Hacker News: joejohnson

New comment by joejohnson in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

joejohnson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:51:50 +0000

It's a good thing the people of Iran are not represented by these diaspora Iranians then

New comment by joejohnson in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

joejohnson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:43:03 +0000

Sadly they have dropped requirements that Netanyahu be turned over to the ICC, but it's important to recognize that this ceasefire is between Iran and the US only and not necessarily a deal between Iran and Israel.

>> 1. Guarantee that Iran will not be attacked again

Hard for the Iranians to take anything the US says seriously. US launched attacks in the middle of the last two negotiations.

'It's AI blackface': account hailed as Aboriginal Steve Irwin is AI character

joejohnson — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:22:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/15/aboriginal-steve-irwin-ai-character-created-new-zealand

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46632924

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by joejohnson in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

joejohnson — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:13:21 +0000

Meanwhile the US is using its remaining carbon budget to bomb and burn in one last effort to expand its dying empire. Eventually this system will fall, and the west will realize they wasted all their energy (literally) on non-civilian hardware that needs massive amounts of cheap oil.

New comment by joejohnson in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

joejohnson — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:07:41 +0000

Roomba should have taken Detroit's approach and asked the government to make any of the better vacuums cost 3x the price of a Roomba

New comment by joejohnson in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

joejohnson — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:32:25 +0000

Guy who was "enamored by the whole idea of Bitcoin being a private bank for wealthy individuals" is shocked to learn that the system "will lead to the long-term collapse of social mobility for the younger generation".

He's now wiser than the average Randian acolyte, but still seems to think this structural feature of capitalism is somehow unique to cryptocurrency.

New comment by joejohnson in "The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop"

joejohnson — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:39:25 +0000

I wonder if it's related to Apple's change from AWDL to Wi-Fi Aware, but AirDrop seems much more reliable on iOS 26. I can send to multiple people at once and they often all succeed, but most importantly, if one transfer fails or is cancelled, I can retry and it works. In older versions of iOS, a failed transfer seemed to block all future attempts until the phone was restarted.

AirDrop support for Pixel 10 likely exists because of the EU ruling

joejohnson — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:24:09 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5google.com/2025/11/21/googles-airdrop-support-for-pixel-10-likely-exists-because-of-the-eus-apple-ruling/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062483

Points: 100

# Comments: 10

New comment by joejohnson in "Measuring political bias in Claude"

joejohnson — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:08:31 +0000

The issue with these AIs is that once they ingest enough history, they tend to recognize it as a record of class struggle. At that point, corporate attempts at enforcing “neutrality” amount to filtering out conclusions that would naturally support Marxist interpretations. They then need to pepper in enough fascist propaganda to appear "balanced", but it's tricky to do without becoming MechaHitler.

Global Sumud Flotilla Tracker

joejohnson — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:09:13 +0000

Article URL: https://globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424095

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

Israeli Military's Use of Digital Tools in Gaza

joejohnson — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:47:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/10/questions-and-answers-israeli-militarys-use-digital-tools-gaza

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45346281

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

The Settlers

joejohnson — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:16:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bm1y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43821753

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by joejohnson in "Things Are Bad at Tesla. They're About to Get Much Worse"

joejohnson — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 18:39:50 +0000

This is nonsense to smear Chinese companies and perpetuate this idea that they aren’t innovative and only steal.

Anyway, didn’t Tesla give away these patents?

https://medium.com/@mk_26304/the-genius-behind-teslas-patent...

New comment by joejohnson in "Things Are Bad at Tesla. They're About to Get Much Worse"

joejohnson — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:56:03 +0000

BYD makes nicer cars at a cheaper price. The only advantage Tesla has is protectionism in the US market.

New comment by joejohnson in "iPhone users can now set WhatsApp as their default calling and texting app"

joejohnson — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:01:23 +0000

Google Photos strips the metadata from your photos in unpredictable ways. It is a UX nightmare and an awful backup solution.

New comment by joejohnson in "Two new PebbleOS watches"

joejohnson — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:07:34 +0000

Not a great fitness tracker because it has no GPS

Poor notification integration because of the restrictions on iOS explained in their blog post.

If you want long battery life, I’d go for a Garmin. But the Apple Watch is really the best option for 90% of people.

New comment by joejohnson in "Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino"

joejohnson — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:30:04 +0000

Apple can release a half-baked version of this before it’s ready, but then pundits will say “oh. Steve Jobs would have never allowed such unpolished garbage to ship.”

Sometimes it’s better to wait 6 months for something to be mature and stable. Apple has a long history of being conservative in this regard, and they often aren’t the first entrant into a market, but they still dominate because of very good integration with their ecosystem and a high quality bar. Apple Intelligence will probably be the same (bookmark this post for 3 years from now, when Gemini is being split into three businesses and rebranded / killed).

New comment by joejohnson in "Interview with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton VPN"

joejohnson — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:35:32 +0000

It’s crazy this caused such a stir. Everything Andy said was not wrong.

New comment by joejohnson in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

joejohnson — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:41:17 +0000

This is false. There is absolutely content on TikTok critical of the US, Israel, western businesses, etc that is boosted by TikTok’s algorithm and effectively censored or hidden on many American-owned social networks,

New comment by joejohnson in "Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace"

joejohnson — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:15:35 +0000

Google can’t charge a premium for a noticeably worse AI product.