Hacker News: tobz1000

New comment by tobz1000 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

tobz1000 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:24:29 +0000

> there are testimonies of smart home devices like anti-theft alarms or automatic doors, that stop working whenever [...] because their backends rely on Cloudflare.

The fault here lies 100% with horribly designed IoT devices that turn into bricks when they lose internet connection.

New comment by tobz1000 in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

tobz1000 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:22:05 +0000

All of them offer only proxied access to the internet. They do not expose access to any "private network".

New comment by tobz1000 in "Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development"

tobz1000 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:06:37 +0000

The comment probably refers to data races over memory access, which are prevented by usage of `Send` and `Sync` traits, rather than more general race conditions.

New comment by tobz1000 in "Bring Back RSS Feeds to Browsers"

tobz1000 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:52:18 +0000

And live bookmarks. This was the healthy way to read news from multiple sources before social media.

New comment by tobz1000 in "New JavaScript Set Methods"

tobz1000 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 01:55:16 +0000

There is a years-old proposal for deeply-comparable types: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple

Maybe we'll see it one day.

New comment by tobz1000 in "YouTube embeds ads into videos to beat ad blockers"

tobz1000 — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:17:48 +0000

Or you can adblock and donate on Patreon etc. to your favourite channels. Not every channel you watch will benefit, but a much higher percentage of your money goes to creators, who generally get a less than fair deal from platform holders. Same goes for buying music on Bandcamp + pirating, versus a music streaming subscription.

New comment by tobz1000 in "Treemap of World GDP by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) 2020"

tobz1000 — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:23:35 +0000

Measuring GDP adjusted by purchasing power parity, but not per capita, seems like an odd metric.

PPP-adjusted GDP per-capita gives an indication of the level of goods/services affordable by an individual citizen. Total GDP, unadjusted, is an indicator of a country's economic power. What does PPP-adjusted total GDP indicate?

New comment by tobz1000 in "The Source of Europe's Mild Climate"

tobz1000 — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 19:24:03 +0000

As always, remember to consider humidity when compararing locations - it can make both cold and hot weather feel much harsher. I'm more comfortable in 40c at low humidity than 25c at 90%. The UK experiences much more of the latter.

New comment by tobz1000 in "Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service"

tobz1000 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:48:53 +0000

I pay for ProtonMail but understand that most wouldn't. AFAIK they still offer a decent free tier, which I'm happy to help support.

New comment by tobz1000 in "Three years after its revamp, Firefox's Android browser adds 450 new extensions"

tobz1000 — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:21:43 +0000

It seems equivalent to desktop for me.

Add-ons -> [add-on-name]: opens the modal content for an addon

Add-ons -> Add-ons manager -> [add-on name] -> Settings: opens the settings page for an addon in a new tab.

New comment by tobz1000 in "Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024"

tobz1000 — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 14:35:16 +0000

Pocket Casts has been reliable for me for a few years.

New comment by tobz1000 in "Honda targeting 50% weight reduction with EV solid state batteries"

tobz1000 — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:51:29 +0000

Could "energy density" not refer to energy-per-volume rather than mass? Then that headline might make sense per this quote from someone at Honda: "Simply, the energy density would be doubled. So same energy, same volume base, kind of half [the weight]"

Although the author himself confuses the matter, suggesting volume is also reduced: "If Honda's solid-state batteries truly do cut weight and size in half without reducing performance, there could be quite a bit more space in the floor of future Honda vehicles."

New comment by tobz1000 in "Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode"

tobz1000 — Thu, 25 May 2023 18:50:58 +0000

It sounds more like the I/O firmware was running on dedicated PS1 hardware:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/12/ps4-and-x...

> The PlayStation 2, meanwhile, had the original PlayStation chipset built in, so it ran pretty much any PSone title – and when that chip wasn't being used for backwards compatibility it doubled as an input/output processor, which was pretty canny.

New comment by tobz1000 in "Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards"

tobz1000 — Wed, 10 May 2023 12:19:03 +0000

A small but passionate minority - given framework's modularity, it's not inconceivable that someone else will manufacture and sell a small batch of compatible keyboards and touchpads with buttons.

New comment by tobz1000 in "Microsoft rebuilt Teams from the ground up, promises 2x faster performance"

tobz1000 — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 16:35:35 +0000

vscode is the best-case scenario for Electron in my experience; this suggests that you need good diligence to ensure reasonable performance with the framework. Even then, performance is only acceptable, not exceptional.

Sublime Text is a great example of what performance can be like with a different toolkit. Compare it to vscode - even on a fast machine - and you'll start to notice all the little lags that can creep in.

New comment by tobz1000 in "Framework Laptop 16"

tobz1000 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 19:43:41 +0000

I'd love to see this design. There's something similar on the HP Omen 16: https://i.imgur.com/R4O5zzU.png

Not sure why 99% of laptops see a numpad as a higher priority than matching a desktop keyboard layout.

New comment by tobz1000 in "Konsta UI – Mobile UI Components Built with TailwindCSS"

tobz1000 — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:43:59 +0000

My guess is a dropdown selection box.

New comment by tobz1000 in "Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace"

tobz1000 — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:31:16 +0000

1. Efficiency, and 2. Integrated graphics power.

Conversely, what is the advantage of Intel, other than peak boost performance (at vastly higher wattage)?

New comment by tobz1000 in "Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?"

tobz1000 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 09:27:32 +0000

Most comments are in favour of the former, but we've been trained by every media player UI to understand that a button with a pause symbol means that the media is currently playing.

New comment by tobz1000 in "New Sony Walkman music player"

tobz1000 — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:02:10 +0000

If you listen to music all day, saving phone battery life is a pretty good reason. Plus a non-Android MP3 player can get 40-100 hours on a charge.

> all the mp3 players I've seen are made to be as cheap as possible.

There are plenty of high-end players which prioritise sound quality and provide a better output than phones. The NW-ZX700 in the featured article looks to be one of these. FiiO is another well-known higher-end brand: https://www.fiio.com/m17