Hacker News: mass_and_energy

New comment by mass_and_energy in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

mass_and_energy — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:23:34 +0000

Amen. Also, forcing us to tie our local OS into their cloud nonsense is a travesty. Hearing that they will soon disallow updates to those of us that don't capitulate to their cloud-account ransom has kick-started my efforts in formally moving away from Windows. I'd rather lose most games than get a cloud account.

New comment by mass_and_energy in "Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside svg files"

mass_and_energy — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:58:00 +0000

"[...] porn sites have been seeding boobytrapped .svg files [...]"

I see what you did there ;)

New comment by mass_and_energy in "UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US"

mass_and_energy — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:48:25 +0000

"Last month, Meta-owned WhatsApp said it would join Apple’s legal challenge, in a rare collaboration between the Silicon Valley rivals".

Apple makes home computers, mobile devices, AV equipment and productivity/multimedia software.

Meta makes social media platforms, and vr headsets. What exactly makes them "rivals"? WhatsApp vs iMessage? They're two big companies in the same sector, sure, but do they really compete against each other in a major way?

New comment by mass_and_energy in "BlackRock hit by $52B withdrawal from single client"

mass_and_energy — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:10:25 +0000

This might be a bit of an oversimplification, but, if a bank robbery was committed and it came to light that an individual or party was the financier, they too would be investigated and likely charged.

In this case, Black Rock funds war crimes in China and Israel. Shouldn't they too be held accountable, as the financier??

New comment by mass_and_energy in "Show HN: Encode Base64"

mass_and_energy — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:51:05 +0000

What's so different between this and the other sites that already do this?

New comment by mass_and_energy in "Developer angry that App Store is removing game that hasn't been updated in 7 yr"

mass_and_energy — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:49:32 +0000

Shoulda never sold Virtual Game Station, they'd hold the gaming market in their palm today

New comment by mass_and_energy in ""Not second screen enough" – Netflix dumbing down TV for phone usage"

mass_and_energy — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:36:53 +0000

Gen Z as well, I'm not excluding anybody in this

New comment by mass_and_energy in "The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data with ICE"

mass_and_energy — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:34:00 +0000

If you're an American, you're living in the "before times". You need to take action to preserve your freedom, or you'll find yourself in an Orwellian hell hole wondering why you didn't do something when it was much easier to take political action.

New comment by mass_and_energy in ""Not second screen enough" – Netflix dumbing down TV for phone usage"

mass_and_energy — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:25:30 +0000

This is a pathetic example of what happens when entire generations are attention-starved from never not having a screen in front of them...

New comment by mass_and_energy in "SVGs that feel like GIFs"

mass_and_energy — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:28:24 +0000

Fun fact: since an SVG is technically code and not a binary image file, LLMs are capable of writing them! I tested this with Claude Sonnet 4 and within 7 minutes I was able to describe what I wanted the animated logo to do, and it delivered the SVG faithfully. Even embedded it into the README.md

New comment by mass_and_energy in "Lyon Drops Microsoft to Boost Digital Sovereignty"

mass_and_energy — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:24:58 +0000

GIYF

New comment by mass_and_energy in "A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air"

mass_and_energy — Tue, 27 May 2025 21:06:56 +0000

This isn't reddit. Please kindly take your anger, ad homonims, and bad-faith arguments back over there. I'm sorry you had a bad day but nobody in this thread caused it, so take a deep breath.

New comment by mass_and_energy in "New Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S."

mass_and_energy — Tue, 13 May 2025 12:48:25 +0000

Edit: before you -1 this out of homophobia, ask yourself what drives you to do so.

Yeah this is clearly another way that they're trying to make the LGBTQ+ community invisible and in this case make it illegal to discuss anything about them. It's a mask-off attack on about %5 of the population. As a non-American looking in closely, I lament the terrible environment my American LGBTQ+ peers find themselves in at home.

New comment by mass_and_energy in "The polar vortex is hitting the brakes"

mass_and_energy — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:11:54 +0000

Agreed, there's a reason most of the world uses it.

New comment by mass_and_energy in "Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges"

mass_and_energy — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:34:59 +0000

Is there a strong reason people still support HP's printers after so many horror stories?

New comment by mass_and_energy in "Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?"

mass_and_energy — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 17:52:59 +0000

In fairness to Apple? Did they port it? I think you mean "in fairness to the maintainers"

New comment by mass_and_energy in "Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM"

mass_and_energy — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:43:31 +0000

I mean... The gold rush ended about 200 years ago but if you really think Dawson City is worth fighting NATO for, then I suppose that's a choice you can make.

New comment by mass_and_energy in "Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM"

mass_and_energy — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:41:06 +0000

YSK that the people who had their accounts frozen weren't simply protesting in Ottawa; they were blocking international borders to our largest trading partner, effectively holding our economy hostage. This absolutely constitutes behavior that's a danger to our nation so it makes sense to freeze the accounts of the people doing it. To be clear, there were many attempts to settle this without freezing people's bank accounts, but when nothing else works sometimes you have to get out the big guns.

New comment by mass_and_energy in "Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (2013)"

mass_and_energy — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 03:03:44 +0000

What is this "remote system which keeps installing new stuff" that you speak of?

New comment by mass_and_energy in "Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (2013)"

mass_and_energy — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 03:00:12 +0000

This reeks of insecurity