lorlou's comments

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: EE to reintroduce data roaming charges in Europe, following Brexit

If anything, yours is just an argument against democracy.

Remember the UK citizens voted on this TWICE in practical effects. They want it. They may not be as stupid as you think they are.

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: Google will consider lowering Play Store cut to 15% for certain apps

I said if I Google "F-Droid" I should get to a webpage that contains an app that works properly and that comes with good repos preloaded. Similar to how Steam is installed on PCs.

Instead I get a crappy app with very outdated repos. That's not good enough.

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: Google will consider lowering Play Store cut to 15% for certain apps

People want a plug and play solution, not to have to research F-Droid client alternatives and then install third party repos which they don't know if they can trust.

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: Google will consider lowering Play Store cut to 15% for certain apps

F-Droid architecture is terrible (it could take them weeks to build an app, and since they build all apps updates are severely delayed) and their app is a buggy mess. In other words, F-Droid not being widely used is not an indication of people not wanting to use a third party store per se even if it only carries open source apps.

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: Warren Buffett donates another $4.1B, resigns as Gates trustee

Are you surprised that petty people are jealous of successful people? Haters gonna hate.

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: I made 50k calls to explore the telephone network

Calling people is just rude. "Drop everything you are doing and pay attention to me". No thanks, text me instead and I'll look at it when I want.

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: He Spent 6 Days in Feces Covered Cell. Supreme Court Says He Can Sue His Jailers

Clicked the link, saw the face tattoos, closed the tab.

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: U.S. Commerce Department rescinds TikTok, WeChat prohibited transactions list

Then Europe should start making their own apps.

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?

Practically all committers are German... How surprising ;)

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation Worse

Those things were fixed because they were very easy to fix and people didn't have to change their habits. How about the rest?

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation Worse

We all are aware of that. It has been widely publicised for decades by those who expected that, by making people aware, they would change their spending habits.

They didn't. Nobody cares. And that has to be the end of that argument.

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: All music used by Quebec government services must feature Quebec artists

This reads like something straight from The Onion.

What's even worse is that I guess those government services must pay royalties, so this means Canadians will be subsidising music they clearly don't like (otherwise it would be popular and this kind of law wouldn't be necessary)

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in its warehouses every year

>I'm a bit surprised that Amazon doesn't operate a market for that kind of thing. Bulk Marketplace, no returns, no warranty, FOB Amazon warehouse.

Probably illegal at least in Europe.

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Why share your email address when you can hide it?

1 Register a new Gmail account

2 Redirect all incoming mail from that account to your already existing, personal account

3 Set a filter so all redirected mail gets a label and is archived automatically

4 Only look at that label when you need to

You're welcome, guys!

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: How to end up with 500k commits in your log

Because a message is mandatory to be able to make a commit.

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: Baby Boom or Bust?

The way things stand now, there's like zero evidence that India is doing or may ever do better than China in any regard.

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: Insurance is like gambling, don't overdo it

Neddy doesn't believe in insurance. He considers it a form of gambling.

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: WiFi SSIDs in Apple iOS have a format string vulnerability

What are the chances this is a bug in the driver or some low level service?

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: Brave, the false sensation of privacy

It doesn't seem to include an automatic updater.

lorlou | 4 years ago | on: TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020

What I love about tiktok is how they've managed to ban all political content. It's a social network which is fun precisely because it's not monopolised by rotten people with loads of free time.