Hacker News: james_pm

New comment by james_pm in "John C. Dvorak has died"

james_pm — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:39:48 +0000

Sad news. He was the OG tech grouch. Went way off the deep end with conspiracy crap and right wing nonsense over the last decade, but I always assumed some of that was opportunistic performance. RIP.

New comment by james_pm in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

james_pm — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:04:26 +0000

That is exactly how the Halton County Railway Museum near Toronto came to be. A bunch of dudes bought an old streetcar (tram) to save it from the scrappers and built a track on some property to have fun driving it around. https://hcry.org/

New comment by james_pm in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

james_pm — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:54:04 +0000

1Password also lets you pick where your data lives - US, Canada or EU. https://support.1password.com/regions/

New comment by james_pm in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

james_pm — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:27:42 +0000

Right up there with the Not Just Bikes guy on YouTube who used to talk about how transit-oriented cities are great or would show some positive stuff from somewhere. Now it's just endless videos about how cars suck, cities suck, even a lot of transit sucks. The constant negativity is such a put-off.

New comment by james_pm in "Ted Turner has died"

james_pm — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:55:53 +0000

The original "Situation Room" concept with Wolf was pulling in all these live feeds from all over the place and reporting on them. Car chase in LA! Train crash in India! Protest in Paris! Let's go live!

They had a web subscription product around 2006 that gave you access to just watch all these raw feeds from CNN Affiliates all over the world. It was like Periscope but all "professional" feeds.

New comment by james_pm in "You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving"

james_pm — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:04:56 +0000

Same. I can identify with the subject matter, but the whole thing was just so off-putting. Trite, sound bites.

New comment by james_pm in "Is Slack Down?"

james_pm — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:17:52 +0000

Yep. Similar to the other day. Uploads failing. Messages not delivering. Status is obviously hand-updated.

New comment by james_pm in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

james_pm — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:49:17 +0000

Kagi search.

New comment by james_pm in "Phone searches at the US border hit a record high"

james_pm — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:42:14 +0000

Same. No interest in going to that country. We'll continue travel in Canada or throughout Europe as we have over the last year and a bit. We used to go to the US to camp and on family vacations in the winter, but we skipped that last year and this year and have no plans to visit unless the situation changes.

New comment by james_pm in "They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder"

james_pm — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:03:48 +0000

I spent many hundreds and maybe thousands of hours using Sony PCM7000 and 7010 Pro DAT recorders and those things were just a sheer joy to use. They were so perfect in basically ever single way.

New comment by james_pm in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

james_pm — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:57:57 +0000

I would love something like what Spotify has - private listening. In the meantime, I just go into the YouTube history and remove anything that I don't want to pollute my recommendations. Turning off search history entirely also is good.

New comment by james_pm in "Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard"

james_pm — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:06:45 +0000

FR24 is also on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/flightradar24.com/post/3lrfwaqs2ls2...

Web Browser telemetry – 2025 edition

james_pm — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:33:42 +0000

Article URL: https://sizeof.cat/post/web-browser-telemetry-2025-edition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763969

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by james_pm in "Notion Mail is out"

james_pm — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:58:31 +0000

More like "Notion Mail (for Gmail only). Notion Calendar is Google only. Notion Mail is Google only. I guess I shouldn't have expected them to do anything based on standards like IMAP.

New comment by james_pm in "SpaceX's Fram2 returns from first-of-its-kind mission around Earth's poles"

james_pm — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 20:09:20 +0000

Soyuz still lands on land. Starliner landed (and will land) on land. Blue Origin's non-orbital ship lands on land.

New comment by james_pm in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

james_pm — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:47:56 +0000

Long time Garmin watch user here and Garmins are also HORRIBLY crippled on iOS. Can I respond to a text message? No. I can clear the notification, but that is it. Apple Watch has far greater abilities than any other smart watch. That is the issue.

New comment by james_pm in "Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux"

james_pm — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 19:17:26 +0000

Orion for macOS is still pretty buggy and, in my experience, a bit too frustrating to use as my default browser. I want to use it and pay the $5/month even though I don't use it all the time. It's close to being good, but not quite there yet.

New comment by james_pm in "Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time"

james_pm — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 17:11:17 +0000

In a similar vein: https://kagi.com/smallweb

Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another

james_pm — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:32:02 +0000

Article URL: https://support.apple.com/en-us/117294

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43019737

Points: 108

# Comments: 59

New comment by james_pm in "How to delete your Facebook account"

james_pm — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:41:01 +0000

Same. I have Instagram and Threads accounts, but I tried to get Facebook back about 5 years after deleting it and immediately got asked for ID and then was banned with no appeal possible. I guess they take deleting your account very personally.