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New comment by postmaster in "Best Linux distro in 2025 for non-experts"

postmaster — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:33:41 +0000

They make it seem like it does, but tech savvy people and those who read the screen thoroughly can easily create an offline only account without ever connecting or creating an online Microsoft account.

Meta's Project Waterworth: over 50,000km of fiber

postmaster — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:16:09 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.fb.com/2025/02/14/connectivity/project-waterworth-ai-subsea-infrastructure/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051299

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by postmaster in "The FBI’s Approach to the Cyber Threat"

postmaster — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 05:48:37 +0000

(U) Law Enforcement Sensitive: This information is the property of the FBI and may be distributed to state, tribal, or local government law enforcement officials with a need-to-know. Further distribution without FBI authorization is prohibited. Precautions should be taken to ensure this information is stored and/or destroyed in a manner that precludes unauthorized access.

https://info.publicintelligence.net/FBI-GoingDark.pdf

New comment by postmaster in "Why Tim Berners-Lee is no friend of Facebook"

postmaster — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 09:16:33 +0000

> . . . being covered by some obnoxious "See more of PAGE by logging in."

> . . . pressure non-users into signing up.

These days you'll see similar examples by visiting any forum. Want to see some code, or a link someone posted? Sorry! You have to login or register.

> This is vastly different . . .

OK, OK. I'm sorry. This is most certainly, however, similar to any other website out there that uses real identity; don't let me get everything muddied by trying to compare real identity web to the anonymous web.

> Facebook is a . . .

Lol? I don't even. There's so many die-hard Facebook haters out there. Go build open source applications that do what Facebook is offering and does it better and before you know it the company should be gone. I'm solely basing this on the amount of comments I see for people coming out against Facebook, rather than ever for it (or even just playing devil's advocate). It seems to always be a circle jerk.

New comment by postmaster in "Why Tim Berners-Lee is no friend of Facebook"

postmaster — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 04:06:38 +0000

> For Facebook you need an account to even see the large majority of content.

For Facebook you only need an account to see content that the user / page has deemed not public. This has nothing to do with Facebook and everything to do with the owner of the account / page that publishes the content you're wanting to see.

https://www.facebook.com/YCombinator/

Do you need to be logged in to view PUBLIC posts or comments on that page? No, you don't. Now if you were trying to visit Mark Zuckerberg's personal profile obviously, yes, a very large amount of content is NOT going to be visible to you.

This is no different than every other site out there. Sure, you can read the news and comments posted on this (https://news.ycombinator.com/) webiste, but you most certainly CANNOT post comments without having an account.