Hacker News: kohtatsu

New comment by kohtatsu in "Google knows where we are, and so do advertisers"

kohtatsu — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:03:26 +0000

Explore the Privacy section of the Settingd app to find out.

New comment by kohtatsu in "EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]"

kohtatsu — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 03:34:24 +0000

If you're looking for a domain I recommend https://domainr.com for search (they get affiliate revenue but I don't) and https://namecheap.com for registration. Namecheap has done a great job of defending privacy and offering a solid product. Also no affiliation, but the CEO did respond to me on twitter!

New comment by kohtatsu in "EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]"

kohtatsu — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 03:29:50 +0000

We can do small tributes on a subdomain. I'll do two small ones;

- dang.matcha.life

- dang.moka.moe

One tea related and one coffee related, of course.

I'll aim to have them live by December 1st.

New comment by kohtatsu in "Be skeptical of Ring's indoor security drone"

kohtatsu — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 20:42:00 +0000

Settings > Accessibility > Sound Recognition

https://www.theverge.com/21300261/ios-14-update-smoke-alarm-...

New comment by kohtatsu in "MacOS-like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux"

kohtatsu — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:39:43 +0000

Command+, to bring up preferences is surefire, does linux/windows have the same yet? I remember Command+W not working as consistently as well.

Word and like jumps in Windows also felt backwards to me, doing the equivalent of w instead of e in vim, and couldn't be consistently combined with shift.

Support for Alt+Dpad(+Shift) and Command+Dpad(+Shift) is important IMO. As well as Double/Triple-click+Drag: it should select additional units not letters.

These last paragraphs are OS-level but the features were missing or inconsistent.

New comment by kohtatsu in "Death decreed over Zoom"

kohtatsu — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 07:00:12 +0000

Dystopia isn't guaranteed; don't go gentle into that good night.

Highly recommend reading "On Tyranny", it's a great small, pertinent book for $10 at most book stores.

Edit: to be clear China's social credit system is extremely dystopian to me and is already taking shape, but I trust most/all democratic societies (including US) to fend it off.

New comment by kohtatsu in "Firefox 81.0"

kohtatsu — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:26:22 +0000

Browser fingerprinting is a problem, but the solution isn't to throw your hands up and spoonfeed them identifiers.

Blocking tracking scripts does thwart fingerprinting. I really hope we can figure out a decent access model for JavaScript someday.

New comment by kohtatsu in "AWS IAM is having issues again"

kohtatsu — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 03:50:17 +0000

https://hckrnews.com is an alt-reader that sorts the front page chronologically which helps.

New comment by kohtatsu in "Uber backup driver indicted in 2018 self-driving crash that killed woman"

kohtatsu — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:37:58 +0000

It's okay self-driving cars aren't yet single seater.

New comment by kohtatsu in "Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S."

kohtatsu — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 01:17:12 +0000

My favourite humans see money as a means to an end.

New comment by kohtatsu in "Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S."

kohtatsu — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:45:02 +0000

You can favourite comments for people to see them in your profile. Click on the time of the comment for the link to appear.

New comment by kohtatsu in "Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 Minutes – World Record Speedrun Explained [video]"

kohtatsu — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 07:14:13 +0000

This comment is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

New comment by kohtatsu in "A Secret Recording Reveals Oil Executives’ Private Views on Climate Change"

kohtatsu — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 16:30:07 +0000

I'm not convinced this poll is much indication of anything; it's just asking about a weird carbon tax scheme.

> Suppose a proposal was on the ballot next year to add a monthly fee to consumers' monthly electricity bill to combat climate change. If this proposal passes, it would cost your household $____ every month. Would you vote in favor of this monthly fee to combat climate change, or would you vote against this monthly fee?

  $1/month:    57% favor
  $10/month:   28% favor
  $20/month:   30% favor
  $40/month:   23% favor
  $75/month:   15% favor
  $100/month:  16% favor

A more useful question would be: "Would you oppose climate change regulations that had the effect of increasing your energy bills $10/month?"

New comment by kohtatsu in "Implement BeamAsm – A JIT for Erlang/OTP"

kohtatsu — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 19:37:58 +0000

Introducing C++ doesn't mean they have to allow every pull request to use whichever C++ features it wants to.

New comment by kohtatsu in "List of All Current TLDs"

kohtatsu — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 07:34:46 +0000

There were plans on potentially allowing https://netflix/

I can't recall the technical term for it though, and my search engine couldn't help me find it within a few minutes.

New comment by kohtatsu in "Huawei’s HarmonyOS is now open source"

kohtatsu — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 07:25:49 +0000

Growth hacking, if you can consider that logic.

New comment by kohtatsu in "Huawei’s HarmonyOS is now open source"

kohtatsu — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 07:24:22 +0000

This is parody, tho I had to double check.

New comment by kohtatsu in "Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)"

kohtatsu — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:19:08 +0000

I was just reading up an ANSI escape sequences a few days ago, this is gold.

I adore the format and writing style too.

New comment by kohtatsu in "Apple accuses Epic of “Willful, brazen, and unlawful” conduct"

kohtatsu — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 02:56:36 +0000

Darn, I was hoping the weekly review of high profile legal cases was real.

I'd pay $5/month.

New comment by kohtatsu in "Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”"

kohtatsu — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 01:19:19 +0000

You fell directly in line with what they wanted.

It's reasonable to expect companies to honour their spec sheets, and to not lie in their firmware.

Once they're caught doing otherwise it's important to hold them accountable, not throw our hands up and pay up anyway.