Hacker News: Ijumfs

New comment by Ijumfs in "Amazon satellites add to astronomers' worries about night sky"

Ijumfs — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:13:58 +0000

Do what? Point out the petulance and inconsistency of astronomers?

New comment by Ijumfs in "Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed"

Ijumfs — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:13:27 +0000

Not according to security researchers.

New comment by Ijumfs in "Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed"

Ijumfs — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:02:31 +0000

Can I get this particular Intel rig without the Intel ME backdoors courtesy of the Talpiot program?

No? OK then, I'll stick with Ryzen.

New comment by Ijumfs in ""Rust does not have a stable ABI""

Ijumfs — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:00:37 +0000

Why are people even using Rust and Go, aside from employer say-so? They're not formally defined, there aren't multiple functioning implementations, it's just not a good idea.

New comment by Ijumfs in "China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip leadership"

Ijumfs — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 19:22:59 +0000

Thousand Talents Program. I hope these engineers don't plan on going back to Taiwan, it probably won't be allowed by the Communists.

New comment by Ijumfs in "Snapdragon chip flaws put 1B Android phones at risk of data theft"

Ijumfs — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:54:34 +0000

I welcome you to read the Android privacy policy. It's all explained in there for you.

New comment by Ijumfs in "[dead]"

Ijumfs — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:53:12 +0000

All news is propaganda. That's its function. Billionaires own media outlets so they can brainwash the people dumb enough to still believe the media. Whether they are right or left informs your opinion about if that's good or not. Fox bad, MSNBC and Vice, good.

New comment by Ijumfs in "Stopping deepfake news with an AI algorithm that can tell when a face doesnt fit"

Ijumfs — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 17:34:10 +0000

The deepfakes which support the officially blessed narrative will not receive scrutiny, while authentic videos will be "proved" to be deep fakes by some black box machination.

But we've known not to trust anything we didn't personally see ourselves for many decades.

New comment by Ijumfs in "Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands"

Ijumfs — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 17:25:08 +0000

Yet any of the smart home speakers on the market is more than capable of compressing audio.

New comment by Ijumfs in "Postal Service loses $2.2B in 3 months as virus woes persist"

Ijumfs — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 17:08:27 +0000

I don't believe that's a reliable source, sorry.

New comment by Ijumfs in "Postal Service loses $2.2B in 3 months as virus woes persist"

Ijumfs — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 04:36:44 +0000

Citation needed...

New comment by Ijumfs in "An Inside Look at CloudKitchens"

Ijumfs — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 21:24:29 +0000

It's not the case, because it's not possible for food to be cheaper after prep and delivery. It's cheap, but not cheaper than making your own food from scratch. And there's no oversight or health inspections for this mass prepared food either.

But you know this, it's why you said "seems to be" instead of "is," very nicely done.

New comment by Ijumfs in "Postal Service loses $2.2B in 3 months as virus woes persist"

Ijumfs — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 21:20:11 +0000

Maybe they should start charging Amazon more money to deliver packages than what it actually costs the USPS? Nah that's crazy.

New comment by Ijumfs in "Huawei CEO: After September 15 No More Kirin Chips"

Ijumfs — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 21:09:24 +0000

What they're not saying is that the Chinese will have to completely shut down many of their silicon foundries because of a lack of specialized chemicals only available from the USA and Japan.

New comment by Ijumfs in "An Inside Look at CloudKitchens"

Ijumfs — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 21:00:40 +0000

>It will soon be just as cheap to have your food prepared and delivered as going to the grocery store and making it yourself.

No, no it won't. Why would a person claim something so ridiculous? I can understand if you never leave your little Soho / Bay bubble, but do real actual people honestly think this?

New comment by Ijumfs in "Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands"

Ijumfs — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:58:47 +0000

They used to be. That all stopped in the 1990's.

New comment by Ijumfs in "Feds move to block California’s net neutrality law"

Ijumfs — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:47:18 +0000

Are you a natural born citizen? You should know exactly why things work out this way if you are and there's no excuse for your confusion. If you're a green card holder or other non-citizen you can be forgiven for being ignorant, I suppose other nations don't teach people how America works. But if you're on a path to citizenship in any capacity please learn how America works and why. Otherwise you'll be frustrated and unsure of why things work the way they do forever.

New comment by Ijumfs in "Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands"

Ijumfs — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:16:01 +0000

Oh no, not the poor poor commercial real estate developers! Anyway all the malls died like decades ago. Have you been to a mall lately? As far as I can tell the only people who go are folks engaged in drug transactions and busloads of tourists from SE Asia.

New comment by Ijumfs in "Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed"

Ijumfs — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 15:51:19 +0000

uMatrix has prevented the following page from loading:

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New comment by Ijumfs in "Twitter Hack Zoom Court Hearing Interrupted by Zoombombers"

Ijumfs — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 15:49:45 +0000

Why are courts using Chinese spyware to conduct official business?