Hacker News: mgiampapa

New comment by mgiampapa in "Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died"

mgiampapa — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:31:27 +0000

7/11 Japan has been running the stores in Hawaii for ages, just look there.

New comment by mgiampapa in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

mgiampapa — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:18:40 +0000

Why do you think they have to?

New comment by mgiampapa in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

mgiampapa — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:16:33 +0000

No one said encryption was perfect, but it is how you make mass surveillance ineffective. Targeted attacks are very different than wide nets.

New comment by mgiampapa in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

mgiampapa — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:27:44 +0000

Encrypt everything, all the time, everywhere, use quantum hardened encryption wherever possible.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

mgiampapa — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:23:33 +0000

It's been a while so I don't remember the specifics, but the I think the request came from someone working at Accenture from one of the FinTech teams? At the time the proposal had both technical limitations and performance implications on top of the privacy issues. To do it right would have meant standing up a new set of client exchange endpoints and permissions that were far too permissive so the task just got ignored for a long time and I think that manager behind it went away eventually or they settled for public data inside the company.

The only report chain based permissions were around distribution lists which were just some powershell scripts that walked AD every night. These also got used for security groups to gate access to some things. Be default, calendars were visible to all authenticated users unless you made them private or individual events private. The meeting tool leveraged this for example.

I was working on corp email (among other things) there from 2009 to 2016, so I can't speak for now.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

mgiampapa — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:13:28 +0000

Many many moons ago I refused to implement a calendar event scraping system at Meta where it would look at all of your meetings on the calendar and do "analysis". IDK what ever happened to that task, I assume it died a death of no one else being willing to do it. This was probably 2011 or so, I can only imagine it has gotten so much worse.

New comment by mgiampapa in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

mgiampapa — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:08:27 +0000

Actually, the date was 29 June 2007. This is when GPLv3 was released and Apple could no long continue using the fruits of open source labor without giving anything back. That's when MacOS X's UNIX underlying began to ossify. Sure Apple kept backporting important security things, but it froze in time all of the GNU utilities that made UNIX on MacOS X good.

New comment by mgiampapa in "New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims"

mgiampapa — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:07:49 +0000

I order from Amazon because of their logistics. For some reason Amazon can ship for free at the same price as the producer's Shopify page that wants to charge me insane shipping because I live in a remote location.

Yes, I understand the price fixing is why they aren't selling for less on their own site, but Amazon's superpower is logistics, not years of goodwill and brand loyalty.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Facebook is cooked"

mgiampapa — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:38:35 +0000

I am both strongly pro 2A, and extremely liberal. Sometimes it gets things wrong, but I just use the feedback buttons and snooze content I don't agree with and it remarkably stays mostly on track for me.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Facebook is cooked"

mgiampapa — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:36:06 +0000

IDK, I still find my Facebook and Instagram feeds very topical and useful to me, so I keep using them. I also curate aggressively, have a wide variety of interests and a few hundred close connections. It could be that I am just fitting into what the algo is steering to, but I don't get the low quality stuff that OP is complaining about.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Facebook is cooked"

mgiampapa — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:35:22 +0000

Social media is mostly about what you make of it and how you interact to find value. This is the same in Twitter, TikTok, FB, Instagram, even LinkedIn.

If you don't interact with the product, you get lowest denominator crap.

New comment by mgiampapa in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

mgiampapa — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:01:38 +0000

If I learned anything at Buy N Large University, AR screens in eyeware may be huge.

New comment by mgiampapa in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

mgiampapa — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:59:46 +0000

The issue with those inclined pillows with the arm hole in them is that they can be a really hard angle for a side sleeper to be at. It makes my back and hips hurt way worse than my shoulder.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi"

mgiampapa — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:02:09 +0000

You clearly did not live in the world of watching two teens on computers in the same room hold two entirely different conversations out-loud and over AIM.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

mgiampapa — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:38:45 +0000

56k was also unidirectional, you had to have special hardware on the other side to send at 56k downstream. The upstream was 33.6kbps I think, and that was in ideal conditions.

New comment by mgiampapa in "The Myth of the ThinkPad"

mgiampapa — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:07:47 +0000

Trackpad != trackpoint. The track point is the little eraser nub pointer embedded into the keyboard. Many thinkpad enthusiasts disable the trackpad entirely.

New comment by mgiampapa in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

mgiampapa — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:39:01 +0000

Being medically stupid isn't a protected class. You can refuse service to anyone you want to otherwise. It's not an ER, it's a Pediatrician, and they value not endangering their other patients who actually follow medical advice.

New comment by mgiampapa in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

mgiampapa — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:39:11 +0000

The doctors offices want none of it. It's all FoodTV and HGN.

There is no utility in pissing off 75% of your customers. I'm thrilled that my kid's doctor doesn't even allow patients that aren't vaccine schedule compliant.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

mgiampapa — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:53:56 +0000

I firewall my TV from my Printer just so they don't get any ideas.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Venezuela's Navy Begins Escorting Ships as U.S. Threatens Blockade"

mgiampapa — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:11:56 +0000

If its not in the middle east it's just a sparkling police action.