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New comment by itsthejb in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

itsthejb — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:06:18 +0000

Tell me about it. As an individual user you absolutely CANNOT get support is some (if not many or all) circumstances. It’s really quite shocking

New comment by itsthejb in "Nigel Farage wants to build a British ICE. Starmer may have handed him the tools"

itsthejb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:49:25 +0000

https://yougov.com/en-gb/trackers/do-brits-think-that-immigr...

New comment by itsthejb in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"

itsthejb — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:48:19 +0000

This sounds very much like the operation described in the book Number Go Up, which is ostensibly about FTX, but is really about a number of crypto operations which may or may not be illegal

New comment by itsthejb in "Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever"

itsthejb — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:42:25 +0000

Disk Utility used to have a Repair Permissions tool, at least back in the 00s. Not sure when it was removed

New comment by itsthejb in "Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants"

itsthejb — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:28:18 +0000

You will no doubt have noticed that with the proliferation of mobile Epos, tipping is increasingly being crowbarred into daily life over here too. For godssakes Just Say No

New comment by itsthejb in "Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line"

itsthejb — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 13:50:41 +0000

Yes. However there are downsides to Japan’s intensely high trust (and high shame) culture as well. Death by overwork is the one that’s most known in the west, although there are plenty of others that outsiders would never usually learn about

New comment by itsthejb in "Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line"

itsthejb — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 13:47:43 +0000

It’s possible the last train simply parks there for the night. This would mean that you ride the same train back after this misadventure

New comment by itsthejb in "Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line"

itsthejb — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 13:45:18 +0000

I’ve never ended up in this situation myself, but I have many times lived on similar commuter lines. Hearing the names of those end of lines stations becomes a big part of your every day routine. In most cases I never even visited them, which looking back feels like a pity, and even disrespectful of their incidental importance

New comment by itsthejb in "Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals"

itsthejb — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:57:37 +0000

This is entirely a problem of putting all of eggs in one basket. Or rather, only having one basket in which you’re allowed to put your eggs. The German pension system is already insolvent, and I suspect it’s not the only one. European welfare states are great n’all, but it would seem they were set up when the going was good and populations were growing. Now with stagnation, they don’t look much like staying solvent and populations don’t have anywhere else to turn

New comment by itsthejb in "Matrix Client Tutorial"

itsthejb — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 08:26:17 +0000

Very very true. I self host synapse, and generally speaking the ability to bridge my ~3 most used messengers into one app (ElementX) adds value. However, the lacking features and bizarre feature disjoints between Element (supposedly EOL) and ElementX (suppose next gen) are jarring

New comment by itsthejb in "Future Music magazine is closing after 32 years"

itsthejb — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 21:43:26 +0000

That’s not surprising at all. I don’t about the scientific apps you’re talking about, but I assume that their user base would be accessing them through academic site licenses. Music apps, however, would be predominantly used by hobbyists, a few of which would later make it big. The problem was/is that the price tags assumed studio budgets. But if you wanted those studio sounds at home, well the price is a big challenge until you start making solid money. Which is even fewer

New comment by itsthejb in "Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations"

itsthejb — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:31:06 +0000

kittysplit.com has had this feature set for a decade. I try to promote it whenever I can

New comment by itsthejb in "Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files"

itsthejb — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:27:17 +0000

Indeed. Although this tool looks like a way to work around those holdouts which refuse to provide an official customisation point

New comment by itsthejb in "A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published"

itsthejb — Tue, 07 May 2024 11:08:43 +0000

Also very enjoyable, Emilio D'Alessandro’s book Stanley Kubrick and Me

New comment by itsthejb in "Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17"

itsthejb — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 16:07:14 +0000

In my current and previous job, we talked about (and partially implemented) low level “contract” modules in order to avoid linking (and building) the entire module in order to share behaviour

That problem was already solved with header files; trivial to split interface from implementation, they’re just two different files. But sometime around the 90s, probably Java and this was deemed inconvenient. Now we’re trying to reinvent that same pattern

New comment by itsthejb in "That's a Lot of YAML"

itsthejb — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 11:10:50 +0000

Octal is very commonly used in Ansible playbooks, for representing file permissions

New comment by itsthejb in "Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain"

itsthejb — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:16:30 +0000

Funnily enough, in my experience Germany has the same (actually seemingly worse) issue as the UK; many people have poor home internet speeds due to the fact that the local (copper?) legacy infrastructure is privately owned by DT/BT, and there is little to no incentive to have that upgraded

New comment by itsthejb in "Ireland will pay you $92,000 to move to remote islands"

itsthejb — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 23:17:19 +0000

See: The Banshees of Inisherin

New comment by itsthejb in "Apple reports Q2 2023 results"

itsthejb — Thu, 04 May 2023 21:19:47 +0000

The scope for a darkly comic Jony Ive product video voiceover parody on that though

New comment by itsthejb in "Making home Internet faster has little to do with “speed”"

itsthejb — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:53:57 +0000

That _is_ cool