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New comment by someonehere in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

someonehere — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:05:33 +0000

Bad parenting wins again while everyone else suffers.

New comment by someonehere in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"

someonehere — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:18:17 +0000

I liked my one and ride in Cruise however the problem I had was it took 10 minutes or so for my car to depart.

Car arrives. I get in. The car is sitting there getting ready to depart but not moving. After a few minutes I hit the button to call support. Someone tells me it's about ready to go. Ten minutes later it starts leaving.

I have no idea why it took so long to start but it wasn't a great experience.

If you (or anyone else from Cruise) can explain what was going on, that would settle the difference in experience to me.

New comment by someonehere in "An annual blast of Pacific cold water did not occur"

someonehere — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:48:25 +0000

The YT channel Space Weather News covered this and the cause. Worth knowing what’s really going on with our universe.

New comment by someonehere in "Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon"

someonehere — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:44:43 +0000

Part of me feels Intel was too high on the horse for years and the little ideas that were innovative were ignored. I knew Intel would be in this condition when Apple decided to move off of Intel. Apple’s switch was the canary in the coal mine. Intel wasn’t innovating and giving Apple what they wanted. So Apple, much like the little guys, found a way to innovate without them.

New comment by someonehere in "Backlash to artificial dye grows as Kraft ditches coloring for Kool-Aid, Jell-O"

someonehere — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:59:50 +0000

It’s bizarre, reading people here defending the artificial food dyes. Most of these are derived from petroleum. The stuff that comes out of the ground and powers your car and lubricates gears. It’s in your food and you’re OK with that?

New comment by someonehere in "Backlash to artificial dye grows as Kraft ditches coloring for Kool-Aid, Jell-O"

someonehere — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:57:28 +0000

One of the lesser known things about heavily processed dog food is kind of dark. People don’t realize that they use animals from shelters that have been put down in dog food. It’s been a while, but I had read a few years ago that they found three amounts of the medicine they used to put animals down in dog food. I also recall your before that reading that some shelters make money by selling the dead animals they put down to food processing companies.

New comment by someonehere in "Whole Foods' primary distributor forced to shut down systems after cyberattack"

someonehere — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:18:42 +0000

I was in two different WF over the last few days in different parts of California. Their produce aisles and dairy were really low on inventory. I guess I know why.

New comment by someonehere in "An end to all this prostate trouble?"

someonehere — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000

I’m glad we’re starting to talk about the prostate because I feel like for a long time. Men have been reluctant to talk about this more and more in society. I feel like women have their fair share problems as they get older, but men have equal amount of problems too we just don’t like to talk about it.

New comment by someonehere in "Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won't give their digital lives back"

someonehere — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:53:39 +0000

I don’t trust Apple for this exact reason.

For those interested in the silver bullet to backup iCloud.

Get a Mac mini with enough space for your photo library and wire it into your network. Sign into iCloud.

For photos open the app and change the settings to store full res photos locally.

Enable iCloud desktop and documents sync.

Two options

1 - Sign up for Backblaze and ensure you map the folders from iCloud and photos that are being synced to the device. Let it run and do a full sync. I use this option.

2 - Buy an external drive with a lot of space and use Carbon Copy Cloner to mirror your drive. The caveat is your at the mercy of a local copy that a home fire or electrical incident can destroy.

I like Backblaze for the sheer constant syncing it does and they allow me to set up an encryption key so they don’t have access to my data.

New comment by someonehere in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

someonehere — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 02:01:23 +0000

If you haven’t been keeping up with Plex, self-hosters like myself and others are up in arms over the client rewrite. It feels like the Sonos update for us. Broken features. Useful functionality removed. UI that’s more streaming focused than self-hosting like it used to be.

If you haven’t gone down the Plex path yet, don’t right now as the community and developers sort out their roadmap. Plex seems to be open to feedback, but a lot of us feel betrayed. They had open user testing for the new apps but they didn’t implement or fix any of the reported issues.

New comment by someonehere in "In the 1980s we also downloaded software from TV"

someonehere — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:57:45 +0000

I worked with the guy that created that. It wasn’t at TiVO but a gaming company. He said it was also how they updated the TiVO firmware. It’s been years but I recall him telling the story about how they updated the TiVO using channels that were encoded a specific way.

New comment by someonehere in "My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened?"

someonehere — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:27:13 +0000

Before anyone asks, you can buy a TV that’s dumb. Look on Sony or Samsung or business kiosk TVs. I bought some Sony kiosk TVs for conference rooms when building out an office ones. They can be left on forever have the same great quality and cost a little bit more. But they’re dumb in the end and they turn on fast.

New comment by someonehere in "I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud"

someonehere — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 02:53:32 +0000

I bought an LG a few years ago and connected it to WiFi. I have no idea what I need to program for special wash cycles, but it’s nice getting a notification on my watch when a load is done or having issues.

New comment by someonehere in "Why do transit agencies keep falling for the hydrogen bus myth?"

someonehere — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 02:34:44 +0000

Almost every Shell station in San Francisco, remodeled and added hydrogen refueling stations about two or three years ago. Now they sit idle or turned off.

If green energy were a money making business, the oil companies would get into it tomorrow.

New comment by someonehere in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Meets Subpar Software"

someonehere — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:09:49 +0000

I still remember the story of an IMAP bug Apple mail had for years and years. I forgot exactly what the bug was that was open with Apple, but Apple’s way of addressing the bug was turning off the feature in an update and closing out the ticket.

New comment by someonehere in "Ask HN: Do you still use Google?"

someonehere — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:51:48 +0000

ChatGPT has replaced Google searches for me. 15 years ago I could ask Google a question and get a pretty accurate to what I wanted. From there I would rabbit hole into my search.

ChatGPT gives me the answer I need now. From there I can ask more questions and it rabbit holes for me.

New comment by someonehere in "Show HN: Mikey – No bot meeting notetaker for Windows"

someonehere — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:03:07 +0000

Granola. Best meeting app I’ve used. I have a notepad that takes markup I can add myself and it intelligently fills in the notes I wrote.

eg. I put bullet points with something like “updates from Steve?” And do that for everyone during our check in. When the meeting ends it takes all their conversation in the transcript and fills in my markup with the notes.

I’ve attended meetings where I had zero participation and focus on doing something else during the meeting. When it’s over it gives me a detailed summary of the meeting. It felt like I had an assistant taking detailed, ordered notes for me. It’s almost like that scene from the movie Old School. Rodney Dangerfield sent his secretary to stenograph the lecture time so he didn’t have to attend and she gets called out by the professor. Felt just like that kind of transcribing.

New comment by someonehere in "Show HN: Mikey – No bot meeting notetaker for Windows"

someonehere — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:50:12 +0000

I’m using Granola for macOS and it’s limited to that platform. Hoping this is a good windows alternative.

Wondering if anyone out there has an OSS macOS client similar to this one so I can ditch payware.

New comment by someonehere in "Oil giant Shell walks away from major New Jersey offshore wind farm"

someonehere — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 03:00:05 +0000

The show Landman makes good reasoning about green energy being a good investment by energy companies. If green energy made them money they’d get in on it tomorrow.

New comment by someonehere in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

someonehere — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:13:03 +0000

There’s proof from Federal agencies that they knew the algorithm was intentionally being weaponized to agitate and promote domestic protestors. Just look at the Chinese consulate shut down when 45 was in office last in Texas. It was rumored to be the base of operations for where the Chinese were weaponizing the algorithm against American interests.