Hacker News: scopecreep

New comment by scopecreep in "Is the Micro Machines guy still the fastest-talking man on the planet? (2016)"

scopecreep — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:05:17 +0000

Didn't some unattended kid choke on one and their parents sued?

New comment by scopecreep in "NFL warns teams not to destroy their Surface Pro tablets"

scopecreep — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:28:19 +0000

Seems like it would be but in my (limited) experience watching NFL games the announcers just call them iPads anyway. Then they or their co commentator corrects themselves with the sponsor friendly Brand Name.

New comment by scopecreep in "Boffins build microphone safety kit to detect eavesdroppers"

scopecreep — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:40:11 +0000

I just blacklist the device driver for my integrated mic & webcam in Windows with group policies. Good luck monitoring me with a mic that the OS doesn't even recognize.

I ever want to record anything I have an actual mic and audio interface that I use that I can unplug when not in use.

New comment by scopecreep in "Last Pass Hacked"

scopecreep — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 03:09:06 +0000

I'd do a password manager and a VPN provider. Then spend a ton of money on ads on podcasts and youtube videos (which is odd since neither VPN hosting nor password managers make enough money to pay for that many ads).

They'd probably all have a similar catchy name. Maybe one that implies that it's from a foreign country known for having more consumer protections but is actually based 10 minutes outside of Langley Virginia.

Oh wait...

New comment by scopecreep in "My son has set the house up with a Pi-Hole"

scopecreep — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:16:44 +0000

AdGuard allows 'approved ads', which for some of us is a dealbreaker.

New comment by scopecreep in "A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tractors Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave"

scopecreep — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 18:43:19 +0000

Modern tractors are more technologically advanced than a Tesla.

If you can run a modern planter or sprayer with autodrive/gps then copy/pasting a string of text into a terminal is not going to be a problem.

New comment by scopecreep in "Why Firefox Deserves Its Sad Decline"

scopecreep — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 14:34:48 +0000

Firefox the browser is great. The developers are great. Pretty much everyone else at mozilla (the execs, marketing, and the graphic designers that feel the need to reinvent some minor part of the wheel every 3-5 years to justify their existence) can all pound sand.

Someone needs to do to Firefox what Firefox did to Netscape, except this time instead of ditching a legacy codebase they need to ditch their woeful corporate leadership.

New comment by scopecreep in "Tell HN: Brave Browser is still messing with affiliate links"

scopecreep — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 02:39:41 +0000

Brave browser is literally an intelligence gathering honeypot funded by the guy who created a big data analytics company with an extensive history of working with intelligence services [1].

But yeah. That darn google being the default search provider is very troubling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies

New comment by scopecreep in "Gambling and Adult content DNS blocking using Mullvad VPN"

scopecreep — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:24:04 +0000

Doesn't AdGuard allow 'approved ads'?

New comment by scopecreep in "Playstation Store removes Studiocanal movies, no refunds offered"

scopecreep — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:30:51 +0000

They have to be decrypted to be played back. The analog hole cannot be closed.

New comment by scopecreep in "The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes (2020)"

scopecreep — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 07:53:17 +0000

Apple made over $4 billion selling ads last year.

New comment by scopecreep in "macOS coreaudiod high CPU utilization with Firefox or Chrome"

scopecreep — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 01:08:59 +0000

Is this why my 2021 iMac sounds like a jet engine spinning up when I watch a youtube video in Firefox?

I just assumed this was yet another attempt by google to sabotage the competition.

New comment by scopecreep in "Mac: It Just Works–Terribly"

scopecreep — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 21:27:14 +0000

I eventually settled on CursorSense to fix this because nothing else I tried actually fixed it. Sucks to have to pay $10 to fix something that is a basic OS setting on literally every other modern desktop OS.

New comment by scopecreep in "The $100K+ forgery scandal that’s roiling PC game collecting"

scopecreep — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:20:31 +0000

Assuming you can trust them. All 3 of the major baseball card grading companies are being investigated by the feds for widespread fraud right now. Same companies also grade Pokemon & Magic the Gathering cards and there have been some high profile fakes of those (that were graded as authentic) highlighted recently as well.

New comment by scopecreep in "Making macOS Behave Itself"

scopecreep — Thu, 26 May 2022 00:35:35 +0000

I think it also requires a M1 processor.

New comment by scopecreep in "Hackers can infect 100 Lenovo models with unremovable malware"

scopecreep — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 22:46:28 +0000

Why anyone ever buys anything other than a ThinkPad (if you absolutely must go with Lenovo) I have no idea. Pretty much every other line of laptops they make is infamously bad, and has been for decades.

New comment by scopecreep in "First Raspberry Pi Powered Ultra-Small Form Factor Rugged for Defense, Aerospace"

scopecreep — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 10:30:33 +0000

https://rpilocator.com/ is handy for anyone looking for them in stock anywhere.

New comment by scopecreep in "When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy"

scopecreep — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 07:30:31 +0000

Someone hurts my dog, on my property, with no warrant? And they aren't even cops?

They better bring more than 30 people with them is all I'm saying. And some EMT's because I live like an hour from the nearest emergency medical treatment.

New comment by scopecreep in "When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy"

scopecreep — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 07:50:58 +0000

They meet my 2 Rottweilers and my German Shepard?

New comment by scopecreep in "Show HN: Search for a domain expert on Reddit"

scopecreep — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 06:58:36 +0000

But semi-anonymous posts on social media are?

If so there's a lot more Navy SEALs than I was lead to believe.