Hacker News: jelly

New comment by jelly in "Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown"

jelly — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:09:07 +0000

Action against Tiktok doesn't preclude action against US companies

New comment by jelly in "Did Apple kill the MicroLED industry?"

jelly — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:31:32 +0000

OLED already works very well for TVs and other big screens; MicroLED would need to push into that market and prove its value against OLED. And OLED tech will not stand still while MicroLED catches up.

MicroLED needs market niches with lots of manufacturing volume to scale up and improve or they'll never get to a position where they can challenge OLED.

New comment by jelly in "Ask HN: Is Google deliberately breaking Firefox?"

jelly — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:28:06 +0000

Google only pays because Firefox has enough users to justify it. If enough users switch to Chrome because of broken Google-owned websites, why would they keep paying?

New comment by jelly in "Refusal in language models is mediated by a single direction"

jelly — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 01:26:39 +0000

Perhaps LLM creators will start using ablation as the censorship method instead of a refusal

New comment by jelly in "90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president"

jelly — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 23:51:16 +0000

What a delightful website, the design is frozen in time. From the News section it appears they're still running - they posted an update on a router upgrade today https://www.eskimo.com/news/

New comment by jelly in "Building a Personal VoIP System"

jelly — Sat, 27 May 2023 10:16:03 +0000

I took a look at freeSWITCH's site and it looks like they got bought out. Their documentation is a total mess because the acquiring company has imported lots of wiki pages without much care for how they fit together.

New comment by jelly in "The Dutch benefits scandal: a cautionary tale for algorithmic enforcement"

jelly — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 10:31:12 +0000

Food is parceled out so a small amount of food bank fraud creates a slightly smaller parcel for everyone, in the case where food is limited. If fraud rates are small, the cost to everyone is trivial; if fraud rates are zero, the costs get piled onto a few unfortunate souls who couldn't pass the test despite actually needing help.

New comment by jelly in "Apple TV prompt requires another Apple device"

jelly — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 22:52:57 +0000

I think the current title is mistaken, the twitter user isn't claiming he can't use the Apple TV, he's just saying the message appears.

I encountered the same message when iOS 16 had just released and wasn't available on my iPad yet. It wasn't a blocking message, pressing "OK" was enough to make it go away, and when iPadOS 16 finally came out I was able to clear it.

It's bad UX but the Apple TV can still be used as before.

New comment by jelly in "Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest"

jelly — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:17:14 +0000

That sounds interesting, could you share the script?

I've encountered a few obvious login attempts like that, but since they come from a broad pool of IPs it's not something fail2ban can easily handle without collateral damage.

New comment by jelly in "How Bad Europe’s Energy Crisis Is"

jelly — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:28:19 +0000

"The sanctions" in this context being Russia's refusal to supply gas to Europe. The EU has not sanctioned Russian energy because they are dependent.

New comment by jelly in "discordo: Lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord terminal client"

jelly — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 22:33:51 +0000

The demand isn't being made to the product side; Discord and other chat clients already have a chat API which their clients authenticate and talk to, it's all already built and user-facing. They already distrust their clients. They already made everything a third party client would need.

It's a policy change, not a product change, and demanding a company adjust their bad policy is totally normal.

New comment by jelly in "I've been targeted with a vicious corporate counterattack (2021)"

jelly — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:10:19 +0000

I understand it sucks to hear that people are mistreated, but at least you do hear about it.

New comment by jelly in "Arizona passes law criminalizing recording of police (within 8 ft)"

jelly — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 12:19:38 +0000

The new law has legalized an existing abuse - police threatening concerned observers who are recording - so I suppose you could say it's no longer abuse. Compelling stuff!

New comment by jelly in "Large-scale ‘sand battery’ goes online in Finland"

jelly — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 23:52:07 +0000

Gazprombank is still in SWIFT

New comment by jelly in "No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing"

jelly — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:23:27 +0000

Perhaps 10 years of existing within the system led you away from the more revolutionary perspective and towards the status quo. I would be curious to see the blog post you wrote, I can't find it in your submissions.

New comment by jelly in "No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing"

jelly — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 14:15:12 +0000

Those are certainly causal explanations for the data, but once those phenomena are here they impact people's expectations. Change in expectations is clearly what the author is focusing on. For example, the emergence of the rust belt leaves a lot of unemployed men - the impacted parts of society won't continue to expect the same work ethic and commitment from their men 40-50 years later.

New comment by jelly in "No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing"

jelly — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 13:26:42 +0000

All of those countries have changed their expectations of men and women regardless of traditional values, just check the female labor force participation rates, and have had a similar swell of directionless men.

New comment by jelly in "Hackers gaining power of subpoena via fake “emergency data requests”"

jelly — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 16:24:23 +0000

It's not trivial. But regardless, you're saying the hacker should submit data to Google and also answer a telephone call, both of which increase the risk of getting caught later. The aim should be to stop or mitigate the misuse of EDRs, not to cure the underlying problem of social engineering.

New comment by jelly in "Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is their sovereign territory"

jelly — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 13:02:32 +0000

According to a video I found linked on another thread (https://youtu.be/b4wRdoWpw0w?t=119) Russia has moved around 75% of its principal combat units to the Ukraine border. The Ukraine invasion appears to be using a significant portion of their conventional military power.

New comment by jelly in "Helping Ukraine"

jelly — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 12:35:07 +0000

Let me have a go at objectively explaining the difference: America has a lot more political clout than Russia.

Under Putin, Russia's soft power has been decimated and they are left with misinformation, violence and resource starvation as their main tools to make others comply. A government like that will face much stronger pushback than a nation like America.

America is rightly criticized for its wars and its mistreatment of countries like Palestine but it has the political clout to absorb those criticisms and slow down their effect. When the criticisms eventually mount the government is forced to make changes, but this is slowed by soft power.