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by sneak 2mo ago
It is not remotely simple. So much is lost on device change.
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by sneak 2mo ago
This is false. If you can image and wipe your phone on the plane before landing, and write those random bytes to a usb stick, the usb stick will appear blank, because encrypted data is noise. You land with a factory blank phone. You clea
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by sneak 2mo ago
There are a bunch of identical things on my screen called lines. They contain a bunch of mostly identical things called tokens. Syntax highlighting uses different colors to identify the different purposes of all of these tokens blasted ont
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by sneak 2mo ago
Yes, that’s the issue I have with YC here. Unless Flock started with a birdwatching app and later pivoted to mass surveillance, I can’t imagine anyone ethical deciding to profit from nation-scale warrantless mass surveillance. It’s deplora
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by sneak 2mo ago
https://massgrave.dev/ Windows has been free since at least VXKC4. Microsoft wouldn’t exist as anything but an Excel vendor today if it were any other way; it’s intentional. (Ubuntu was the right choice.)
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by sneak 2mo ago
What is an “obscene body part”? If this body part is obscene, shouldn’t the author do the moral thing and remove his own?
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by sneak 2mo ago
Other people’s choices have externalities that harm society. I don’t need validation for not doing something that benefits no one and harms everyone. It’s already obvious that abstaining from this selfish and self-indulgent activity is th
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by sneak 2mo ago
By the exact same token, the same thing applies to payment cards and cashless systems in general, but everyone seems to be fine with universal suspicionless surveillance by a private compant in that case.
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by sneak 2mo ago
My angle grinder is vendor-agnostic.
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by sneak 2mo ago
This is a clueless take, tbh. There is no regulation that can stop these being misused at scale to violate people's rights. None. It's the same with FAA702.
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by sneak 2mo ago
* Flock (YC S17) https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety
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by sneak 2mo ago
Apple does the same thing. It makes all the nonsense about the App Store protecting users plain lies, because Apple could easily protect users by removing scam apps, but they don’t because they generate revenue for Apple.
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by sneak 2mo ago
> When there are plenty of ads, the maker of the best air fryer now has to bid on ads as well, if only to protect the sales they were entitled to in the first place. No business is entitled to any customers.
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by sneak 2mo ago
It should be a lot more shameful to pretend that having kids is a normal or healthy activity. It’s selfish, unnecessary, consumes immense amounts of resources, increases unfair social policies against those who are intelligent enough to avo
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by sneak 2mo ago
It is absolutely a prerequisite to having kids responsibly. Education and health care are fantastically expensive now, as well as inflation chipping away at purchasing power, each year more than the last due to compounding effects. To have
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by sneak 2mo ago
You don’t need children to have these sorts of feelings, unless you can only get them from some small people who don’t have any choice but to love you.
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by sneak 2mo ago
Everybody says that because it makes them feel good. In reality, simply adding more children to the pool doesn’t accomplish anything real.
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by sneak 2mo ago
…or just don’t have kids. Reproducing is the ultimate in self-centeredness. It’s entirely optional. Replace having kids in this article with rebuilding a vintage engine from scratch in your garage to see how ridiculous this attitude is. Do
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by sneak 2mo ago
“just not use them” is not a solution. This rapidly means no banking, no payments, no travel, no publishing, no communications, no medical care. Try existing in the USA for a month with no phone number.
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by sneak 2mo ago
Yes, and this is a bad thing, and free societies are impossible without the possibility of payments that the government doesn’t want you to be able to make. Cryptocurrency solves that problem well, which is why governments have moved hard t
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by sneak 2mo ago
They do trace and log them, though.
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by sneak 2mo ago
I self host Gitea and have been supremely happy with it.
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by sneak 2mo ago
ok, then how do users authenticate to those modules? what happens when they lose their authentication credentials? or do you mean HSMs in the possession of the user? what happens when they lose it, or the device is stolen?
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by sneak 2mo ago
What happens when they lose it? What happens when someone else gets a copy of the private key? What happens when every app, website, and mobile OS requires a signature for every single post or message, tying all communication to an identit
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by sneak 2mo ago
Imagine now incorrectly being on the no-fly list. It requires no conviction and has no appeal.
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by sneak 2mo ago
I’ve been programming professionally for 29 years and with the right constraints (strongly typed language, strict linting, adversarial review styleguide, test coverage, clearly defined spec or requirements) it does indeed regularly write go
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by sneak 2mo ago
That’s never really how efficiency gains tend to work except in places where entire industries ceased to exist (printers, weavers, clothes washers, etc).
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by sneak 2mo ago
I’ll be in Iceland this week to photograph it. Any other HNers going to be around? I’m @sneak.07 on Signal, let’s meet up.
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by sneak 2mo ago
Nah, it’s just more visible. It’s not that much of a sea change. And it’s ridiculously naive to pretend that the major countries in Europe don’t have their own mechanisms to regularly and effectively bypass any democratic inconveniences w
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by sneak 2mo ago
> The mere facts that these days, each new round of gimmickry that gets the prized label “progress” tends to generate more downsides than upsides, and that the shining future paradise has been getting visibly further off for decades, ha

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