Hacker News: soundnote

New comment by soundnote in "Mullvad and Daniel Berntsson's Failed Cleanup"

soundnote — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:15:11 +0000

The Paradox is invariably trotted out to justify political censorship far before Popper's own conditions, and frankly most often by some of the most close-minded people I've ever seen. Are they more accepting of some things than the people they want censored? Sure. But in most ways the Paradox people are hidebound bigots who demand everyone toe their lines and never demonstrate tolerance in its original meaning: Suffering the existence of that which you'd rather didn't exist.

New comment by soundnote in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

soundnote — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:00:53 +0000

> Apple could be forced to scan for ANYTHING by repressive regimes including America and China.

Including Europe. Europe is ruled by people who think 1984 was an instruction manual.

New comment by soundnote in "Librepods: AirPods liberated"

soundnote — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:17:39 +0000

I've liked Sony, myself, at least before they shit the bed with firmware. They stayed on better, and had better noise canceling. The transparency was a bit metallic. AirPods in comparison rely a ton on a tight fit for noise canceling, but the transparency is magic. Sadly, I'm more of a noise canceling user.

New comment by soundnote in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

soundnote — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:20:20 +0000

Also just having your stuff available on multiple devices, having it be easy to move devices, etc.

All that said, I don't like the deep desktop-OneDrive type integration, very much a clear, separate sync folders type person, even if I store a bunch of my stuff inside said folder. But Sync Service Kingdoms are to be very clear, it's the one way they will be ~99% benefit, 1% headache.

New comment by soundnote in "Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page"

soundnote — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:31:09 +0000

Logseq isn't abandonware - they're in the process of rebuilding the app from the ground up to be database-driven, rather than house-brand Markdown as the source of truth and a database constructed from the files afterwards.

I'm not saying it's the most likely project to survive, but they've been working in quiet mode for a good while now.

New comment by soundnote in "EFF is leaving X"

soundnote — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:18:48 +0000

Search for:

from:EFF "twitter files" on X. Zip, zilch, nada. Nothing about a large government censorship campaign that especially targeted conservatives.

New comment by soundnote in "EFF is leaving X"

soundnote — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:29:34 +0000

Antiracists are as against racism as North Korea is democratic, and the people's, and as much as the Berlin Wall was an anti-fascist protection rampart and totally not a way to stop people from defecting en masse.

Ostensible names are just that, ostensible. They do not always describe reality and are often chosen to mislead. With woke antiracists, that is exactly the case.

I've seen "antiracist" lecturers say kindly silly little things like "white people are born to not being human", an "antiracist" teacher saying white people are born human, but invariably abused by their parents "into whiteness". The torrent of absolutely blatant anti-white racism from these sorts of people is comical in its proportion, and neverending. Their every campaign is "we'll include sparkles everyone sparkles (NOT YOU), so join us at..."

Somehow, it's hard to take the epithet seriously. I wonder why.

New comment by soundnote in "EFF is leaving X"

soundnote — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:01:37 +0000

That's the thing: They choose leftist allegiances over their ostensible job. For example, search for "twitter files" on the EFF's Twitter account. Nothing. Blatant government effort to censor people. Zip, zilch, nada.

Now they abandon X that's become more free, and head for Bluesky and Mastodon, which are basically recreations of the stifling atmosphere of pre-Musk Twitter.

Freedom for their favoured people to do what they like, perhaps. But for me and others? Nah, not on the program.

New comment by soundnote in "Hungary Is a Laboratory for Illiberal Nationalism. The Results Are In"

soundnote — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:47:58 +0000

How so? Cat are open borders people, no?

New comment by soundnote in "Microsoft Discontinuing Publisher. Alternatives?"

soundnote — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:34:58 +0000

No sense in not trying out Affinity, I think.

New comment by soundnote in "Microsoft Discontinuing Publisher. Alternatives?"

soundnote — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:25:06 +0000

Canva's operated on a freemium model for years with their own main product, and they have a lot of stuff on the Canva side they can implement into Affinity as a value add. Very little reason to expect that they'd renege on their commitments. The only real risk for that is the upcoming IPO and becoming publicly traded, IMO. The current ownership seems committed enough.

New comment by soundnote in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

soundnote — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:49:12 +0000

Sure, but the brits have voted for less immigration please for 30 years straight and only ever gotten more of it.

The SAVE Act the orange dude's admin is trying to pass? Requiring ID to vote is popular among every race (eg. over 70% of blacks are in favour), among both Democrat and Republican voters. Its overall support among people is undeniable, and the ID demand itself commonsense. Somehow Congress can't pass a piece of common sense that's wildly popular among both parties' voters.

Sure, democracy can and does give the ordinary man more influence than in many places, but some things will still simply just happen and people's opinions will have very little sway.

New comment by soundnote in "Pwning the Ladybird Browser"

soundnote — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:21:57 +0000

What'd be the effect of Swift be on the possibility of a Windows port? I know anything end user friendly is ages away, but I don't live in Apple land, and neither does most of the world. Apple has a monopoly on iOS and huge market share on Mac, and is still at 20% or something.

https://x.com/GregKamradt/status/1848045525473677314

https://x.com/wycats/status/973761496277704704

New comment by soundnote in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

soundnote — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:22:04 +0000

Easy, Harvard is essentially a training center for their ideological enemies on top of providing an actual education. They're just putting the boot down and saying stick to teaching instead of implementing and advancing a specific ideology. If taxes are the tools, so be it.

New comment by soundnote in "Asahi Linux Progress Report - Linux 6.14"

soundnote — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:41:30 +0000

Possibly true, but it's also worth noting that the weirdos who develop Asahi do, in fact, do good work.

New comment by soundnote in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

soundnote — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:26:55 +0000

Running uBO and Shields at the same time isn't a good idea, generally speaking. Pick one and go with it.

New comment by soundnote in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

soundnote — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 23:47:16 +0000

Huh, I was under the impression that you were forking Chromium itself instead of building over Electron. Or are you talking about a past, post-Gecko decision that had to be dropped as well?

New comment by soundnote in "Microsoft is killing Skype"

soundnote — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:55:07 +0000

Yeah, the consumer side Teams app is already different in UX than the corporate one. Wouldn't have been terribly difficult to brand that as Skype and market it as such.

New comment by soundnote in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

soundnote — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:21:15 +0000

Yes, on desktop. Mobile Firefox still has none, though that should change within this year or the next.

New comment by soundnote in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

soundnote — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 23:11:25 +0000

Brave lets you add custom filter lists and write your own filters. The blocker can also do eg. CNAME uncloaking, which even full-fat uBO can't do on Chromium.