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New comment by derrick_jensen in "Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur"

derrick_jensen — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:26:12 +0000

One of the value props was the inability to reset and resell if it were lost or stolen. Now that it’s cracked there is more of an incentive to not try and find the owner.

As for actual data security you are probably right

New comment by derrick_jensen in "Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads"

derrick_jensen — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 17:49:55 +0000

The argument isn't that its better than buying a new battery, the argument is that it isn't conveyed in the contract.

EDIT: Also, knowing this happens without Apple adjusting their own terms may be grounds for fraud, so somebody has to change their language anyways.

New comment by derrick_jensen in "iOS 14 turns volume down if it is set to "loud" for too long"

derrick_jensen — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 16:24:45 +0000

Highest GDP in the world?

New comment by derrick_jensen in "Spotify reportedly fighting with employees about hosting episodes of Joe Rogan"

derrick_jensen — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 15:58:35 +0000

I’ve heard another take that Spotify ownership allows them to play almost any music because JRE inherits Spotify’s license to play it.

Also this is a licensing deal for a set period. Ownership of JRE itself doesn’t change and after the three years the contract as written is over.

New comment by derrick_jensen in "Jitsi’s Emil Ivov on scaling up during a pandemic"

derrick_jensen — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 15:42:42 +0000

I tried Jitsi Meet in a conference call of forty people and we all switched to Google Meet because it was so unreliable and broken. This might have to do with compute limits on the server side (Kubernetes auto scaling?) but it didn’t work.

I use MS Teams wherever possible because it just works and most group calls I am on are in a business context anyways so the other integrations are pretty useful

New comment by derrick_jensen in "How to Use Your Android Tablet as a Second Monitor"

derrick_jensen — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:03:21 +0000

I also hate all open source Remote Desktop solutions, but I ended up using SPICE with Proxmox. Nothing else will forward audio and handling Remote Desktop at a virtualization level is the most reliable and flexible of everything else that I have tried.

Only downside is that it doesn’t work with LXC containers, but that’s not a big problem considering only five or so machines need graphics.

EDIT: another downside is lack of client support on iOS. I’d love to work on my iPad with a Magic Keyboard but no client exists that handles SPICE AFAIK.

New comment by derrick_jensen in "Ask HN: Does Anyone Want AGI?"

derrick_jensen — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 18:10:39 +0000

>AGI could be the ultimate tool to free every human being from toil

I don't believe that's inherently a good thing if you mean that literally. I used to subscribe more to the AnPrim/Ted Kaczynski ideology that toil is an inherent part of human satisfaction and allowing people to "free" themselves from it goes against millions of years of evolution and positive feedback loops. I'm sure some people can fill the gaps just fine, but we aren't talking in terms of "some".

(I'm not Derrick Jensen, he follows a similar ideology and I chose the name as a parody of the average HN poster. Does HN have an anti-impersonation policy?)

New comment by derrick_jensen in "A new company promises a 5G keyboarded BlackBerry in 2021"

derrick_jensen — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:51:12 +0000

I have had nothing but bad experiences with Lenovo ThinkPads, and refuse to buy anything else of theirs (especially in the wake of Superfish).

I had a T60 that had the both hinges snap in the case in normal operation, x230 screen broke and it refuses to start without reinserting the battery. I had similar screen issues with an x100e but at least that didn't have a quality persona around it, so I can't say I'm surprised.

I gave up a while ago and just use an iPad for everything (currently a student so I use the pencil heavily). If something warrants me using a keyboard then I just do at home with a tiny NUC I bought for cheap (HP EliteDesk 705 G2 Mini).

New comment by derrick_jensen in "Ask HN: Anyone a social entrepreneur, i.e. placing social impact above profit?"

derrick_jensen — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 16:26:20 +0000

Time has value, and economies of scale make it more efficient. I worked at a CSA for a while and the amount of time it would take an individual to have the diversity of foods we provide would have taken them far longer. I have nothing against gardening on its own, but the marginal value add of doing something else yourself doesn’t always exceed the value of your time and the opportunity cost of not doing something else.

You could always live an AnPrim lifestyle and that’s fine (one of Kaczynski’s main points was that specialization in the abstract is incompatible with people), but there are more obvious reasons why more people don’t do that.

New comment by derrick_jensen in "Ask HN: What's the biggest problem with social networks today?"

derrick_jensen — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 18:02:24 +0000

Companies exist to maximize some measure, and maximizing "social" isn't inherently a good thing. All the nonsense that happens on social media is the same as what happens in real life, but you can't monetize/optimize the real world in the same way.

New comment by derrick_jensen in "Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers"

derrick_jensen — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:03:03 +0000

Most advantages that quantum computing has aren't practical for most people outside "the HN tech bubble". It's meant for specialized types of high throughput computations.

New comment by derrick_jensen in "Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020"

derrick_jensen — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:25:09 +0000

Its a lot easier for Apple to fix security issues within the Apple ecosystem than it is for Apple to pressure Adobe to fix the problem, port it over to the suite iOS/iPadOS/macOS, and distribute the fix to whoever needs it, as well as communicating the gravity of the issue, post mortem, adjacent attack vectors and surface area, etc.

I'm not saying you are entirely wrong about consumer lock down, but for various reasons, consumer lock down can be objectively better for the developer and user experience, and it is easier to move fast when you have fewer dependencies at play.

New comment by derrick_jensen in "Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century, study shows"

derrick_jensen — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 19:59:22 +0000

I'd argue that most men that won't have sex probably have some character issues they need to work out personally, or otherwise need to develop into somebody interesting. Dopamine hits from other places are more easy to come by, so it wouldn't surprise me that they just don't care enough, relative to their peers.

New comment by derrick_jensen in "Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century, study shows"

derrick_jensen — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 19:40:53 +0000

That's similar to saying that technology isn't about liberating the worker, but rendering most of the work force obsolete and only hiring the top 20% of performers. Your freedom does not compel anybody to be in a relationship with you, just like your freedom does not require somebody to hire you.

I agree that there are larger societal changes at play, but saying this isn't strictly more free than before isn't painting the picture honestly.

New comment by derrick_jensen in "Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants"

derrick_jensen — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:18:29 +0000

Killer Mike had a documentary on Netflix (?) about black life in America, and mentioned that money flows out of the black community far faster than any other minority in America. If we assume that Uber is acting in good faith, which I have no reason not to believe, then what else can they do?

New comment by derrick_jensen in "Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his employees"

derrick_jensen — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 01:44:21 +0000

I agree with you in spirit, but the Fairness Doctrine in the United States was a variation of this, where the FCC required that approximately equal time and attention be paid to all sides of a major issue. Ronald Reagan removed this in the 80s, and helped popularize conservative talk radio. The justification was that the limited bandwidth of television made it in the public interest to regulate its influence. The internet is much higher bandwidth, so the same argument doesn't hold water.

EDIT: What qualified as "equal" and "all sides of a major issue" were up to the discretion of the FCC, so enforcement was fairly ad hoc

New comment by derrick_jensen in "A day using money in Cuba"

derrick_jensen — Mon, 25 May 2020 22:27:39 +0000

Google's definition of socialism

"a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole."

Private enterprise isn't the community. I'll admit that the state isn't the only way these things can organize, but it is probably the most common (excluding groups like the Mennonites)

New comment by derrick_jensen in "A day using money in Cuba"

derrick_jensen — Mon, 25 May 2020 22:04:53 +0000

State owned production and distribution. The things these markets sold were (most likely) not state produced or distributed, since they were Western goods.

New comment by derrick_jensen in "A day using money in Cuba"

derrick_jensen — Mon, 25 May 2020 22:00:02 +0000

He is just stating it matter-of-fact, since they could use USD to purchase things at a (free) market price.

New comment by derrick_jensen in "Push-Button Installer of macOS Guests in VirtualBox for Windows, Linux, macOS"

derrick_jensen — Sun, 24 May 2020 02:37:28 +0000

Google Play allows for different "tracks" for publication: internal testing, closed alpha, closed/open beta, and production.

My approach is to keep releases in sync with Git branches (master is to production, staging is to closed alpha, etc). Although I don't often push things to master, I publish on any of these tracks at least once a day. I'm looking into the Apple ecosystem now, so I'm not sure if I can use a similar approach (my main concern is having a Mac as CI server).