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Somewhat relevant from yesterday.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/03/apple-icloud-sharing-ex...

Literally just got an email about connecting GitHub to the iOS app and now it’s down. Spike in traffic perhaps?

plodmanon UK total wind generation record beaten today

And yet we’re about to face an eye watering increase in bills due to the way we’re charged for energy.

plodmanon iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited

There appears to be a dark pattern occurring where the Tahoe update is selected by default and you need to uncheck it to just install the security update.

plodmanon Valve is about to win the console generation

Maybe this is less of an issue now we’re in the digital era of console games but one of the biggest aspects for me is that if I buy one of these new machines, my existing library is just there. No starting from scratch or worrying about backwards compatibility. It’s a PC that has everything I need from the get go.

The story was the same with the Deck. Granted it took a little while for many games to be fully supported but the transparency from Valve on the store pages about compatibility was great and is in a far better state now.

plodmanon Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling

Except those OSs would work on any machine. They’d be slow in some cases but would still work. Windows 11 has requirements that either require BIOS tweaks or a whole new MB (or new machine).

plodmanon TV Detector Vans

If I choose not to use a service that costs a fee (such as Netflix), I am not hounded for not paying it. If I chose not to pay a tax, I am hounded with threats of prosecution and fines.

The license “fee” falls into the latter category.

plodmanon My Day Away from Reddit

Absolutely this. I’ve only had a single Home Screen since Apple added the App Library. I’ve always had Apollo in the same position. I swapped it out with my grocery app. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve opened that grocery app without thinking.

plodmanon I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

The irony, it’s now in the public domain but I can only access the bottom of the post if I have a Substack account.

plodmanon London's Ultra Low Emission Zone to cover entire city

With the cost of living crisis, this isn't going to help anyone. How does taking more money away from those with un-environmentally friendly cars help them afford to replace them?

What does this money go towards in terms of offsetting the environmental damage done by these cars? How would people feel if the money paid into these schemes went towards money off newer, more environmentally friendly cars?

I believe there was a government scheme for this, but I think it ended earlier this year.

plodmanon Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?

Letting myself get burned-out to the point of considering the s word. Every time I just thought “things will get better, it’s probably just me”.

I’ve since switched jobs after a break but I still struggle with focus and attention span. Hoping that improves over time.

plodmanon BBEdit 14

https://macosicons.com/

Unfortunately it doesn’t stick if there’s an update but it solves the problem temporarily.

plodmanon Parallels Apple's ARM Announcement

I think the link should really be to their blog post?

https://www.parallels.com/blogs/apple-silicon-wwdc/

plodmanon Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

Tell that to my 2019 HRV. Doesn’t even have CarPlay so I can’t use Siri to do anything for me. All AC controls are touch screen so I have to look away from the road just to change the fan speed.

plodmanon Ask HN: How do I escape webdev?

That’s exactly what I was referring to. I thought by replying to the comment that mentioned joining a team would have provided the context of what I was agreeing too...

plodmanon Ask HN: How do I escape webdev?

100%. I worked alone for a few years. Again self taught web development. I tried to read the “best practices” for the languages I was learning. But it was bugs galore and code I feared maintaining after release.

I then spent 5 months at a company in a team where every bit of code went through a peer review process. Even I was responsible for reviewing others code. I learnt a hell of a lot, we barely had any bugs and if we found a bug, it was usually easy to fix. Since then, writing maintainable and (importantly) readable code is my standard and I try and help other Devs do the same.

plodmanon Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

Isn’t there a “law” that states the best way to get a correct answer is to post the wrong one first? I feel that should be in mind whenever reading through StackOverflow answers.

* * Cunningham’s law is the one I’m thinking of. https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

plodmanon Show HN: 2ndWind - Find people to work on your unfinished projects

Agreed. It’s a wholly bootstrap site with unfinished elements, poorly laid out columns (on mobile at least), stretched images and requires a login for any action that isn’t the front page.

Oh and the content overlaps the footer.

I think this should have been cleaned up a little before touting it on HN.

plodmanon Off-Facebook Activity

How does this work in terms of GDPR? If it’s only rolled out in a few countries, surely this is Facebook admitting they collect this data but we have no way to access it right now?

Shouldn’t this incur a rather heavy fine?

plodmanon Ask HN: How do you control your diet while working at a tech company?

I’m afraid to say it’s fairly easy for me. Two days of the week we get free fruit. Other than that, nothing is subsidised.

plodmanon Mail Online web browser warning reversed

“But the company said Mail Online still failed to gather and present information responsibly”

Does this not then undermine the meaning of the green tick for sites that are responsible?

plodmanon Don’t work “remotely”

I'm currently suffering a similar situation. My entire team are co-located and I work remotely. The timezone difference means there's no overlap unless I move my hours around. This leads to split shifts or longer working days. I also have to attend these meetings otherwise the lack of face-to-face means I lose out on a lot of updates.

Due to other aspects of my personal life I feel like my mind is completely spiralling into a black hole. Lack of seeing my team/manager day to day means they won't see this happening, and I also find it difficult to bring up due to limited contact time between my manager and I.

If anyone has any experience of suggestions, I couldn't be more open to them right now.

plodmanon MyHeritage Says 92M User Accounts Have Been Compromised

Forgive my ignorance on the subject but why would there only be usernames and passwords in this file? Is it customary to store other details in separate tables and have different access rights between the 2 tables?

Or did the perpetrators just pull login details as it’s the only useful information?

plodmanon How Valve Crowdsources the Policing of Cheaters in Counter-Strike: GO

I spend a lot of time going through Overwatch cases. Simply put, unless the case is obvious, you really cannot say anything other than innocent.

Also, games where a team has a "full stack" or a lobby of 5 friends all communicating, a player could easily look like they're wallhacking when actually their team just has great communication. But, this information is not conveyed to the reviewer.

But one thing that Overwatch does have is the ability to convict someone of griefing. I have fallen foul of these once and faced a 6 week ban from the game. Overwatch does work but the person must be very blatant with their cheats/griefing.

Personally, I think the single most effective action Valve took against cheaters was the introduction of "Prime accounts". Players who link their mobile number to their account can choose to only queue into games with other players that have done the same.

This almost creates a "low priority" queue. If you find yourself part of this, it's generally accepted that you may be against hackers and griefers.