Hacker News: creole_wither

New comment by creole_wither in "Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet"

creole_wither — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:23:45 +0000

Bans and advertising and showing smoking in movies did that.

New comment by creole_wither in "Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system"

creole_wither — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:03:51 +0000

In a desktop, couldn't you assign a GPU to one video machine and in that scenario would there still be a security problem when there is only one VM using it?

New comment by creole_wither in "United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025"

creole_wither — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:01:45 +0000

Actually interesting, do ISP levels blocks mandated by government apply to planes in their airspace using satellite internet?

New comment by creole_wither in "Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)"

creole_wither — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:23:05 +0000

You mean https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/

New comment by creole_wither in "3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation"

creole_wither — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:37:17 +0000

I wonder if that is currently legal under DMCA Safeharbor. Might need legal changes to punish abusers.

New comment by creole_wither in "The higher fertility of TSMC semiconductor workers"

creole_wither — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:27:55 +0000

People are having fewer children than they explicitly say they want to have.

New comment by creole_wither in "UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers"

creole_wither — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:31:02 +0000

It'll be much harder to get a politician to flip on an issue that voters care about but much easier to get them to vote one way on an obscure regulation that most voters have never heard of.

New comment by creole_wither in "Forced to upgrade"

creole_wither — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:56:03 +0000

From looking at their website, that is 8 years of software updates. Not 8 years of Android version updates. Apple has released security updates for 10 year old devices such as iOS 12.5.7 which released in 2023 and runs on iPhone 5s.

New comment by creole_wither in "IMG_0416"

creole_wither — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:14:58 +0000

uunencode the data and split into as many emails as necessary

New comment by creole_wither in "New iMac with M4"

creole_wither — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:44:10 +0000

The sell but Apple makes around twice as much from services as they do from Mac. Wearables are even bigger than Mac. And within Mac, 90% of sales are laptops. I don't think Apple focuses that much about desktop Macs.

New comment by creole_wither in "Is it better to fail spectacularly?"

creole_wither — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:48:41 +0000

Kelly Criterion

New comment by creole_wither in "Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon"

creole_wither — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:38:33 +0000

GPD Pocket 3. It has an 8" screen. It is laptop form factor but the screen can be folded 180 and flat over the keyboard for use as a tablet. Spec page says it can run Windows 11 but comes with Windows 10.

https://gpd.hk/gpdpocket3

New comment by creole_wither in "California bans legacy admissions at private universities"

creole_wither — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:32:31 +0000

Solution, don't lend money. Sell education in exchange for a promise to pay x% of salary for y years. Students won't go unemployed just to avoid paying it back and it aligns incentives. If colleges want to make lots of money, they will have to make sure their students get good jobs upon graduation.

New comment by creole_wither in "Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain"

creole_wither — Tue, 07 May 2024 15:34:39 +0000

There's an idea for hard sci-fi. Silicon backdoored with nanobots in sand.

New comment by creole_wither in "No one buys books"

creole_wither — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:17:29 +0000

A literate population that reads what you want them to read is even better.

New comment by creole_wither in "Samsung expands DIY repair program, adds Galaxy S23 and Fold 5 in US"

creole_wither — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:59:55 +0000

Samsung still makes a phone like that. The Galaxy XCover6 Pro.

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/mobile/phones/galaxy-xco...

New comment by creole_wither in "Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England"

creole_wither — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:15:12 +0000

I don't think knitting existed during the time of Roman Britain.

New comment by creole_wither in "Reading QR codes without a computer"

creole_wither — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:53:31 +0000

Like this HDR QR Code that works on Apple devices?

https://notes.dt.in.th/HDRQRCode

New comment by creole_wither in "Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony"

creole_wither — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:51:05 +0000

Like banning flavored vapes or Joe Camel?

New comment by creole_wither in "Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates"

creole_wither — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:29:59 +0000

Some sort of escrow with a dead man switch could solve this. They can reset the switch by releasing an update or affirming that they are still providing service. If no communication is received after a certain period of time, then it gets released publicly.