Hacker News: jimjambw

New comment by jimjambw in "Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe"

jimjambw — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 08:31:04 +0000

That is indeed one area of privacy but I wouldn’t say that Apple is far worse. There is countless number of examples where this just simply isn’t true.

Also regarding the App Store, you don’t have to enter a credit card, you can make an account with a new email address.

New comment by jimjambw in "Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach"

jimjambw — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:18:13 +0000

I’m from a technical background and so I understand this but being a Brit sentences like this are always funny to me

New comment by jimjambw in "WireGuard vanity keygen"

jimjambw — Tue, 20 May 2025 05:58:53 +0000

It’s funny (and annoying) the disparity between Arm builds for macOS and Windows. I understand why it happens but even Microsoft has produced Arm native versions of apps for macOS before Windows.

New comment by jimjambw in "BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)"

jimjambw — Fri, 16 May 2025 07:40:22 +0000

I signed up for BuyMeACoffee recently. I did some work for free that’s important for the industry I work in and a few people donated money to me. That was almost 2 weeks ago and I’m still waiting for them to review my account. The only support seems to be just an email address?

In regards to the fact they pulled out of countries that are hard to operate in, yeah it’s annoying but you know, can you blame them?

New comment by jimjambw in "Google's DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize"

jimjambw — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 08:21:07 +0000

Good for them. I’m a huge supporter of unions. Union busting is quite different here in the UK, so I should imagine they’ll successfully join the union without too much fuss.

New comment by jimjambw in "EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M"

jimjambw — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:21:51 +0000

The problem is if you go for a free market "vote with their wallets" approach, you end up with a problem like the US did with Microsoft having too high of a market share and control on browsers, media players and operating systems.

Customers can only really vote with their wallets when there is choice and no de facto standard. On top of that, many consumers don't really understand that things like their privacy and and choice has been taken away from them.

I do not agree with all parts of the DMA and I think it's overbearing in some areas but also lacklustre in others but I do think it's important that we don't let monopolies control our lives.

New comment by jimjambw in "No-JavaScript Fingerprinting"

jimjambw — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 06:31:15 +0000

This is interesting, sure, but you would need more data to create a better identifier.

I’m on an iPhone, which isn’t an uncommon device using Brave which is just WebKit because of iOS restrictions. So there would be lot of iPhones that would just end up being with basically the same identifier.

New comment by jimjambw in "Trusting clients is probably a security flaw"

jimjambw — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:02:10 +0000

Thanks both!

New comment by jimjambw in "Trusting clients is probably a security flaw"

jimjambw — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:39:41 +0000

Do you happen to remember which bus company this was? Is there any article you can link me too as I’m quite interested in reading some more on it.

New comment by jimjambw in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

jimjambw — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:26:45 +0000

In what way?

New comment by jimjambw in "Fossil is quitting smartwatches"

jimjambw — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 11:35:22 +0000

It’s not even true that you can’t update an Apple Watch without an iPhone.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204641

New comment by jimjambw in "Linus Torvalds on LLMs and other topics"

jimjambw — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 13:26:24 +0000

There’s a certain irony of the whole thing

New comment by jimjambw in "UK 2022 rail station flow images"

jimjambw — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 11:02:42 +0000

What version of iOS/which iPhone? 12 Pro Max here on 17.1.2 and having no issues.

New comment by jimjambw in "Plex to block all servers hosted at Hetzner"

jimjambw — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:18:59 +0000

I have used Infuse for years. I just use a basic NAS with a torrent client and a watch folder. I have pretty fast broadband too, so all together it’s a really nice experience. Plus the devices I’m usually watching from are an iPad, Mac or Apple TV anyway, so it works super nicely for me. I’ve never really understood the appeal of Plex to be honest.

New comment by jimjambw in "Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule"

jimjambw — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 06:32:56 +0000

They shouldn't be. I don't see them as synonymous.

New comment by jimjambw in "Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement"

jimjambw — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:19:26 +0000

This is sad but unsurprising. Microsoft did so well purchasing Xamarin and then systematically ripped it apart and didn’t bother to put any effort behind VS Mac. Then it did early this year and then just gave up.

New comment by jimjambw in "The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display"

jimjambw — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 08:01:17 +0000

I wonder if Jacob Rees-Mogg remembers this?

New comment by jimjambw in "Undeclared pools in France uncovered by AI technology"

jimjambw — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 08:06:57 +0000

The real worry is those that operate it will think that France is in England.

New comment by jimjambw in "Shazam turns 20"

jimjambw — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 18:08:04 +0000

I'm a massive fan of Shazam in Control Centre. It let me have space for another app on the home screen, and they also sync with the iOS app now too.

New comment by jimjambw in "Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?"

jimjambw — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 05:05:19 +0000

This is a joke right?