Hacker News: theyeenzbeanz

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

theyeenzbeanz — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:18:25 +0000

Can we just limit web APIs to cookies and the likes as before? I don’t like how JavaScript has access to so many devices on the host. It’s a security and privacy nightmare.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

theyeenzbeanz — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:07:15 +0000

We have totally not communism sending money to every other country in existence, but spending a single cent towards the betterment of your citizens is super duper evil communism.

I would love to know the thought process of this administration because it feels like a fever dream.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?"

theyeenzbeanz — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:05:05 +0000

Should always be 0-255 as that fits an unsigned byte.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

theyeenzbeanz — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:41:04 +0000

Lots of anti porn groups out there that complain to them.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops"

theyeenzbeanz — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:15:00 +0000

This is the fault of manufacturers fixing supply, especially in the case of micron, one of only 3 memory chip manufacturers, deciding to flip the bird to the non-AI consumer market.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "AT&T won't upgrade millions of DSL users to fiber despite billions in subsidies"

theyeenzbeanz — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:41:20 +0000

They ran fiber down the street connecting to the street my grandparents are on, but didn’t go down theirs. But of course they’ll gladly charge more for “up to” 50mbit when it’s only 25 on a good day. They’re all criminal.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping"

theyeenzbeanz — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:01:37 +0000

Lately I’ve been noticing captchas have been increasingly difficult day by day on Firefox. Checking the box use to go through without issue, but now it’s been starting to pop up challenges with the boxes that fade after clicking. Just like your experience, chrome has no hiccups on the same machine.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "US eyes antitrust investigation against Nvidia as market value surpasses $3T"

theyeenzbeanz — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:39:39 +0000

I had to use a bleeding edge live mint ISO yesterday because the regular release ISO gave me a black screen on my 3099z. Nvidia drivers continue to be my #1 Linux paint point aside from windows apps that don’t run on wine due to DRM/anticheats.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search"

theyeenzbeanz — Wed, 22 May 2024 10:30:46 +0000

I get the opposite effects on google. As an example, I tried to search for the documentation on watcom’s wasm assembler. It kept giving me results for web assembly no matter how I modified the query nor the Boolean search operators. To me it’s a symptom of search engines trying too hard to be smart and predictable.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments"

theyeenzbeanz — Thu, 16 May 2024 01:33:39 +0000

Comcast lobbied so hard to get our local mileage for fiber expansion voted down. When it passed, they suddenly decided they’re going to spend 6 figures worth of money to expand their own fiber backdown (they’re not even to the house). Its amazing when corporations will spend more money fighting something than actually implementing said thing.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, We Made a FF Extension to Replace"

theyeenzbeanz — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:51:06 +0000

Spam increased exponentially after the 3rd party kill switch. There was profound options for bots to add to your mod list to help combat spam, repost accounts, and more.

They existed before the whole 3rd party fallout, but it does not even come close to how bad it is now.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "YouTube cracking down even harder to punish user for skipping ads"

theyeenzbeanz — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:21:09 +0000

Then they can use the same content filters they demonetize channels for to filter out the gross, deceptive, and outright scam ads. But I haven’t seen any initiative for that to happen on googles end.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser"

theyeenzbeanz — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:24:17 +0000

I really wish the FTC would step in and do something

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "Microsoft pushes Bing, GPT-4 in Chrome pop-up adverts"

theyeenzbeanz — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 11:45:41 +0000

Malware kernel mode anti cheats and draconian DRM from hostile developers

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "Microsoft pushes Bing, GPT-4 in Chrome pop-up adverts"

theyeenzbeanz — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:25:04 +0000

As soon as the copilot garbage was installed on my computer without asking , I made sure to quickly update group policies and registry to disable it. Just yesterday it popped up the dialog asking me to try out copilot again. Just another case of windows “forgetting” settings.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "The lifespan of large appliances is shrinking"

theyeenzbeanz — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 03:27:53 +0000

It’s not just appliances, it’s even common household items too. Someone disassembled a portable toothbrush that died within some months vs the many years of the one that died before.

The original one had what looked like a custom/in house engineered motor with a solid structure and beefy battery. The new one had those cheap toy motors that cost a few pennies each along with a flimsy frame and tiny battery to match.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "Bioluminescent petunias now available for U.S. market"

theyeenzbeanz — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:21:12 +0000

Is this plant cat safe? Can’t seem to find that info

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET"

theyeenzbeanz — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 13:43:19 +0000

This seems like a perfect framework to use for embedded SCADA/HMI systems. I’ve been debating home brewing my own system but this should be a great replacement.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission"

theyeenzbeanz — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:00:52 +0000

Yeah I’ll pass on games that essentially want to install spyware only to be forced always online anyways. Never have to deal with that issue on indie games.

New comment by theyeenzbeanz in "Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed"

theyeenzbeanz — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:32:02 +0000

I have pro and it conveniently “forgets” my update settings and will still do it whenever if feels like. Microsoft doesn’t understand that no means no.