Hacker News: acruns

New comment by acruns in "Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome"

acruns — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:48:01 +0000

people can't manage to block "malware" on a Windows system but somehow manage to use a dev tools? and the idea that a Mac costs the same or less as a dell/hp is ludicrous. the cheapest MacBook air is $1000, while a Windows laptop is $500. sorry to destroy your ideology but at least be honest and say I prefer a Mac and can afford it suck windows can pound sand.

New comment by acruns in "DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware extortionists Darkside"

acruns — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:40:27 +0000

More likely their work with an outside consultant/firm.

New comment by acruns in "Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware"

acruns — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:30:11 +0000

we should consider the source and timing for sure.

New comment by acruns in "Egypt seizes the Ever Given, demanding $1B for Suez Canal jam"

acruns — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 21:41:26 +0000

https://archive.is/pjFzY

New comment by acruns in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2021)"

acruns — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 16:44:54 +0000

SEEKING WORK | USA | REMOTE (PST-EST)

Azure Cloud Architect | Engineer | Administrator | Migration | Security

Good day, I have nine years of working in Azure and have helped startups to federal agencies that have over 100K employees with their Azure infrastructure.

I have designed, implemented, tested, supported and reorganized Azure infrastructures.

Contact: anthony@anthonyonazure.com

New comment by acruns in "WhatsApp Down in Some Regions"

acruns — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 18:25:57 +0000

They are in the same dc? Worst design evaaah

New comment by acruns in "Is Consciousness Everywhere?"

acruns — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:24:20 +0000

No offense taken. But isn't nothingness or no experience an experience? It seems you did experience something, that something might equate to nothingness or the void or oblivion but there was an experience? It sounds similar to "experiencing" a thought. It happens and we can all agree they do, but what is it to experience a thought? Can you smell, touch, feel a thought?

New comment by acruns in "Is Consciousness Everywhere?"

acruns — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:20:00 +0000

There can be no oblivion if you experienced it. I would suggest reversing the idea that conscience is part of a being and instead suggest that consciousness is inherit in everything because it is everything. Within or without a being.

New comment by acruns in "Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered by blockchain"

acruns — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 20:44:24 +0000

I am a full-time freelancer (cloud arc not dev). I started cold turkey last April when my firm lost tons of gigs. I started on market places and through that built relationships with other firms that didn't have a cloud architect and they have come back to me with additional work. I have also landed gigs through contacts. Once I got the ball moving it has been mostly non-stop. The taxes and insurance aren't as bad as you might think. The back end work of invoices, taxes, expenses, contracts, so on can all be managed in one app so it isn't a nightmare. It's nice to be able to spot concerning projects and turn them down as opposed to being forced into a project you know is going to be a nightmare. I bill @ 110/hr with no problem. It has also let me spend time giving away my services to some non-profits and startups. I don't think it's right for everyone but I enjoy it.

New comment by acruns in "Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet"

acruns — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:42:11 +0000

At what point did Bill become an expert on everything? It's cute that he takes his little bag of books and secluded himself in his she-shed and reads. But honestly, why do we now trust him to be an expert on so many subjects when he hasn't even gotten an undergraduate degree in anything, let alone spent decades studying a field. I can't tell you how many books I have read by experts that later turned out to completely off base or wrong to a certain degree. Just because he chats with experts and reads books on subjects doesn't make him an expert, it makes him well informed but not an expert. I am an expert in what I do and have spent over a decade on it, and I am wrong or have to look things up all the time, am I missing something? Did he go back and get a doctorate that I missed? He seems to be an expert on too many subjects.

New comment by acruns in "How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you"

acruns — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 17:50:36 +0000

It's sad that your last point is the current state of affairs. My kids (in their 20's) have a completely differ idea of privacy, and are really ignorant of how much data exists on them.

New comment by acruns in "'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry'"

acruns — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:21:03 +0000

"were" as in past tense? no longer happening? I have my doubts it has stopped.

New comment by acruns in "Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads"

acruns — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:23:23 +0000

This feature and fb's hate for it makes me seriously consider moving back to. iOS.

New comment by acruns in "An update to storage policies across your Google Account"

acruns — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:37:49 +0000

This is true of Gmail, once an address or account is deleted by its owner that email address is gone for good.

New comment by acruns in "Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices"

acruns — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 02:45:36 +0000

And any hardware protection that flows through a supply chain including just FedEx/ups/dhl can be compromised at the hardware level.

New comment by acruns in "A group of recent Princeton graduates has won more than $6M in 66 lottery wins"

acruns — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:08:11 +0000

In Germany privacy is a real thing, in the US it's a figment of everyone's imagination.

New comment by acruns in "CIA Awards Secret Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract"

acruns — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 23:51:00 +0000

They seem to operate on the method of doing evil until others make a stink about it.

New comment by acruns in "CIA Awards Secret Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract"

acruns — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 23:49:03 +0000

next paragraph... "Under the C2E contract vehicle, the companies will compete for specific task orders issued by the CIA on behalf of itself and the 16 other agencies that comprise the intelligence community."

New comment by acruns in "BBC Online Moves to AWS, Serverless"

acruns — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:47:03 +0000

Mostly off topic but as an american, I much prefer the calmer way news casters in the UK speak when delivering the news over the overly dramatic, exaggerated, weird tone that is used in the US.

New comment by acruns in "Internal Documents Reveal Covid-19 Data Government Keeps Hidden"

acruns — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 16:13:29 +0000

Who are they keeping this "hidden" from?

"The documents — reports sent to agency staffers..."