Hacker News: mstg

New comment by mstg in "Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor"

mstg — Sat, 22 May 2021 18:38:57 +0000

I've had thermal throttling issues with my 16" since I've gotten it, and it's only gotten worse. I had to do a downgrade to Catalina to even be able to use it. It's so funny that a $4.3k machine can't even run Zoom or Meet properly. I also had to do a SwitchResX trick + clamshell mode to even be able to dock for a few hours (and it'll overheat again).

I play an occasional Dota 2 match, that my 2014 13" handled without any issues, while my 16" just shuts itself down because of overheating (even while not docked, because of dGPU usage). I don't care if it's an AMD issue, then the GPUs shouldn't be in their machine.

MacBooks used to be so good, and just work. Now not so much. I'll think twice before buying anything Apple (computer-wise) ever again.

Specs: 2,3Ghz 8-core i9, 64GB RAM, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB

New comment by mstg in "Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked"

mstg — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:50:30 +0000

Not true. I've found AWS support really helpful even on accounts without a support contract. Super fast, responsive and professional.

I love Google Cloud for its technology, but their support needs improvement.

New comment by mstg in "Ask HN: Should I donate to Wikipedia? Why?"

mstg — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 23:41:08 +0000

I donate to Wikipedia because I use it and value as an important resource. There are some heavy costs to keep the wiki running.

New comment by mstg in "About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean"

mstg — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:52:11 +0000

That is very sad indeed. I am a second degree immigrant and active in politics in Norway. This behaviour is actually limiting our abilities to work towards eliminating real discriminatory behaviour. I've seen it first hand where someone has accused someone else of racism, when it was there own fault. I guess it benefits them, because they get their way but it also creates a divided and toxic society. Working with people like that is also very tiring and stressing.

New comment by mstg in "About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean"

mstg — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:44:03 +0000

Exactly. That would be very unfair to those employees. How she treated Yann LeCun and how she now publicly bashes Jeff Dean it is no doubt that those employees would also be named and shamed publicly. She threatened to resign and her resignation was accepted. Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk :)

New comment by mstg in "About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean"

mstg — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:21:41 +0000

Considering her previous attacks to anyone who disagrees with her and her previous public feuds, I'd say people may be afraid of being stamped as a racist/sexist because they had to reject her paper. She was a disruptive employee who threatened her employer and the employer didn't accept it. Why is Google obliged to keep her employed?

New comment by mstg in "AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google"

mstg — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:31:38 +0000

How was she marginalized? Marginalized means keeping someone in a powerless or unimportant position in society, which she was not as she had one of the most important roles in AI and was a manager.

New comment by mstg in "AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google"

mstg — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:16:23 +0000

I totally agree with you. Screaming racism/sexism/marginalisation every time someone disagrees with you is annoying and tiring. I am a second degree immigrant in Norway and I always see this behaviour in people who blame society when they don't get their way when in reality people rarely get their way all the time. I hope the level of stupid activism does not reach Norway although we do copy many stupidities of the US :)

New comment by mstg in "Kubernetes 1.18"

mstg — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:25:22 +0000

Hello! Cloud Run would be better if it supported Cloud IAP and wildcard managed certificates.

Overall though it is an amazing service and it is really fast and easy to use.

New comment by mstg in "Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”?"

mstg — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 14:57:18 +0000

Using Facebook for Business does not violate GDPR as long as it's stated in the privacy policy. Which for example Airbnb do mention (https://www.airbnb.com/terms/privacy_policy#sec201910_4).

Other situations where Facebook processes data sent by third parties to show relevant ads for said third party and not use the data to match for other ads is also legal under GDPR, since Facebook only acts as a data processor to act on behalf of said third party.

When ordering from Spreadshirt, you may be ordering from a partner that uses Facebook for Business and their privacy policy apply to you. This is also stated in Spreadshirt's privacy policy.

GDPR is not an umbrella protection for all type of tracking, even though it usually is brought up as such. It only makes sure you have insight in what is getting shared, a way to export, modify and delete said information. In shop/partner situations, you have to contact the partner to request deletion as the shop is not responsible after your approval.

I may be completely wrong, but this is my general understanding.

New comment by mstg in "Google App Engine and Cloud Datastore Outages"

mstg — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:31:44 +0000

What region is this? GCP Console doesn't function properly (api errors) but kubectl and all apps work. (europe-north1)

New comment by mstg in "Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices"

mstg — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 22:33:20 +0000

Comex himself has spoken! It turns out I definitely didn't understand it correctly. Thanks for the clarification!

New comment by mstg in "Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices"

mstg — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 17:41:58 +0000

If I've understood this correctly, it was an iBoot vulnerability enabling the exploitation of the BootROM vulnerability untethered (without connecting to a computer again). Since the iBoot vulnerability is patched, the phone has to be connected to a computer every time to boot if there has been any tinkering (custom FW or any change in boot sequence).

So prepatch you could exploit the BootROM vulnerability untethered with the iBoot vulnerability, but postpatch have to connect to a computer to boot every time if you have done any tinkering which is why it is currently only adviced for security researchers. Tinkering with the BootROM also leads to invalidations of APTickets (so a future restore may be impossible without special gear).

New comment by mstg in "Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices"

mstg — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 13:40:05 +0000

iBoot and BootROM is different. iBoot is software (patchable) while BootROM is read-only. Otherwise, agree! It's really a big achievement.

New comment by mstg in "Slack – Degraded service affecting multiple features"

mstg — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:11:05 +0000

Honestly, the same. It's tiring that people just has to suggest self-hosting IRC or any other software all the time when Slack is mentioned. It's a good way to communicate and it's easy. Hope they resolve it, overall a bad situation.

New comment by mstg in "Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons"

mstg — Mon, 06 May 2019 09:17:52 +0000

I switched to FF a couple of months ago, and was not opted in to Studies automatically. I'm based in Norway though so maybe GDPR had something to say. I had to opt-in to Studies to fix the certificate issue.

New comment by mstg in "Gmail spam-filters Stripe security messages as well"

mstg — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:48:26 +0000

Just checked to see if I've missed anything and there was an email from Google Cloud feedback team. They really just spam-filtered their own email.

New comment by mstg in "Repl.it GFX: Native graphics development in the browser"

mstg — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:18:04 +0000

That is so cool. Congratulations on the launch!

New comment by mstg in "Phoenix: LiveView"

mstg — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:02:29 +0000

I agree. Even though we're all in on React, it's good to see some change for once, and Phoenix just looks better and better overall. Makes me wanna try it "for real"

New comment by mstg in "Snapchat CEO’s leaked memo on survival"

mstg — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 09:18:48 +0000

From what I've seen, people are addicted to streaks.