Hacker News: wila

New comment by wila in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

wila — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:54:33 +0000

Just tried it. Google lens is fine, it does work.

However -some way or the other- it decided to only show pictures from 2024 and older. Something is messed up in that respect and thus I switched back.

New comment by wila in "Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit"

wila — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:45:59 +0000

It's not a consent, because the options are "Yes" and "Yes", you cannot opt out unless you quit the call.

New comment by wila in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

wila — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:35:39 +0000

Is google lens still available? That's perhaps the only cloud feature I sometimes use, in order to translate Chinese text to English or similar.

Also is it possible to undo (in case there's something I don't like?) Is it just a matter of adding the app back to your account?

New comment by wila in "ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol"

wila — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:36:52 +0000

This looks great! Thank you.

New comment by wila in "From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story (2022)"

wila — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:01:19 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by wila in "From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story (2022)"

wila — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:15:30 +0000

Interesting.

Do you happen to know if that batronix board useful to have even if you have a Rigol DHO 924S without the logic probe (PLA2216)?

New comment by wila in "We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA"

wila — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:05:25 +0000

Same in the Netherlands too.

New comment by wila in "Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back"

wila — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:57:59 +0000

that you're arguing with an LLM :)

New comment by wila in "Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever"

wila — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:14:41 +0000

If you can't run a recent browser anymore then there's always the option to run the browser in a VM.

New comment by wila in "AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are 5%-20% more expensive, but worth it"

wila — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:35:56 +0000

and then the chips stay in Asia?

New comment by wila in "Owls in Towels"

wila — Tue, 27 May 2025 09:48:53 +0000

Also on mastodon:

https://earthstream.social/@owlsintowels

New comment by wila in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

wila — Mon, 26 May 2025 12:04:48 +0000

Working on AntView.

AntView is an ActiveX wrapper for the Microsoft WebView2 component. AntView enables programming languages that cannot use the WebView2 component directly to have a modern browser component in their applications.

You can find it here: https://antview.dev

Broadcastify – Listen Live to Police, Fire, EMS, Aviation, and Rail Audio Feeds

wila — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 09:04:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40889148

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wila in "Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says"

wila — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 11:05:32 +0000

macOS I assume? I use a little app called noTunes (it's on github) to prevent that from happening.

edit: should be this one: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

New comment by wila in "Updating from macOS Ventura to Sonoma Silently Enables iCloud Keychain"

wila — Sun, 19 May 2024 22:44:15 +0000

I had to blink twice last time when I installed Sonoma on a new partition that I did not have to provide a wifi password. This appears to confirm that. While I can understand that some people would appreciate this, I'm not exactly chuffed by a fresh install silently grabbing passwords from an old install.

New comment by wila in "TinySA – small spectrum analyzer and signal generator"

wila — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 01:01:31 +0000

The tinySA can also be used for that, it's not only a spectrum analyzer, it can also generate signals and optionally modulate those for you.

edit: https://tinysa.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Specification here says it works from 100kHz for the low output. When I just tried it did let me select 60kHz and turn it into output mode. Haven't hooked it up to a scope to see what it does. Sorry no time to set it all up now. 60kHz is very low though, if you browse AliExpress then I'm sure plenty of signal generators will offer that for a really low price (cheaper than the tinySA)

edit 2: Sorry my European brain kicked in and missed you are looking for a 60Hz one that is very precise and not a 60kHz one. I'd better get some sleep.

New comment by wila in "Ask HN: Why do computers/tablets/etc "freeze up" as they get older?"

wila — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:26:26 +0000

> It did not seem to affect home computers like the Apple ][, Commodore 64, and such.

Your software most likely did not ran off a hard disk. So it was slow to load anyways.. and after that it ran within the memory it had. One program at a time, no memory swapping.

> I don't think it affected PC compatible computers running DOS.

Umm.. I remember being mesmerized by disk defrag programs. There was also TSR programs and other ways to run more as one program at a time.

New comment by wila in "WebP is so great except it's not (2021)"

wila — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 18:07:01 +0000

I downloaded the images and then compared them via Beyond Compare.

After that it was pretty obvious what the author is talking about.

New comment by wila in "Most companies using AI are 'lighting money on fire,' says Matthew Prince"

wila — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:00:40 +0000

> For a straightforward approach, she suggested starting from the ground up with employees and having them create what she calls a “toil bucket,” essentially a list of everything they hate doing that they hope AI could take off their plate.

Talking with customers about their issues appears to be number one everywhere? :)

New comment by wila in "Ask HN: Why haven't we seen a race to the bottom in SaaS pricing?"

wila — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 23:38:57 +0000

Great, how about you start with the documentation. :D