Hacker News: techntoke

New comment by techntoke in "Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams"

techntoke — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 06:35:41 +0000

Time to fork it

New comment by techntoke in "Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]"

techntoke — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 07:45:24 +0000

Have you checked out F-Droid lately, and how does this compare to Apple or Microsoft?

New comment by techntoke in "G Suite Doesn't Let You Contact Support Until Logged In. Locked Out = Stuck"

techntoke — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 20:35:19 +0000

Google never said their phone support is for login issues and makes it clear you need to login for support, and the op (who is using a throway) said they didn't remember using a mobile number when signing up so it sounds like the problem is partly on them. If you've been a customer for almost a year and suddenly realized you don't have a number you can call for support, then there is no reason to be outraged since they never promised that in the first place before you signed up and you were too careless to look. They do have a help page regarding login issues:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/6335621

New comment by techntoke in "G Suite Doesn't Let You Contact Support Until Logged In. Locked Out = Stuck"

techntoke — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 20:26:26 +0000

They don't remember, which is probably how they got themselves into this mess, which everyone else uses as an opportunity to share their Google hate and call for regulation.

New comment by techntoke in "G Suite Doesn't Let You Contact Support Until Logged In. Locked Out = Stuck"

techntoke — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 20:24:20 +0000

I have a G Suite account and GCP account that I barely spend, and I've always had an excellent experience with their support as long as they could solve the problem. The only time I grew frustrated had to do with Google Music and their support didn't have any answers or solutions at that time.

New comment by techntoke in "Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]"

techntoke — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 17:30:56 +0000

Android is one of Google's core products, as well as web (including Chromium).

New comment by techntoke in "Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]"

techntoke — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:19:12 +0000

Because those companies are ignored while everyone jumps aboard the Google hate train, and if anything is going to be done to fix it then those changes need to be applied equally to all companies at the same time. Otherwise it does more harm than good.

New comment by techntoke in "Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]"

techntoke — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:15:49 +0000

Yes if you compare the code base size and the core components. Microsoft still hasn't open sourced it's main consumer operating system and neither has Apple.

New comment by techntoke in "Linux++ [Issue 22] with Hayden Barnes of Canonical and WSL"

techntoke — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:05:51 +0000

> So, whenever Google is mentioned in more tech-savvy communities like those that support Linux and FOSS, its name usually makes people shudder. Even so, it is impossible to deny the work that Google has done on making open-source software a standard today. With massive open source projects like Kubernetes, TensorFlow, Go, and Flutter, many other once-FOSS-allergic companies have realized the importance of the open-source model and have followed in Google’s footsteps, including other tech powerhouses like Facebook, Amazon, and even Microsoft.

Forgot Android and Chromium. Also, people shudder at Canonical too these days.

Also, I don't think kernel contributions using GitHub or GitLab would be a good thing. See SourceHut if you want things done properly:

https://sourcehut.org

Also, his site here:

https://git-send-email.io/

New comment by techntoke in "Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]"

techntoke — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 13:59:18 +0000

Android, Chromium and Kubernetes have come a long way. Plus there are a lot of other major open source projects that come out of Google. Way more than Microsoft, Apple and Amazon.

New comment by techntoke in "Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]"

techntoke — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 13:56:03 +0000

The same could be said for Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, etc. At least Google open sources their operating system, browser and are mostly responsible for Kubernetes. If people are going to have such high expectations of one company why do they not equally apply the judgement.

New comment by techntoke in "Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers"

techntoke — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 03:45:59 +0000

They should start by open sourcing the operating system.

New comment by techntoke in "TikTok to Sue Trump Administration over Ban, as Soon as Tuesday"

techntoke — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 21:13:16 +0000

Trump is saying he is likely going to issue an executive order to extend unemployment due to national security.

You don't think he would do the same for TikTok, especially when all these underage and often preteen kids data is being sent to China?

New comment by techntoke in "HBO Max drops Linux support in all browsers?"

techntoke — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 21:08:48 +0000

There is this thing called the scene and verification files.

New comment by techntoke in "IAM is hard – Thoughts on $80M fine from the Capital One Breach"

techntoke — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 21:05:14 +0000

The sooner that these cloud companies work to create a common open API the more secure and better off we'll all be. The idea of spending so much time being specialized for a particular cloud provider is stupid, when you've built your tech career not knowing actual technology but just a proprietary overlay that doesn't even resemble anything useful outside of the organization.

New comment by techntoke in "TikTok to Sue Trump Administration over Ban, as Soon as Tuesday"

techntoke — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 20:58:47 +0000

I'd start the questioning like this...

"On an average day how many kids under 13 do you think join TikTok without their parents knowledge?"

"On an average day, how many teens under 18 and preteens dance in a manner that would be considered provocative on your platform?"

New comment by techntoke in "Tech giants let the Web's metadata schemas and infrastructure languish"

techntoke — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 01:08:14 +0000

A lot of websites are now generated using static site generators and it is much easier doing so inline, than have to duplicate the content which also makes the pages much bigger. Like I said the issue is more about lack of transparency about how it may effect ranking.

New comment by techntoke in "Tech giants let the Web's metadata schemas and infrastructure languish"

techntoke — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 20:44:52 +0000

I think their choice of JSON-LD as the recommended format and not being transparent in how it effects results is the biggest issue. JSON-LD requires duplication of content, where as microdata is inline with existing content.

New comment by techntoke in "US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days"

techntoke — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 07:27:29 +0000

Does anyone remember when Trump bombed Syria while hosting Xi, and then bragged about how beautiful the chocolate cake was?

New comment by techntoke in "Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool"

techntoke — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:51:18 +0000

Anyone else switched entirely to Tekton or another CI/CD platform because GitLab feels like a bloated monolith and too centralized at this point?