Hacker News: Esau

New comment by Esau in "FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill"

Esau — Wed, 03 May 2017 22:43:30 +0000

Color me surprised.

New comment by Esau in "Apple Reports Second Quarter Results"

Esau — Tue, 02 May 2017 21:46:16 +0000

I've been watching this for years and, frequently, Apple stock value goes down after the company announces it has met or exceeded expectations. I have no idea why this happens.

New comment by Esau in "First introduction to LaTeX"

Esau — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 23:04:16 +0000

Any anyone else use plain tex these days?

New comment by Esau in "Tiny Linux distro that runs the entire OS as Docker containers"

Esau — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 21:00:14 +0000

> This is clearly a trend

More like a virus.

New comment by Esau in "BBC Radio 3 Concert Sound: live output compressed using FLAC (Firefox only)"

Esau — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 12:08:40 +0000

Considering that most people cannot tell the difference between a high bitrate MP3 and source, it would seem to me that this will be wasted on most people (myself included). That said, it is nice to have the option.

New comment by Esau in "Debian 9 not including support for UEFI Secure Boot"

Esau — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 02:45:06 +0000

I can't speak for OP but for me, I disable it because UEFI is an over-engineered mess that solves no problems for me.

New comment by Esau in "Amazon Echo Look"

Esau — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:36:38 +0000

You know, if Amazon made an Echo that hung on the wall and had Hal's red "eye", I think I would have to get one despite myself.

New comment by Esau in "My Hackintosh Hardware Spec"

Esau — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:44:15 +0000

>I don't need ECC

We all need ECC. It should be a standard feature by now.

New comment by Esau in "Windows Is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform"

Esau — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:04:13 +0000

It's not just Windows that is bloated; so is macOS, Android, and iOS. The wastefulness annoys me and I don't want to hear its okay because we have tons of disk space and RAM - it is still wasteful.

I understand why they kitchen-sink operating systems - its mainly so they can crow about new features when releasing new versions of the OS. But I wish they would offer alternate installs for those of us who are proficient.

New comment by Esau in "OpenBSD 6.1 released"

Esau — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 09:54:29 +0000

Aside from ZFS, there is nothing on that list I personally want. And I've never liked mandatory access control - standard UNIX permissions please.

New comment by Esau in "OS/2 2.0, Summer ’91 Edition"

Esau — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 11:22:18 +0000

OS/2, Nextstep, and BeOS were all better than Windows (IMO) and none of them succeeded. Some of it was missteps by the OS vendor but not to be forgotten was Microsoft's deals with PC makers that locked out competition.

New comment by Esau in "How to set up Windows 10 without a Microsoft account"

Esau — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 15:18:44 +0000

So they still haven't turned it on after all this time? I was under the impression that they were going to roll it out.

New comment by Esau in "How to set up Windows 10 without a Microsoft account"

Esau — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 13:23:02 +0000

I know this is about Microsoft but Apple and Google have been performing this tomfoolery as well - basically trying to trick/force people into creating an online account.

Google should be particularly called out for this dickish behavior - for forcing people to have a Google Account just to create a local ChromeOS account. (Hopefully, this has changed.)

New comment by Esau in "Uber denies Waymo theft claims on grounds it never used custom LiDAR"

Esau — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:17:49 +0000

Isn't this like saying you didn't steal a CD because you never listened to it?

New comment by Esau in "Ask HN: What are the OSS alternatives to iOS/Android?"

Esau — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 01:34:28 +0000

My understanding is that Andrew Lewis first said it.

http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#325604...

New comment by Esau in "Post-FCC Privacy Rules, Should You VPN?"

Esau — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 15:09:00 +0000

Maybe this change is more about making sure that ISPs continue to have their own incentive to keep user browsing histories - which in turn can be used as an intelligence data source.

New comment by Esau in "Fuchsia: a new operating system"

Esau — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:20:24 +0000

The one thing that stood out to me is the name of former Be employee Travis Geiselbrecht. If you are unaware, he created NewOS, which was forked years ago and became the kernel for Haiku.

I didn't realize that he was working for Google.

New comment by Esau in "Good E-Ink Based E-Reader for Technical PDF Docs"

Esau — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 01:15:50 +0000

Even though it is listed on Sony's website, none of the vendors on Sony's website has any in stock, and CDW lists it as discontinued as of January 2017.

(I checked B&H, Amazon, and CDW.)

New comment by Esau in "Alcatel-Lucent releases source for 8th, 9th and 10th editions of Unix"

Esau — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:15:50 +0000

This is a little off topic but I want to take a moment and say thank you to Warren Toomey. He is responsible for TUHS and it is a wonder resource for people who enjoy UNIX.

Thank you sir!!

New comment by Esau in "iOS 10 Security White Paper [pdf]"

Esau — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 20:20:51 +0000

Did they never release an iOS 10 security paper before now? I'm asking because iOS 10 has been out for a while and iOS 11 is just around the corner.