Hacker News: swiley

New comment by swiley in "Facebook and Snapchat iOS Apps Still Tracking Users Despite Opt-Out"

swiley — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 13:25:01 +0000

Well, I've found and read the source for the DSP part. The small OS on the modem processor on my current phone actually is open source, and hardly use the modem anyway since I've switched to VOIP for voice and SMS/MMS.

New comment by swiley in "Why I stopped releasing EasyOS as an ISO file"

swiley — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 12:35:06 +0000

>Installing Windows on actual hardware and not just running a VM with virGL.

New comment by swiley in "Pixel prevented me from calling 911"

swiley — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 12:28:45 +0000

This isn't the first time I've heard this complaint.

New comment by swiley in "Pixel prevented me from calling 911"

swiley — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 12:27:49 +0000

> Google needs to support their own phone past three years

It's not really Google's choice. Qualcomm gives up on their SOCs pretty quickly and unlike on Linux Android's license doesn't force them to publish driver sources.

New comment by swiley in "Pixel prevented me from calling 911"

swiley — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 12:25:27 +0000

People who argue Android is superior to PMOS take note.

New comment by swiley in "Pixel prevented me from calling 911"

swiley — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 12:23:26 +0000

>We are currently only aware of one user report related to the occurrence of this bug.

Sounds about par for the Android team's awareness of what a steaming pile of cow dung their OS is. I gave up on Android long ago and I'm aware of many reports like this.

New comment by swiley in "Why aren't thousands of gigabytes of abusive images removed from the web?"

swiley — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:27:04 +0000

I've gotten emails from people asking for help hosting image albums. I'd be shocked if their end goal wasn't hosting CP. (I rejected it of course.)

New comment by swiley in "Facebook and Snapchat iOS Apps Still Tracking Users Despite Opt-Out"

swiley — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:21:33 +0000

Do not run closed consumer software ever.

New comment by swiley in "Young Dems more likely to despise the other party"

swiley — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 08:44:31 +0000

Some of us feel the same way about the positions of the democrat party.

New comment by swiley in "WhatsApp has removed answer to “how do I choose not to share data with FB”"

swiley — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 13:14:04 +0000

Whatsapp is just signal 10 years from now, I'd rather move the world to something not controlled by one company like XMPP.

New comment by swiley in "Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway"

swiley — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 04:02:43 +0000

No.

That would take value add away from apple et all.

Install Xorg.

New comment by swiley in "Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes"

swiley — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 03:53:44 +0000

Eventually people will be paying yachtsmen to move totes.

New comment by swiley in "Tshwane District Omicron Variant Patient Profile – Early Features"

swiley — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 12:17:22 +0000

The admins have had two years to fix staffing/equipment shortages. If they're still struggling it's not the public that should suffer.

New comment by swiley in "Tshwane District Omicron Variant Patient Profile – Early Features"

swiley — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 12:14:40 +0000

>Just two more weeks

New comment by swiley in "Apple broke up with me"

swiley — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 12:05:36 +0000

Hopefully more people notice these problems and stop using online services so much.

New comment by swiley in "Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kill Switch for Your Car"

swiley — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:47:32 +0000

This is why I bought a sailboat. All you can do is put computers on her; There's a real limit to how much you can make her function dependent on other people's code.

New comment by swiley in "Tell HN: Lost then regained access to Google account, with correct credentials"

swiley — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:34:40 +0000

Yup. This happened to me two years ago. Thankfully I hardly used them for anything important. They started freaking me out years ago and I've moved to self host everything.

People still send emails to my gmail address, including my own family. It forwards to swiley.net for now but that probably won't last.

New comment by swiley in "Windows urges users to use Bing same way as urgent security warnings"

swiley — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:29:06 +0000

System software gives you a ton of control over the user. It's easy to say "oops that doesn't work" when they use apps that don't make you money or give you more control. With an app the user would just install something else but switching OSes means work, not just installation but adopting the differing paradigms.

New comment by swiley in "Windows urges users to use Bing same way as urgent security warnings"

swiley — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:23:37 +0000

Have you tried editing text files on iOS and copying them to another machine without an online service? On every other OS you have OpenSSH and some text editor installed already, on iOS the easiest thing to do is install iSH but it's still pretty painful since it's slow and can't see everything.

New comment by swiley in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

swiley — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:45:43 +0000

Exactly, HTML would be amazing if people weren't trying to use browsers as application runtime environments.