Hacker News: monochromatic

New comment by monochromatic in "Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10"

monochromatic — Tue, 07 May 2019 02:25:37 +0000

>endgame

He’s not saying it’s happening right now.

New comment by monochromatic in "Apple has removed or restricted several screen-time and parental-control apps"

monochromatic — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:00:57 +0000

If an employer issues phones to its employees, is it really unethical to maintain control over its own devices?

New comment by monochromatic in "Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and Pihole"

monochromatic — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:04:59 +0000

Probably an ignorant question, but is there a way of disabling DoH at the firewall level?

New comment by monochromatic in "Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues"

monochromatic — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 21:52:38 +0000

The fine should be high enough to nullify any profit they made from their malfeasance, plus some amount as punitive damages to discourage the behavior in the future.

New comment by monochromatic in "Parable of the Polygons (2014)"

monochromatic — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 22:28:35 +0000

Why is it inherently and obviously good to mix the polygons?

New comment by monochromatic in "China Bans the Word 'Leica' on Social Media"

monochromatic — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 18:33:10 +0000

Typical communists.

New comment by monochromatic in "Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware"

monochromatic — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 06:34:32 +0000

That was a wild ride. If he thinks he’s bad at reverse engineering, I wonder who’s good at it.

New comment by monochromatic in "Which programming language is used for making Windows 10?"

monochromatic — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 18:10:06 +0000

That’s a little surprising. I would have figured that outside the kernel/drivers, it’d be all C++.

New comment by monochromatic in "The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Journalism"

monochromatic — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:46:49 +0000

Sweden has dropped those charges though.

New comment by monochromatic in "The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Journalism"

monochromatic — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 15:53:12 +0000

Reporting on leaked documents is one thing. Helping your source crack passwords on government computers is another.

New comment by monochromatic in "Model 3 Lease Available"

monochromatic — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 03:34:29 +0000

Why bother inflating the stock price before filing for bankruptcy? I don’t see the point.

New comment by monochromatic in "Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Reviews Audio"

monochromatic — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 23:25:34 +0000

I’m shocked. Shocked!

New comment by monochromatic in "Chrome, Safari, and Edge to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk"

monochromatic — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:15:03 +0000

Pretty user-hostile. Time to install Firefox.

New comment by monochromatic in "Overview of differential equations [video]"

monochromatic — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 22:06:29 +0000

3blue1brown has some of the best math exposition I’ve ever seen. I’m consistently impressed with his videos.

New comment by monochromatic in "Saudi Aramco Is World’s Most Profitable Company, Far Exceeding Apple"

monochromatic — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:27:24 +0000

If we're counting anything with a "government backed monopoly," then any company that owns a patent counts.

New comment by monochromatic in "Sony to slash smartphone workforce"

monochromatic — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 20:03:48 +0000

Sony makes smartphones??

New comment by monochromatic in "How to liberate a Chromebook"

monochromatic — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 15:48:55 +0000

Those don’t tell you how to flash the BIOS though.

New comment by monochromatic in "Apple Violated Qualcomm Patent, U.S. Trade Judge Rules"

monochromatic — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 03:40:41 +0000

Do the claims sound ridiculous? Because I'm guessing you have not even looked at the claims...

New comment by monochromatic in "Apple announces Apple Card credit card"

monochromatic — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 05:58:26 +0000

How about if they’re into pedophelia?

New comment by monochromatic in "Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method"

monochromatic — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 22:05:40 +0000

Freeman Dyson won this prize too. Is he also now suspect?