Steve16384

165 karma · joined February 4, 2025

Steve16384··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

As I said, things like DRM or the game phoning home to check it was authorised etc... Equally so, games that I've downloaded from the internet (e.g. Itch) are fully playable offline. The "physical disc" argument is irrelevant.

Steve16384··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

Before AI, the way people were gaming Google was by filling their pages with pages of verbose fluff (have you ever tried googling how to make a specific cocktail?). Now the AI just makes it easier to generate that fluff.

Steve16384··on Let's all meet up in the Y2K

Yeah, any photos from the 60's to the 90's and you can pretty easily tell which decade it is. Maybe it's because we all went online, and so are less bothered about our physical style and more about our online persona where most of our interaction now takes place.

Steve16384··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

I don't understand why anyone thinks that just because they own the disc, they will always be able to play it. It's still full of DRM!

Steve16384··on What Even Are Microservices?

They sound great in theory, but when you've got Microservices A to Z and something isn't right, you've got 26 log files to go through just to start.

Steve16384··on Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%

HN continues its transmogrification in X.

Steve16384··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search

I wonder if the cop learnt his lesson? (rhetorical question)

Steve16384··on EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps

I used to come here for the intelligent discussion, but it's turning into X.

Steve16384··on EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps

"EU invests €2.8 billion in 94 transport projects": https://transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/eu-invests-e...

And heat rises. :D

Steve16384··on VTubing: How a Japanese Phenomenon Is Going Worldwide

Anyone remember Max Headroom?

Steve16384··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply

It redirects me fine.

Steve16384··on Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed

Why on earth would the BBC want or care for people to believe that? Are they in the pay of the anti-autism league? We're through the looking glass people!

Steve16384··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply

Have you tried BritBox? It seems to show Doctor Who, but ironically, being in the UK I'm unable to access their site to see specific details.

Steve16384··on Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)

Couldn't agree more. I've only published on Google Play, but the number of hoops Google makes you jump through (and keeps making you jump through if you want to keep your app in the store) is a full-time job in itself. New permission requirements, needing to self-decalre that your app does/doesn't do this or that, forcing you to reveal your personal details. The list goes on.

Steve16384··on Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE

If someone put my name and address on the internet and then falsely claimed I'd committed some henious crime against children (and maybe added a fake AI image) I'd certainly want the police to do something.

Steve16384··on Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE

Who's talking about criticising the government? If someone put my name and address on the internet and then falsely claimed I'd committed some henious crime against children (and maybe added a fake AI image) I'd certainly want the police to do something.

Steve16384··on Jolla Phone (October 2026)

It's almost like a "ship of Theseus" problem. If something arrived in Finland for assembly that could theoretically be disassembled, does the final product count as being assembled in Finland? What even counts as "assembling"?

Steve16384··on Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE

Which of the 12K arrests do you not agree with? Or are you saying people should be free to write whatever they want on social media with no repercussions?

Steve16384··on Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

That depends. It might be going above-and-beyond your job.

Steve16384··on Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

> An electrician doing an inspection and noticing and fixing big electrical issues in the installation, would be appreciated, even if the accidents didn't happen.

Not if nobody knew he'd fixed it.

Steve16384··on Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

Great work. The gov.uk site is a beacon of light on the web.

Steve16384··on Claude Account Suspended Seconds After Purchase?

Why is it that the larger the company, the less likely they'll have proper support?

Steve16384··on Houses are for living, not for speculation

I'm not sure what your point is?

Steve16384··on Houses are for living, not for speculation

Several UK councils now charge double council tax (the monthly tax you pay for having a house) on second homes, exemptions notwithstanding.

Steve16384··on Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

Here in the UK it's currently exam season. One of my son's had a GCSE exam just today.

Steve16384··on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

I can't help feeling that if you're turning JS off, you might as well turn off your computer to protect your data.

Steve16384··on The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis

> If retirement age was say 80 instead of 60, there would be 25% fewer jobs to go around.

By that logic, when the population was 25% less than it is now (~1980s), there was a job for everyone.

Steve16384··on AI didn't delete your database, you did

It's taking "computer says no" to the next level. Computers do exactly what they're told, but who told them? The person entering data? The original programmer or designer of the system? The author of whatever language text was used to feed the ai? Even before AI, it was very difficult to determine who is accountable, and now it's even more obfuscated.

Steve16384··on The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It

Because lots of people, businesses and governments don't want to.

Steve16384··on London to Calcutta by Bus (2022)

Don't also forget the walk to get to the bus.

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