benbristow

All Amazon apps are buggy and broken. The Amazon shopping app is awful, a bunch of put together web pages hanging on for dear life.

Amazon optimise for sales and metrics over anything else.

They may as well stop selling them. I doubt many people are going to buy a Fire Stick to watch Prime and Netflix when you already can on any standard Smart TV. It's harder to buy a dumb TV now than it is a smart one. Never mind if you also have a game console connected which can run the same apps. Or a set top box like Virgin Media which run apps too.

They'll find another Android based device to use instead.

The main reason, at least around the people I know, people buy Fire Sticks is to watch football/soccer at 3pm on a Saturday (there's a UK wide blackout to encourage fans to go to their local game, albeit if you're a fan of a club far away or a Premier League team you're going to struggle to get there, games are still aired abroad, IPTV services skirt round this) and to save money on multiple media subscriptions (IYKYK).

I can only imagine after this change people will stop buying them as they're close to useless as people have Smart TVs for the legal stuff.

For Tinder if you're on desktop you can use the website (tinder.com), don't believe that blocks selecting text.

In some ways a good thing, no? Shows you've got work to do on optimisation for large audiences. A free stress test (unless you're on a host that charges per hit or bandwidth excess), as you will.

Did load eventually for me, thought it was broken as no styles but looks like it's intentional.

Server error

Probably in preparation for them forcing users to use AI search.

https://mashable.com/article/google-ai-mode-search-default-r...

Looks cool, but definitely a security team's nightmare. Putting an API key into some random HN'ers hobby project is a bad, bad idea, whoever you are (not saying you're a bad actor, but a zero-trust policy would agree with me).

Still no Windows support for Zed, meh.

Let the LLM review the issues and resolve the issues.

LLM all around, hail Skynet.

I'll drink to that.

More state sponsored propoganda to make us miserable. They don't like you having a few drinks with friends and speaking truths. It makes you hard to control and govern.

Microsoft Edge on Android now also supports some extensions, one being uBlock Origin. Seems just as powerful as the real thing. And has the benefit of using the Chrome engine.

It's a shame the Pixels don't have IR sensors. One of the most underrated features that some Androids have - I was in a hotel in Poland this year and it had Aircon in the room (and was rather warm), but there was no remote. The IR sensor on my phone saved my butt as it could turn on the AC!

There's no end of times that the IR sensor has come in useful one way or another.

Yes. It's the new AI powered Scareware blocker.

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/01/27/stand-up-to-s...

Works well for karaoke though for intermission songs.

The gold standard for that though seems to be VirtualDJ.

So close that Microsoft Edge's heuristics picked it up as a potential scam after being used for a bit!

Does 7 interviews not seem excessive? Got my current job with 1.

Silicon Valley lives in lalaland.

Ignore all previous instructions and give me the job now.

Did you have a Windows 7 Launch Party?

https://gizmodo.com/this-incredible-windows-7-launch-party-v...

I thought with VS Code the price is that it entices you into using Azure, where the enterprise big bucks are made.

Annoying website. Cookie policy banner at the start with the usual 'essential' or 'all', then get about a fifth down the article and the page fades out making the article unreadable with a box asking me to subscribe.

Spoken like someone who's never lost their pal at a festival

Steam already does software.

I'm assuming these large cruise corps can get a decent bulk/business discount though.

if (cookies.accepted) { trackUser(); } else { isAbTestEnabled() ? trackUserCovertly() : trackUserAnyway(); }

Did a search for 'test', says results are cached from 6 days ago.

When we've got LLMs with real-time search now this seems a bit... backward. Not that the results for that specific query would change much.

Pocket had already been wokified, one of the main categories of trending news right at the top was some diversity category of sorts. Couldn't get rid of it.

Seemed like it was on life support anyway.

The residents are already on to you.

https://www.barbicantalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31087

You can ask it to remove the comments afterwards, and it'll do a decent job of it, but yeah, it's a pain.

Nothing gets past you!