Hacker News: wilt

New comment by wilt in "Google is shutting down Stadia"

wilt — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:59:16 +0000

Hopefully this puts consumers off cloud gaming.

New comment by wilt in "Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay later’ feature for Edge"

wilt — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 03:06:31 +0000

Only way to stop this is to make it so they make no money from doing it and also make it really uncomfortable for their execs. If they feel the blow back personally they will stop doing it.

New comment by wilt in "Minimal Base.html"

wilt — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:38:34 +0000

Don't most editors have snippets for this?

New comment by wilt in "McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for OxyContin Overdoses"

wilt — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 03:24:33 +0000

And the us health system is why i never want to work in the us. Not even for a few months.

New comment by wilt in "Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in"

wilt — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 21:58:54 +0000

I have a low tolerance for bs like this. I usually articulate why its bs to my manager to give them a chance to fix it and if they are unwilling to i get a new job. No point in staying to deal with that kind of bs, life is short.

New comment by wilt in "The HubSpot Culture Code [slides]"

wilt — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 11:20:23 +0000

I always give the same feedback for this type of bs. Actions speak louder than words. If you have to tell people how great a company's culture is it clearly isn't.

New comment by wilt in "Google to end the “top stories carousel” benefit to AMP next spring"

wilt — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 08:00:17 +0000

I am happy to hopefully see the decline of amp. Remeber this is not all happening in a vacuum. Remeber google has been pushing to do things like remove the url bar from browsers too. It is pretty obvious what the end game is.

New comment by wilt in "Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs"

wilt — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 10:27:11 +0000

This type of crap is why I stopped using windows and macos. I don't want my security to be compromised because of some idiot in a suit making a bad call.

New comment by wilt in "Pope Francis urges followers to pray that AI and robots ‘always serve mankind’"

wilt — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 06:41:24 +0000

It will only work if he translates his prayers into pytorch.

New comment by wilt in "Firejail – Sandbox Linux Applications"

wilt — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:42:57 +0000

Oh yeah don't deny that. Was just saying if you wanted a user friendly sandbox experience by default for apps :).

New comment by wilt in "Firejail – Sandbox Linux Applications"

wilt — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 01:23:50 +0000

It is because of user namespaces. I assume you can tell firejail to use seperate ones with some commandline switches.

New comment by wilt in "Firejail – Sandbox Linux Applications"

wilt — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 01:20:39 +0000

This is pretty much what flatpack and snap do.

New comment by wilt in "Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing"

wilt — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 21:59:03 +0000

I usually just create a mail rule that sends their email to other email addresses at the company if they make it hard to unsubscribe.

New comment by wilt in "Movie Industry: VPNs and Tor Pose a Threat to Legitimate Streaming Platforms"

wilt — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:38:27 +0000

Well if you want to stop vpn services stop doing region locked content. In this day and age region locking isn't really feasible. Vpns are a solution to your crapy business practice not a problem.

New comment by wilt in "Lawmakers Want to Protect Local Newspapers From Google, Facebook"

wilt — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 06:31:52 +0000

I hate AMP. It is just a tech to give google more control. Anything to helps kill it off is a good thing. It is possible to create pages that load fast on mobile without it.

New comment by wilt in "Windows 10 asks to use a verified app, when attempting to install Firefox"

wilt — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:21:37 +0000

This type of dark pattern needs to stop.

Pushing your browser this hard is just going to piss your users off to the point they are going to avoid your product.

I actively switch people away from edge now because of this bs.

New comment by wilt in "Free Software Is More Reliable (2011)"

wilt — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 23:23:44 +0000

Its often cheaper to hire a few devs to work on opensource projects your company relies on than pay for some proprietary software. Also allows you to retain control too.

New comment by wilt in "Re-Thinking the Desktop OS"

wilt — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 01:13:27 +0000

Way i see it is there are 2 camps of people when it comes to desktop computing. There are most regular people who just see it as a tool and want it to let them do what they want without having to put much thought into it. They will have various levels of skill but don't care much past that.

Then there are the people who I think of as enthusiasts. Who have have different things they care about and cause all the arguments and pedantic nit picking. There are the fanboys who love tech created by a company and always like to have the newest thing from them. There are the people who really into making their desktop look pretty. Finally there is the group who likes to have total control of their workflow and hate having features taken away (group i belong to).

So looking at all of this it is no wonder most people are not interested in desktops and the group that is are only going to like it if its from their brand of choice.

New comment by wilt in "Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books (2012)"

wilt — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 07:06:19 +0000

This is why I try to get drm free ebooks when possible or at least breakable drm. I like paying for it so the author gets paid but i don't want some 3rd party being able to revoke my access.

New comment by wilt in "Covid-19 in Iceland: Violated Isolation and Infected over 100"

wilt — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 04:07:14 +0000

Regardless of being out at sea for 14 days. If the border is closed you can't enter the country. Just because you arrive in a boat by yourself doesn't change this.