As a Darwinist of sorts, I'm afraid that if this actually were true, we would be seeing some serious disruption of those nerds by much more functional diverse teams. The cat's been of the bag for so many years that somebody ought to have exploited it by now. But so far, it seems that one poster child example of a company which made tons of money bringing computing to the masses is Apple, under the lead of no one else but You Know Who, and (allegedly) with quite obsessive, arrogant, nitpicking and abrasive people working under him.

How is this not an abuse?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14873001

Does he even bother reading them nowadays?

If anything, I would say that if git were less popular, its developers wouldn't have to deal with constant complaints that their UI scares noobs.

Why, from his point of view - if GH lacks functionality he needs and git proper delivers this functionality in conjunction with email, GH is just about as useful as an empty beer can ;)

But sure, outsiders with zero idea of what is being discussed love to take his words out of context and derive all sorts of bizarre conclusions.

> I sometimes meet people, most (all?) of them women, who were not nice to one idiot groping them and woke up in the hospital.

In Europe? I suppose it's possible in some pathological neighborhoods but I would be surprised to hear it's a common occurrence. But then, I guess, once per lifetime is dangerous enough, as you say.

Either it's deception or perhaps some obscure low-end embedded vendor.

edit: for the curious, it's "(redacted) hardware bugs" :)

Dunno, it's just a hypothetical question and speculation whether there are any sensible reasons for Oracle to maintain status quo.

Chromebooks use kernel signing to prevent this. The problem is, Google doesn't give you keys to your hardware so you have to replace them yourself or use devmode which disables kernel verification.

Another possible solution is to keep the kernel on an external, physically secured pendrive and never forget to press CTRL-U during boot (to stop a hypothetical attack involving a malicious kernel installed to the internal flash which exfiltrates your FDE passphrase or something like that).

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

I too normally dislike things disappearing from the front page in 5 minutes but I made an exception for this submission and flagged it because such stories are dime in a dozen and this one brings zero new information, solves nothing and mainly just perpetuates hostility.

And no, I'm not from SV. I think many developers from all over the world, particularly of the sort hanging out at HN, will consider your stance somewhat crazy.

Well, it's possible to temporarily unlock firmware write protection and replace Google key with your own and run self-signed kernels and arbitrary distribution securely. But indeed, I haven't heard of anyone actually going through the effort to do so.

By allowing ZFS-derived works to be licensed under GPL, I suppose. I wonder if they could do it without allowing for a GPL fork which would become unmergable to the upstream?