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throwaway106382 commented on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=QBEKl... · Posted by u/robtherobber
fidotron · 3 days ago
I think it's time for us to go back to having mobile phones (texting, virtual credit cards, tethered wifi hotspots etc). separate from mobile storage and compute (mp3 players, cameras etc.).

The modern mobile ecosystem is selling games consoles when the nerds want mobile Unix workstations.

throwaway106382 commented on Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels   scrollguard.app/... · Posted by u/adrianhacar
throwaway106382 · 15 days ago
I use Unhook for YouTube. It’s crazy how much better YouTube feels to use when you just remove 90% of it.
throwaway106382 commented on Open models by OpenAI   openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics
philipwhiuk · a month ago
Except having five daughters doesn't prevent them also having 20 sons one of whom is called Bob.
throwaway106382 · a month ago
That’s why it’s a riddle.
throwaway106382 commented on Open models by OpenAI   openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics
clbrmbr · a month ago
I don’t get it. Wouldn’t it be Lulu in both cases?
throwaway106382 · a month ago
It’s Bob or Jane.

The dad of <Person> has 5 daughters. Four are listed off. So the answer for the fifth is <Person>.

throwaway106382 commented on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral   techcrunch.com/2025/07/01... · Posted by u/exiguus
throwaway106382 · 2 months ago
Don't want to see ethnics at Costco? Boy do I have the app for you!
throwaway106382 commented on Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games   gematsu.com/2025/06/sega-... · Posted by u/kelt
kubb · 2 months ago
But still no persona 6 ;(
throwaway106382 · 2 months ago
Metaphor is a fantastic detour until then though.
throwaway106382 commented on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?    · Posted by u/meander_water
longnguyen · 3 months ago
My friend Dmytro[0] has been running a screenshot API called ScreenshotOne[1]. He's been building it solo and has reached $20K MRR recently.

[0]: https://x.com/DmytroKrasun

[1]: https://screenshotone.com

throwaway106382 · 3 months ago
holy crap - our company needs basically exactly this for a crazy feature our PM cooked up and we were gonna build something similar ourselves - this will save us so much time
throwaway106382 commented on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row   bbc.com/news/articles/cgj... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
anoncow · 6 months ago

    >Online privacy expert Caro Robson said she believed it was "unprecedented" for a company "simply to withdraw a product rather than cooperate with a government.
That is such a self serving comment. If Apple provides UK a backdoor, it weakens all users globally. With this they are following the local law and the country deserves what the rulers of the country want. These experts are a bit much. In the next paragraph they say something ominous.

    >"It would be a very, very worrying precedent if other communications operators felt they simply could withdraw products and not be held accountable by governments," she told the BBC.

throwaway106382 · 6 months ago
>"It would be a very, very worrying precedent if other communications operators felt they simply could withdraw products and not be held accountable by governments,"

This would actually be a very very very very VERY GOOD precedent if you ask me.

Facebook pulled something similar when Canada passed the Online News Act and instead of extorting facebook to pay the media companies for providing a service to them (completely backasswards way to do things), they just pulled news out of Canada. I despise Meta as a company, but I had to give them credit for not just letting the government shake them down.

Good riddance. Governments need to be reminded from time to time that they are, in fact, not Gods. We can and should, just take our ball and go play in a different park or just go home rather than obey insane unjust laws.

u/throwaway106382

KarmaCake day155May 30, 2023View Original