Hacker News: leoxiong

New comment by leoxiong in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

leoxiong — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:31:26 +0000

It’s common in Australia for retailers to offer discounts or reward points for gift cards.

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/product/apple-gift-card

New comment by leoxiong in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

leoxiong — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 06:22:11 +0000

You can request an archive of all your data (including photos and drive) in 25gb chunks.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102208

New comment by leoxiong in "Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket"

leoxiong — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:26:25 +0000

There are companies in that space.

https://www.spinlaunch.com/

New comment by leoxiong in "Medical aid in dying, my health, and so on"

leoxiong — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:57:32 +0000

I think this view is needlessly reductive and lacks compassion and understanding for their suffering. Not every problem should be approached with an engineering mindset.

New comment by leoxiong in "Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies"

leoxiong — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:32:42 +0000

I never understood why the HTTP Do Not Track header wasn’t used to signal cookie preferences. It seemed like the perfect solution.

New comment by leoxiong in "Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features"

leoxiong — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:09:37 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito

New comment by leoxiong in "Beeper Mini is back"

leoxiong — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 23:37:14 +0000

Why are people obsessed with “breaking into” Apple’s walled garden? There are already secure cross platform messaging services like Signal or WhatsApp that has feature parity with iMessage. This is a solved problem that doesn’t need another solution.

New comment by leoxiong in "OpenTF is now OpenTofu"

leoxiong — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 11:22:54 +0000

Yeah, I thought it was something to do with the Noto fonts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts

New comment by leoxiong in "Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances"

leoxiong — Fri, 05 May 2023 22:14:17 +0000

AWS Cost Explorer gives a pretty good breakdown. There’s also Cost Anomaly Detection https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-cost-anomaly-...

New comment by leoxiong in "The Diderot Effect"

leoxiong — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 01:50:54 +0000

Interesting. I guess this partly explains lifestyle inflation.

Also came across this blog[1] after reading the wiki page.

[1] https://jamesclear.com/diderot-effect

New comment by leoxiong in "Pwned or Bot"

leoxiong — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:15:19 +0000

> If an email address hasn't been seen in a data breach before, it may be a newly created one especially for the purpose of gaming your system.

I’ve started using iCloud Hide My Email which generates a random email that forwards to my account email. This assumption is going to cause issues.