Hacker News: uxjw

New comment by uxjw in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

uxjw — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:03:52 +0000

I've had movies I've "bought" disappear from the Apple account. I guess they lost the license and I'm supposed to download all purchases and manually copy between devices. I contacted Apple and they offered a free rental as compensation. "Buy" doesn't mean the same on these streaming platforms, its just a longer-term rental.

New comment by uxjw in "Some kids are bypassing age verification checks with a fake mustache"

uxjw — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:01:15 +0000

Or it could give regulators an excuse to come out with more big brother tech if age verification isn't up to par

New comment by uxjw in "How far behind is each major Chromium browser?"

uxjw — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:50:17 +0000

The most recent updates says it includes the 147 security fixes too "[Chromium] Update to 146.0.7680.218 ESR (includes security fixes from 147.0.7727.137/138)" https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/minor-update-eight-7-9/

New comment by uxjw in "Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page"

uxjw — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:49:40 +0000

It loves to hog disk space for some reason. An hour after installing, service workers are using 7gb. I have very few files uploaded so I don’t know what it’s caching.

New comment by uxjw in "Categorization Is 'Baked' into the Brain"

uxjw — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:20:53 +0000

Found more info about this article at https://picower.mit.edu/news/complete-rethinking-how-our-bra... and https://neurosciencenews.com/predictive-brain-categorization...

New comment by uxjw in "“Your frustration is the product”"

uxjw — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:07:04 +0000

I'm using Brave and Vivaldi - still the same chromium engine as Google's Chrome but both support ublock origin for now.

New comment by uxjw in "iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life"

uxjw — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:54:52 +0000

Less than a month after Microsoft announcing this for Windows https://www.theverge.com/tech/870045/microsoft-windows-11-is...

New comment by uxjw in "Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them"

uxjw — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:00:11 +0000

Yes, the cheap engineered "foods" don't help, and they're everywhere. This part of the article really hit home:

> He is worried that without additional support for people making the transition, society's unhealthy relationship with food means little will change.

> "The environment that people live in needs to be one that promotes health, not weight gain.

Also generic versions of Ozempic are coming to Canada soon: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ozempic-generic-canada-weight...

New comment by uxjw in "Parkinson's Might Be in the Water"

uxjw — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:35:25 +0000

https://archive.is/ZvjZH

New comment by uxjw in "The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia"

uxjw — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:57:20 +0000

I'm 42 in Canada and just got the first shot yesterday. Doctor prescribed it because I'm getting psoriasis and I guess that puts you at a higher risk of developing shingles. With the prescription, it was fully covered.

New comment by uxjw in "uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store"

uxjw — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:25:57 +0000

Meta uses the in app browsers to inject trackers on every site you visit. https://krausefx.com//blog/ios-privacy-instagram-and-faceboo...

Probably others doing the same. I always open pages in full safari and use NextDns to block trackers in all apps.

Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26

uxjw — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:35:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45544044

Points: 752

# Comments: 526

New comment by uxjw in "Building Bluesky comments for my blog"

uxjw — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:27:04 +0000

ActivityPub for Wordpress just posted about a bridge with Bluesky https://activitypub.blog/2025/08/07/bridging-the-gap/

New comment by uxjw in "A valid HTML zip bomb"

uxjw — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:26:35 +0000

Cloudflare has free AI Labyrinths if your goal is to target AI. The bots follow hidden links to a maze of unrelated content, and Cloudflare uses this to identify bots. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/

New comment by uxjw in "Why do all browsers' user agents start with "Mozilla/"? (2008)"

uxjw — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:13:21 +0000

TL;DR: Some code looking for Windows 95 or 98 only looked for "Windows 9" to match both, and would have matched Windows 9.

Now Apple has the year in the OS version we'll have people wondering in a few years what happened to iOS 19-25.

New comment by uxjw in "The truth about soft plastic recycling points at supermarkets"

uxjw — Mon, 26 May 2025 20:43:56 +0000

Even if you buy aluminium cans, there's a thin layer of plastic lining to prevent reactions with the metal. I've also noticed lots of paper/cardboard packaging have a plastic coating.

New comment by uxjw in "CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep"

uxjw — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:23:14 +0000

They have had spherical chickens in a vacuum

DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next

uxjw — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:02:49 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/doj-google-must-sell-chrome-android-could-be-next/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323485

Points: 191

# Comments: 154

New comment by uxjw in "Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog"

uxjw — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:40:52 +0000

I found this similar project recently as well: https://danielpecos.com/2022/12/25/mastodon-as-comment-syste...

New comment by uxjw in "Periodic Cooking of Eggs"

uxjw — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:25:59 +0000

They may mean funny as in odd