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New comment by mimsee in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

mimsee — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:51:38 +0000

If you're referring to Google Safe Browsing lists, all major browsers check agains the same list. I've managed to get mine listed there and immediately banned on all major browsers.

New comment by mimsee in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

mimsee — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:19:52 +0000

Aren't most Show HN's plugs to whatever they're presenting?

New comment by mimsee in "Apple Gives FBI a User's Real Name Hidden Behind 'Hide My Email' Feature"

mimsee — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:23:49 +0000

I didn't know you could SEND mail with Hide My Email feature, but apparently this is a feature directly in the Mail app. Tapping the From in the mail compose screen opens a dropdown of possible addresses to use or create a new one with Hide My Email.

New comment by mimsee in "How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem"

mimsee — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:53:40 +0000

> So perhaps a better solution was to teach them to setup their own git repo in a cheap or free uni server.

And then lose access after graduating. Great idea!

New comment by mimsee in "Europe's cookie nightmare is crumbling. EC wants preference at browser level"

mimsee — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:32:34 +0000

IMO there isn't a cookie nightmare but rather a tracking nightmare. I'm not fully up-to-date on if there is a separate EU directive on cookies on the internet specifically, but the GDPR is the _General_ Data Protection Regulation. Meaning that if I go and collect your info on pen and paper, I must then ask your permission on how I process and share that data, especially if sharing that data is not necessary to complete the main transaction but is somehow done auxiliary to the main purpose. (e.g. I buy a pillow online, my info is used to target ads for me.)

GDPR itself doesn't require consent for functional cookies. For example, Apple.com does not have a cookie consent box _at all_.

On tracking specifically, I feel there are at least two levels. One that happens in-browser by third party companies. These are your classic advertisements. The other is more first-party backend-heavy. These would be your local grocery store using your purchase history linked to your membership card and using that data to create analytics and targeted ads etc.

So creating a browser setting would likely not toggle all tracking away, just the ones that are "annoying" while browsing.

New comment by mimsee in "The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory"

mimsee — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:12:00 +0000

"According to Wikipedia..." aargh Wikipedia is not the source!

New comment by mimsee in "Stealing from Google"

mimsee — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:26:52 +0000

If I wanted to achieve the same result, that is to serve assets of others from my own domain, I'd just create a custom endpoint like /api/user-avatar/:userId and an action proxies the actual image from google, maybe keep a cached copy for some time to not have to redownload the image on every request.

New comment by mimsee in "macOS becomes iOS: Safari video controls"

mimsee — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:45:00 +0000

Apple also built a custom video element for web they use for their events. See the Apple Events page[0] and click "Watch the event". It also seems to dim the video when mousing over. I kinda like the design, but the animations seem a tad bit slow.

[0]: https://www.apple.com/apple-events/

New comment by mimsee in "Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem [pdf]"

mimsee — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:36:05 +0000

Wouldn't deprioritizing interfere with regular web traffic these days, given that close to one third of non-bot traffic reported by Cloudflare is over UDP with HTTP/3[0]?

[0]: https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage?dateRange=52...

New comment by mimsee in "Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge"

mimsee — Tue, 20 May 2025 12:21:00 +0000

The costs were already studied in 2023 and were deemed cost ineffective[0]. The report contained three main strategies (VE1, VE2, VE3) with A & B plans for the first two. Costs would be in the range of 10-15+ billion with 15-20+ years allocated for construction time[1, p. 47].

[0]: https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410829/report-shows-that-cha...

[1]: https://api.hankeikkuna.fi/asiakirjat/697c1f25-332b-40ed-9d6...

New comment by mimsee in "I can’t understand Apple’s Critical Alert policy (2023)"

mimsee — Thu, 08 May 2025 10:37:14 +0000

If this reminder app to take meds can't access this API, how can HomeAssistant's iOS app access it where, I the user, can base the trigger for a critical notification on virtually anything?

New comment by mimsee in "FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado"

mimsee — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:56:04 +0000

So if AI research is dual-use tech, would an AI researcher be dual-use human, and get travel restricted because of weapons export controls. Dude is a weapon!

New comment by mimsee in "AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU"

mimsee — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:34:05 +0000

Are IP addresses considered PII or not? I remember there being multiple conflicting conclusions on that

New comment by mimsee in "Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf]"

mimsee — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:52:58 +0000

So all Google services would disappear from the App Store because it could be argued that it provides tremendous value for Google to have their services there? The $100 USD /year fee, even if withdrawn, would trigger it, since it's a contract, right?

New comment by mimsee in "IMG_0001"

mimsee — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:19:31 +0000

Mine was a horse f*cking another horse. Reminder to not browse HN while at work. Closed the site pretty fast after that.

New comment by mimsee in "Apple may stop producing Vision Pro by the end of 2024"

mimsee — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:40:34 +0000

Isn't it part of the Apple way to release expensive and weird products at times to keep Apple in the minds of people as a luxury brand. Things like $400 wheels for Mac Pro or the $1000 stand for the external display.

I can see AVP as being half luxury and half tech-demo/devkit for a more budget friendly device.

New comment by mimsee in "WordPress.org's latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin"

mimsee — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:24:05 +0000

After this, who would trust his second try?

New comment by mimsee in "WordPress.org's latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin"

mimsee — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:19:42 +0000

> brick all WP installations using ACF on a WP Engine host

That tactic would work, if WP Engine had access to the update server hosted at wordpress.org.

New comment by mimsee in "WordPress.org's latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin"

mimsee — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:16:52 +0000

As far as I've understood, the copyleftness of the Wordpress's GPL tainting themes and plugins is or at least has been controversial (I'm not in the WP community, but have read stuff regarding this drama). Wordpress itself uses React and other non-GPL licensed software in the core that yes, may be GPL-compatible but doesn't enforce everything to be GPL'd. When it comes to themes and plugins, I'd consider that userspace, akin to installing Spotify on Ubuntu doesn't make Spotify suddenly GPL'd.

New comment by mimsee in "Passwordless: a different kind of hell?"

mimsee — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:51:08 +0000

Yeah and would passkeys themselves prevent the session from expiring? Notion et al can still have short lived sessions on their client apps.