Hacker News: disordinary

New comment by disordinary in "Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability"

disordinary — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:44:03 +0000

Oracle is now in the keep customers locked in business rather than the get new customers business.

New comment by disordinary in "Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability"

disordinary — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:43:03 +0000

It's a challenging time for OpenSource at the moment.

New comment by disordinary in "Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA"

disordinary — Sun, 28 May 2023 20:47:32 +0000

I wasn't implying that at all, more I was shocked at how a country like America doesn't have high speed broadband ubiquitously available. So it was more rhetorical than anything.

New comment by disordinary in "Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA"

disordinary — Sun, 28 May 2023 20:35:46 +0000

Surely you have options though? In Rural NZ we have a choice between 4g which runs at about 50mbps and latency of about 15ms and starlink which runs at around 100mbps and has a latency of about 25ms.

Both should be good enough for remote work.

New comment by disordinary in "SoftBank Vision funds post record $39B annual loss"

disordinary — Thu, 11 May 2023 20:03:36 +0000

That's not a loss, that's an investment in an asset. It's a loss because the assets have devalued.

New comment by disordinary in "Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners"

disordinary — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:21:20 +0000

I mean, they look better than your standard Mitsubishi or Panasonic heatpump, but other than cosmetics, what difference does this have from the normal sort of heatpumps that most homes have?

New comment by disordinary in "Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?"

disordinary — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 20:30:59 +0000

You might have to take a paycut even working remotely. A lot of companies now pay what you'd expect locally rather than in a tech hub. So, if you worked remotely from San Francisco you'd earn more than if you worked remotely from somewhere rural.

New comment by disordinary in "Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE?"

disordinary — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 04:22:18 +0000

No, New Zealand with UFB which is fibre to the door for about 90% of the population with rural broadband initiatives for the remaining 10%.

New comment by disordinary in "Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE?"

disordinary — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 19:16:26 +0000

Wow, we have fibre to about 90% of the population and ripped out copper a few years ago. In rural areas there is government subsidised 4g internet and in the most rural it's government subsidised satellite.

I was in Korea for work and it seemed the same there, I was even in eastern Europe visiting family and it was a pretty similar story. So I figured it was pretty universal. Although I know that Australia isn't in a good space with broadband simply because of politics and companies not wanting to work together, I'd assumed they were an outlier

New comment by disordinary in "Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?"

disordinary — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 19:37:51 +0000

I've used Fedora for years as my desktop linux distro on my laptops and CentOS or RHEL for servers.

Fedora is the desktop focussed project which is upstream from the commercial RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS is the community distribution of RedHat Enterprise Linux.

This is a great, stable, and feature rich ecosystem that contributes a lot of innovation to opensource projects and upstream back to Linux, it has a strong community and has a long track record stretching back more than 20 years.

New comment by disordinary in "Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?"

disordinary — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 19:35:48 +0000

I've used Fedora for years as my desktop linux distro on my laptops and CentOS or RHEL for servers.

Fedora is the desktop focussed project which is upstream from the commercial RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS is the community distribution of RedHat Enterprise Linux.

This is a great, stable, and feature rich ecosystem that contributes a lot to opensource and upstream back to Linux and has a long track record stretching back more than 20 years.

New comment by disordinary in "Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE?"

disordinary — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 10:26:01 +0000

Maybe in the developing world but I'd imagine most of the developed world got rid of wired internet and replaced it with fibre years ago.

New comment by disordinary in "Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE?"

disordinary — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 10:21:22 +0000

You have to pay extra for 5g in the US?

New comment by disordinary in "The infrastructure behind ATMs"

disordinary — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:53:23 +0000

We've even lost our post offices, I couldn't tell you where a post office is in the city I live in, they've been slowly disappearing for the last ten years or so. But small businesses like service stations and convenience stores often are post agents.

New comment by disordinary in "The infrastructure behind ATMs"

disordinary — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:50:50 +0000

That's a good idea, one of the tough things about banks closing - espeacially in small towns where there isn't any around for miles, is the elderly struggle with technology.

New comment by disordinary in "The infrastructure behind ATMs"

disordinary — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 06:17:56 +0000

Interesting that they say the number of tellers is up because the amount of branches is up, because where I live (New Zealand) it's practically impossible to find a bank branch now days, they've all been shut and replaced with internet banking and ATMs. I can't remember the last time I used a cheque, for instance, probably 20 years, so the requirement to physically go into banks is low, but when you do need one they're not around.

New comment by disordinary in "New Zealand admits it has access to Facebook takedown portal to censor content"

disordinary — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 20:28:20 +0000

No, there is a lot of transparency and oversight, including to any member of the public, and ultimately the government sets policy. I can just request any document, and in fact I used to work in the public service where a coworker would frequently request any correspondence about him by staff or managers under the official information act. He was paranoid but had the ability to do it.

An example is during covid, the government set policy around what could be done but the police were ultimately in charge with how they enforced it. Additionally New Zealand has a culture of egalitarianism and community. While there is growing inequality, there isn't an elite yet.

The government provides checks on the public service and the public service provides checks on the government.

Another example is the treasury prevents the government going into debt unless there are extreme circumstances and a plan to get back into surplus. The government can't just cut taxes and up borrowing to buy votes, they need to be fiscally responsible and that's controlled by the treasury.

Ultimately New Zealand has a reasonably direct, accessable, and transparent form of government which represents the community that it serves, it is rated top in the democracy list for a reason.

New comment by disordinary in "New Zealand admits it has access to Facebook takedown portal to censor content"

disordinary — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 20:13:26 +0000

Of course it does.

New comment by disordinary in "New Zealand admits it has access to Facebook takedown portal to censor content"

disordinary — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 20:12:18 +0000

Sorry, I meant the lack of an overarching constitutional document gives more flexibility as it's not one thing which is held up as an almost holy document. The closest we've got it the treaty of Waitangi.

New comment by disordinary in "New Zealand admits it has access to Facebook takedown portal to censor content"

disordinary — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 18:08:22 +0000

Yes, we have laws that's why we live in a society.

People that work in the censorship office don't make calls based on morals, that make calls based on policy, they also face mental health challenges and get the support needed to a look at this content without radicalising or breaking down.

While pushing for your right to view the video, you're also ignoring the rights of the victims. How is it that you're right is more important than theirs?