Hacker News: saladgnu054

New comment by saladgnu054 in "Clubhouse user IDs, Chatroom IDs are transmitted in plaintext over the internet"

saladgnu054 — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 20:59:54 +0000

You can tell who is talking with whom.

New comment by saladgnu054 in "Hello system, a FreeBSD-based OS designed to resemble Mac"

saladgnu054 — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:06:43 +0000

I completely disagree. I use a Mac for work and basically never leave the terminal and browser. The "finder", which is a terrible name btw, is a completely useless file explorer. For everything a shortcut is needed, and they never make sense. Opening a file? Some key + down. What does Enter do? Renames a file. Okay, deleting a file? I don't know I forgot again. Want to drag and drop? Be real careful that the too-smart-for-its-own-good touchpad doesn't think you are pressing too hard, and don't spend too much time scrolling on top of a folder or it will autommatically expand. But hey at least you have Favorites right? What a wonderful idea, favorites in a file explorer, let's see what they are: first off you have airdrop, which I never enabled and never will. Then you have Recents. What is this about? They are not recent files created via command line, but some random collection of files that Finder thought they knew better about what to call recent, a complete waste of your time. Next you have Applications: What a wonderful idea, to list programs in the file explorer, even though they cannot be interacted in the usual way not have any file navigation to be seen. I guess the only purpose is to be able to drag files into this folder so easily impressed children are amazed by not having seen an installer running. Next you have the desktop favourite, which is important since I don't know any other way of acessing the desktop and it is quite a fitting name for the place only used for screenshots to be created in basically. Finally you have documents and downloads, which are the only real favourites of the bunch. Next you have an ad for the Apple cloud service, and finally you have tags, which I suppose let you aggregate files by color for children that haven't been taught about folders yet. Done with your work? Closing it just hides all windows, to really close the app you have to select Quit from the navigation bar. So at the end of the day I have to select my favorite windows and manually close all others.

If there is any consistency is that I can rely on having a bad experience and anything other than using the touchpad to switch between the same two apps will be better done on another OS.

New comment by saladgnu054 in "How the Media Cracks Down on Critics of Israel"

saladgnu054 — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 21:57:20 +0000

Shut it down.

New comment by saladgnu054 in "Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them"

saladgnu054 — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:14:16 +0000

That is one explanation, but the explanation I tend to believe is another: Twitter quickly bans new accounts to force you to "prove your identity" by adding a phone number.

New comment by saladgnu054 in "Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says"

saladgnu054 — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:40:25 +0000

Can we say "the Russian government" or "the Russian secret services" or something similar? Why always this tone with the Russians, the Russians are wonderful people, like everyone else trying to live their lives with the hand they were dealt. Am I the only one that sees how offensive this trope is to about 150 million people?

New comment by saladgnu054 in "Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup"

saladgnu054 — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 23:36:21 +0000

I'm always surprised by the gall of Google and other companies that decide for others if websites are suspicious. I'm always sure to disable all those garbage warnings, together with email spam "features".

New comment by saladgnu054 in "Ask HN: How do we know Signal or Telegram don't store our data on their servers?"

saladgnu054 — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 20:25:52 +0000

I believe you have self-destroy timers in Signal. Perhaps those help.

New comment by saladgnu054 in "EU Commission: ‘No longer acceptable’ for platforms to take key decisions alone"

saladgnu054 — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 23:29:31 +0000

Simple, how about just like a store is not allowed to refuse service, an online platform also not be allowed to refuse service? Is someone misbehaving, great, inform the actual authorities of their jurisdiction.

Actual governments, with the people's mandate, are the only ones with authority to set the laws. Not tech monopolies.

New comment by saladgnu054 in "EU Commission: ‘No longer acceptable’ for platforms to take key decisions alone"

saladgnu054 — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 23:23:26 +0000

The key difference is a government is decided by the people. n companies (let's be real, 2-4) have no accountability.

New comment by saladgnu054 in "Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning 'Stop the Steal'"

saladgnu054 — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 23:34:41 +0000

Sure: people who want more free market want the state to focus on regulation, instead of actually owning everything, competition is the motor of progress. For capitalism to function well it needs constant watch to prevent lobbying, monopolism and corruption in general. It needs bad companies to go bankrupt so the good companies flourish and it needs to ensure companies are focused on maximizing stakeholder profits up to, and not exceeding, their social and ecological obligations. Those social and ecological obligations were decided by the government by the people; whereas if companies start having political opinions they'll want to undermine the will of the people and do a disservice to their raison d'etre.

New comment by saladgnu054 in "Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump"

saladgnu054 — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 00:09:00 +0000

And I think that is wrong. Why can't I use apps regarding pornography, or about drug abuse. Why is the internet more and more neutered into a place for polite children?

I'll tell you when I started to hate this trend. A few weeks ago I saw a rich company owner on Linkedin trashing the regulator, with conspiracy theories and personal insults. There were no downvotes (because Linkedin does not allow downer reactions) and all comments were neutral or supportive. It was clearly wrong and no one dared say the wrong thing on Linkedin, because everyone has jobs and are afraid to speak against the president of a very important company. For the first time it really felt like I was on a new internet, sure I could write some words, I could create a profile and follow different people, but I knew I couldn't be myself, I couldn't express any negative (read: against the currently approved trends) comments, I couldn't read the wrong things. I was just mindlessly consuming, consuming the silly and harmless memes, consuming the neutured and feel good news, made to feel what I was supposed to be feeling about the world events. It's all a big party in all social media as long as you dot inside the lines. Nothing was explicitly stopping me, but there was always the cloud that if I say the wrong thing I'll get deplatformed, or worse, someone might badmouth me on Twitter and I lose my job. And there is no real alternative, we are social animals and desire some interaction and discussion.

I remember when I was a kid I was on the internet reading about philosophy and how to make bombs side by side. Do you know Al-Qaeda published a monthly magazine in English for years? Do you even imagine being able to read it now? Are you not even curious? How did this world became so scared of reading different points of view, when were we convinced that people can't handle their curiosity and at the same time maintain democracies work because they are ruled by the people.

New comment by saladgnu054 in "Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump"

saladgnu054 — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 23:40:22 +0000

He was removed from one of the largest public spaces for speech, which is against the spirit of the law, and everyone else was also hindered in hearing his free speech, which is even worse and is also against the spirit of the law.

New comment by saladgnu054 in "Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump"

saladgnu054 — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 23:35:19 +0000

I'm pretty sure public utilities don't get to deny service for political wrongthink, though. And platforms like Android play store and the iPhone app store are definitely that (regarding Parler).

New comment by saladgnu054 in "Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China"

saladgnu054 — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:10:08 +0000

Why are you moving the goalposts? What does the history matter, the list of countries currently with millions of people in concentration camps is quite short.