Hacker News: vmateixeira

New comment by vmateixeira in "Microsoft announces Windows 11"

vmateixeira — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:32:12 +0000

Does it come spyware free?

New comment by vmateixeira in "Cool URIs don't change (1998)"

vmateixeira — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:51:42 +0000

And Oracle as well. Good luck trying to find old software and/or documentation links that don't 404.

New comment by vmateixeira in "It’s Time to Ditch Chrome"

vmateixeira — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:43:49 +0000

No separation between tabs and they keep hiding useful context menu items [0].

[0] As an example:

1) close tabs to the right/left and - are now hidden under menus

2) show image on current page was removed - only allowed to show image on a new tab (which the mouse middle button already used to do)

New comment by vmateixeira in "UK Rail services to come under unified state control"

vmateixeira — Thu, 20 May 2021 14:31:30 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. I had the wrong idea that it could be due to, for example, if A->B belonged to a different provider than B->C, providers not reaching an agreement on what % to take each, for the journey from A->C - hence increasing the overall cost for covering demands from both.

New comment by vmateixeira in "UK Rail services to come under unified state control"

vmateixeira — Thu, 20 May 2021 12:32:44 +0000

And it's often cheaper to buy 2/3 separate tickets, for stops along the way of a long journey, than just simply buying straight from A to B.

New comment by vmateixeira in "UK Rail services to come under unified state control"

vmateixeira — Thu, 20 May 2021 12:14:12 +0000

They couldn't agree more. [1][2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190912051032/https://www.stand...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210225224745/https://metro.co....

New comment by vmateixeira in "HTML Tips (2020)"

vmateixeira — Thu, 06 May 2021 11:43:57 +0000

Exactly this. It's a problem already solved by pagination - but I guess that's not cool and doesn't allow for such granular tracking.

New comment by vmateixeira in "ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs"

vmateixeira — Wed, 05 May 2021 12:02:39 +0000

Thanks for sharing

New comment by vmateixeira in "Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]"

vmateixeira — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:18:21 +0000

I feel you. Unfortunately, I don't think GDPR will be of much help on that case. A fine of up to 1% of they're revenue will hardly make a dent - it's just another tax. Misbehaviour will be still worth it.

Actually GDPR is of great help to them, by putting smaller competitors away from using similar techniques. For those, a 1% revenue is a lot.

New comment by vmateixeira in "The Drivers Cooperative"

vmateixeira — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:34:06 +0000

In the UK, JustEat takes 30% of the order, same as UberEats, with 0 liability - if something goes wrong with the order, including problems with delivery time, driver taking a nibble, the restaurant just doesn't get paid. Deliveroo is a bit greedier and takes 35%.

It's definitely not the lack of competition... it's just that the competition doesn't behave much better compared to them.

New comment by vmateixeira in "Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look"

vmateixeira — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 22:11:57 +0000

So, not only apple, but pretty much everyone, can eavesdrop on the HTTP request and find out from which developer I'm running apps from?

Fitbit making claims about Covid-19 detection using metrics (Premium dashboard)

vmateixeira — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:30:35 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/deaneckles/status/1298384958344630286

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24281110

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by vmateixeira in "Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You"

vmateixeira — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:16:20 +0000

Increasing performance and cutting down infrastructure costs?

Looks like someone deserves a bonus

New comment by vmateixeira in "The Slack Social Network"

vmateixeira — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 19:57:09 +0000

Not that Teams is better but I feel like Slack started to die the moment it removed IRC and XMPP support. That was their only clear advantage over the competition.

The inability to turn off notifications shouldn't be a feature. People (at least me) want more work time, less noise.

Voice/video chat is completely broken (at least for Linux).

Having to very often "clear the cache and hard reload" on the "native" app, makes me feel I'm using a bloated browser tab.

How, with all those quirks, do they want to compete with Teams - (from a well established company with such a big user base?

(edit: clarification)

New comment by vmateixeira in "The danger of surrogate metrics (2007)"

vmateixeira — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 18:17:45 +0000

I know this is from 2007, but it's funny this is coming from Microsoft... with all the W10 metrics, telemetry and spyware bloat that replaced the old and effective "Send error report" button. Kind of seems like they didn't follow their own advice - provided user satisfaction is actually what's on the line here.

New comment by vmateixeira in "A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts"

vmateixeira — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 21:37:20 +0000

Yeah.. probably depend$ on how loud you can make yourself heard..

RIP Aaron

New comment by vmateixeira in "A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts"

vmateixeira — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 20:33:01 +0000

Yes, in regards to traffic. But it's still denying me from providing a service to real customers.

New comment by vmateixeira in "A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts"

vmateixeira — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 20:23:12 +0000

Genuine question, is this not considered a DoS attack?

Let's imagine I have my online stock linked to limited physical items/assets, ex tickets for a show, which will get reserved for a period of time. This will be preventing genuine clients from buying them.

New comment by vmateixeira in "Apple forcing app developers to implement auto-billing after free trial"

vmateixeira — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 18:50:38 +0000

Just because there's worse, does that mean bad is good?

New comment by vmateixeira in "Firefox 77"

vmateixeira — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 15:20:30 +0000

They don't need to know what my individual preferences are, actually, I would be glad if they don't try to "find them out".

Are you sure they're trying to ship what works best for most people? I've not read that anywhere. If they really wanted people to have a choice, they wouldn't be adding configurations that can't be switched on/off through they're preferences menu - like for example, that crazy bar they just added a couple of releases ago - oh.. and which apparently you are not allowed to switch off no more, not even through about:config, according to sibling comment. Also, they have a track record of breaking old configuration options quite often through updates.

I am grateful by what they offer - just not sure they're not sneakily changing course, similar to what chrome did.