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MForster··on How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
Ah, so Apple is linking the feature of finding _my_ phone with reporting on lots of others? That explains why people turn it on, but I find that creepy.
MForster··on How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
So, enough iPhone users opt in to surveillance to make this a globally useful method for stalking? Wow.
MForster··on How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
And the iPhone will share that information globally without asking for permission? I can see how that is a privacy concern.
MForster··on How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
Can somebody explain how the stalking actually works? As I understand, the wireless technology is short-range? How does the stalker know where the tag is if they're not next to it?
MForster··on The Airbus A380's Quietness Made Sleeping Harder for Pilots
I agree. While a quieter cabin may sound nice (pun intended), I found it noticeably harder to sleep on an A380 than on louder planes.

For me it's not even that you hear more of the other passengers (my experience is mostly in business and first class, which are less dense and rarely have babies). But the monotonous noise from the aircraft engines really helps me sleep.

MForster··on Falsehoods programmers believe about email
Facebook used to reject my email address, because the local part was "email", i.e., "email@my-domain.tld".

I was not amused.

MForster··on Ask HN: Do you find Discord completely disorienting?
That's s false dichotomy. Why not support different types of users at the same time?

Zulip is more of a hybrid between a forum and a chat service, and I think it does that really well.

MForster··on Ask HN: Do you find Discord completely disorienting?
The problem I have with Discord (as well as with IRC and Slack and other "chat" services) is insufficient structure to get a good overview of what's going on. Maybe it's not supposed to be used in a completionist way, but that makes me really uncomfortable. What if I miss something important!?!

It's even worse when a large part of the community is in a different time zone. I just come back every day with too big a pile of discussions and no way for me to make sense of what happened.

I understand the sentiment that I'm not supposed to read everything, but that's just not how I roll.

As a great example of a chat service that works well for me, take a look at Zulip. The UI takes some time of getting used to, but the way how all conversations are grouped into "topics" makes it so much easier to filter.

Discord threads could be used in a similar way, but they just never are. I blame it on the UI.

MForster··on Ask HN: Do you care about release notes on app updates?
I do.

But I don't care about having a full list of changes. I rather want the top changes and features explained in a lot of detail.

I think the [VSCode] release notes are a great example.

[VSCode] https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_70

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