Hacker News: yuters

New comment by yuters in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

yuters — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:30:18 +0000

It is very good even though it's in early development. Issues are getting fixed almost as fast as I can find them. I have to use macOS sometimes for work and OmniWM made it bearable.

New comment by yuters in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

yuters — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:32:29 +0000

If you want to donate, I suggest you look at the Betterbird fork: https://www.betterbird.eu/

New comment by yuters in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

yuters — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:06:07 +0000

I've submitted a couple of issues for their [javascript library for Live Photos](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/LivePhotosKitJS).

One being that the most recent version is on their cdn but not their [npm package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/livephotoskit?activeTab=readme) which was never updated for 7 years. You know what they did with this issue? They've marked it as "Unable to diagnose".

Also I've mentioned something about their documentation not being up to date for a function definition. This issue has remained open for 4 years now.

New comment by yuters in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

yuters — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:49:46 +0000

GPT 5.2 when asked "How will the car get washed if I don't drive it there?" grasped the reasoning, and then immediately forgot it.

Fair point. Drive it there, obviously.

Revised recommendation: drive 50 meters, wash it, then reward yourself by walking home like an eco hero.

New comment by yuters in "Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse"

yuters — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:02:03 +0000

Weird that they've decided to switch to Linux in 2004 when Windows XP was great.

New comment by yuters in "Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse"

yuters — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:13:59 +0000

At one point the product is getting so bad that the cost of switching becomes a real consideration. It seems that every other year I hear about businesses and governments making the move.

New comment by yuters in "Twitter Down?"

yuters — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:50:15 +0000

I was waiting for this. Elon Musk was criticizing Signal for being down with the AWS outage. Now X chat is down at the same time as X.

New comment by yuters in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

yuters — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:45:02 +0000

They've made Tahoe available on some older Intel hardware, and in my case it rendered my MacBook Pro barely usable. Obvious planned obsolescence in this case convinced me to fully jump ship.

New comment by yuters in "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"

yuters — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:42:34 +0000

Wow you're right. I've tried again with the same wireframing kit and it happened to me too! That's unbelievable.

New comment by yuters in "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"

yuters — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:53:05 +0000

I've loaded an example document and do not see what you mean when navigating between pages. A problem like that should be extremely jarring and it is very hard to believe it would be ignored.

New comment by yuters in "Steam Frame"

yuters — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:42:52 +0000

Wow this is perfect timing! I've dusted out my old Valve Index tuesday so my kids could try The Lab. It now shows a green pixels line on the right. Also the headset is too heavy for them and not easy to adjust, and I had to hold the cable so they don't trip over it. This new headset will be perfect for them.

New comment by yuters in "Blender Lab"

yuters — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:39:12 +0000

It is way more readable with CSS, I don't know what you're all on about.

The font is bigger, the lines are shorter, the navigation doesn't take half the page. The only thing worse would be the contrast but it's not that bad.

New comment by yuters in "Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta"

yuters — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:08:31 +0000

Most things can be solved with Gnome Shell extensions, but I have to admit that having to install 5-6 extensions for basic DE features, like managing where notifications show up, makes it easier to switch to something else.

New comment by yuters in "Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design"

yuters — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:37:48 +0000

There really isn't even if you don't need all the bells and whistles. I want my email client to be as simple and minimal as possible and Thunderbird seemed like the last candidate for this. Surprisingly it's the only one I could theme and strip down enough to meet my need.

New comment by yuters in "A new PNG spec"

yuters — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:09:31 +0000

Pronouncing it like that would invite confusion as the word ping is often used in messaging.

New comment by yuters in "How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs"

yuters — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 20:32:41 +0000

I have an old fire tv and never tried to stop automatic updates on it, it has become so slow and unresponsive that I'm barely able to switch inputs to use something else. Netflix is the only app that still works on that tv.

New comment by yuters in "Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees"

yuters — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:23:21 +0000

Everything about Office 365 (now called Microsoft 365 for some reason) is extremely confusing to me. It's not just Outlook, there's like 3 versions of the other apps as well.

New comment by yuters in "Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll"

yuters — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:46:41 +0000

I wish the author of the site didn't see your comment. It took me a while to understand why I couldn't see it on any browser.

New comment by yuters in "Apple software update “bug” enables Apple Intelligence"

yuters — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:17:59 +0000

It's really incredible that I have such a better experience pairing my new airpods to an old machine running ubuntu than a recent macbook. When using my macbook, the airpods just randomly disconnect and start glitching with static noise and I have to pair them again. On linux, there is no random disconnect and the sound clarity feels way better.

New comment by yuters in "Dear OAuth Providers"

yuters — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:45:53 +0000

Hey I've made a weird OAuth like that!

It was an intranet with an OAuth server for a company. A team that implemented an OAuth login for another related app wouldn't follow the official specs. They've asked for me to change how OAuth works because otherwise it would be "impossible" for them to implement the login, and what they were asking were seemingly random changes that didn't follow any official specs. After a couple of months of back and forth and no matter what I said, the conclusion that everyone else at the company agreed is that I was being uncooperative.

In the end, I caved in, and there's now an OAuth Frankenstein just for them that lives alongside the OAuth for everyone else. I've made a dedicated #special-needs section just for them in the docs, with no explanations why, and I hope other teams will enjoy the read.