Hacker News: mort96

New comment by mort96 in "EFF is leaving X"

mort96 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:30:55 +0000

> you could just post less or use it for major updates

Why?

New comment by mort96 in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

mort96 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:02:49 +0000

> Work with a large company who won’t pay your 30 or 45 day invoice for 90 days before you broadly decide this.

I have had this experience. I don't see how a chargeback would've helped. Typically, you would invoice someone for time you've worked for them, or sometimes you buy a product from one company and invoice another for the expense.

Chargebacks don't help you get a company to pay your invoice. Debt collectors do.

In any case, this is something different from refunding a purchase as a customer, which was the topic at hand.

New comment by mort96 in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

mort96 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:51:04 +0000

This is true for phones but not for IoT in general.

New comment by mort96 in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

mort96 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:37:34 +0000

I don't think it's helpful to think about this as the company "trying to steal from you". There is no intention here. It's just something that got lost in a bad IT system. You gain nothing from issuing a chargeback. You imperceptibly nudge some statistic and a "banned for life" flag might automatically get flipped in a database. There's no righteous comeuppance here.

You try to contact support, pester them a bit, call someone if possible, and eventually, you may get your money back. If you don't, then you issue the chargeback.

New comment by mort96 in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

mort96 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:26:53 +0000

No it doesn't? The factory programs in the secure boot public keys

New comment by mort96 in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

mort96 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:03:06 +0000

It's to serve the regulators. The Radio Equipment Directive essentially requires the use of secure boot fir new devices.

New comment by mort96 in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

mort96 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:56:17 +0000

I don't understand what point you are making.

New comment by mort96 in "France pulls last gold held in US"

mort96 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:36:13 +0000

So they could sell it again and buy it again and realise another $15b?

New comment by mort96 in "France pulls last gold held in US"

mort96 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:29:10 +0000

But then they bought it again. They had 129 tons of gold, and now they still have 129 tons of gold. Where does the realised gains come from?

New comment by mort96 in "France pulls last gold held in US"

mort96 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:16:43 +0000

The claim is that rising gold prices lead to gains of $15b. As in they started with 129 tons of gold in the US, then they sold that and bought gold in Europe, and in the end, due to rising gold prices, they had 129 tons of gold in Paris plus $15b extra cash. Please explain a hypothetical course of events which makes this plausible.

Keep in mind that 129 tons of gold is worth just a bit more than $15b, so small market fluctuations on the scale of 10% isn't enough by itself.

New comment by mort96 in "France pulls last gold held in US"

mort96 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:08:25 +0000

Is the logic that it's "unrealised" while the gold is stored in the US but becomes "realised" once it is stored in Paris? Why?

New comment by mort96 in "France pulls last gold held in US"

mort96 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:58:54 +0000

Then they made money thanks to gold prices fluctuating, not thanks to gold prices rising?

And how does a 10% market shift lead to gaining $15b, roughly the value of 100 tons of gold, from the sale and re-purchase of 129 tons of gold?

This math ain't mathing.

New comment by mort96 in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

mort96 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:56:59 +0000

Would it count as a "political reason" if their risk management calculations crossed a threshold where it's worth it to move the gold back? I imagine such calculations are done and revised all the time and account for the perceived stability and reliability of a country.

New comment by mort96 in "France pulls last gold held in US"

mort96 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:52:20 +0000

A gain of $15b? That's roughly the value of 100 metric tons of gold, remarkably close to the 129 tons that the article says was moved... did they double the value of their gold?

New comment by mort96 in "France pulls last gold held in US"

mort96 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:47:15 +0000

This doesn't make sense. If they first sold the bars held in the US, then the gold prices rose, then they bought gold in Europe, how the hell did that amount to a capital gain of $15b? How exactly do prices rising over the course of the process lead to these $15b?

New comment by mort96 in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

mort96 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:44:48 +0000

Then they didn't make money as a result of the price rising, which is what the original commenter and article claimed.

New comment by mort96 in "Euro-Office – Your sovereign office"

mort96 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:37:57 +0000

Can you provide sources for the vibe coding allegations?

New comment by mort96 in "Demonstrating Real Time AV2 Decoding on Consumer Laptops"

mort96 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:01:40 +0000

I'm far away from being able to use HEVC on really anything other than my phone. Some patents will have to expire first.

New comment by mort96 in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

mort96 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:34:50 +0000

No, but its primary purpose remains graphics

New comment by mort96 in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

mort96 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:34:11 +0000

What do you mean when you say "run"? Low graphics 45 FPS at 720p? Or ultra graphics 120 FPS at 4k? My assumption is that a fairly large part of that space is inaccessible with the integrated GPU.