Hacker News: ss64

New comment by ss64 in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

ss64 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:15:21 +0000

This is the same guy who had $60,000 permanently locked in his Wise account 6 months ago, that is quite a run of bad luck. https://cloudisland.nz/@parisba/114504600921948939

New comment by ss64 in "2FA or Not 2FA"

ss64 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:52:04 +0000

If a new account has that much power to abuse the system, then your problem is not the 2FA security. They don't need to crack your account, a bad actor could just create a new account for themselves.

New comment by ss64 in "Supply constraints do not explain house price, quantity growth across US cities"

ss64 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:05:20 +0000

Why do journalists and economists never understand that it is the supply and demand of CREDIT which they need focus on.

New comment by ss64 in "Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp"

ss64 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 19:41:22 +0000

"wanted to get back my chronological feed, instead of a "algorithmically curated" one"

The 'Subscriptions' link at the top left of the Youtube home page only shows the things you subscribed to, just bookmark that.

New comment by ss64 in "Waterfox: Fast and Private Web Browser"

ss64 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:21:49 +0000

Rust has its advantages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VgptLwP588

New comment by ss64 in "Waterfox: Fast and Private Web Browser"

ss64 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:40:44 +0000

Can Waterfox load all the up-to-date Firefox extensions or it is stuck with the old plug-in system?

New comment by ss64 in "Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act"

ss64 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 01:37:38 +0000

First they came for the British And I did not speak out Because I was not British...

New comment by ss64 in "Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act"

ss64 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:24:45 +0000

Hiring lawyers, attending compliance training courses, writing software to scan for CSAM, modifying your website so that it can verify the identity and age of every poster.

New comment by ss64 in "Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act"

ss64 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 21:00:20 +0000

You can still be fined for 'failing to comply' with the legislation even if no objectionable content has been posted. To be in compliance there is a whole list of things you need to do, some of which are expensive.

New comment by ss64 in "Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act"

ss64 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:41:55 +0000

Im guessing they linked the archive so that when Lobsters is geoblocked UK users will still be able to read it.

New comment by ss64 in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

ss64 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:19:27 +0000

Using numerical prefixes like the 'Johnny Decimal' system for folder organization is fine for personal files, if that floats your boat, but trying to implement it in a shared team area can be a recipe for strife. At best people will think you are slightly mad expecting them to memorise lists of numbers just to file things.

New comment by ss64 in "Bitwarden introduces mandatory 2FA for new devices"

ss64 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:24:47 +0000

This is why I like generating passwords with a 1 way SHA-256 hash, no need for any storage or encryption and no reliance on some website service being up.

New comment by ss64 in "Show HN: SimpleSearch – Just a list of search bars"

ss64 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:34:05 +0000

It needs to have a dark mode in the CSS.

New comment by ss64 in "The Day Instagram Blocked Democracy"

ss64 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:02:14 +0000

This algorithmic filtering is almost certainly still in place, they just dialled it back from 100% ban to some lower percentage.

The only way to win against this is to close all your Meta accounts and never look back. It seems hard to do, but once you rip the plaster off it is actually quite a relief.

New comment by ss64 in "Please don't force dark mode"

ss64 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:34:33 +0000

OLED displays can still save energy even when they are not displaying absolute black https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34069781

New comment by ss64 in "Please don't force dark mode"

ss64 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:05:34 +0000

It is built into the CSS standard

/* Dark mode */ @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { ... }

The issue with both dark and light modes is so many designers seem to have jumped onto the idea that colour schemes have to be either bright white or darkest black.

I'd much rather see colours that are 'slightly darker' at night and 'slightly lighter' in the daytime. For one thing there are still so many websites with no colour schemes setup at all so if you avoid going to extremes it minimises the contrast difference.

New comment by ss64 in "Is there such a thing as a web-safe font?"

ss64 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:57:05 +0000

The whole point of a font stack is to give a prioritised selection between beautiful modern fonts that won't be available on every machine and basic standard defaults like 'sans-serif' that will.

New comment by ss64 in "All clocks are 30 seconds late"

ss64 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:56:58 +0000

Any clock which doesn't have a seconds display is probably not accurate to the second and is also very unlikely to have been set to the exact second. Those 2 factors together mean a good chance the time is > 30 seconds out, making the original point moot.

New comment by ss64 in "Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities"

ss64 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:16:39 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, I'll be scanning this thread to see if there's anything new that I've missed.

New comment by ss64 in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

ss64 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:45:58 +0000

The problem with that is everyone might vote for it repeatedly, making more and more politicians ineligible. You could end up with 10 or 20 elections in one year and you wouldn't be able to repeal the rules without a government in place.