<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mbirth</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mbirth</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:37:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mbirth" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It will be the equivalent of that Excel =COPILOT(“sum the numbers above”) meme.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:05:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395894</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395894</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "Introducing Toast 1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was looking forward to a new version of the macOS CD/DVD burning software.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:38:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304901</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304901</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "Dear people who work at the airport"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, from the conversations I overheard these people have never heard of those 1-litre bag rules for flights in the EU. So, they clearly haven't even looked at all those posters.</p>
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<p>Doesn’t work. I was in a queue at SXF airport once. Everybody in the queue passed at least 5 whiteboard-sized posters explaining in detail that you need a 1 litre bag and what’s supposed to go in there. Also, what things you need to present at the check. Those same posters lined the walls of the hall. Yet basically every second person acted completely surprised when the security officer asked for their 1 litre bag. It’s as if those people forgot their brain at home and were all on autopilot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:31:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301049</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301049</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Notifications can carry metadata like specific alert sounds or priorities. High priorities will even break through silence modes of your phone.<p>And you get a nice client with icons for each notification source, can filter by them, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:19:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300860</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300860</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, you can set it for each appointment individually.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:47:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286813</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286813</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "Pixel Watch 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm fully locked into Apple Watches as I'm using these features regularly. Not sure whether that counts as a power user.<p>- Time<p>- Notifications (also: dismissing a notification on the watch also removes it from the phone)<p>- Smart Stack (relevant info pops up automatically)<p>- Wakeup alarm<p>- Timers<p>- Payments<p>- Express Travel mode (yes, I'm aware of the vulnerability)<p>- Siri (especially great with the upcoming Siri AI)<p>- Medication tracking<p>- Heart rate monitoring, Sleep tracking, Sleep apnoea detection, ECG<p>- Phone calls while the phone is in a different room<p>- controlling Home devices<p>- automatic tracking of hikes or walks<p>Charging has never been an issue for me. I put it on the charger while I sit at the computer or game console in the evening and when I go to bed later, it's fully charged and ready for the night and the next day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:45:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284560</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It would also be nice to have a configurable transportation choice for the time to leave notice.<p>If you set a location, you can tap on “Travel Time” and select whether you want to go by car, public transport, bicycle, or walk.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:20:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204799</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204799</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "Show HN: SIEMatic, a fair-sourced observability and security platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Someone is a fan of SIEMENS SIMATIC PLCs, it seems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:21:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174513</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But JSON doesn’t allow you to run it through an XSLT and get a normal webpage out of it, does it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:59:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142861</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "Firefox 153.0 Beta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m waiting for the Gemini people to (re-)discover HTML 3.2 or 4.0. Maybe this then becomes a slightly bigger movement as all current browsers should support it and there are plenty much smaller/more efficient browsers available from back in the time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:21:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987012</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987012</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "In Germany if you say a restaurant is just ok they send the gestapo after you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> German law gives businesses unusually broad grounds to challenge online reviews as defamatory. Unlike defamation standards in many other jurisdictions, which typically require proof of deliberate falsehood, German law includes provisions covering what is sometimes described as "malicious gossip" - where the burden of proof shifts to the person who wrote the review. A reviewer may need to demonstrate that their account was factually accurate rather than the business proving it was false.<p>> According to Google's legal help documentation, businesses can simply claim they have no record of a transaction with the reviewer, and unless evidence to the contrary exists, courts have generally ordered platforms to remove the review. The documentation states that the "not-a-customer" argument is the basis for the majority of defamation removal requests Google receives in Germany.<p>> The structural asymmetry is significant. A business filing a defamation complaint through Google's notice-and-action mechanism faces minimal friction - the process involves completing a form and selecting the appropriate legal grounds. The reviewer, by contrast, must respond within a defined timeframe or risk losing their review by default. According to prior reporting by PPC Land, if the reviewer does not respond within the given window, the review is removed regardless of its factual accuracy.<p>Source: <a href="https://ppc.land/google-maps-now-shows-removed-review-counts-in-germany/" rel="nofollow">https://ppc.land/google-maps-now-shows-removed-review-counts...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:26:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967085</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "In Germany if you say a restaurant is just ok they send the gestapo after you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>More like the EU and Germany’s version of the Digital Services Act. Google is just adhering to German law.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:25:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48962580</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48962580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48962580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've had my Fenix 5 Plus swapped once during warranty because of this. And the replacement's contacts started to corrode again when I sold the watch. It might not happen to all models, but some are very prone to it.<p>Just have a look at Google results: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=garmin+watch+contacts+corroding&udm=2" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=garmin+watch+contacts+corrod...</a></p>
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<p>Also ask any serious Garmin watch user about their charging/data contacts. They start to rot away after 1-2 years of being exposed to sweat.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:53:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949500</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Twitter has it, too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:40:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886451</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "Organic Maps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Magic Earth is 10+ years old by now. Only recently they've introduced a (very reasonable, I think) Premium subscription to cover their costs. I guess the live traffic data is bound to some licenses so they can't just "upstream" that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:19:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798937</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "Organic Maps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>iOS has Every Door[1] and there’s also MapComplete[2] which works as a PWA.<p>[1]: <a href="https://every-door.app" rel="nofollow">https://every-door.app</a>  
[2]: <a href="https://mapcomplete.org" rel="nofollow">https://mapcomplete.org</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:53:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796280</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "Organic Maps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There’s Magic Earth which uses OSM map data but also integrates live traffic information. Not sure whether it works in India, though.<p><a href="https://www.magicearth.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.magicearth.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:46:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796219</link><dc:creator>mbirth</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbirth in "Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The intent of DST is to normalize variations in the time of sunrise between summer and winter.<p>The intent of DST was to conserve energy by moving daylight into the evening hours. However, it turned out that people need light in the morning, too, and that DST had no effect on overall energy usage.<p>So, why not end this failed experiment and return to how it was before?<p>And please let's go with standard time, i.e. where the sun is at its highest point around the 12:00 o'clock mark.<p>Office hours are a lame excuse as most modern jobs - especially those of people on this site - surely allow flexible time. And even if not, every company is free to adjust office hours during the year - as it's already done in e.g. Turkey since they got rid of DST. Same with school hours, store opening hours, etc. - I'm pretty sure they will adjust where needed.<p>If you like disturbing your sleep cycle twice a year so much, feel free to change the wakeup time on your alarm clock whenever you wish.<p>(If it weren’t such a hassle with date changes, I'd vote for world-wide UTC, btw. And I'd love some unified decimal date/time system even more.)</p>
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