tinus_hn

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601.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
It’s Steve Jobs’ fault because he offered a browser. Right. I suggest you try implementing your handwavy solutions so you can see how well they work.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Actually Jobs showcased ‘rather than this WAP version of the site we’re showing you the whole New York Times website’ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7EfxMOElBE Around the 1 hour mark
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Sun was very much enterprise, nice reliability and support but commodity hardware completely blew them away for most purposes. They were still selling $10k workstations when a cheap consumer PC running Linux would run laps around it.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Perhaps it’s machine translation.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
In a few years Chrome will be dominant and Google will be tempted to rest on its laurels, remove resources and let it stall. It wouldn’t surprise me if the only free reasonable alternative has another comeback in the cards. If it still exis
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
You can tell Safari to load the desktop version instead. Unfortunately of course Javascript and the DOM allow sites to know whether you’re using a mobile device anyway, by looking at the screen size. So that doesn’t always work. But to blam
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
And people wonder why young people get lost in hard drugs when all science has to bring to the table is this kind of puritanical view.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
In reality just like a DJ doesn’t need to go and get permission for each record they play, they just pay a blanket fee for that.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
You will not. Depending on how cynical you are, that was either a honest mistake because it was incorrectly thought the vaccines did prevent transmission, or just a made up false narrative pushed to promote vaccinations. The only effect the
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
This is like DECT where they are all about the ‘thousands of security codes’, but if the base station (or an imposter) suddenly says ‘I don’t do encryption’ the handset just stops doing encryption.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
There is a very big difference between putting out a record and playing something at a performance. The latter is a lot more lax.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
It’s not just the technology, people have spun the narrative so now, even though human drivers cause thousands of accidents every day, a single accident by the self driving car is a disaster worthy of a media frenzy, endless litigation and
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Sometimes I even just walk in a big circle and end up where I started! What a waste of time! Building my home network though is teaching me IPv6.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
So there’s the answer: industry doesn’t care. Industry is all about ‘just turn off UAC, just run it all as administrator, just click to bypass the unsigned driver dialogs’ as long as it works.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Given that Chrome is the biggest browser by far, and apparently blocks these redirections, why do ISPs even bother with them?
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Clever, and when people complain they can just point to their democratically elected representatives with their ID demands ‘to protect the children’.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Never let a good crisis go to waste!
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
True, and also it’s rather frustrating to debate people who cheat, like in this case by silently altering the comment after I reply.
619.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
There, they better not say anything you don’t like or you’ll make sure there will be consequences! Because it is you, the enlightened, who decides what is righteous and what is not. You are the judge, jury and executioner. Telling!
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
The problem is that someone is saying things you don’t like. And even paying for the ‘privilege’! So you want to cancel them. Even band together to apply pressure to the platform, like a typical social justice warrior. People say things you
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
There can be no guarantee you’d not notice, but more importantly if you go down that path you can’t trust anything and that is a silly reason to not build defense in depth and not entrust your secrets to the cloud.
622.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
The UK government can bully you into telling them things without you knowing you told them those things? That sounds interesting, how does that work?
623.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
I see that indeed it is allowed to issue certificates for IP addresses (however not for private addresses). In my opinion this should not be allowed, there is no real justification for issuing them. I don’t believe in too big to fail theori
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Hacker News is not a generic entertainment forum. Twitch is applying a chilling effect to comedians.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
For many people Twitch streams are their primary source of income, this kind of ban can have quite a lot of impact. And then besides the ban there is the chilling effect because no one wants to skirt the rules and risk a ban. And that is wh
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
If authorities can’t issue certificates for IP addresses, browsers shouldn’t accept certificates for ip addresses. South Korea needs to rethink its security ‘solutions’ and the only way to do that is by the software vendors forcing their ha
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
The government can’t bully you into decrypting your own data or releasing your encrypted data without you knowing.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Yes, because nuclear reactors never fail and don’t cause a catastrophe when they do! And if it ever happens, it’s due to some mistake that surely won’t happen the next time!
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Obviously once it’s for their own crusade, HackerNews has no qualms exploiting the walled gardens it so despises.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
In calculating this you should also keep in mind the very real risk that that game you’re spending 20 years on doesn’t pan out and people don’t buy it. That risk makes it reasonable for the reward to be high.

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