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by ixtli 2y ago
Phenomenal point!
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by ixtli 2y ago
It is actually true! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones...
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by ixtli 2y ago
I hadn't realized how hilarious this is until now
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by ixtli 2y ago
I have been taking care of my partner suffering a chronic illness for 2-3 years now and it is phenomenal that this on the top of HN. I've had to figure out a lot of this for myself having made many mistakes and I still just learned a
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by ixtli 2y ago
Yeah the post uses dramatic turns of phrase like this to associate a mediocre point with something topical to get to the top of hackernews. I'm honestly not sure whats being said here because frankly im not sure who, before seeing this
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by ixtli 2y ago
I feel as though i am honor-bound to say that this isn't new and we havent really been living in a place where we can trust in the way you claim. Its simply that every year it rapidly becomes more and more clear that there is no "
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by ixtli 2y ago
I absolutely agree with you on this. I definitely feel like the viewpoint is forced on me on all social media and all media with a social component (like youtube!) To digress a bit about your last sentence: my opinion, though, is that the
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by ixtli 2y ago
i laughed out loud and then did not investigate any further :)
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by ixtli 2y ago
people have been saying this since we first migrated away from listserv. look, the corporate influence on the internet has absolutely made it worse and continues to make it less accessible to humans but the authors overarching world view is
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by ixtli 2y ago
For anyone curious, the name for this is "nut picking" ! :)
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by ixtli 2y ago
Apologies for the irreverent comment, but what an amazing example of typeface not matching the tone of the content!
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by ixtli 2y ago
If con ed wasn’t a private org this wouldn’t be an issue. The people who live here gain absolutely nothing from their acting as a profit seeking middleman: indeed all we get is a totally unaccountable actor who can hide surprises all over o
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by ixtli 2y ago
Precisely: tools don't have morality. We have to engage in political and social struggle to make our conditions better. These tools can help but they certainly wont do it for us, nor will they be the reason why things go bad.
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by ixtli 3y ago
this was my experience so i was not surprised to read about the ps3 stuff. about 8 or 9 years ago i made a comment somewhere in the depths of HN with more information. honestly i dont really care about GH so much as I wish other people who
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by ixtli 3y ago
i earnestly hope thats the case. someone should really publish the chat transcripts because they are an important part of computing history.
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by ixtli 3y ago
sorry i shouldn't have said "arm architecture" there obviously arm32 wasnt anything new: i figured that was implied. we wanted specifics on the S5L8900 and they were (and still are) quite hard to come by. this contributed to
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by ixtli 3y ago
its also worth noting, on balance, that apple quickly made it a relatively hardened platform.
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by ixtli 3y ago
ooo good point it’s been so long I might be misremembering. the reason I commented was because I thought you had to put the device in DFU to upload the image to the Media dir that was mounted rw. But again it’s been 15 years lol
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by ixtli 3y ago
Honestly I just remember careful coordination about what information / code / artifacts to release from the private IRC channel and when. He ignored the consensus a bunch of times which lead to demoralization and people leaving. I
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by ixtli 3y ago
Also the part where you talk about “recovery mode” I think we referred to this as DFU mode back in the day. “Device firmware update” I’m not entirely sure it was called “recovery” at the time though I could be wrong as it’s been more than 1
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by ixtli 3y ago
iZsh ( https://x.com/izsh1911 ) might also know but i lost track of that guy more than 10 years ago :(
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by ixtli 3y ago
Oh, I just remembered one of the people who helped us understand the ARM architecture (it was somewhat new at the time) had the nic “pineapple” which is why many of the early UIs had pineapples on them. Again, great people and it’s a shame
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by ixtli 3y ago
The product itself was, at this stage, very rushed to market.
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by ixtli 3y ago
Just for history’s sake: I wrote iPHUC (and yes I was 19 and came up with that name lmao) and a guy with the nic “nightwatch” who I loved working with was responsible for the initial jailbreak and coining the term itself. I believe he was a
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by ixtli 3y ago
Also worth noting the commit which introduced this was made 8 years ago so not quite a decade.
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by ixtli 3y ago
That is the point: when people in a liberal democracy want to make it more democratic this gets called a “communist dictatorship” and the far right that is paid to usurp it gets labeled as the “lesser of two evils.” Every time, every place.
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by ixtli 3y ago
Perhaps my explanation wasn’t the best but academic organizations have been wielding and abusing the law to shield themselves from criticism and consequence for forever. And the same goes for the private sector when it gets brought to task
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by ixtli 3y ago
Yeah it’s amazing what people can confidently comment on the internet :/
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by ixtli 3y ago
While I do agree with a lot of this, it strikes me that what may be occurring is simply shoddy academic work. But since the context in which it is happening is one of claimed progressiveness we get an existential and philosophical takedown
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by ixtli 3y ago
Whenever bad things happen under socialism, it's because of socialism. Whenever bad things happen under capitalism, it's because of spooky ghosts.

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