user3939382's comments

On: NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker

[user3939382]

If NYC subways weren’t freezing/boiling, filthy, moldy, infested with rats and mice, and dangerous, maybe you wouldn’t have to brow beat people into using them.

On: I am rich and have no idea what to do

[user3939382]

> For me, I am focused on proving myself as a guitarist in the local jazz and blues scene.

So you’re Dickey from The Talented Mr. Ripely?

On: Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity

[user3939382]

Re-timestamp would be a new one for me. What’s a conceivable use case? An NTP fault?

On: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engine...

[user3939382]

This has been built in to postman for years

[sumedh → user3939382]

Can you please share a doc link?

On: Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

[user3939382]

> This is what a good privacy story looks like.

What a good privacy story looks like is that my photos aren’t sent anywhere in any way shape or form without explicit opt in permission.

[scosman → user3939382]

Your photos aren't sent anywhere in this system.

[hu3 → scosman]

Metadata is data.

[theshrike79 → hu3]

This is hardly even metadata. It can't be traced to you nor can it be reversed.

[talldayo → theshrike79]

Hardly metadata is still metadata, though.

[notyourwork → user3939382]

Do you not sync to iCloud?

[chatmasta → notyourwork]

You can enable Advanced Data Protection and all your iCloud data will be stored as encrypted blobs.

[sneak → chatmasta]

ADP sends hashes of the plaintext and filenames to Apple effectively in the clear (non e2ee).

If only you and three other people have a unique file, Apple knows you are a group.

[ternnoburn → notyourwork]

That sounds like "with opt in permission".

[EA-3167 → ternnoburn]

You aren't wrong, but... it's odd coming here to HN and seeing people talk about privacy like we aren't in the nth generation of people trading theirs away for a pittance. I think the market for the sort of privacy envisioned by some here is incredibly small, incredibly niche, and honestly one of the least likely to buy an iPhone in the first place.

Most people broadcast their lives on social media, happily opt in to all sorts of schemes that track them just for minor conveniences. For people like that, the idea that the privacy protection outlined by the OP isn't enough rings really hollow.

Or to put it bluntly, at some point this really stops feeling like a practical debate, and more of an ideological one.

[giancarlostoro → notyourwork]

You can choose to do so, or not do so.

[timcobb → notyourwork]

No

[7402 → timcobb]

me neither.

On: WSDA, USDA announce eradication of northern giant ...

[user3939382]

Can we do the emerald ash borer next :(

[dyauspitr → user3939382]

Too late, pretty much invisible unless we use some kind of genetic agent.

[pfdietz → dyauspitr]

Some insects can be eradicated by release of sterilized males, but I doubt the EAB is one of them.

[xattt → user3939382]

Too far gone …

[stronglikedan → user3939382]

right after the spotted lanternfly (i.e., likely never)

On: FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket p...

[user3939382]

Hopefully this does away with the fraudulent “cleaning fee” when you book a hotel for $200 and then get a charge for $450.

[bluGill → user3939382]

Maybe. If they document how dirty the room was after you leave, and how clean it was before hand they can get away with this. Generally smoke smell is the only thing they would bother doing this for though. If you just leave the normal mess behind they shouldn't be charging extra.

[user3939382 → bluGill]

Yeah I’m talking about an existing practice where the fee applies to all bookings and is just a way to fraudulently advertise the booking price.

On: US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to rem...

[user3939382]

What’s funny is nothing could be worse for our country than post war US foreign policy. Check out the wikipedia article on US foreign interventions. We don’t need China to fuck us up by subtly sending messages, we have our entire political establishment overtly doing it every day in DC.

[shlant → user3939382]

"U.S. bad so just ignore outside influence". Can you imagine a world where both should be taken seriously? Or are you just here to minimize?

[user3939382 → shlant]

Our official policy is to bankrupt our country by medaling in the affairs of everyone else, how could their “influence” possibly be any worse?

[ethbr1 → user3939382]

You don't see how subordinating a country to another's goals could be worse than policy you disagree with?

[user3939382 → ethbr1]

I don’t see how some nebulous speculation about the influence of ideas that could then potentially lead to a bad outcome is a relevant conversation when we’re actively perpetually destroying ourselves from within on a daily basis no.

[shlant → user3939382]

so in answer to my question - no you can't even imagine both could be bad. Your talking points sound very tankie so I guess nuance isn't to be expected.

On: US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to rem...

[user3939382]

Pro-palestinian content on TikTok that doesn’t support US foreign policy is the only real reason this is happening now. Congressmen have openly and plainly discussed this.

On: US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to rem...

[user3939382]

Yes I saw a recording of a congressman literally saying that the reason they were losing influence on the Israel Palestine conflict is because of TikTok.

[arrowsmith → user3939382]

That's not a source for the claim, it's just someone else repeating the same claim.