Hacker News: notemaker

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

notemaker — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:06:25 +0000

My condolences. I don't have any advice, but you may be able to learn something from my very similar experience.

https://skogsbrus.xyz/dont-put-all-your-apples-in-one-basket...

New comment by notemaker in "Vim Racer"

notemaker — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:57:41 +0000

I've had a similar idea on my backburner for two years, as a fun project to dabble in Elixir, but this is just so much more _fun_ than my version which looks like an admin page that just happens to have a Vim canvas on it.

Well done!

New comment by notemaker in "Ask HN: Which alternative to Python for personnal use would you recommend?"

notemaker — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 19:59:49 +0000

Elixir is really fun. It hits the same spot for me as Ruby does for many others, bringing joy when writing it.

New comment by notemaker in "DigiCert Revocation Incident (CNAME Domain Validation)"

notemaker — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 04:46:07 +0000

Can someone explain why this issue deserves a 24h notice?

Seems more reasonable to me to have a much longer deprecation notice.

New comment by notemaker in "Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27"

notemaker — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:46:51 +0000

Really impressed with how thoughtful _and_ fast they are delivering on their type system.

New comment by notemaker in "Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation"

notemaker — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 18:50:48 +0000

FWIW, it's not self hosted. I use Fastmail. Thanks for the link about .xyz though, I was not aware it is associated with spam.

New comment by notemaker in "Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation"

notemaker — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:04:27 +0000

In hindsight, yes that was a bad move (especially considering that my work laptop is still locked to my banned ID…)

As an Apple noob at the time, I assumed that if my MDM-managed device prompted me to log in with my Apple ID, that it of course would be an allowed action.

With regards to data being shared, the only thing I noticed was wifi passwords and peripherals pairing (apple keyboard).

New comment by notemaker in "Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation"

notemaker — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 08:32:54 +0000

With risk of being spammy, this is probably the most relevant discussion I've seen so far on HN w.r.t my experience of being locked out from my Apple ID.

I hope legislation will force Apple to step up and be more transparent / helpful.

https://skogsbrus.xyz/dont-put-all-your-apples-in-one-basket...

New comment by notemaker in "Ask HN: Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives?"

notemaker — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:07:30 +0000

True, but Apple specifically in my case was abhorrently indifferent to the consequences and their support structure is entirely unable to help you. If you have a dedicated storage provider, you lose their single service only. With Apple, you lose everything you have attached to your account which carries a much higher risk.

See https://skogsbrus.xyz/dont-put-all-your-apples-in-one-basket... for more info.

New comment by notemaker in "Ask HN: Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives?"

notemaker — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 19:40:16 +0000

It seems to be extremely rare, but do bear in mind that if Apple bans your account (Apple Id) you will lose access to your icloud files irrevocably.

See my previous posts on the matter for more info.

New comment by notemaker in "Ask HN: What does the day to day look like for software engineers working on AI"

notemaker — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:00:37 +0000

Read Deep Learning with Python [1]. It's ok not to understand everything, but doing the labs will be invaluable.

That book should set you up with the fundamentals. Pytorch is the defacto standard right now for training; during deployment you will use whatever your deployment setup allows (e.g. embedded devices typically have their own inference frameworks).

Python is the lingua franca for anything in machine learning, but other languages are used where necessary for performance or for ecosystem benefits.

[1]: https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-python

New comment by notemaker in "Ask HN: What does the day to day look like for software engineers working on AI"

notemaker — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:50:54 +0000

I'd recommend moving to development that interfaces with ML instead of moving to being an ML practitioner. You have much faster feedback cycles, your work is predictable (engineering, not science), and you don't feel the pressure of never reading enough papers.

To do that you only need to understand the fundamentals of tensors, some basic knowledge on what the big no-nos are within ML development so you can course correct your peers if they break them, and either focus on the operations side of things or deployment. In both cases, having a knack for optimizing bottlenecks will be very helpful since they will be present during both training and inference.

New comment by notemaker in "Tacit programming"

notemaker — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 09:18:42 +0000

I've never found this style readable unless with pipes (bash / elixir), where I love it. With any other syntax, I find it just adds mental overhead. Maybe because you have to read it backwards?

New comment by notemaker in "GitHub bans organizations without warning or explanation"

notemaker — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:19:00 +0000

Automated account suspension is anti-consumerist for the % of false positives. And since that % likely is low, companies get away with ridiculous processes for recovering your account.

I recently encountered this with Apple (https://skogsbrus.xyz/dont-put-all-your-apples-in-one-basket...). After 2 months I'm still fighting them to recover some of my devices.

Don't Put All Your Apples in One Basket

notemaker — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 18:00:34 +0000

Article URL: https://skogsbrus.xyz/dont-put-all-your-apples-in-one-basket/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38774098

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by notemaker in "Tell HN: Apple can lock your account irrevocably without telling you why"

notemaker — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:12:34 +0000

As an aside, even if all else fails and I need to factory reset my devices - I'm not sure if that's straight forward if you can't log in to the currently enrolled Apple ID...

> If asked, enter your Apple ID.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102506

New comment by notemaker in "Tell HN: Apple can lock your account irrevocably without telling you why"

notemaker — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:21:16 +0000

Honestly don't know where I'd even start to initiate such a process (not based in the US). I'm still in a phase where I'm angry enough to keep bugging support / going to Genius bar with the issue.

Tell HN: Apple can lock your account irrevocably without telling you why

notemaker — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:41:05 +0000

I've been in support with Apple three times now about my Apple ID being deactivated. All my Apple devices prompt me with an error like "This Apple ID is not active" now and again.

Any Apple service I try to log in to will show this error, including password reset or any other support function that requires you to be logged in.

Can I simply log out from iCloud and carry on without an Apple ID? No, I need to log in to the account in order to remove it from my devices, but I can't since it's not active...

My account has been active for over 6 months. This started happening two days after I bought my first iPhone from the Apple store in SF.

My first contact with their support was good. It seemed like they recognized the issue and they were able to reactivate the account the next day. However, the day after that the account got deactivated again. I got in contact with them again, and at that point they could do nothing.

Apple Support seems to only be able to reactivate an account once. They can't even tell me why the account has been deactivated.

When I asked them to escalate this to engineers, they said that the "Senior Apple Support" is the highest level of escalation I can get and that there's nothing else that I or they can do.

They recommended resetting all my devices to factory settings.

I'm just dumbstruck by how absurd this situation is. Thousands of dollars invested in their ecosystem and they can't even tell me why my account has been locked? And their recommendation is to wipe all my devices??

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38625875

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by notemaker in "Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?"

notemaker — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:23:36 +0000

Pretty happy with my existing workflow. It started out with a photo organization script a couple of years ago that I ran manually and has now developed into a fully automatic system.

1. syncthing uploads photos from my phone to my NAS (receive only)

2. scheduled systemd service (hourly) on my NAS reads newly received photos, renames them by date, moves it to my photos catalog

3. photoprism starts a scan of the photo library (triggered by systemd when 2. finishes)

4. weekly systemd service syncs the library to backblaze

New comment by notemaker in "Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?"

notemaker — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:30:32 +0000

How does it fare for bilingual users?