Hacker News: jhowison

New comment by jhowison in "uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store"

jhowison — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:46:22 +0000

We just ran into this testing web filtering with Cloudflare DNS. You are correct that iCloud Private Relay bypasses the configured DNS servers, but there is another spot - the "Advanced Tracking and Fingerprint Protection" that is a setting in Safari (Settings, Safari, Advanced Settings.) It is on by default for the Private Mode browsing.

New comment by jhowison in "Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion"

jhowison — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:52:08 +0000

You can turn off the shared hotspot: https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/disable-xfinity-wif...

New comment by jhowison in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

jhowison — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 20:20:03 +0000

Yes, it's on by default, but you can turn this off if you want to. https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/disable-xfinity-wif...

New comment by jhowison in "Red Canary Mac Monitor"

jhowison — Tue, 02 May 2023 22:54:48 +0000

The posting links to the blog post about the tool, but if you click on Mac Monitor at the bottom of the page under Products and Solutions it takes you to the actual page for the tool and that page has the big red download button everyone is talking about..

New comment by jhowison in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022"

jhowison — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 01:04:17 +0000

Which ones did you order? I have no idea where to even look for them.

New comment by jhowison in "The first car ad shows what changed, what hasn’t"

jhowison — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 21:49:52 +0000

One of the comments on that article refutes that claim: That is not the first car ad, although the claim has long been made. https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/americas-first-automobil...?

New comment by jhowison in "A web app to generate valid QR codes with readable images"

jhowison — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 21:12:11 +0000

My iPhone 12 pro Max, with the latest iOS, picked up all four. The first three fairly easily, the last one I had to keep moving the phone in and out before it showed. That said, none of them kept the link constantly and it was a bit tricky to hold it still enough once it found the link to tap it. (The link was to a YouTube video about QR image codes..)

New comment by jhowison in "Emojimix"

jhowison — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 20:13:30 +0000

The tuna fish + clown face rendering an actual clown fish (finding Nemo style) is my favorite so far.

https://tikolu.net/emojimix/%F0%9F%90%9F+%F0%9F%A4%A1

New comment by jhowison in "Introducing Windows 11"

jhowison — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:12:06 +0000

Win + R, control netconnections

New comment by jhowison in "The Return of Fancy Tools"

jhowison — Sat, 15 May 2021 00:24:02 +0000

Google cache link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gnWsEk...

New comment by jhowison in "Pure Digital CSS, Swiss Made, Clock – No JavaScript, almost no HTML"

jhowison — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 19:56:43 +0000

Q: Swiss made, how so? A: I was born in Switzerland. By induction, this clock is Swiss made. QED.

New comment by jhowison in "Ranch Nation"

jhowison — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 20:06:29 +0000

I find the taste of the hand mixed one to be an improvement on the premade bottled one. Although my preference for the taste may be nostalgic as that is what my parents and grandparents did as well.

New comment by jhowison in "Amazon launches its newest private label, Wickedly Prime"

jhowison — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 23:16:30 +0000

It is weird, the article even says further down "The retailer seems to know what it’s doing, too. An earlier report from 1010data found that Amazon’s private label brands were taking over market share in their respective categories, including speakers (thanks to Amazon Echo), baby wipes (Amazon Elements), and batteries (AmazonBasics)."

New comment by jhowison in "Inside the Plan to Pull Sprint Out of Its Death Spiral"

jhowison — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:01:31 +0000

Sprint Nextel provided iDEN service across the United States until its iDEN network was decommissioned on 30 June 2013. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEN#Operators)

New comment by jhowison in "Super Mario Wallpaper Maker"

jhowison — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:26:11 +0000

If you use the mushroom you can not only make Mario larger, but other objects too.

New comment by jhowison in "The Navigation Bar Is an Affordance, Stop Removing It"

jhowison — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:38:33 +0000

It was blank for me on Firefox too, until I resized it smaller (by accident) and the content showed up..

New comment by jhowison in "Lightsaber Escape"

jhowison — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 23:07:35 +0000

Mine too, on Win7 it disconnected my monitors and required a reboot :(

New comment by jhowison in "YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music"

jhowison — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 19:14:10 +0000

Hulu did just recently add an ad free version: http://www.hulu.com/nocommercials. It's $12/month, whereas the ad version is still $8/month.

New comment by jhowison in "iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Preliminary Results"

jhowison — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 18:55:45 +0000

I noticed this too, you can however lightly double tap (don't click) the home button and it brings the top half off the screen down to the middle of the screen.