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usui··on If IPv4 were land
I keep IPv4 off on a media computer all the time out of curiosity. IPv6-only is still unusable because only about 5% to 10% of top sites that I find during a Google Search work. It's almost guaranteed that a website will not load on all the top results.

So even if it's true 50% of clients support IPv6, only about 5% to 10% of website hosts do.

Sure a person can do a dual-stack setup or do some IPv4-IPv6 translation, but seriously IPv6-only should be plug-and-play by now.

usui··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
No Apple Pencil is a huge miss for consumers. I guess they don't want to cannibalize the iPad though.

I would probably never touch the screen with my fingers, but I would draw with it. Would also be really useful during calls.

usui··on Japanese internet giant GMO tells customers to unplug PCs after compromise
The leet hacker scenes in fiction have become real.

I also wouldn't have guessed specifically that pwning Japanese companies would became an esport for leet.

Are there any other previously language-gated countries facing many more issues relative to the rest of the world? I wonder how Korea is doing.

usui··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
Not that good, but it has to be really really good if you want to spend hours writing up notes and creating quality documents with endurance outside of the presentation.
usui··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
Well, the author needs it to be a tablet form factor with a stylus as described here https://teddysvoronos.com/2015-11-19-in-praise-of-goodnotes/

Both the hardware and software market for tablets running a real desktop OS still seem pretty terrible, and it's been over 10 years since the release of the first Apple Pencil. No competition seems to be coming at all. Windows Surface exists, but software is still not great and the stylus not as good as Apple's.

usui··on CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
The counterfactual doesn't make sense. Which country would stop or grind to a halt after electing a corrupt president? I think almost all countries would keep running at a basically normal capacity until failure, yet that doesn't prove those countries have great systems.

This will need a lot more time and hindsight to make general statements in terms of the wider picture.

usui··on Leaving Tech
I understand the stated feelings of indignation and resentment toward a process that was broken well before the current market conditions, but given the current conditions, isn't applying to 36 jobs and deciding to back out a bit hasty?
usui··on Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well
Imagine Google shutting down Stadia in 2023 only for it to be revived in another form as a copyright infringement prevention tool somewhere else
usui··on Beauty in DVD Menus
I tried Apple TV's free trial and it really gets in the way of everything, so much so that I canceled. It's pretty annoying how modern streaming platforms try to ruin the vanilla viewing experience as much as possible. If I remember correctly it's also impossible to disable the automatic "next episode" preview in Amazon Prime which you have to click out of to hide. Like hey, I just watched a feature-length film. Let me watch the credits in peace.
usui··on $2599 Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra
They didn't mention buying it expecting a good Linux experience, but maybe later on they realized Windows was turning to shit and wanted to use Linux with it instead
usui··on Apple May Return to Server Market with Nvidia Technology
Nvidia is the Apple of GPUs, so it's quite an apt pair
usui··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
This is going to sound like a really weird and irrelevant nitpick, but I dislike how they changed the version numbers to be year+1. I like that they all unified and have a relationship to the current year, but we're not buying cars. We're getting operating systems and not being confused about chronology is pretty important for bug tracking or other minutiae. Plus, the Mac lineup use(d) the year of release. Why move away from it? Is it really necessary to market and sell an operating system like it's a car or the latest Microsoft Office suite?
usui··on Remember Hong Kong
Wow that artist is nice. Reading that unlocked a memory of this animated video

https://youtu.be/RXAHywPLaD8 "Say No to China Extradition!"

usui··on Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"
I think it's naive to be bothered by the scenario you describe just because it's visible to you and yet it's still being done everywhere you go whether you like it or not. Similarly, just because this Show HN is visible to the user it becomes a privacy issue, whereas hundreds of web scrapers are doing the same to HN every day and you don't know about it.

We are living in the Wild West of privacy. If you don't like it, you can share your grievance with the people running the public space or disengage entirely. It's still going to happen.

usui··on Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"
The users in question are posting on a public forum under a username of their choosing, and it's still an invasion of privacy to read those posts and play pretend matchmaker?
usui··on Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks'
The same principle applies: You would have to leave the service when it starts introducing such things.

As a market-driving force in the real world, basically an impossible task for the collective. However, occasionally consumers do successfully band together to abandon a service due to some perceived slight.

usui··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
Been using it for half a year and so far it's doing well. I never remove it from its case so there's not much wear happening on the connector. At least it protects the original port as well.

The creator is really nice and basically handles everything himself. I had n issue in the upper separate piece and I learned just the top part can be ordered and replaced for cheap.

usui··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
You don't have to choose one over the other

https://obsoless.com/products/iph0n3-usb-c-protection-case

usui··on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
But how can I find the answer to the question without reading punchy headers followed by paragraphs like

> How We Leverage Naming

> Our Naming Strategy, Explained

> Why Swedish Is Important

> The Bottom Line

And unforgettable aphorisms like

> It isn't just a name—it is the output of a scalable, globally coordinated, linguistically validated, Swedish-inspired naming framework designed to optimize brand consistency

to let me know? I'm completely lost on this page and can't find the answer without these.

usui··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
I don't think ads should be illegal because companies have a right to try to send me information or inform me of their products, but I also have a right to block them. The problem is that client-side computing seems to be lagging behind. Once an effective local video+audio filter is invented, it's either game over for adware or another arms race will begin where humans and classifiers can't tell what an ad is anymore (this has already run to completion on many platforms like Reddit, Amazon, and Google Maps anyway).

Criminalizing information flow is a non-trivial problem that I wouldn't want governments to be in control of.

usui··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
How long until someone invents a fully-integrated local video and audio adblock filter running on a passthrough VR headset or smart glasses? The progress on this front is taking a while. I wouldn't mind if the audio filter is white noise and a portion of what I see is blurred out. Maybe to make it more efficient, only scan near the places I'm looking at via foveated rendering.
usui··on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
Isn't the answer yes if people still die from overwork despite being caffeined up?
usui··on 3D Pinball for Windows (1995)
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkDrop
usui··on "Please just use plain English, I don't understand what you're saying."
I've had to make the same request multiple times recently. Has anyone noticed it getting worse with the more recent models? It reminds me of when someone is trying to convince you of their intelligence by replacing simple and straightforward explanations with words pulled out of a thesaurus, so maybe that's the objective of these more recent iterations. Throwback to grade school.
usui··on Em dashes are amazing
I mean... would it really be that big of a crime against humanity to insert two or three em dashes if the situation seriously needs it? I already have enough trouble distinguishing an en dash from an em dash.
usui··on Em dashes are amazing
You might think em dashes are amazing—but there is something three times better⸻the "three-em dash" (U+2E3B).

Why this thing exists, I do not know. Unicode people seem to like making bad decisions, like Han unification and emoji sprawl.

usui··on Freeze-Casting
> solution or slurry

> suspension or slurry

> solution or slurry

> suspension or slurry

I'm not sure why this has to be specified more than once. Is a "slurry" meaningfully different enough from a "suspension" or "solution" such that it needs to be specified each time?

usui··on New US homeownership measure puts people first
Fair enough, you're correct. It is... possible
usui··on New US homeownership measure puts people first
I feel like these are much worse than the alternate reality where I simply have to spend more on or lose access to consumables, if I had to choose one or the other. For people that use the same smartphone for 10 years, never shop for clothes, never go out to eat, etc., it seems unfair that we'd construct a dichotomy (assuming it's even a valid one) and choose the one that worsens the resources that everyone needs rather than the more fungible one.
usui··on New US homeownership measure puts people first
What's the point of being able to spend less on cheap junk if the surplus is eaten up and outspent by important things that inflated during that timespan?
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