Hacker News: vunie

New comment by vunie in "Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years"

vunie — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 02:36:24 +0000

Compared to illegal mass surveillance programs that remain running to this day, and a witty intelligence head who remains free after lying under oath, this is a shinning success that should be celebrated.

Hopefully other nations follow their lead one day.

New comment by vunie in "Ending Support for macOS and Linux"

vunie — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 02:33:40 +0000

I don't know much about macOS development, but I am a linux developer by trade. Can you elaborate further on how linux doesn't do long-term healthy platform maintenance?

I also don't understand how long-term maintenance can be a factor when games don't run correctly on launch day. I would appreciate an explanation for this as well.

New comment by vunie in "My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work"

vunie — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 02:48:30 +0000

The same with Samsung printers division which is actually owned by HP. I think punishing a company for selling their trademark so that other companies can mislead their customers is a good thing.

In my eyes, GE is just as guilty as Haier & KKR.

New comment by vunie in "Ending Support for macOS and Linux"

vunie — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 02:42:28 +0000

Linux and macOS game development in a nutshell - spend $200K to make a buggy mess that doesn't work, get surprised when paying customers are upset"

New comment by vunie in "250M Microsoft customer service and support records exposed on the web"

vunie — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 03:13:51 +0000

The solution to leaking private information has been known for a very long time: Don't collect beyond the bare minimum required to render a service.

Microsoft should not have collected anything beyond an email and a password. Payment information should only be held temporarily.

Personal information is a toxic asset. It baffles me why companies willingly hoard it.

New comment by vunie in "250M Microsoft customer service and support records exposed on the web"

vunie — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 03:08:13 +0000

What about those messages before the signal protocol was adopted?

New comment by vunie in "Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'"

vunie — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 02:50:06 +0000

Has there been any weakness found in Telegram's encryption?

New comment by vunie in "A Sad Day for Rust"

vunie — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:29:42 +0000

No demand for work is being made here. I'm simply saying a project that isn't a toy project will be criticized if it doesn't behave according to community standards.

I'd consider it to be social norms. It certainly isn't entitlement.

New comment by vunie in "A Sad Day for Rust"

vunie — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 15:13:53 +0000

I don't know how to word this so I'll say it bluntly (and probably bear the blunt of this community as a consequence): If you're a developer of a project that is used in a security-sensitive context, you either be receptive to security concerns or you clearly label your project as a toy project.

No one expects you to write perfect code, but we do expect you to fix flaws when you learn about them.

Of course, you could do neither, but don't be surprised when people call you out on it.

New comment by vunie in "Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware"

vunie — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:56:23 +0000

That's why I never use my real google account with my phone. Android phones offer too little control over what is perhaps one of the most important digital asset I own: my google account.

New comment by vunie in "For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity"

vunie — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 01:19:02 +0000

what about amazon?

New comment by vunie in "C++ Pattern Matching Proposal [pdf]"

vunie — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 14:44:11 +0000

It's amazing what credible competition can do. If only C had the same kind of pressure.

New comment by vunie in "BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop"

vunie — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 14:39:41 +0000

> you've also just communicated murderous intent.

No I have not. It's your bias that colored it that way. Reread my comment. I never said I want kill a thief for stealing. I simply stated that I will take back what is mine. If, and only if, the thief tries to kill me will I respond in kind.

Again, it has nothing to do with grandeur and everything to d with doing what is right. I will take back what is mine, and threatening my life wont stop me.

New comment by vunie in "BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop"

vunie — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 01:46:10 +0000

> I’m just assuming the above is not in good faith

Not GP, but your assumption is wrong.

It's not about the laptop. It's about standing up for yourself and doing your part towards society. You obviously don't agree with this stance and that's fine, but it's not your place to dictate what values are worth standing up for and what aren't.

I, like GP, fully intend to go after a thief. If he goes after my life, then I go after his. Either he gives up the laptop, or one of us gets killed.

It's as simple as that.

New comment by vunie in "Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit"

vunie — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 06:25:06 +0000

Exactly. I've never considered voice assistants because I don't want recordings of me or my family being used for who knows what.

I've just looked over the docs. I'll probably be playing with this very soon.

New comment by vunie in "Linux doesn't have Photoshop"

vunie — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 01:24:54 +0000

> If you need Photoshop, you'll stay on platforms where it's supported.

Sure, but your customers will resent you for it and search for alternatives. Vendor lock-in is not a good long term strategy. Competition will eventually catch up.

> If you don't, you'll probably not pay for it anyway.

This is speculation on your part.

New comment by vunie in "Linux doesn't have Photoshop"

vunie — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 02:49:17 +0000

Adobe moved to a subscription model. They lose revenue as they lose customers.

New comment by vunie in "Linux doesn't have Photoshop"

vunie — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 01:32:42 +0000

zero demand for a PAID Photoshop? If that's what the study really concluded then it completely failed to take into account current customers who want to switch to linux.

I would love to read more about that study.

New comment by vunie in "BSD vs. Ubuntu motd(5)"

vunie — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 02:42:24 +0000

This is what drove me to use Debian. I used to spend quite a but of time hunting down telemetry and other canonical-serving crap, but I eventually got tired of it.

With this crap and others (e.g. aggressive snapping), Canonical is eroding trust in its most important market. Inertia will only take them so far.

New comment by vunie in "Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard"

vunie — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:41:18 +0000

If I suspect that there is any chance my family's private information is going to get leaked, then I will not touch it. Appliances should never have internet access. Software updates, if required, should be delivered one-way through open trusted auditable software (something like ofw).

Big tech have already tricked me into supporting them with their "open platform" bait-and-switch before (android), that trick wont work on me twice.