Hacker News: soapdog

New comment by soapdog in "macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage"

soapdog — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:05:01 +0000

because some people don't want AI and would rather even the files were not present in their computer.

New comment by soapdog in "ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you"

soapdog — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:16:58 +0000

> All cameras (glasses, phones, etc.) then blur your face in recordings.

that requires too much goodwill and effort from the makers of such devices. They know their audience wouldn't want that. They don't give a shit about what people being filmed think.

New comment by soapdog in "Ask HN: What happens when Claude Code goes away?"

soapdog — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:12:57 +0000

bliss, that is what happens when it goes away.

New comment by soapdog in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"

soapdog — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:29:50 +0000

Wtf with everyone suggesting new names? Is this an LLM thing?

New comment by soapdog in "Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening"

soapdog — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:14:50 +0000

Hence why I wear an old pebble to this day. Smart where it matters but not a data siphoning device.

New comment by soapdog in "Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?"

soapdog — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:30:34 +0000

by not having them at all.

New comment by soapdog in "Asus Bike Booster"

soapdog — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:06:30 +0000

Gonna be stolen from any parked bike in the UK…

New comment by soapdog in "Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable"

soapdog — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:20:19 +0000

I think it is named Rio cause the author is from Rio de Janeiro state...

New comment by soapdog in "NetBSD 11.0"

soapdog — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:50:17 +0000

Isn’t that choice mostly dictated by BSD license allowing them to keep things proprietary instead of GPL requiring them to release their changes?

New comment by soapdog in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

soapdog — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:08 +0000

Gives them a line to justify removing projects in the future if they are caught violating the ToS.

New comment by soapdog in "HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C"

soapdog — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:20:35 +0000

I have the clones from swiss micros.

https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm16c

They are more portable and really good.

We need to own our computing experience

soapdog — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:07:40 +0000

Article URL: https://andregarzia.com/2026/05/we-need-to-own-our-computing-experience.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306874

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by soapdog in "$100 to upgrade Fresh IDE for ePub TUI reading"

soapdog — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:15:29 +0000

guess, I was mistaken. Godspeed there, hope you get what you want.

New comment by soapdog in "$100 to upgrade Fresh IDE for ePub TUI reading"

soapdog — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:16:37 +0000

I don't think that amount will make anyone willing to take in the massive task of making an epub3 compatible reader for TUI. That is a big feature.

New comment by soapdog in "Claude for Creative Work"

soapdog — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:45:05 +0000

No.

New comment by soapdog in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

soapdog — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:46:40 +0000

have you checked the MNT Reform Next?

AI as a Fascist Artifact

soapdog — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:23:43 +0000

Article URL: https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862004

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by soapdog in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

soapdog — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:09:35 +0000

Can we add Photos to that list? Can we add it twice cause it is that bad.

New comment by soapdog in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

soapdog — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:22:44 +0000

oh mozilla, why don't you just focus on Firefox. That is all we want.

New comment by soapdog in "YouTube now lets you set your Shorts feed limit to zero"

soapdog — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:03:50 +0000

apparently if you set to zero, it just disables the feature but I can't see that option here. I don't use shorts at all, I want the feature gone from my ui