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New comment by jm4 in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

jm4 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:49:43 +0000

I would sooner trust a Chinese company than an Israeli company. Is there any country less trustworthy and more hostile to users?

New comment by jm4 in "New Apple TV 4K"

jm4 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:59:25 +0000

The reason will be that the older, less expensive Apple TV 4k will no longer be available. There's really no other reason. This is a price hike, plain and simple.

New comment by jm4 in "New Apple TV 4K"

jm4 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:56:38 +0000

You could make the argument that we don't have Siri in the USA either. I mean, it's there, but it's not like it actually works for anything.

New comment by jm4 in "New Apple TV 4K"

jm4 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:50:38 +0000

That's what the previous gen 4k model does. It works great.

New comment by jm4 in "New Apple TV 4K"

jm4 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:48:50 +0000

I love my Apple TV, but this is nothing but a price hike. The older model already does 4k. What's the added benefit here? Siri? Give me a break. Apple Intelligence is the least capable AI of any of the big tech companies. The fact that they don't mine data like the others is a moot point when Siri isn't even good enough to answer basic queries in the first place. There's no data to mine when you end up not using it for anything.

New comment by jm4 in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

jm4 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:31:05 +0000

Cost of services is up. I suspect that's where the token cost comes into play, but they didn't "invest" in tokens. They can't call that an investment anyway. The increase in cost of services relative to revenue impacts net income - we can see that in prior years - but that's not the whole story. Total assets on the balance sheet increased at the same time net income decreased. They spent money on something of value.

New comment by jm4 in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

jm4 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:58:05 +0000

Apparently, no one commenting knows how to read financial statements. They look at one item and assume the company is going out of business. Meanwhile, their total assets have increased. Cost of services have increased significantly over recent years - mostly commensurate with revenue growth, although the gap has been shrinking. Operating costs have been pretty flat. I don't have time to investigate where they spent the money, but the company is not at risk. They brought in more money than in prior years and spent it on something. That's it.

New comment by jm4 in "Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux"

jm4 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:39:25 +0000

I was wondering the same thing. Distrobox mounts $HOME by default, but it’s trivial to give a distrobox its own $HOME.

Can you explain the advantages of systemd-nspawn containers versus podman/docker? I’m not familiar with systemd-nspawn, but I’m a regular user of distrobox and podman.

New comment by jm4 in "MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta"

jm4 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:42:10 +0000

Or he told the board he’s resigning and they told him it’s immediate. It’s unlikely he resigned with zero notice so he could go the Meta the very next day.

New comment by jm4 in "Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac"

jm4 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:03:49 +0000

I was around in the 90's too, which is why I can confidently say it is that bad. What Apple is doing with AI today is exactly the same formula as some of the worst stuff Microsoft put out back then. I'm not talking about the big things. More like the bundled apps where they see someone else getting traction with something and then they go and bundle their own K-Mart version of it that no one asked for.

New comment by jm4 in "Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac"

jm4 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:34:47 +0000

I actually like AI tools, but I don’t use Apple Intelligence. It’s literally the worst in class. It feels very late 90’s Microsoft. They are shoving it on us when we don’t want it and it’s worse than everything else out there. It’s the Windows Media Player of the AI industry.

New comment by jm4 in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

jm4 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:19:29 +0000

They have their own problems. They may be "open source", but they don't accept contributions. I'm skeptical it will ever become more than a hobby project.

New comment by jm4 in "Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion"

jm4 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:26:48 +0000

You were barred for life over a false positive? That's crazy.

New comment by jm4 in "America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster"

jm4 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:24:56 +0000

Are we talking hypothetical utopia or something that could actually happen? Insurance probably isn’t the most perfect solution but it’s the most feasible. These exact policies and insurers already exist.

And why the hell would anyone want a job where a mistake results in personal ruin? Sure, there are a lot of shitty companies and people running them, but mistakes also happen when people are trying to do a good job. It’s not possible to completely prevent a data breach even with an unlimited budget.

I think the best solution is to weed out the people who behave irresponsibly and have an environment where we learn from the ones who are responsible and fail anyway.

New comment by jm4 in "America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster"

jm4 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:51:37 +0000

Ok. How do you propose they prove they can handle the risks? Who is responsible for determining that and what are their qualifications?

New comment by jm4 in "America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster"

jm4 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:29:44 +0000

The company typically receives the payout to cover losses from whatever incident precipitated the claim. This isn’t hypothetical. Companies already do this. For example, a company could get hacked and extorted for ransom. They can file a claim and use the payout to pay the ransom. Or a manager makes a mistake that results in a lawsuit, settlement, defense costs, etc. The company can file a claim against a management liability policy.

What’s new that I’m proposing is to require companies to carry insurance and list accountable people on the policies so that claim history is associated with their decisions. Many companies already have management liability and/or cybersecurity policies, but it’s typically optional and individual decision makers aren’t listed on the policy. The claim history is associated only with the company and never the people who made the decision. That’s why they can just leave and do the same thing somewhere else.

New comment by jm4 in "America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster"

jm4 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:23:08 +0000

Companies typically have insurance policies to cover this kind of stuff.

New comment by jm4 in "America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster"

jm4 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:17:19 +0000

This is a little harsh. What about requiring companies to carry management liability insurance? Or to list individual managers on cybersecurity insurance policies? Premiums will rise when a company employs managers with claims history. Eventually, it becomes difficult to employ them in key positions if they have a bad track record.

New comment by jm4 in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

jm4 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:46:53 +0000

I love how the content belongs to them when someone else reposts it but it belongs to the user if the content is illegal. Such a double standard with these social media and AI companies. Why do we put up with it?

New comment by jm4 in "StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter"

jm4 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:16:44 +0000

RTS is pretty much a dead genre these days. There have been indie releases but nothing did well enough for a big studio to take notice. They tested the water with a Command and Conquer remaster a few years ago too.