Hacker News: Jkvngt

New comment by Jkvngt in "Mark Cuban Says He Told Mavericks to Stop Playing Anthem"

Jkvngt — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:26:47 +0000

Love these first generation immigrants shitting on my country.

Maybe we need a new rule - can’t vote or own property unless you’re a natural born citizen?

New comment by Jkvngt in "NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur"

Jkvngt — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:25:22 +0000

She’s doing everybody a favor, in truth. Journalisms been dead for decades and Big Tech needs to punish all of us until we abandon it.

New comment by Jkvngt in "AMD reportedly developing ARM silicon chip"

Jkvngt — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:18:17 +0000

Get the hell out, a SILICON chip? Are we sure it’s not a potato chip?

Also curious, I though ARM chips were essentially spec’d by ARM Holdings and you merely bought a license.

New comment by Jkvngt in "Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs"

Jkvngt — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:12:48 +0000

One begins to suspect that Amazon partners with Chinese rip-off firms.

New comment by Jkvngt in "SDL Moves to GitHub"

Jkvngt — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 01:10:00 +0000

I don't like this, everything is moving to GitHub which has already done some questionable things. I don't care for Microsoft and I don't believe them when they claim they "heart" Linux.

New comment by Jkvngt in "Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters"

Jkvngt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 23:34:55 +0000

Why do people still put things on services which follow takedown requests? It's kind of silly to rely on these gigantic oppressive corporations to get your message out when we have, say Bittorrent over i2p which is practically censorship proof.

There is a technical barrier to freedom these days. And if you can't overcome it, the societal equivalent to the laws of physics mean that you don't DESERVE freedom.

New comment by Jkvngt in "A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community"

Jkvngt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 22:28:16 +0000

That something could easily get them killed.

New comment by Jkvngt in "Section 230 turns 25 today, and it’s never been more important"

Jkvngt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 22:05:54 +0000

This has already been discussed to death. If sites wish to become editors of content, they become publishers and lose their Section 230.

New comment by Jkvngt in "Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs"

Jkvngt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 21:19:08 +0000

The issue is that the tractor senses if you try to repair it yourself. There’s a trap mechanism which will punish you if you’re audacious enough to try to fix your machine.

New comment by Jkvngt in "A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community"

Jkvngt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 20:24:58 +0000

Normal people have no issues creating user handles on Reddit and Discord and Twitter. Again, the only reason to require a phone number is because Rosenfeld wants it.

New comment by Jkvngt in "Section 230 turns 25 today, and it’s never been more important"

Jkvngt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 20:23:21 +0000

Section 230 is outdated and needs to be removed lest political censors and social advocacy busybodies continue to abuse people online. There’s no more room for excuses. It’s obsolete.

New comment by Jkvngt in "'Real-time Uighur warnings’ – inside Dahua’s facial recognition technology"

Jkvngt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 20:20:40 +0000

It’s bad when China does it to Uighurs. But this same technology can save us from Trumpers. It was interesting to see how gleefully facial recognition tech was cheered when the Capitol riot happened. The secret is to properly label the dissident groups as terrorists.

New comment by Jkvngt in "Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs"

Jkvngt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:48:14 +0000

Boycott the company, buy from another manufacturer, lobby the Iowa government to stop these abusive practices. Or just sit back, bend over, pull down your pants, and take it while wearing the branded cap of the company which is abusing you?

Really it’s all about choice now isn’t it?

New comment by Jkvngt in "Farmers are having to hack their own tractors to make repairs"

Jkvngt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:12:38 +0000

John Deere is an abusive company which despises its customers, and these customers reward them by gleefully buying that new million dollar harvester and doffing branded caps at every occasion. It’s extremely difficult to pity the farmer in this case. They are planning soon to change all their dimensions to conform with metric farming practices and spacing, which will entail having to re-buy all new stuff again. Oops maybe I shouldn’t have said that last part out loud, it might still be a secret...

New comment by Jkvngt in "A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community"

Jkvngt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:07:24 +0000

Seems like using a phone number as an account identifier is a huge risk to privacy. Has Rosenfeld admitted this? It’s just weird to require a phone number unless you’re talking about some big tech botnet like Facebook or Google.

New comment by Jkvngt in "A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community"

Jkvngt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:47:24 +0000

Why is Signal positioning itself as a solution when Rosenfeld admits it’s not ready?

New comment by Jkvngt in "A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community"

Jkvngt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:45:46 +0000

Why does it need your phone number? Seems pretty weird for a “secure” program. And why does it use AWS? Isn’t that subject to all kinds of privacy risks including National Security Letters?

Why isn’t Signal just a Free and open source, infrastructure-less p2p solution? Maybe the goal isn’t really security or privacy after all...

New comment by Jkvngt in "Rust: “Move fast and break things” as a moral imperative"

Jkvngt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:40:33 +0000

Once there’s an ISO standard, Rust and Go and other nulangs might be worth looking at.

New comment by Jkvngt in "Google app analyzes selfies and finds doppelgangers in museum portraits (2018)"

Jkvngt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 04:53:21 +0000

New trick to get people to upload an image of themselves?

New comment by Jkvngt in "Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD"

Jkvngt — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:04:59 +0000

I've already moved the whole office. Even have the one proprietary program that we need, Mathematica, running in Linux VMs on OpenBSD and displaying without a hitch thanks to x.org.