I’ve always wondered if the Apple trackpad was just the capacitive part of an iPhone screen. It feels like glass. It responds similarly. And they have a huge user base sample size for improvements.
It is glass
Readit Newspilsetnieks commented on MacBook Air M4 apple.com/macbook-air/... · Posted by u/tosh
pilsetnieks commented on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control stackdiary.com/eu-council... · Posted by u/skilled
It’s doublespeak. Orbán is not interested in making Europe or the EU any stronger, just in extracting as much as he can from it. He only cares about Hungary.
However, it is a signal (we cannot really talk of dog whistle here, it’s rather obvious) to other far-right parties with similar nationalist agenda that he’s on their side. So a better reading might be “make [individual countries in] Europe great again”.
I don't think there's that much thought involved, they're just aping their Republican heroes.
pilsetnieks commented on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control stackdiary.com/eu-council... · Posted by u/skilled
> In July, the Council Presidency will transfer from Belgium to Hungary, which has stated its intention to advance negotiations on chat control as part of its work program.
That does not make me very hopeful.
"Make Europe Great Again". Seriously, that is the new slogan for the Hungarian EU presidency.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/18/europe/hungary-make-europ...
pilsetnieks commented on The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas theverge.com/c/24133822/m... · Posted by u/leotravis10
> Four decades later, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called Excel “the best consumer product we ever created.” He doesn’t just see it as an enterprise tool. It’s for everything. Nadella said he simply can’t imagine a world without Excel. “People couldn’t make sense of numbers before, and now everyone can.”
So the best thing they ever did was make a clone of Lotus 1-2-3 and VisiCalc? Sounds about right.
You're just trying to be contrarian for imaginary internet points. Satya is right about this one.
pilsetnieks commented on Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark' theverge.com/2024/5/9/241... · Posted by u/linguae
> missed the mark
It didn’t! It is a good clip.
It accurately shows how tools are being replaced with digital and cloud. It’s a violent process and precious things get destroyed along the way. It totally hit the mark.
But true, it doesn’t make people want to go grab an ipad, so I get why they don’t want to use it.
To reduce the issue, "Let's burn books! It's ok because you can just buy them on the Apple Books Store for the iPad"
pilsetnieks commented on Show HN: Extend Zigbee sensor range with LoRaWAN github.com/lorabridge... · Posted by u/ha_ru
This is great. I use Yolink because it’s one of the only Lora options. More options ways to use Lora that don’t require a cloud SaaS would be great. I’m considering getting a hubitat device which focuses on local operation but also has some integrations with Yolink and other devices
If you need only LoRa connectivity, Mikrotik has options for that. Then you can hook up bog standard IP devices to those.
pilsetnieks commented on Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai bulgarianmilitary.com/202... · Posted by u/belter
He is on the side of Russia but giving away for free this Starlink thing to the UAF that has proven useful for their operations. But how come the UAF are still using Starlink if it's provided by someone clearly on the side or Russia?
> As of June 2023 Starlink expenses for Ukraine are covered by the US Department of Defense through a contract with SpaceX.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/pentagon-...
pilsetnieks commented on Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai bulgarianmilitary.com/202... · Posted by u/belter
This is a very valid excuse for later censorship out of Ukraine, but he should instead give away their positions.
An Operation Mincemeat of our time.
pilsetnieks commented on Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access techcrunch.com/2023/12/08... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
I remember another post that was very well-received where an individual hacker wrote his own homebrew iMessage client for his own personal purposes. HN really liked that!
I think HN exists at an intersection of individual hackerism and business. If a project is clearly by-hackers-for-hackers it gets a lot more leeway for unsustainable concepts / implementations. But this is building a business on adversarial interoperability, and many people who LOVE the concept and technical achievements will still post mostly critical things about the business model because it’s fairly clearly a very very challenging business model.
You're allowed to admire the technical implementation while denouncing the business model at the same time.
pilsetnieks commented on Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access techcrunch.com/2023/12/08... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
Where is the hacker spirit here? The number of Apple apologists that have crawled out to say "see? I told you so!!" is saddening. It is a bit dicey when you're charging for it, but since Mini was entirely client-side it would be feasible for a free version to exist.
Apple claims iMessage is E2EE, do we have proof they aren't siphoning the messages from the client once it's been decrypted? The level of trust we have to have for Apple is approximately the same for any other iMessage client. Obviously Mini was using the encryption properly else it wouldn't have worked to begin with. Of course, it's very unlikely Apple is doing that. Just putting the thought out there.
One other point raised that I saw was about how iMessage costs Apple money to run, and non-product owners should not have access since they haven't contributed. This falls apart if you own any Apple devices. Myself for example owns a Macbook, but an Android phone. Am I not allowed to use iMessage? I paid the toll.
The troll toll?
> Just putting the thought out there.