Hacker News: spogbiper

New comment by spogbiper in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

spogbiper — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:22:05 +0000

I'm just going from the bug description in the article, but it seems that depending on your network activity, the exact time you will actually notice an impact could vary quite a bit

New comment by spogbiper in "Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth implementation"

spogbiper — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:42:57 +0000

also distributed on thin records inserted into computer magazines

https://obsoletemedia.org/floppy-rom/

New comment by spogbiper in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

spogbiper — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:56:05 +0000

yes, as long as you signed in once while online. windows caches the creds locally and afaik they do not expire

New comment by spogbiper in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

spogbiper — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:52:20 +0000

If you own more than one computer, the microsoft account syncs your desktop contents and other parts of the environment.. desktop background is one I've noticed. That can be nice

New comment by spogbiper in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

spogbiper — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:45:45 +0000

You certainly can log into a Windows machine without a microsoft account. It's actually still quite common in businesses that you log in with an account managed by your organization, although this is changing as more and more businesses migrate to MS Entra ID. This still isn't exactly a "microsoft account" but its similar.

You can also still log in with a completely local account as well. It takes a few extra minutes to set up but once configured it works fine.

The system is full of dark patterns and roadblocks that steer users towards an MS account, but you don't have to use one.

New comment by spogbiper in "Apple Business"

spogbiper — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:33:52 +0000

thats certainly a nicer input method, but is that what you're referring to when you say its an entirely different product?

New comment by spogbiper in "Apple Business"

spogbiper — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:46:18 +0000

i don't understand this take at all. what did the iphone do that the existing devices did not do?

New comment by spogbiper in "Apple Business"

spogbiper — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:41:52 +0000

there were tons of smartphones on the market prior to the iphone. i used several of them. mostly windows mobile devices that required a stylus or keypad for input. they had apps stores, web browsers, email, etc. copy and paste, which the iphone lacked at release. from a functionality stance there were many options very much like the iphone available. the interface on the iphone was nicer for most things, and it had a nicer web browser. not a different world of functionality at all, just a bit nicer overall but also with some big trade offs.

New comment by spogbiper in "Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)"

spogbiper — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:04:22 +0000

hail RPN

New comment by spogbiper in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

spogbiper — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:09:11 +0000

i used to set up webmin for the linux challenged admins so they could do basic tasks. it was nice because you could lock them to specific functions in certain modules and make it difficult for them to break things

New comment by spogbiper in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

spogbiper — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:01:28 +0000

interesting video I recently watched about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJcyDOjFLwQ

tl;dw - They say Vegas visitor numbers are down, but profits are actually up. This is because the tourism industry there has refocused on higher end clientele

New comment by spogbiper in "Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores"

spogbiper — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:50:06 +0000

Now instead of using the excuse that "Apple does it too" they can use the excuse "Apple does it even worse"

New comment by spogbiper in "Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"

spogbiper — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:19:42 +0000

outlook.com and Office 365 are very different beasts. with the latter problems are more often something (mis)configured by the customer/administrator of the 365 account rather than microsoft themselves, and there are steps the customer can take to work around the issue. With outlook.com there is nothing the recipient can do.

New comment by spogbiper in "MacBook Neo"

spogbiper — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:53:10 +0000

https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/workspace-for-education/e...

this, basically

New comment by spogbiper in "MacBook Neo"

spogbiper — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:45:14 +0000

true, which is why chromebooks are almost ubiquitous in k-12, at least in the US. a mac, even for only $500, is still ~2x the price and lacks the management tools that Google Classroom provides

New comment by spogbiper in "MacBook Neo"

spogbiper — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:08:01 +0000

its quite common for schools to issue windows laptops to staff (who use MS 365) and chromebooks to students (who use Google Classroom). The windows laptops also have no problem with google classroom of course.

New comment by spogbiper in "PL/0"

spogbiper — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:55:22 +0000

I think it started with IBM: System/360 and /370, PS/2, OS/2, PL/I

And then Gary Kildall also seemed to like it with CP/M and PL/M, but those were after IBM had used it and I'd guess Gary was just copying IBM.

Between just those two influences you cover a huge portion of the mainframe and micro computer worlds during the 60s-80s

New comment by spogbiper in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

spogbiper — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:41:43 +0000

Its not the basic mail and calendar functionality that drives large business to Microsoft (and to a lesser degree Google). It's really not anything that a normal user would see in an average role.

Email in a large organization requires things like central management, compliance with retention policies and other regulations, data loss prevention, encryption standards, auditing and ediscovery capabilities, etc.

New comment by spogbiper in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

spogbiper — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:10:00 +0000

what is the difference between "ponder" and "generate"? the number of iterations?

New comment by spogbiper in "I’m joining OpenAI"

spogbiper — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:31:07 +0000

this is such a weird take to me. every piece of evidence I've seen shows that AI is quickly becoming better at writing code, debugging, finding security issues. my own experience, benchmarks, studies, new articles.. everything points to progress