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I would just like to point out that Michael Reeves (the poster, no relation to youtuber) is a high schooler who has also found numerous high impact vulnerabilit
by internetter 8mo ago
I would just like to point out that Michael Reeves (the poster, no relation to youtuber) is a high schooler who has also found numerous high impact vulnerabilities in Apple software. Immensely talented.
- iknowstuff 8mo agoHow many peaked with our curiosity and exploration software engineering as teenagers and subsequently got ground down by 9to5 corporate soul drain T_T
- benoau 8mo agoJust take the top ticket, thanks.
- preisschild 8mo agoMe. Got countless old servers as a teenager and self hosted as much as possible. Now I have enough money for new servers (well, besides memory...) but not enough time and energy.
- fellowniusmonk 8mo agoI was born with heart defects and pre ACA had to be a wage slave to get health insurance. The moment ACA happened I started several successful businesses. Honestly we already should have contribution/impact based merit threshold UBI with a much lower barrier than research grants or even just time limited UBI systems for youth and adults that meet a contribution threshold. VC allocation is too biased towards group think, profit motivation, predatory contracts and hold on to top many class and cultural artifacts. Yes of course it would be difficult to implement but difficult isn't impossible and gradiated rollouts can help catch unintended side effects. We need to push more money into the hands of the intrinsically motivated. Society already is catering to the whims of consumers and feed zombies.
- AndrewDucker 8mo agoOr you could have universal healthcare. Which everyone else seems to manage and would untie a lot of people from specific jobs.
- fellowniusmonk 8mo agoI can't think of any credible reason not to have universal healthcare at this point. Maybe 20 years ago but there is too much empirical data across multiple countries and environments now. Assuming our cost for care drops commiserate to what's been seen in other countries we could use the saving to increase merit scholarships for the contributing young as a introductory form of UBI.
- giancarlostoro 8mo agoIt sounds like a great idea, then a government shut down happens.
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- throw0101a 8mo ago> It sounds like a great idea, then a government shut down happens. Single payer / universal healthcare ≠ doctors/nurses are government employees (necessarily). You go to your local health care provider, show your card, and received treatment. The single payer (government) then gets billed and money is transferred to the providers account. If the government is shutdown, there could be a delay in payment in outstanding bills, but that does not mean health care providers shutdown. Medicare ran during the last shutdown: * https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/government-shutdown-medicare-medicaid-health-programs-rcna235052 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/government-shutdo... * Telehealth was: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/medicare-patients-go-without-needed-treatment-as-government-shutdown-disrupts-telehealth https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/medicare-patients-go-wit... Social Security cheques went out too: * https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-government-shutdown-2025-impact-benefits-checks-services/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-government-shut... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_government_shutdown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_gov... Lots of stuff can potentially be automated, and so continue to run.
- mid-kid 8mo agoIt stings how much I relate to this.
- nout 8mo agoIt's not business critical to answer your curiosity now. File it as a ticket, put it on a backlog and move on.
- HumblyTossed 8mo agoBut how much wealthier are you?
- varispeed 8mo agoIf you have brilliant mind, but you were born poor / working class, then sure you'll be crushed by 9 to 5 inevitably, where your talents will be ruthlessly "harvested" for the benefits of shareholders until you burn out and get thrown out like a used rag. If you have talents, use them to achieve financial freedom and then do what you want. Sometimes it is through 9 to 5 unfortunately. Never make a mistake of "climbing corporate ladder". Earn money, invest, don't try to leave beyond your means. You might have great salary, but don't get tempted by renting a nice pad or getting a nice car. It's a trap to keep you enslaved in 9 to 5 forever.
- sysworld 8mo agoYep this. Avoid lifestyle creep (when you get raises). Invest your money (e.g. world passive mutual fund, or VT ETF). Don't sell investments when the market crashes, just ride it out (assuming you bought diversified fund). Don't stock pick, it's largely gambling and 99% of people can't beat the market doing it. If you must stock pick, do at most, 5% of your investments. Avoid actively managed/high fee mutual funds/ETFs. Research clearly shows, long term they do worse then the market. (And if there is an active fund that does end up beating the market long term, you have no way of knowing which fund that would be ahead of time) The Millionaire Next Door is a great book, and gives a good perspective on money. If anyone here is interested, Google the FIRE movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early). Even just doing the first 2 letters, Financial Independence, would be huge, and give you way more flexibility. When/if you retire early, keep doing things to keep your mind and body active. Most people who retire stop doing the things that kept them healthy, and there body deteriorates quickly (with xyz illnesses). The sad true is that, for many, work forces them to do the basics to keep your body running ok.
- zozbot234 8mo ago> Yep this. Avoid lifestyle creep (when you get raises). Invest your money This is great advice anyway, even if you were born poor/working class. With the added proviso that you should be paying down your debt, highest interest rate first, since that will have far higher returns than your average investment. Also make sure that you have enough liquid cash set aside that you'll be able to deal quickly and completely with any issues that might come up; this makes a significant difference to your ability to live and work stress-free.
- mistrial9 8mo agoHow many went ChaosKlub and found themselves on the run?
- bsimpson 8mo agoI remember being a teenager and intentionally dialing down my ambitions, because it was socially uncomfortable to have people's perceptions of me be tied to the things I excelled in. Figured I had my whole life to have a job, so didn't really wanna do a startup or anything like that. Watched all the Macworld et. al. keynotes and knew all the specs of all the devices, until I got tired of being pigeonholed as "the computer kid."
- banku_brougham 8mo agoThis is an urgently dark pattern to avoid for parents, but I feel helpless as my own development was heckuv random
- jack_pp 8mo agoNot sure I follow, you were afraid of being a "nerd" and dialed your ambitions to try to be "cooler"? "because it was socially uncomfortable to have people's perceptions of me be tied to the things I excelled in." I think usually it's the other way around, or I'm not understanding this correctly. I was best at math in my class from grades 5 through 12 but never felt "awkward" because of it, rather I felt proud. Which is also wrong but I digress
- fenykep 8mo agoI interpreted it as "my parents/peers love me for who I am and not for being a really basketball player". Might be projecting tho.
- PlatoIsADisease 8mo agoWhy not start your own software company? I made big money in my 20s, I can retire. Now I just play and gamble on my company to go from ~2M to 100M.
- Aurornis 8mo agoVery, very few people came anywhere near this level of focus and execution at the same age. People like this are truly extraordinary. You could give a lot of engineers infinite financial runway and no corporate job ever and they’d still never reach this level of performance. Some people really are next level.
- nektro 8mo agonot true
- stoneforger 8mo agoMany people have this potential but it doesn't necessarily materialize or evolves. That's fine, that's okay. We'll always have Paris. The trick is to be fulfilled, not renowned.
- nnevatie 8mo agoAll aboard the soul tra…erhm…drain!
- nemosaltat 8mo agoPoverty (of youth or otherwise) is also a pretty powerful motivation to “tinker.” I spent a lot of time with OSX86, and ended up getting proficient enough (multiple all-nighters trying to get it to boot and get the right kexts loaded early on) to run semi-stable Tiger thru Lion on random PCs and my girlfriend’s Vaio Laptop. Then, one day I could afford a MacBook and basically stopped being as curious about that. Decade or so later, ProxMox allowed me to run Capitan thru Mojave virtually, while more recently it makes more sense (and less legal dubiousness) to just buy macs as/if I need them. Overall, I’m still pretty curious, but not curious enough to risk a “hacky” solution when I can mitigate it for relatively low $
- account42 8mo agoI agree: Curiosity is not enough, you also need the time to explore it without easier dopamine rewards to distract you. It's quite ironic how having money can end up hurting you here as you can afford whatever entertainment you want.
- abustamam 8mo agoI probably wouldn't be an engineer now if it weren't for poverty. I was in my twenties living with my mom, working part time for an educational center and though I enjoyed the work and found it fulfilling, it wasn't anything that could sustain me long term. Then my mom goes, you can live with me for another year, after that you're on your own. Asked my dad, a software engineer, if he could teach me how to do what he does. He recommended a boot camp and I learned enough to get an entry level role, and still here I am, ten years later.
- saturnite 8mo agoI 100% agree. My parents were both disabled. A malpractice lawsuit left us with a little windfall. My parents saw where the future was going and bought me my first computer. Being poor made it so I had a lot of free time as a little kid, so I learned that machine inside and out. I made my own games. I troubleshooted any hardware problem, learning as I went. After getting the internet, things took off from there.
- xeonmc 8mo agoIf I get a nickel every time a high schooler with a decorated history of hardware tinkering goes on to work on Linux for Apple Silicon, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird they all happens to gravitate to Apple.
- mid-kid 8mo agoThey used to go work on homebrew for nintendo consoles instead. Times change.
- fragmede 8mo agoIt's genuinely nice hardware, and everyone's gotta have a hobby. But it's not all of them. Geohot did some hardware stuff and hasn't (afaik) been working on Asahi. Linus was 21 when Linux was first released. Of course, Apple silicon ARM laptops didn't exist in the wild then, so we can let both of those pass.
- curt15 8mo ago>Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird they all happens to gravitate to Apple. People get satisfaction from solving challenging problems.
- matthewfcarlson 8mo agoMy personal conspiracy theory is that they're actually the same person, perhaps with some time traveling hijinks?
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- pjmlp 8mo agoNot to downplay his efforts, but back in the 8 and 16 bit home computer days, kids were coding Z80, 6052, 8080, 68000 Assembly aged 10 - 12 years old onwards. Having been one of those kids, I kind of expect a high schooler to be able to have such skills, when deeply interested into a specific subject.
- internetter 8mo agoHave you ever found a vulnerability in modern macOS?
- pjmlp 8mo agoI have found a machine code generation issue in Borland Turbo Pascal 5.5, with a letter from them acknowledging my finding, does it count? I also participated in demoscene coding activities, using 68000 Assembly on the Amiga. Since we are reaching for credentials, instead the point I was making.