Hacker News: marindez

New comment by marindez in "Dutch Data Protection Authority: Microsoft breaches law with Windows 10"

marindez — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 09:34:38 +0000

Or an N version again.

New comment by marindez in "Google shuts YouTube channel implicated in Kremlin political propaganda ops"

marindez — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:02:48 +0000

>this is microtargeting, death by a thousand cuts

Nah this isn't. This is a failed propaganda campaign.

New comment by marindez in "Zuckerberg apologizes for VR cartoon tour of Puerto Rico devastation"

marindez — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:40:41 +0000

Gates as a candidate would work as well as McAfee

New comment by marindez in "Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing"

marindez — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:21:24 +0000

I don't understand why is this called Firefox Send. Shouldn't it be called Mozilla Send?

New comment by marindez in "What Happens When a Suburb Begins to Die?"

marindez — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:08:58 +0000

>If a population is too poor to support its municipal costs, the solution cannot be to let the suburb rot. There is no creative destruction option. If you let the suburb rot, all you’ll have is a more rotten suburb.

A rotten suburb is not a problem if nobody lives in it.

New comment by marindez in "CircleCI trusts 8 analytics companies with your source code and API tokens"

marindez — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:14:08 +0000

Reminds me of those who never forget to mention Mastodon in every thread about Twitter. They make me believe the Mastodon community is full of know-it-alls who pity us the peasants who are too stupid to leave Twitter.

New comment by marindez in "iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking"

marindez — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:25:00 +0000

I know Apple uses curly quotes for EVERYTHING so that raises an instant alarm in my head.

New comment by marindez in "37k Chrome users downloaded a fake Adblock Plus extension"

marindez — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:29:23 +0000

Then people will use cyrillic letters, etc. That approach simply does not work.

New comment by marindez in "Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp"

marindez — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 21:29:25 +0000

It's free (unlike SMS or MMS) and back in the day it was the only service that worked reliably on all mobile platforms and didn't use PINs or usernames--just the phone numbers in your contact list so it was plug&play: just install it and you can talk to everybody.

New comment by marindez in "Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp"

marindez — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 19:17:01 +0000

What I don't like about WhatsApp is that even if you hide your last connection time, everybody gets to see whether you're online.

New comment by marindez in "KB4046355 Deletes Windows Media Player in Windows 10 Build 16299"

marindez — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:56:57 +0000

Yes, Groove Music (by default installed, too) plays those.

New comment by marindez in "Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile"

marindez — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 16:52:36 +0000

An official WhatsApp app has existed since forever and is actively maintained. You probably mean Snapchat?

New comment by marindez in "Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile"

marindez — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:57:59 +0000

>For more niche apps they ran promotions for students and independent developers giving away free phones etc.

I remember they were giving Lumia 925's to computer engineering students here years ago if they made and uploaded an app. You can imagine the quality of the apps they were uploading. Most of them were slideshows or just a wall of text.

That's not how you incentivise app developers, that's how you inflate your numbers.

New comment by marindez in "PureVPN Logs Helped FBI Net Alleged Cyberstalker"

marindez — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:08:55 +0000

How do you catch criminals like these (in this article) if you have strong anonimity?

New comment by marindez in "PureVPN Logs Helped FBI Net Alleged Cyberstalker"

marindez — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:57:48 +0000

That's one way to put it.

Another way is: there are two options. Either we have strong anonimity on the Internet, or the authorities have the power to catch criminals. Which one do you think would win in a vote?

New comment by marindez in "Debian 9.2 released"

marindez — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 09:35:20 +0000

As someone who hasn't used CentOS much, when I've had to use it I've found the package selection (packages/versions) to be lacking, requiring me to use one of the countless 3rd party repos that may or may not contain what I need

New comment by marindez in "The rise of drug overdoses in New Hampshire has created a backlog of autopsies"

marindez — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 13:09:25 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15418764

New comment by marindez in "The rise of drug overdoses in New Hampshire has created a backlog of autopsies"

marindez — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 08:56:01 +0000

I’ve heard this argument many times now and I still fail to see how we’re feeling sympathy for these people. Every time this conversation is brought up I see 0 solutions and people that very low-key suggest these people have to die because coal must disappear, because outsourcing to China is good because we’re living in a global economy, because they vote Trump and they don’t share our liberal view of society and they might not like black people or feminists, etc.

New comment by marindez in "MySql fixes autoincrement bug after 14 years of users complaining about dataloss"

marindez — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 23:42:23 +0000

Now for #20786 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAiVsbXVP6k

New comment by marindez in "Overweight and obesity are linked to cancer"

marindez — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 16:58:43 +0000

Obesity is obviously unnatural and unhealthy and I still don't see how it is obviously linked to cancer.