Hacker News: umbra07

New comment by umbra07 in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

umbra07 — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:08:46 +0000

I've never had this issue. And I use Koreader - which has much larger touch zones than the normal Kindle software.

Are you normally reading in a moving vehicle or something?

New comment by umbra07 in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

umbra07 — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:14:46 +0000

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Angels#Team_accidents_and...

20 pilot deaths since 1946 (80 years ago), but only 2 pilot deaths since 2000 (25 years ago).

I wouldn't really call that "stomach-churning losses"?

New comment by umbra07 in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

umbra07 — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:06:46 +0000

Why are you jumping from "anti-abortion" to "Christian"?

New comment by umbra07 in "UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations"

umbra07 — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:02:28 +0000

Is at least part of this comment LLM-generated?

...

Just curious, not intending this as an attack on your project.

New comment by umbra07 in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

umbra07 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 21:24:20 +0000

The most likely contenders are OnePlus, Motorola, and HMD.

> "It is a big enough OEM that there is good chance you may have owned a device from them in the past."

I think this takes Nothing out of contention.

New comment by umbra07 in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

umbra07 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 21:19:35 +0000

Thanks! I had no idea that this existed. Unfortunately, the specs aren't great, especially when compared to Jolla's offering. Oh well.

I'm quite enthusiastic about Graphene's OEM partnership,though.

New comment by umbra07 in "Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)"

umbra07 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 01:39:28 +0000

It's still awful. The only devices I own that would give me a reliable time, would then be my phone, laptop, desktop, and maybe my TV. My microwave, oven, thermostat, alarm clock, car, watch, grandfather clock, etc would all be wrong.

You would wreak unmeasurable havoc across the target country.

New comment by umbra07 in "Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Wallet Awakens, Moves $16.5M in BTC After 14 Years"

umbra07 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 06:43:16 +0000

I'm confused. This has a very simple, and likely explanation. Someone found their old password written down (or found an old hard drive). This is one of the most obvious and clear-cut applications of Occam's Razor - why jump to "state-actors"?

New comment by umbra07 in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

umbra07 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:12:22 +0000

Without web searching, Gemini 2.5 Pro is very convinced that the case is real.

New comment by umbra07 in "Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant"

umbra07 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:55:29 +0000

> then get it ranked and filtered on the user's device based on the user's preferences and viewing history

I think I'm missing something here. Why would people not just choose to remain in their echo chambers?

New comment by umbra07 in "User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality"

umbra07 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 03:13:35 +0000

I would phrase that differently, it sounds like you're suggesting that some states have actually banned Bluesky by name.

New comment by umbra07 in "Google Pixel 10 series review"

umbra07 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 03:23:23 +0000

I went from an A52 5G to a S25+ (3 years between the two models). The S25 is infinitely nicer to use. The screen is usable in direct sunlight. OneUI is noticeably smoother. The camera is way better (like, way, way better, in both good and poor lighting conditions). Background apps don't close as frequently. Heavy social media apps perform more smoothly.

New comment by umbra07 in "SynthID – A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI"

umbra07 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 08:45:29 +0000

UMG (music label) has been watermarking their music for many years now, and I'm unaware of any tool to remove their watermarks.

New comment by umbra07 in "ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies"

umbra07 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 08:39:10 +0000

Industries cannot be "laissez-faire". Economies, or systems of governance, can be laissez-faire.

> Governments around the world have let these industries do whatever they want with almost zero oversight and almost zero repercussions for anything. For decades. These companies and industries do whatever they want. Its only in the last few years that a couple of governments have finally start push back a teeny tiny bit.

Are you claiming that the tech industry wasn't bound by intellectual property laws until recently?

New comment by umbra07 in "ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies"

umbra07 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:23:14 +0000

Bailing out large corporations and heavy regulations are not laissez-faire capitalism. We haven't had laissez-faire capitalism for at least a quarter decade (I don't know enough about late 20th-century economics to hold an opinion there).

New comment by umbra07 in "Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end"

umbra07 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 08:11:03 +0000

"with full features"

New comment by umbra07 in "Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification"

umbra07 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 07:51:51 +0000

at the mercy of Google, yes.

New comment by umbra07 in "Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?"

umbra07 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:49:30 +0000

I assumed the same thing, until I tested my hypothesis. KDE Plasma 6 uses less power on idle than just `Hyprland` (tiling WM) without anything like a notification daemon, idler, status bar, etc.

New comment by umbra07 in "Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed"

umbra07 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:21:24 +0000

Okay that's not what ordinary people like GP's dad are envisioning. Normal people are envisioning either: "wow I can buy a Tesla and it can drive me around!!" or a macroview "wow in the future Elon Musk is going to make self-driving cars so good that nobody will have to drive!".

We are discussing "normal people thoughts", not market sentiment.

New comment by umbra07 in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

umbra07 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:44:40 +0000

"lot of them being deported from the U.S. for defending Palestinians."

Can you cite me a source for this? Specifically to show that there are a "lot" of them being deported, and that the cause is definitely "for defending Palestinians" and nothing else?