Hacker News: vernie

New comment by vernie in "Former officials say big tech monopoly power is vital to national security"

vernie — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:23:11 +0000

Must be cozy living in a bubble that small.

New comment by vernie in "Former officials say big tech monopoly power is vital to national security"

vernie — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:37:34 +0000

I’m talking about Greenwald and Snowden.

New comment by vernie in "Former officials say big tech monopoly power is vital to national security"

vernie — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:09:49 +0000

Times are tough after your golden goose dies.

New comment by vernie in "California tech billionaire launches Senate campaign to take on Tesla"

vernie — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 23:00:33 +0000

No.

New comment by vernie in "Universal's Audible Watermark (2012)"

vernie — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:40:32 +0000

Perhaps the more accurate term is "inconspicuous"

New comment by vernie in "Nuclear weapons are not as destructive as you think"

vernie — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 16:05:40 +0000

It's not ridiculous, let's just go for it and see what happens :D

New comment by vernie in "M1 Thunderbolt ports don’t fully support USB 3.1 Gen 2"

vernie — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:57:59 +0000

Found the USB-IF member.

New comment by vernie in "Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private"

vernie — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 13:27:09 +0000

This is playing out like the Russian invasion.

New comment by vernie in "Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – highest since 1981"

vernie — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:24:10 +0000

Also bigger number means more clicks.

New comment by vernie in "An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email"

vernie — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 19:47:54 +0000

Aside from being self-hosted how does this differ from +suffix Gmail addresses?

New comment by vernie in "Justice Department Issues Web Accessibility Guidance Under the ADA"

vernie — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 21:06:05 +0000

Hell yea baby, now you don't need to find a take-out joint with sink that's mounted too high to file a lawsuit.

New comment by vernie in "Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)"

vernie — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:40:33 +0000

No.

New comment by vernie in "Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)"

vernie — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 20:19:42 +0000

Pfft MacBook? This 12 year old ThinkPad is great, you gotta believe me!

New comment by vernie in "DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”"

vernie — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:39:38 +0000

Seems like a bad move, DDG is only used by terminally tech-brained libertarians.

New comment by vernie in "Moscow retaliates against Western sanctions with export bans"

vernie — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:40:59 +0000

Not now that Russia is nationalizing all the businesses that pulled up stakes.

New comment by vernie in "Stainless steel leaches nickel and chromium into foods during cooking (2013)"

vernie — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:56:08 +0000

I meant all of this stuff, in aggregate.

New comment by vernie in "Stainless steel leaches nickel and chromium into foods during cooking (2013)"

vernie — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:51:02 +0000

Don't worry too much, all this stuff will take a few years off your life on average and those years would've sucked anyway.

New comment by vernie in "Roskomsvoboda statement on foreign companies’ sanctions against Russians [pdf]"

vernie — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 21:02:10 +0000

I think the impact of this action compared to state internet censorship is insignificant.

New comment by vernie in "Roskomsvoboda statement on foreign companies’ sanctions against Russians [pdf]"

vernie — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:53:20 +0000

Russia is isolating the Russians. Roskomnadzor is throttling and blocking the Russian people's access to the wider internet, not Western providers.

New comment by vernie in "Venting doesn’t work"

vernie — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 17:00:53 +0000

Whoops accidentally submitted to HN instead of LinkedIn.