Hacker News: r12343a_19

New comment by r12343a_19 in "Canada extends copyright protection another 20 years to meet trade obligation"

r12343a_19 — Mon, 08 May 2023 16:10:56 +0000

Because the trick is to boil the frog slowly. Even the most dense simpleton understands that having no rights means having no rights.

But if you have some rights, starting next Tuesday, and the government keeps extending the start date, you have something to look up to.

Of course, it will be postponed forever.

New comment by r12343a_19 in "UEFI Secure Boot on the Raspberry Pi"

r12343a_19 — Thu, 04 May 2023 19:17:01 +0000

Sadly I've let go. Switched to some other small and fanless things. Surprisingly with x86-64!

New comment by r12343a_19 in "EU urged to protect grassroots AI research or risk losing out to US"

r12343a_19 — Thu, 04 May 2023 19:12:13 +0000

Sure, come over the our EU utopia...

Come to think of it, if only it would be possible to do a swap. Half a mil a year to live in SF sounds harsh but worth the risk.

New comment by r12343a_19 in "Libreboot 20230423"

r12343a_19 — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 13:36:12 +0000

I never understood what Libreboot does on top of Coreboot. As far as I could tell it's a "distro" of Coreboot that just disables some things and maybe adds a few patches.

All the heavy lifting is done by Coreboot.

New comment by r12343a_19 in "Remembering Bob Lee"

r12343a_19 — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 07:06:41 +0000

I find the obsession of ignoring how a person died shocking.

Sure, let's remember the person (I never knew before). But... should we pretend he was not stabbed!?

What is wrong with you people?

How a person died is very much relevant for that person and for the world you are living in.

This reminds me of the Ian Murdock suicide. You know, a very much public person in the tech world. Whose death was very much hush hushed because... what? You're not supposed to notice an interaction with the police would unhinge a person (even more)? That he probably also had mental health problems?

New comment by r12343a_19 in "XUL Layout is gone"

r12343a_19 — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 14:59:41 +0000

It's amazing that for the past 8 years (almost to the day!) imgur has been hosting your screenshots.

New comment by r12343a_19 in "Is Y Combinator worth the money? Brutally honest review of W22 batch experience"

r12343a_19 — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 20:38:14 +0000

> YC is 100% what you make of it

This is 100% what survivor bias sounds like.

Every party is what you make of it. Every job. Every business. Every interaction.

Except, you know, when this other thing is overhyped and one hopes getting there helps and it turns out... it's not any different than anything else?

New comment by r12343a_19 in "The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge"

r12343a_19 — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 11:45:38 +0000

> Don’t they understand that this is what drives people to Macs and Chromebooks (and nerds like me to Linux)?

(Internal) metrics say otherwise.

New comment by r12343a_19 in "Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?"

r12343a_19 — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 09:36:29 +0000

> went offline permanently on January 18, 2023

Lol.

New comment by r12343a_19 in "Bulgarian law enforcement raids offices of cryptocurrency firm Nexo"

r12343a_19 — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:38:30 +0000

Dude, reading comprehension much?

I literally started 'by that logic' to underline how broken the whole initial comment was!

Do only smart people use fiat? Like... it's not even worth dissecting your reply.

New comment by r12343a_19 in "Bulgarian law enforcement raids offices of cryptocurrency firm Nexo"

r12343a_19 — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:18:15 +0000

By this logic most large scale human suffering before crypto was created by fiat.

Most of current human suffering is still fiat.

Crypto is barely a blip in the grand scheme and I don't see how it differs from, say, gambling.

New comment by r12343a_19 in "Ask HN: Wanting to grow – what questions should you ask yourself?"

r12343a_19 — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:55:51 +0000

Please read https://whoisnnamdi.com/never-enough-developers/

You may need a change of career.

New comment by r12343a_19 in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

r12343a_19 — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 22:35:24 +0000

It's blurry because it crosses state boundaries into random countries which don't make this available.

New comment by r12343a_19 in "Americans are choosing to be alone, but we should reverse that"

r12343a_19 — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 22:33:54 +0000

You reply makes no sense. On a grammatical and conceptual level.

New comment by r12343a_19 in "Nigeria bans ATM cash withdrawals over $225 a week to force use of CBDC"

r12343a_19 — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 15:24:29 +0000

You think your internet provider will just allow you do a Bitcoin TX?

New comment by r12343a_19 in "Nigeria bans ATM cash withdrawals over $225 a week to force use of CBDC"

r12343a_19 — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 13:20:58 +0000

All that suffering just so UPI payments go up?

New comment by r12343a_19 in "Nigeria bans ATM cash withdrawals over $225 a week to force use of CBDC"

r12343a_19 — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 13:19:14 +0000

Because, of course, money is laundered $250 at a time.

New comment by r12343a_19 in "Samsung’s Android app-signing key has leaked, is being used to sign malware"

r12343a_19 — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 21:44:10 +0000

Hm...

1. GPS didn't work in the background for me. A few OS updates and some Waze updates later it seems I do get turn-by-turn directions.

2. GPU artefacts in Minecraft and Firefox. A few OS, Minecraft and Firefox updates later and it all "just works".

3. Fingerprint sensor works well except when you need it. Murphy's law for sure.

4. I'm in a low signal area and it seems to be unable to receive calls sometimes. I've had people tell me they called and my phone just didn't ring (it's not do not disturb).

Overall is a decent phone but it was a struggle for the high price it had.

New comment by r12343a_19 in "Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet"

r12343a_19 — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 14:37:09 +0000

Only a few more trillion dollars and its days are numbers.

Maybe, just maybe, Apple has so much money nobody can stop it.

New comment by r12343a_19 in "European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling"

r12343a_19 — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:37:57 +0000

Well, the immediate associates is generally public info. It's the "final human owner" that gets blurry if you have a chain of companies.

This is not necessarily surprising. The states no longer need the public. As long as they have access to the info, they find public access irrelevant.

Democracy is, imho, not a thing anymore. We are under ultimate statism.