Hacker News: overstay8930

New comment by overstay8930 in "UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US"

overstay8930 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:51:27 +0000

The US was never a trusted partner, Europeans just didn’t have a choice. No one company was able to spend the amount of money required to compete with American technology, so nobody did.

Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower, the “friendship” is nothing more than economic interdependency. French aircraft carriers are not using Windows because they trust the US government, their diagnostic software just doesn’t work on anything else.

New comment by overstay8930 in "HDD Clicker generates HDD clicking sounds, based on HDD Led activity"

overstay8930 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 06:15:41 +0000

21% VAT when shipping to the US? No thanks.

New comment by overstay8930 in "DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app"

overstay8930 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:59:19 +0000

This is completely normal in Germany, try and make an app that is too good at IPTV and you get a visit from the police.

New comment by overstay8930 in "DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app"

overstay8930 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 03:28:40 +0000

I mean even putting the politics aside, you do kind of ask for this to happen when you start putting actual pressure on real people. Someone was eventually going to do something about this.

Pretty authoritarian but it's not like this just didn't happen under previous administrations. It just didn't happen publicly. You could definitely get someone visiting you at your door if you made apps that make certain things too easy.

New comment by overstay8930 in "Chimpanzees yawn when observing an android yawn"

overstay8930 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 01:30:24 +0000

My cat yawns after watching me yawn, I assumed this was a universal thing.

New comment by overstay8930 in "Comma 3X: Initial Impressions"

overstay8930 — Fri, 16 May 2025 14:56:20 +0000

The US government made them tie their hands behind their back a few years ago, NHTSA tried to shut down the company so they rebranded their then Comma 2 as a dashcam that might be able to drive your car.

New comment by overstay8930 in "Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment"

overstay8930 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:34:51 +0000

Hybrids are barely mainstream and are growing faster than EVs, Toyota doesn't have anything to worry about for a long time.

New comment by overstay8930 in "Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law"

overstay8930 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:23:33 +0000

Nobody was holding a gun up to my head forcing me to open Facebook or give them money

New comment by overstay8930 in "Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte"

overstay8930 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:01:57 +0000

These guys are massive scammers, I worked with them over multiple projects and the only thing I remember is by the end of each one, everyone was memeing on them for how poorly made everything they did was.

New comment by overstay8930 in "MacBook Air M4"

overstay8930 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 18:31:45 +0000

Their stock price is currently suffering because of how poorly iPhones are doing in places with real competition (i.e. China), the iPhone 16 when put side by side with Chinese phones just makes the iPhone look like a cheap knock-off. Even 90hz would fix most of these problems (and the panel is more than capable of it).

They're fixing it on the iPhone 17 because of the above reasons, but it shows how badly their market research teams are doing that they even remotely thought it was acceptable on the 15, let alone the 16.

New comment by overstay8930 in "MacBook Air M4"

overstay8930 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:30:53 +0000

I know Apple wants to differentiate ProMotion as a Pro feature, but even non-tech people I know are wondering why Android phones run smoother than iPhones. Stuff that would be completely unheard of purely because of how noticeable 60hz vs 120hz is.

Actual reputational damage is going on because of these poor decisions, I’m not surprised iPhones are struggling to obtain new market share. They just look like old and slow phones to most normal people now, “look how nice and smooth it looks” is such an easy selling point compared to trying to pretend people care about whatever Apple Intelligence is.

New comment by overstay8930 in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

overstay8930 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:41:44 +0000

Russia is basically calling the West's bluff that they won't use nukes to enforce their ideology and Russia won. Everyone wants to talk big until it comes time to actually enforce words.

New comment by overstay8930 in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

overstay8930 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:23:17 +0000

EU is united until it comes time to pay the bill

New comment by overstay8930 in "Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral"

overstay8930 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 04:53:19 +0000

Where is something like this illegal?

New comment by overstay8930 in "'Impossible-to-hack' security turns out to be no security"

overstay8930 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:29:18 +0000

The tone is perfect here, you don’t have to play nice with people who are not nice to you.

You only get the benefit of professionalism if you act like one.

New comment by overstay8930 in "Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January"

overstay8930 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:56:23 +0000

NATO doesn’t have to rethink anything, NATO is an extension of EUCOM for all intents and purposes. That’s why the title of Supreme Allied Commander Europe goes to the same guy that runs EUCOM.

New comment by overstay8930 in "ARPA Is Quietly Funding $50-$65 Community-Owned Fiber to Neglected Neighborhoods"

overstay8930 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:45:08 +0000

5G home internet is good enough for 90% of people, so nobody cares to spend money for a product almost nobody is asking for

New comment by overstay8930 in "It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds"

overstay8930 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:47:39 +0000

touch the right HSM in one of these facilities and you get to know what it's like to disappear

New comment by overstay8930 in "AWS paywalling select knowledge base articles, requiring Premium Support plan"

overstay8930 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:25:43 +0000

Yeah we only have support to deal with bugs within AWS's platform itself, and 99% of the time we need to escalate it with our rep anyways.

New comment by overstay8930 in "SolarWinds to Be Acquired by Turn/River Capital"

overstay8930 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:06:36 +0000

They lost too many key contracts after the breach, and they never bothered to fix their reputation.