https://hackaday.com/2018/11/26/fcc-gets-complaint-proposed-...

Furthermore, the encryption ban is not specific to ham radio. The guvmin't just wants to be able to listen in, and do so easily.

Someone located in Brussels might easily end up on the website of a Spokane newspaper.

Something something suckers, money, parted, soon, etc.

OP has provided zero information in their post or even on their site about who they are and what their qualifications are. Which means they don't have any qualifications.

Is there literally any moderation of the front page, or can any rando submit "ShowHN" posts that are basically spam for a scam?

The market doesn't care about user privacy or ethics. The market only cares about making more money than was made before. They only care if the source of data (us) get so fed up we stop giving them our data.

Facebook intentionally focuses attention on Zuckerberg. "By all means, pump out memes about Android Zuck. Pay no attention to the inherent evil in our business model that cannot be fixed without destroying the company, or the shareholders behind the curtain who will keep right on pushing that business model because it makes them piles of cash."

....what. That is not how OS stability works.

Also, Arch is nearly impossible to use in production environments.

Let's say there is a vulnerability discovered in the version of lighttpd you're running in your production environment. On Debian, you pull that package, do some testing, and you're done.

On Arch? It's a rolling release distro. They're continuously updating everything, including system libraries. You can easily end up in a situation where getting a security bugfix means you have to update nearly the entire OS thanks to it being built against updated core system libraries.

Like Gentoo it's one of those OSs that is cool for linux nerds and a headache for people who actually need to practice proper systems engineering.

Would he, though? He seems more than happy that people think Apple seized a bunch of parts shipments because they don't "like" that he does repairs, as redditors are oft to repeat.

The real reason they seized the shipment of batteries was because he bought from a manufacturer who copied the battery packaging, right down to the Apple logos. The manufacturer passed them off as OEM parts and Rossman was happy to do the same.

Meanwhile iFixit doesn't sell new parts with Apple logos on them and somehow Apple has never even glanced at them...and they very, very clearly help more people actually repair their Apple shit by means of their very well written and illustrated guides.

I like him pushing on the R2R movement but the man is almost pathologically narcissistic and sometimes borders on con-man. He's like the RMS of R2R.

Stuff is endlessly re-posted even in the same day, and with the most uninformative clickbait-y titles that seem purposefully structured to make you go "...okay, and what exactly is Fruutluup, which apparently just hit version 3.0?" Due to fear of missing out on something cool/interesting, you click on it. Because the submitter knows damn well that if you knew Fruutluup was a MOD tracker written in Scheme, you wouldn't give two shits about it.

The vast majority of posts here are either reposts, fall firmly into the category of "less than a hundred people give a shit about this", "yet another implementation of ____ but in some programming language nobody uses", the ever-popular "nerd getting all philosophical", or some random subject where the post is just the means to an end, letting HN commenters engage in extensive navel-gazing and "intellectual .

A great example of the latter would be a recent submission about agriculture where the author of the news story noticed the traffic and jumped into the comments to ask "uhh, this is a computer tech site, right? How are so many of you qualified to discuss this subject?" and she got absolutely hammered by HN neckbeards going "well ACKSHUALLY, we're programmers and that means we're VERY intellectual people. And some of us are autistic, even. Thos people are EXTRA qualified to talk about shit we just googled an hour ago."

One employee can not have even the slightest influence over the world's largest tech firm, even ignoring that it's publicly traded thus institutional investors are the only people steering the ship. Or ignoring that Brin and Page's research was heavily funded by the CIA and NSA as part of a program specifically designed to encourage silicon valley to develop technology and services to make it easier for them to track social connections between people.

This is a bit like going to work at an oil refinery because you think it'll help climate change. Or working for Marlboro's marketing department thinking you'll help them stop marketing to children.

Even top corporate leadership doesn't really get to steer the ship. It's investors - in publicly traded companies, typically institutional investors, mostly funds. Any sort of corporate "listen to the employees" initiatives are just window dressing; a tap at the bottom of the tank of "employee rabble-rousing."

Just to finish driving home how little impact any worker could have on companies of this size: do you know how Walmart reacts to a store that looks like it's about to successfully unionize despite their union-busting efforts? They turn off the lights and leave.

Now consider that Walmart's goal is to undercut all the small businesses in a community, driving them into the ground. Shutting down an established store leaves a huge vacuum. Walmart is capable of destroying communities at the multi-county level and they do not care.