Hacker News: rahuldottech

“If you leave, we'll smash all your digital purchases into oblivion.”

rahuldottech — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:39:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/f9d5rf/are_you_sure_you_really_wanna_leave_if_you_do_we/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22417776

Points: 97

# Comments: 44

New comment by rahuldottech in "Where Sci-Hub Is"

rahuldottech — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 01:10:06 +0000

In libgen, you can search for stuff and find books/docs that match the query, but unfortunately that appears to not be possible on sci-hub, which is inconvenient.

That said, both are incredible resources for academics, researchers, students or even folks just wanting to read up on a subject in more depth than Wikipedia has.

Decimal and Thousands Separators

rahuldottech — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 23:19:44 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-0169/overview-9/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22409467

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Google secretly monitors millions of schoolkids, lawsuit alleges

rahuldottech — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:52:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-education-spies-on-collects-data-on-millions-of-kids-alleges-lawsuit-new-mexico-attorney-general/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22403928

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rahuldottech in "DoChat – a Dockerized WeChat PC Windows client for Linux"

rahuldottech — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 12:17:47 +0000

I don't know, what I will say is: most (tech) folks would (rightly, in my opinion) trust Facebook/WhatsApp more than they would Tencent.

Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure

rahuldottech — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 19:59:55 +0000

Article URL: https://jakewharton.com/removing-google-as-a-single-point-of-failure/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22378036

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by rahuldottech in "Telecoms say they have a First Amendment right to sell private data"

rahuldottech — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:44:33 +0000

A mute person can write. Or sign. A corporate entity doesn't communicate in any way. Because... It obviously cannot.

Telecoms say they have a First Amendment right to sell private data

rahuldottech — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:28:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdza5/big-telecom-say-it-has-first-amendment-right-to-sell-your-private-data

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375269

Points: 278

# Comments: 144

New comment by rahuldottech in "iOS Screen Time setting blocks searches for “Asian”"

rahuldottech — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 08:19:06 +0000

> iOS built-in adult content filter blocks all searches with the keyword "Asian,” assuming it's porn-related. Which means a 12 y/o Chinese-American girl might Google "Asian hairstyles" and find out that her culture is blocked as "adult content."

> Searches like "teen mental health resources" are also blocked, because "teen" is on the blacklist. Which is so dumb for a feature that's probably being used BY TEENS!

Wow. One of the biggest tech companies in the world, people.

New comment by rahuldottech in "Ask HN: What's with that black bar at the top?"

rahuldottech — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 22:51:36 +0000

It's used to pay respect to a recently deceased tech person. In this case, Larry Tesler: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361282

In the past, we've had it for Steve Jobs and Aaron Swartz, among others.

New comment by rahuldottech in "Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)"

rahuldottech — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 20:26:26 +0000

All good :)

Assange says he was promised a Trump pardon if he lied about Russia’s DNC hack

rahuldottech — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 20:10:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/julian-assange-says-he-was-promised-a-trump-pardon-if-he-would-lie-about-russias-dnc-hacking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22369522

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by rahuldottech in "Wearable Microphone Jamming"

rahuldottech — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 19:58:31 +0000

Yes.

> Yikes, please don't do or encourage using these in public - there are many accessibility devices (hearing aids, cochlear implants, etc.) which depend on MEMS microphones to function.

> You could inadvertently make the world much worse for people who already have a difficult time of things. Imagine carting a cellular and WiFi and bluetooth jammer around outside of a Faraday cage - it's insanely irresponsible and inconsiderate.

From the top comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22339548

New comment by rahuldottech in "Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules"

rahuldottech — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 19:55:42 +0000

All NASA images and videos are in the public domain, but the same is not true for any technologies that they develop.

New comment by rahuldottech in "Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules"

rahuldottech — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 18:27:33 +0000

My bad, didn't realize that it's been out for a while.

New comment by rahuldottech in "Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)"

rahuldottech — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:09:04 +0000

I wish all websites were as lightweight and fast as HN.

I sorta want to use New Reddit (because I like having smaller windows for multitasking and responsiveness makes that much more convenient) but boy is it painfully slow even on a 100+ mbps connection

New comment by rahuldottech in "Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)"

rahuldottech — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:06:57 +0000

Links formatted as code sorta defeat the point, right?

Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules

rahuldottech — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:00:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22367416

Points: 158

# Comments: 30

Spend Bill Gates' Money

rahuldottech — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:06:28 +0000

Article URL: https://neal.fun/spend/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22366043

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rahuldottech in "Help the Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug"

rahuldottech — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:22:48 +0000

Just checked, I'm on latest regular FF, non-nightly. I don't recall seeing it in the past couple days so maaaaybe it's resolved now? I'll keep an eye out for it in case I see it again.