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New comment by jplayer01 in "Love Bug worm's creator tracked down to repair shop in Manila"

jplayer01 — Sun, 03 May 2020 12:44:57 +0000

> Whoosh! I believe the comment you replied to was a dad-joke level double entendre.

That was a master level dad joke. I didn't realize either until reading your comment.

New comment by jplayer01 in "Love Bug worm's creator tracked down to repair shop in Manila"

jplayer01 — Sun, 03 May 2020 11:48:23 +0000

Beyond the fact that W95 was a terrible POS security-wise, I can't find any more detailed information with a brief Google search. I wish there was a site that did in-depth analysis of how a virus worked and presented that technical information for public readers.

edit: Although, this is decent https://malware.wikia.org/wiki/ILoveYou

New comment by jplayer01 in "Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it"

jplayer01 — Sun, 03 May 2020 11:33:10 +0000

That doesn't answer why it's okay to not give an option for advanced users. Even they want to use Ubuntu.

New comment by jplayer01 in "Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it"

jplayer01 — Sat, 02 May 2020 22:17:01 +0000

The concern is that there's no simple way to disable auto-updates. If you want Ubuntu to turn into Windows, why not just use Windows?

New comment by jplayer01 in "Notion encourages busy-work"

jplayer01 — Sat, 02 May 2020 17:08:07 +0000

I like Notion and I can't stand it. The interface is entirely unsuited and too slow for what it's trying to do.

New comment by jplayer01 in "Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Python? (2013)"

jplayer01 — Sat, 02 May 2020 17:05:40 +0000

The rules are extremely simple and easy to grasp. And once you've grasped it, you'll never have to think twice about it.

Parentheses take precedence.

The first symbol is the operator (add, subtract, sum, multiply, etc.).

Everything else is operated on from left to right.

(+ 2 5 7)

2+5+7

It's also not a Clojure thing. It applies to all Lisps or related like Scheme.

New comment by jplayer01 in "Nvidia Releases Low-Cost, Open-Source Ventilator Design"

jplayer01 — Fri, 01 May 2020 15:27:47 +0000

You've completely misunderstood his argument.

It's widely accepted and known that fatality rates once you're put on a ventilator (due to Coronavirus) is ridiculously high compared to when you're put on a ventilator for other illnesses (something like 80% vs 20%). It suggests that ventilators might not be the right solution to what's happening to these people. So some doctors have been questioning the wisdom of continuing to use ventilators, and some doctors have been looking to alternative solutions that might have more success and better outcomes. One idea that was floated was CPAP (though I don't know what happened to that).

Nobody here is saying "ah, ventilators aren't working, fuck it, let everybody die". That's offensive to everybody here and a bad faith argument that isn't constructive in any way.

New comment by jplayer01 in "Xiaomi Recording ‘Private’ Web and Phone Use"

jplayer01 — Fri, 01 May 2020 03:26:17 +0000

Plausible deniability. They can turn around and say it's racism. It's their (and the Russian) MO. As long as there's no absolutely clear, unmistakable evidence, they can spin spin spin and too many people will buy their bullshit. It also provides a cover for politicians to not do anything. I see it here and elsewhere. People jumping to China's defense at every opportunity even though they deserve zero trust.

New comment by jplayer01 in "Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone"

jplayer01 — Fri, 01 May 2020 03:22:39 +0000

There are other solutions around authentication that would be perfectly fine and still privacy-conscious. It's just that anything other than forcing you to login using a Google account doesn't mesh with their strategy of ensnaring users and adding to their all-encompassing profile of you.

New comment by jplayer01 in "Boeing, expecting a long slump, will cut 16k jobs"

jplayer01 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:15:05 +0000

> nothing in the state-level lockdowns prevents travel in a meaningful way (it's just a jurisdictional thing)

... yes, because if I travel to Canada, the first thing I want to do is be stuck in quarantine for two weeks. Are you serious?

New comment by jplayer01 in "German government to bail Lufthansa out of bankruptcy with nearly $10B state aid"

jplayer01 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:10:59 +0000

> Create a crappy business, hire 130k employees, and get the state to pay for your failures.

Uh ...

You'd rather Germany sink 10 billion Euros into an American company with barely any German jobs? Over 60k of those 130k are in Germany. If your plan is to cripple the economy, then yeah, absolutely, let all these companies fail and put all these people out of work for a situation that is in no way their fault and there's no feasible way for them to have prepared for such a drastic fall in revenue (for reference, their 2019 revenue was 36 billion Euros with a net income of 2bn).

Also, the value of Google and Facebook to society and the economy can seriously be questioned. They don't even pay taxes in Germany. They have zero benefit to the German economy.

New comment by jplayer01 in "I3wm and Ubuntu 20.04 server without any useless packages"

jplayer01 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 14:09:33 +0000

After turning to Manjaro for my main distro, I feel like all the time I spent on trying to configure a base Arch install was totally wasted. The i3/awesome community editions are great - they are properly configured and setup with sane defaults and a minimum set of programs to ensure basic functionality you'd expect from your average OS (like wifi) works straight out of the box. I don't think I could go back to doing everything from scratch with Arch or even starting from Ubuntu (or other) where the default settings for i3/awesome are nigh unusable until you've sunk a significant amount of time into setting everything up.

New comment by jplayer01 in "I3wm and Ubuntu 20.04 server without any useless packages"

jplayer01 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 14:05:35 +0000

The link doesn't work. That's just the page for the official releases. You have to go to Editions at the top of the page -> Community -> i3.

New comment by jplayer01 in "iPhone SE: The One-Eyed King?"

jplayer01 — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 09:00:39 +0000

All of my headphones are wired. Sure, I have BT earbuds, but I'd never be able to use my headphones with any of these phones and the audio quality on them is far superior to any BT headphones I could buy at a similar price. And no, an adapter is a terrible solution (especially a BT one, really?).

The problem isn't that we think you should put the jack back in. The problem is that you're non-empathetic and believe everybody should have the the same opinion that you do.

New comment by jplayer01 in "UChicago doctors see ‘remarkable’ success using ventilator alternatives"

jplayer01 — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 18:59:57 +0000

It's not just the Chinese. Doctors have been concerned about the abnormally high death rate for ventilators for months too. I've been seeing comments to the effect of looking for alternatives to ventilators because there were indications that did more harm than good. I guess not every hospital had this idea, but I know the sentiment was around for a while.

New comment by jplayer01 in "Long-lost U.S. military satellite found by amateur radio operator"

jplayer01 — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 18:55:04 +0000

Seems weird to me. They made these things when they were at war with Eurasia. Seems like it'd be a good idea to ensure only you could use them.

New comment by jplayer01 in "Long-lost U.S. military satellite found by amateur radio operator"

jplayer01 — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:51:09 +0000

Oh, this is fascinating. Just a bit disappointing that the article doesn't mention at all why it's possible for random people in Brazil to access these satellites.

New comment by jplayer01 in "Long-lost U.S. military satellite found by amateur radio operator"

jplayer01 — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:47:48 +0000

> "The reason this one is kind of intriguing is its telemetry beacon is still operating," Tilley says.

What exactly is a telemetry beacon, and what kind of data would it be broadcasting?

New comment by jplayer01 in "Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers"

jplayer01 — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:54:58 +0000

Oh yeah. I really liked Quora in the beginning. There were some good answers to the questions there. Then it got worse, and when it started prompting me to login, I bailed and I've never gone to Quora ever again.

New comment by jplayer01 in "Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1"

jplayer01 — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 03:06:06 +0000

How low is super low and what's the picture quality like? Could it be they're trying to save bandwidth?