Hacker News: stirlo

New comment by stirlo in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

stirlo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:59:12 +0000

There’s plenty of markets outside the pentagon to sell to.

Far more likely is they spin up a defence focused subsidiary with slightly different policies if they really want to sell to them.

New comment by stirlo in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

stirlo — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:23:02 +0000

Tiny airport, on island with tiny population, thats not a major tourist destination, thats subject to competing territorial claims, that had a major war fought over it in living memory, has extra security requirements and a poor terminal...

I'm flabbergasted, this is absolutely shocking and outrageous!!!

I would much rather see the penguins in the maldives!!!

New comment by stirlo in "Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev"

stirlo — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:38:35 +0000

And I prefer to have a healthy bank account balance.

Storing 18TB (let alone with raid) on SSDs is something only those earning Silicon Valley tech wages can afford.

New comment by stirlo in "Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads"

stirlo — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:39:22 +0000

Doesn’t solve VLCs suckiness on iOS. No PiP support when it’s been in iOS for years now…

New comment by stirlo in "Where does iOS's on device model get its information from?"

stirlo — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:58:05 +0000

This comment sums up the current state of Apple’s LLMs perfectly.

Where does iOS's on device model get its information from?

stirlo — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:58:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/s/A5PvxEzU4j

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45287280

Points: 2

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New comment by stirlo in "The time picker on the iPhone's alarm app isn't circular, it's just a long list"

stirlo — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:43:44 +0000

I wonder if this is because the code was just never looked at again after it was written or if it actually survived rewrites?

Back in the day the iPhone was notorious for messing up alarm timezones and failing to activate with DST changes… https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-01-03/alarm-failure-leaves-...

New comment by stirlo in "Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting"

stirlo — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:13:25 +0000

This. They make excellent access points and their lite beam/air fibre products are great.

But UniFi has serious limitations when it comes to anything beyond the basics. An off the self Asus all in one home router actually has more features and capabilities.

New comment by stirlo in "Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought"

stirlo — Mon, 12 May 2025 21:52:53 +0000

Yep the difference between 10^78 and 10^1100 is approximately 10^1100…

New comment by stirlo in "UK bans fake reviews and sneaky fees"

stirlo — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:18:35 +0000

Ryanair doesn’t have sneaky feees. It’s entirely possible to book a flight with them for the price advertised and first quoted when you search. They do prompt you to pay for heaps of extras but there are none that are unavoidable.

The real offenders are ticketing companies that charge mandatory service fees or convenience fees without providing a way to purchase the item at the advertised cost.

New comment by stirlo in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

stirlo — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:28:52 +0000

Denmarks largest export is Ozempic. Ignoring IP rules will hurt EU producers too.

How do you plan to ignore IP to hurt American tech companies. I guess if you allow piracy of all of netflixs content that would work (but same thing would hurt spotify).

Most tech companies are not protected by IP but by network effects and vendor lock in. It would be far simpler to simply implement a minimum tax on revenue or advertising spend in country to extract value.

New comment by stirlo in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

stirlo — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:12:50 +0000

I wouldn't count out Trump sending out "tariff profit" checks (with his face of course) to all Americans. If he gives everyone a $2000-5000 check (undoubably paid for by borrowings not real tariff income) then he'll get a pass for at least a few months.

New comment by stirlo in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

stirlo — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:16:31 +0000

Good to see that Trump will be providing subsidies on goods imported from Australia to balance out the -107% trade relationship they have with them.

Oh wait its a 10% tariff on Australia too. Better make a new version of this chart with a -117% benefit to the US then...

New comment by stirlo in "Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365"

stirlo — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:12:01 +0000

Yep. You might need to disable Adblock to have it appear.

I was still hoping for something more than a simple email waitlist signup however. But I didn’t find anything obvious hidden in the page that would allow immediate signup

New comment by stirlo in "Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365"

stirlo — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:48:59 +0000

https://thundermail.com

Site is here with waitlist signup. It's also titled "For Those Who Know" and says: >> status beta_signup.is_open=true so perhaps theres a CLI or hidden way to signup immediately?

New comment by stirlo in "America's Most Shocking Economic Defeat in 40 Years"

stirlo — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:46:29 +0000

> actually buy on merit and cost.

While remembering that when you wanted to use what you purchased to defend your ally in Ukraine your supplier prohibited you. Lets see how much merit there is in any US purchase with that in the background...

New comment by stirlo in "Airline demand between Canada and United States collapses, down 70%+"

stirlo — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:07:36 +0000

Are these just alternative facts and MAGA talking points or do you have any proof from a reputable source for what you stated?

New comment by stirlo in "Azure's Weakest Link? How API Connections Spill Secrets"

stirlo — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 08:45:36 +0000

That’s a scary vulnerability. There’s no mention of the bug bounty paid out for it but I hope it was substantial.

New comment by stirlo in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

stirlo — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:38:43 +0000

Going to deter war in Asia by simply telling China, go for it, take Taiwan and the whole 9 dash line?

That’s not deterring war, it’s appeasement. Ask the great European powers (and eventually the US) how that worked against Hitler…

New comment by stirlo in "Alexa+, the Next Generation of Alexa"

stirlo — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:12:39 +0000

Perhaps pricing in other markets will be substantially lower and undercut the Prime cost?