Hacker News: k2enemy

New comment by k2enemy in "What being ripped off taught me"

k2enemy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:04:36 +0000

> - Late payment shall incur interest at 8% above the BoE base rate and a late fee of 100 GBP as per the UK Late Payment Legislation. Partial payments on invoices shall apply to late fees, interest, and then principal, in that order.

Do you mean 8 percent, or 8 percentage points?

New comment by k2enemy in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

k2enemy — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:32:07 +0000

This is for the icons in the drop-down menus, not the icons in the menu bar.

New comment by k2enemy in "Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild"

k2enemy — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:11:57 +0000

I'm really hoping Apple backtracks on its refusal to update the 18.x line for phones that are compatible with 26. At least provide a security update.

New comment by k2enemy in "Grandparents are glued to their phones, families are worried [video]"

k2enemy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:37:22 +0000

And also the most likely to fall victims to scams. An elderly family friend lost millions to a pig butchering scam.

New comment by k2enemy in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

k2enemy — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:56:48 +0000

Every photographer with expensive equipment that I know has insurance for their equipment. Sometimes it is included with homeowner, sometimes a separate rider, and sometimes part of their commercial insurance. So it would be covered.

However, that wouldn't help OP if they needed the lens for their trip, suddenly need to find another one, and needed to float the cash until insurance pays out.

New comment by k2enemy in "Story of XZ Backdoor [video]"

k2enemy — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:52:37 +0000

Oxide and Friends also had a great podcast with Andres about the discovery:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/discovering...

Zed Split Diffs Are Here

k2enemy — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:56:20 +0000

Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/split-diffs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088096

Points: 14

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New comment by k2enemy in "Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud"

k2enemy — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:49:37 +0000

Got it, thanks for the explanation!

New comment by k2enemy in "Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud"

k2enemy — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:17:15 +0000

> Up to a point, there's an easily distinguishable sound and detail difference between cheaper and more expensive gear, given that you don't cheat (i.e. put cheaper gear in expensive enclosure), but that difference indistinguishable well before these "true audiophile" level stuff.

I don't understand how that is cheating. Isn't it a better controlled experiment if the equipment looks the same?

New comment by k2enemy in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

k2enemy — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:27:37 +0000

Is that even possible? Someone has to pay for it. If I'm rich and I get $40,000 a year from UBI, but my direct or indirect taxes go up by $60,000 in order to fund the program, am I really receiving UBI? At some point UBI has to involve transfers between income or wealth levels. The particulars of how the program is funded determines how progressive or regressive the policy is in net.

New comment by k2enemy in "NetNewsWire Turns 23"

k2enemy — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:08:45 +0000

At one point (when I first tried this) I'm pretty sure youtube didn't have a link to an rss feed in the source. I had grown used to going to source and searching for "rss" and "xml." However, I just checked and they definitely do have a link now!

New comment by k2enemy in "NetNewsWire Turns 23"

k2enemy — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:11:50 +0000

I love NNW, especially the new iteration since Brent got it back. Mac-assed software at its best.

The other day I was searching for how to turn a youtube channel into an RSS feed and tried all sorts of convoluted instructions for finding channel IDs, etc. At some point I thought this is the kind of user-centric thing that NNW has probably already thought of, and sure enough, if you just paste in a youtube channel URL as the feed, NNW sorts it out and creates a feed for you.

New comment by k2enemy in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

k2enemy — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:53:34 +0000

I remember writing to the govt (DoD maybe? I don't remember exactly) asking for a copy of the rainbow books and getting a surprise a few months later when a heavy box showed up at my parents' door! I no longer have them, but have fond memories of poring over orange, green, teal, and a few others.

New comment by k2enemy in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

k2enemy — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:38:49 +0000

I highly recommend Hackers Curator for fans of the movie [0] Outstanding interviews with cast and crew, prop projects, etc.

[0] https://hackerscurator.com

New comment by k2enemy in "TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe"

k2enemy — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:08:54 +0000

Vorta is a pretty nice GUI for borg on mac. Not as simple as Time Machine, but easier than creating launchctl entries.

https://vorta.borgbase.com

New comment by k2enemy in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

k2enemy — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:19:29 +0000

There's a whole lot of asterisks that you're leaving out of that statement.

New comment by k2enemy in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

k2enemy — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:25:40 +0000

> It's about making people feel safe.

I think it is the opposite. It is supposed to be a visceral reminder that we are not safe, and therefore should assent to the erosion of civil liberties and government intrusions into our lives in the name of safety.

New comment by k2enemy in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

k2enemy — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:12:29 +0000

Thanks, I gave it a try. I see the download, but it isn't signed for newer iphones. Only ones that don't support iOS 26. So frustrating. I'm on a 12 mini and people report that 26 runs horribly on it.

New comment by k2enemy in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

k2enemy — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:48:46 +0000

I could not agree more.

It probably doesn't help that I just spend an hour trying to figure out how to update to 18.7.3 on my iphone. It turns out you can't. The only way to get security updates now is to upgrade to iOS 26. Apple no longer supports security updates to old major versions if the device is capable of running the new major release. Apple is no longer making choices that benefit customers, but ones that benefit project managers.

New comment by k2enemy in "From Nevada to Kansas by Glider"

k2enemy — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:32:10 +0000

A video with Gordon Boettger about it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8p95a4JRcw