Hacker News: kiwijamo

New comment by kiwijamo in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

kiwijamo — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:05:47 +0000

Native Firefox on native Android (or at least the Samsung variant) here and I haven't had issues either.

New comment by kiwijamo in "The August 17 outage"

kiwijamo — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:23:49 +0000

But at this rate of growth, sounds like they'll need to buy around that amount every year just to keep up with current (not even taking into account future) growth.

New comment by kiwijamo in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

kiwijamo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:21:47 +0000

FYI Fastmail works really well with the iOS native Mail/Calendar app if you wanted to try that out. iOS is pretty much the only platform I don't use the Fastmail app on.

New comment by kiwijamo in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

kiwijamo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:19:27 +0000

Can you cite an example of a big, well-known, etc service that enforces a 'you can't change your email address' rule? I haven't really seen this sort of thing in the wild to be honest. Maybe one or two over 20+ years? I think the norm is using a username or an internal identification number (such as an UUID). It is rare the email address is actually used as the primary key to identify an account.

New comment by kiwijamo in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

kiwijamo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:15:38 +0000

Interestingly, I have found it the other way around for me. While my main inbox is at Fastmail, I also have a historical Gmail account. My Fastmail inbox gets a few spam messages week. My Gmail account on the other hand gets hundreds a month (if not weekly) that slip past the google filters.

This is mainly why I stopped forwarding emails from Gmail to Fastmail as >95% of the spam was sent via Gmail, and I suspect Fastmail doesn't try to filter those.

Anyway, a helpful tip for you is that the Fastmail spam filter is configurable. You may want to look at making it more aggressive. Go to Fastmail > Settings > Filters & Rules > Filters > Spam protection > Advanced settings. Here you can either just select the 'Aggressive' preset or even customise your own thresholds for flagging a message as spam. Here you can also check how many messages are have been learnt by the filters.

If you're forwarding emails from Gmail I'd also suggest turning that off or setting up a rule to dump the Gmail forwarded messages into a separate folder. I suspect you'll find most of the spam has been passed on by Gmail.

New comment by kiwijamo in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

kiwijamo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:30:24 +0000

Interestingly, I have found a very mixed bag of USB-C cables I've collected over the years to generally just work for all my use cases. I can charge my various USB-C laptops at 65W with all the USB-C cables I have on hand. Maybe it's just my habit of just buying cables from known brands (Belkin is normally my go to) but I also have random cables that came with various devices of varying quality and all these also work just fine. I have a 6-port charging hub so I can see the charging wattage and I can easily get 65W to various laptops and a high capacity power bank, regardless of the cable being used. All cables also work fine for data transfer, although I confess I use USB-C for data transfer rarely so it is possible there is some variability there. YMMV but I wonder how much of this issue is just crappy low-end cables?

New comment by kiwijamo in "A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft"

kiwijamo — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:02:04 +0000

I've been using Wayland for some years (at least since Debian switched to it as their default) and not had any issues with it. I think complaints were more common about X, and Wayland has resolved a lot of it for the average user. For example my switch to Wayland was the first time I had 100% working video playback on Intel iGPUs without tinkering with conf files. I appreciate there are still some edge cases where X11 is still better -- but I think for 95-99% of users Wayland has just worked.

New comment by kiwijamo in "Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage"

kiwijamo — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:12:09 +0000

Why can’t they just put back into a car in the back seat or whatever and send it off to him? Seems strange to make it so difficult when they surely have a vehicle sitting right there in their depot that could do the job as soon as the customer is back home.

New comment by kiwijamo in "SSH has no Host header"

kiwijamo — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:06:11 +0000

It varies in different parts of the world. Here in New Zealand all except one fixed line (i.e. fibre/xDSL) provider offers IPv6 (the only hold out being the ex-government telco). Wireless/mobile (4G/5G mobile or FWA) is a different story however as all wireless/mobile networks are IPv4 only still to this day (even thogh two of them are also fixed line providers offering IPv6 via their fixed line service!).

New comment by kiwijamo in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

kiwijamo — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:09:29 +0000

Maybe Samsung has changed how the first boot works compared to stock Android, but this definitely has not been my experience across several Samsung devices. Also many apps store their data in different ways which doesn't always survive a device migration/backup. Only cloud-only apps have a good experience, wheras anything that stores data on device can be hit and miss depending on how easy individual apps manage its backup.

New comment by kiwijamo in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

kiwijamo — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:09:38 +0000

Until a future Window release doesn't include the old notepad anymore.

New comment by kiwijamo in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

kiwijamo — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:06:52 +0000

It doesn't work everywhere though as there are still apps that don't offer a plain text paste, and as you have noted the shortcut can be different in different applications.

New comment by kiwijamo in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

kiwijamo — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:21:41 +0000

I've never had this happen to me and I've daily driven Windows 11 for some years now. Can you give an example?

New comment by kiwijamo in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

kiwijamo — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:47:06 +0000

Ah I wish I knew that, thanks for the tip!

New comment by kiwijamo in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

kiwijamo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:50:36 +0000

Agreed. Even Windows has some nice stuff when it comes to windows management IMHO. Every time I end up on macOS I miss the various Windows/GNOME behaviours e.g. window snapping to the right/left half, pressing the Win key to see all open apps, maximise buttons that doesn't put the whole app into full screen mode, etc.

New comment by kiwijamo in "Migrate Wizard – IMAP Based Email Migration Tool"

kiwijamo — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:16:33 +0000

I wonder if it includes workarounds for Google IMAP bugs etc. Some years ago I migrated over 10 years worth of emails from Google to Fastmail and I ran into a lot of issues with Google's buggy IMAP implementation. Things like a random 1 in every 1000 email failing to delete so I would have random emails still remaning. I found out it was a known issue which Google pretty much decided they WONTFIX. I later found Fastmail had its own migration tool that (I presume) has workarounds for various bugs in other providers IMAP implentation making it easier than using e.g. Thunderbird to do it. If I could go back in time and use a tool like this that has a way to work around Google's bugs that would have saved a lot of my time.

New comment by kiwijamo in "Time Station Emulator"

kiwijamo — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:44:59 +0000

I read the title as 'Train Station Emulator'. :)

New comment by kiwijamo in "Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor"

kiwijamo — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:41:59 +0000

Wayland was the first display system on Linux I've used that just worked perfectly right out of the box on a bog standard Intel iGPU across several machines. I think that is a big draw for a lot of people like myself who just want to get things done. For me X11 represents the past through experience I had when I had to tinker with the X11 config file to get basic stuff like video playback to work smoothly without tearing. My first Wayland install was literally a "wow this is the future of Linux" for me quite honestly when I realised everything just worked without even a single line of config. I would recommend a Wayland distro like Debian to the average computer user knowing Wayland just works -- prior to Wayland I'd be like "well Linux is great but if you like watching YouTube you'll need to add a line to your xorg config to trun on the thingy that smoothes out video playback on Intel iGPUs". Appreciate others have different perpectives -- I come from the POV of someone who likes to install a OS and have all the basic stuff working out of the box.

New comment by kiwijamo in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

kiwijamo — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:20:42 +0000

The reliability of the other brands are quite poor though. I've tried Tile, I've tried Pebble (using Google's network) and neither has worked reliability enough. So I ended up switching to AirTags and so far I have been impressed with the reliability - it works 100% of the time which is not something I could say about Tile nor Pebble/Google.

New comment by kiwijamo in "200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop"

kiwijamo — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:39:03 +0000

I used to run Acorn's RISC OS in just 2MB of RAM.