Hacker News: jwnin

New comment by jwnin in "Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files"

jwnin — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:14:52 +0000

I use OneDrive at work for all of my documents and have never encountered the horror stories I frequently read. I read these stories often enough where I believe there genuinely is a problem. But I do wonder why there is a difference for some and not others. Perhaps I've conditioned myself to live with its faults?

I will say that the Microsoft Office OneDrive save experience is completely subpar. It behaves completely separate & unlike Windows Explorer and is just unpleasant to work with.

New comment by jwnin in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

jwnin — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 04:03:59 +0000

is that fully functional, or still limited to 1:1 conversations?

New comment by jwnin in "Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge"

jwnin — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 12:18:45 +0000

in some people's eyes, that's a feature, not a bug.

New comment by jwnin in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

jwnin — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:26:58 +0000

who are the shareholders?

New comment by jwnin in "How to Attend Meetings"

jwnin — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:03:05 +0000

Not shilling, but Microsoft Teams with a Premium license does this, and it works very well. I am not sure how I feel about this, though - not everything needs to be 'on the record'. It's beneficial for most topics, but most != all.

In one conversation, their AI saw right through me tiptoeing around a delicate matter where a problem was caused by a client's inaction. The meeting summary laid it out correctly, but it wasn't great from a relationship perspective.

New comment by jwnin in "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions"

jwnin — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 01:54:58 +0000

windows terminal is awesome and i wish it shipped with windows by default instead of having to go to the store and install it. everyone who uses it has only good things to say, and it is updated regularly by Microsoft.

New comment by jwnin in "Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say"

jwnin — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 01:08:22 +0000

SharePoint is a great way to share data with third parties. You may even know some of them.

New comment by jwnin in "Show HN: Modernized file manager and program manager from Windows 3.x"

jwnin — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:06:51 +0000

Binaries are available, although Windows Defender is not liking the most recent version. The previous one is fine.

https://github.com/brianluft/heirloom/releases/

New comment by jwnin in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

jwnin — Mon, 19 May 2025 21:00:48 +0000

See if the trick in this article helps out: https://pomeroy.me/2023/12/how-i-fixed-wsl-2-filesystem-perf...

New comment by jwnin in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

jwnin — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:54:11 +0000

Depends. How do you feel about an OS running on your network that's not subject to your standard OS hardening, mandatory agent stack?

New comment by jwnin in "Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?"

jwnin — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:21:46 +0000

Bruce retired following the passing of his wife. Good for him; life is short.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/life-death-and-...

New comment by jwnin in "TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days"

jwnin — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 01:19:47 +0000

Costs to buy certs will not materially change. Costs to manage certs will increase.

New comment by jwnin in "45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved"

jwnin — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:49:45 +0000

Linking to the lite version of an article about an image is an odd choice as the lite version doesn't include images by default. Thanks for linking to the full page.

New comment by jwnin in "Microsoft’s original source code"

jwnin — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:35:16 +0000

Some luck, and willingness to take risks paid off in ways that could never be anticipated. Not sure I'll see something like the pc era in my lifetime. Perhaps mobile phones, or the Internet.

New comment by jwnin in "400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure"

jwnin — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 01:29:39 +0000

it is hit and miss nowadays. definitely better than it was, though. somethign that should be common engineering criteria, i agree.

New comment by jwnin in "400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure"

jwnin — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 01:06:41 +0000

this has been consistent with my experience. the top down hierarchical approach in azure is unmatched in aws to this day. an aws accountnis a loose connection of resources across regions. if youre in an unfamilar account, youll spend some time really figuring out where everything lives first.

New comment by jwnin in "400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure"

jwnin — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 01:02:52 +0000

is that automation tool commercial or internal? we built one in house, but are interested in a third party option. could be that internal business rules make this a build over buy option., though.

New comment by jwnin in "I set my phone to 'do not disturb' three years ago – and have never looked back"

jwnin — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:46:23 +0000

Would be interested in seeing how the author's position has evolved in a few years when her children are in school, have activities, are with friends and need a pick up.

New comment by jwnin in "Amazon Aurora DSQL"

jwnin — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 01:40:26 +0000

Seems like a competitor to Azure's CosmosDB offering , which also now has wire support for postgres.

New comment by jwnin in "Studios: Please Don't Spoil the Movie We Are Seated to See"

jwnin — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:38:15 +0000

This is why reserved seating is the best thing to happen to movies. I leave for the theatre almost at the time the movie 'starts', get my popcorn/soda, and sit down as the last trailer begins.

This failed me once where for some odd reason the movie actually started on time, but 1-2% failure rate is mostly acceptable.