Hacker News: kennell

New comment by kennell in "Zuckerberg didn’t make any friends in Europe today"

kennell — Wed, 23 May 2018 07:51:40 +0000

Do you think that the GDPR has really changed anything for either Facebook or its users? Do you think that anything changed in the way data is being handled? All i see is a bunch of highly paid law firms writing up 200 additional pages in terms and conditions to shield the company, but nothing really changed as far as daily business is concerned.

New comment by kennell in "Zuckerberg didn’t make any friends in Europe today"

kennell — Wed, 23 May 2018 07:45:19 +0000

This sums up EU laws in a nutshell.

New comment by kennell in "EFail – Vulnerabilities in end-to-end encryption technologies OpenPGP and S/MIME"

kennell — Mon, 14 May 2018 11:57:04 +0000

As if a brand name, logo and website were not enough, even the white paper title is cringy clickbait: "Efail: Breaking S/MIME and OpenPGP Email Encryption using Exfiltration Channels".

OpenPGP is not broken. Nothing in your paper has anything to do with OpenPGP. This is simply spreading overblown FUD for your 15 minutes of mainstream media fame.

New comment by kennell in "The Equifax Hack Has the Hallmarks of State-Sponsored Attack"

kennell — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:11:17 +0000

> muh russian hackers

This nonsense is really getting old

New comment by kennell in "Incorporating a limited company in Germany"

kennell — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 13:51:20 +0000

Others in this thread have suggested that no physical presence is required.

New comment by kennell in "XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350"

kennell — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:52:01 +0000

Minor updates, security patches etc. via the App Store usually work just fine. Major OS updates (like going from El Capitan to Sierra) are a pain in the a. But there is no guarantee for any of this, as a rule of thumb: the closer you are to "original" hardware, the less problems you will experience.

New comment by kennell in "Mac Pro 2 Concept Design"

kennell — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:16:57 +0000

The current real Mac Pro actually has two ethernet ports too. There are a number of ways this could be useful.

Number one would obviously be to connect to two different networks. It could also be useful in a scenario where the machine is used as a server and you want a semi-redundant backup network line. It could also be used to directly connect to a NAS box via Ethernet.

New comment by kennell in "HandBrake 1.0.0 Released"

kennell — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 13:55:44 +0000

An iPad can't play regular MP4/H264 videos by default?

New comment by kennell in "MacOS FileVault2 Password Retrieval"

kennell — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 00:22:07 +0000

Sweet, thanks for the link, will give it a try after i got everything backed up :)

New comment by kennell in "MacOS FileVault2 Password Retrieval"

kennell — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 23:02:58 +0000

What encryption are you using? I was under the impression that FV2 (or any other full disk encryption solution) does not work on a Hackintosh

New comment by kennell in "Ask HN: How is Windows for developers nowadays?"

kennell — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 19:43:47 +0000

Care to elaborate what some of the pain points are?

New comment by kennell in "Step-by-step tutorial to build a modern JavaScript stack from scratch"

kennell — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 22:30:34 +0000

> It teaches you how to set up ES6, Babel, Gulp, ESLint, React, Redux, Webpack, Immutable, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, and Flow.

Stopped reading right here.

New comment by kennell in "MacBook Pro"

kennell — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 23:11:51 +0000

yay, more adapters.

By the time you purchased all the adapters you need you have dropped another $100

New comment by kennell in "Ask HN: Would You Upgrade to the New MacBook Pro?"

kennell — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:44:23 +0000

Unfortunately Windows is not an option (for me) and Desktop Linux in 2016 can still be a huge pain in the ass. I hear good things about the Dell XPS 13" Developer Edition (shipping with Ubuntu), maybe i will give that a try at same point.

So yeah, at the end of the day i probably will still buy the rMBP. There is no alternative at this point. But i am not happy with the direction Apple is going. Cutting ports, selling useless stupid gimmicks for $300 price bump instead of aiming for a better price/value. Not good.

New comment by kennell in "MacBook Pro"

kennell — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:39:37 +0000

I don't get it.

The entire presentation was absolutely cringeworthy. The touch bar is a stupid gimmick being sold for a $300 price bump. Any serious developer, video editor or audio engineer knows all his shortcuts already and simply does not want to look down on his keyboard. The entire idea is flawed to begin with.

I really would not care if they put this on their toy-macs (the 12" "Macbook" or the "Air). Go ahead. But for the love of god, just leave one machine for people that use their Macs as a serious, professional everyday work tool

New comment by kennell in "MacBook Pro"

kennell — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:35:26 +0000

They can't kill it. Someone (we) has to continue making all those fancy, shinny, shitty little $1.99 apps.

New comment by kennell in "The 2016 Election"

kennell — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:25:30 +0000

> I don’t understand how 43% of the country supports Trump. But I’d like to find out.

This is the attitude we need. Not the name calling and shaming. Instead, go grab a beer together, talk about the issues, agree to disagree and in 9 out of 10 cases you will usually find out the person voting for $theOtherCandidate isn't a huge asshole and probably cares about other people just as much as you do.

New comment by kennell in "IRC v3"

kennell — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 21:37:33 +0000

Yup. Sadly. The hassle to get a fully working setup is too much, even for technical people.

New comment by kennell in "Introducing .NET Standard"

kennell — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:27:07 +0000

They are going in the right direction but i feel like they still have a long way to go before people in the Linux/OSX world start taking C# seriously and we see actual products.

New comment by kennell in "Appropriate Uses for SQLite"

kennell — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:33:01 +0000

I run a number of 1%-write, 99%-read web apps with decent traffic on SQLite. Works like a charm. It is low maintenance and creating a "backup" is simply copying the file.