Hacker News: phrz

New comment by phrz in "I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock"

phrz — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:53:28 +0000

This is actually the iPhone nightstand mode which activates when the phone is on magsafe and in landscape.

New comment by phrz in "WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing"

phrz — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:40:23 +0000

This has existed for every web engine since time immemorial, calling out Safari is misleading. Firefox calls them "site interventions" and Chrome calls them "patches" rather than Safari/WebKit's "quirks".

New comment by phrz in "J&J can contest evidence linking its talc to cancer, US judge rules"

phrz — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:26:39 +0000

Federal Rule of Evidence 706 already provides for court-appointed experts which report to the court and the parties and for whom the costs are shared. But a battle of the parties' experts can allow the jury to weigh the credibility of the opposing opinions after the court has vetted them. J&J can afford the right experts, and the collective resources of plaintiffs (and the investment of their counsel) can easily match this.

New comment by phrz in "Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file"

phrz — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 22:48:21 +0000

Safari does this with .webarchive files

New comment by phrz in "Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]"

phrz — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:04:35 +0000

Not a reach, it's called "unlicensed practice of law" and it's a crime.

New comment by phrz in "Ask HN: Is it impossible to use Kagi as default search engine on iOS?"

phrz — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:26:45 +0000

My recommendation: use xSearch for iOS! It's a Safari extension app so no need to use a nonstandard browser. I use it to give me custom !bang searches for various databases, but it has an option to override the Safari default search engine. It works very reliably on iOS and Mac.

New comment by phrz in "Broadband monopolies push bill that would crush the ability to stand up to them"

phrz — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 18:35:48 +0000

Congress's Commerce Clause power in the Constitution is notorious for being very broadly interpreted in the modern era. Here, Congress is either regulating a "channel" of interstate commerce (the internet) or intrastate economic activity that interferes with interstate commerce (local ISP rules making nationwide ISP business more burdened).

New comment by phrz in "Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative"

phrz — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:35:40 +0000

One of the features DocuSign charges a lot of money for is batch envelopes, like uploading a CSV to fill out fields and send to different recipients (basically Mail Merge). Is this something that could work in DocuSeal?

New comment by phrz in "Every Signature Is Broken: Insecurity of Microsoft Office’s Ooxml Signatures"

phrz — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:20:54 +0000

The ESIGN Act makes no distinction in the US between whether you cryptographically sign or digitally draw, etc., defining a signature as "an electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically associated with a contract or other record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record."

New comment by phrz in "Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480"

phrz — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 12:15:27 +0000

The T480 with a battery is 1.6kg, or 1.8kg on the extended pack. https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T...

New comment by phrz in "Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (2013)"

phrz — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 17:48:02 +0000

It does really set the tone as "old man yells at cloud" rather than one of valid concern.

New comment by phrz in "ChatGPT Plus"

phrz — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:41:38 +0000

Just guessing, but I think people got so saturated with "Pro" and "Premium" that it started to leave that slimy feeling you get from "Luxury" and other pseudo-fancy marketing terms.

New comment by phrz in "New Mac Mini"

phrz — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:08:46 +0000

Running Chrome on an Apple product is downright wasteful.

New comment by phrz in "Show HN: A color picker for named web colors"

phrz — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:40:46 +0000

Broken on iPhone

New comment by phrz in "Texas solar and wind resources saved consumers nearly $28B over 12 years"

phrz — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 14:40:42 +0000

That begs the question: if oil and gas is steeply subsidized, does government support for renewables simply create a level playing field?

New comment by phrz in "reMarkable 2"

phrz — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 05:38:13 +0000

A wonderful product ruined by a proprietary cloud. The problem with the latter was very promptly proven by the unilateral imposition of a subscription. The product is useless without its cloud.

New comment by phrz in "Texas sues Google for collecting biometric data without consent"

phrz — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:34:02 +0000

Yes, you're thinking of recordings. This suit is brought under the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 503.001 et seq.) [0]. At issue is the alleged unauthorized collection of face and fingerprint biometric data.

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.503.htm

New comment by phrz in "Ask HN: Microsoft SmartScreen is destroying our business"

phrz — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:36:00 +0000

Have you considered that your service, unbeknownst to you, may have been compromised at some point in time, and the source of some phishing page or other malicious material?

Besides that possibility, if your business is truly being "destroyed," have you contemplated retaining counsel to escalate things with Microsoft?

New comment by phrz in "Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as 'Not My King' tag grows"

phrz — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 23:43:28 +0000

Please read Letter from Birmingham Jail.

New comment by phrz in "Elon’s Out"

phrz — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:12:20 +0000

Are you under the impression that judges presiding over civil cases cannot exercise their inherent power (in some jurisdictions) to jail those in (severe) contempt of court?