.

New comment by isodev in "The USB Situation"

isodev — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:11:21 +0000

That's what I'm trying to say about Apple's charging bricks

New comment by isodev in "The USB Situation"

isodev — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:16:51 +0000

Your blind trust in Apple is misplaced :)

New comment by isodev in "The USB Situation"

isodev — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:16:17 +0000

> This is wrong

I understand the technical reasons behind it, but in this case - the actual expectation is to be able to use usb-c to charge other gadgets.

New comment by isodev in "The USB Situation"

isodev — Sat, 02 May 2026 09:10:02 +0000

And on top of that, Apple has that thing where only some devices can charge from their adapters. I have a special adapter just for non-Apple things because the white bricks (despite the usb-c) sometimes just refuse to give power to things. So frustrating.

New comment by isodev in "Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API"

isodev — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:34:38 +0000

Google on their proposal:

> Browsers and operating systems are increasingly expected to gain access to language models.

I think this is only true amongst “AI all the things” folks. Both tech and non-tech people around me are more focused on turning these features off. Some even avoid sensitive actions like banking from LLM infused browsers.

So I think Mozilla is right to object. This API is not in the interest of the user/agent.

New comment by isodev in "We need a federation of forges"

isodev — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:12:03 +0000

How is any of this a bad thing? Isn’t the whole point to be able to do whatever you want in your corner of the federation?

Also, tangled is atproto based, the big blue mothership will always be in control.

New comment by isodev in "Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo"

isodev — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:06:32 +0000

This entire post reads as rage bait. They’re mad because Forgejo has … a process? And what are these vulnerabilities, concretely?

> But given the sorry state of the codebase

I honesty want a refund on the 10 minutes I wasted reading this.

New comment by isodev in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

isodev — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:19:22 +0000

I think in this category, Voxtral by Mistral is a lot better. It also happens to be small enough to run on webGPU https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Voxtral-Realtime-Web...