Hacker News: subbz

New comment by subbz in "Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives"

subbz — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:12:17 +0000

To everbody complaining about the huge price of $149. For a font pricing thats pretty normal.

Maybe coders aren't the usual targeting group but print media is paying plenty of cash for typo licenses.

UK's Lost C64 BBS Service Lives Again

subbz — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:54:36 +0000

Article URL: https://theoasisbbs.com/compunet-reborn-the-uks-lost-c64-service-lives-again/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457505

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by subbz in "Ads on Apple Maps"

subbz — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:45:04 +0000

Sad to watch Apple enshitify themselves now. Nipping it in the bud and switching away from iOS to GrapheneOS right now.

New comment by subbz in "Mozilla Advertising"

subbz — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 11:42:56 +0000

Mozillas suicide. Sponsored by Google. Don't be evil.

MilkyTracker v1.05 – Major Release

subbz — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:22:21 +0000

Article URL: https://milkytracker.org/news/2024/11/25/version-1.05/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42321003

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by subbz in "Inline Scope for CSS"

subbz — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:13:15 +0000

This guy is absolutely right - the C in CSS stands for cascading.

What Tailwind is doing is rewriting the whole thing that CSS is and putting it into easy-to-write classes. This could be handy to you, yes, but unfortunately you're missing the whole point of CSS which is to have cascaded stylings.

To help you understand this a little bit better, one could have a look at why CSS was invented and where it comes from:

In the desktop publishing world (books, newspapers, etc.) this kind of cascading layout rules were used long before there was the first HTML page on the web. This should be nothing to be mixed up with regular programming. Change your view on that thing and you will understand.

It may sound harsh but Tailwind is a way to tell "I'm a programmer, I don't understand CSS and I'm not further interested into".

New comment by subbz in "VoRS: Vo(IP) Simple Alternative to Mumble"

subbz — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 07:40:46 +0000

It's here: http://www.vors.stargrave.org/Install.html

New comment by subbz in "Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security"

subbz — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 08:57:28 +0000

Unfortunately the whole world population is addicted to ~5 sites/apps on the web who will play the game.

If Debian patches this out, you won't be able to access those sites. That's a living edge case for them.

New comment by subbz in "Cloudflare disables access to ‘pirated’ content on its IPFS gateway"

subbz — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 10:21:05 +0000

True. For the IPFS case they're not recording the IP addresses for possible blackmail. But that's just an idea.

Torrent Party – Watch Torrents Together

subbz — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:56:49 +0000

Article URL: https://torrentparty.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35137498

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by subbz in "Apple, please don’t take all of the buttons away"

subbz — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 17:43:00 +0000

Aside from saving money, they're doing it also to generate sales.

In iPhone 15 the missing button will be the feature. Some years later, say in iPhone 18, the re-introduced button will be the feature.

All that happened before with Apple devices. They took away the form factor of the original iPhone SE without replacement just to bring it back with the iPhone 13 Mini. Also they took away the ports of MacBooks to end up with an USB-C port only - and now - the latest 14" MacBooks reintrudice a wide range of ports as a.. can you guess?

New comment by subbz in "nvALT 2 (2021)"

subbz — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:43:09 +0000

I get why this is a driver. What about Obsidian[1]?

[1]: https://obsidian.md/

Ask HN: How many ML generated articles made it to #1 on HN yet?

subbz — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:25:32 +0000

What do you think? How many ML generated articles have made it to HN front page #1 yet?

Would you recognize it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33360937

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: Apple dropping support for iPhone SE. What to do now?

subbz — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:08:13 +0000

Apple is dropping support for the 1st generation of the beloved iPhone SE.

Many people liked the form factor of it. What are your plans to do with the last small iPhone?

What are the possibilities? Jailbreak or use it as a paper weight?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32981245

Points: 46

# Comments: 119

New comment by subbz in "Email Is Async"

subbz — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:40:24 +0000

It's a question of the topic. Some topics need to be handled synchronously. And if you don't answer in a conversation this is legitimately perceived as "rude".

New comment by subbz in "SnappyMail – Modern, lightweight and fast web-based email client"

subbz — Wed, 04 May 2022 12:08:53 +0000

It seems to be a problem with the 2-3px between the columns. Should be easy to fix.

New comment by subbz in "Ask HN: Wife's Instagram account was deleted – what now?"

subbz — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 18:03:34 +0000

Take it as a good opportunity to ditch Instagram and Meta forever! ;)

New comment by subbz in "To opt out of Google Analytics you have to install a browser extension"

subbz — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 17:20:04 +0000

Everybody: Avoid Google Chrome for the sake of privacy.

Google is doing everything to track even if you opt-out. And they will continue to implement their workarounds.

Quick solution: Use Firefox.

Stop throwing data at Google. Google is evil (Google "don't be evil" for more info on that).

New comment by subbz in "Facebook bans 7 'surveillance-for-hire' companies that spied on 50k users"

subbz — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 09:35:15 +0000

Eliminating competition...

Launching Fig

subbz — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:03:22 +0000

Article URL: https://fig.io/blog/post/launching-fig

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29275207

Points: 54

# Comments: 15