dayjobpork's comments

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Extreme poverty is history in China, officials say

So you want people to discuss the economy without mentioning the genocide camps of forced labour that underpin manufacturing?

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Undocumented arm64 ISA extension present on the Apple M1

You think it is bad that a company provides good documentation on how their product works and how to use it?

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Baremetrics required a phone call to cancel

Bizarre. In Australia I can literally call up a new ISP and get switched over in minutes, and it automatically terminates my old ISP (and many will refund the remaining monthly charge)

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: How and why I stopped buying new laptops

Apple is also the company that decides that 'x port' is the new greatest thing ever and drops support for previous ports

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs

You are opening it wrong /s

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: AirPods Max

If my kids are asleep we turn the TV volume down. Why would you wear headphones with your spouse, you can't have any conversation so it defeats the purpose of watching together

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Sonic attacks on US diplomats likely microwave energy, government study says

Anti radiation missile.

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges

To be clear, you are against other workers benefiting from something if you yourself don't benefit?

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Why Americans Have Been Deceived About Canada's Health Care System

Apart from a terribly selfish attitude, I'd like to see proof of the wait for CT scans. Australia has mostly socialised healthcare and I've always had xrays same day and CT, Pet and MRI within a couple of days at most.

Also all those scans have been completely free.

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Spying with Your Robot Vacuum Cleaner: Eavesdropping via Lidar Sensors [pdf]

They don't like some patterns, I suspect that straight dark lines are detected as possible drops

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (2019)

Lawyers are expensive.

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads

Why should a user pay for something that is useful for a multi billion dollar multinational ad company?

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.

It's almost like the roles of government, such as medical access, social security and law enforcement, should not be run as a business

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground

So what happens if/when Ferrari stops supporting the remote hardware, or the mobile tech is no longer available (ie none of my 2g mobile network stuff works anymore because no telecoms company here does 2g anymore)

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y

Depends if you want a convertible or not

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: How tech workers at Kickstarter formed one of the only unions in the industry

This literally makes no sense. Australian unions have been giving free representation to immigrants bring exploited by employers

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Hacktoberfest Is Now Opt-In

As a full time software documentation writer, all I ever do on github is correct docs and text (because nothing looks more unprofessional than terrible spelling, especially in your UI, expect maybe for when the directions are wrong and don't work)

I've just checked and am now running at over 40 rejected changes, many with really offensive comments added to them.

Open source developers often come across as very rude and argumentative and this sort of response to legitimate fixes kills any interest I had in helping. Looking through some of the projects I they are also treating code changes the same way. I'd suggest that that future hacktoberfests will have much less participation

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Google: “Any harm Epic has suffered is not irreparable and is of its own making”

The cases get posted on ars, but there is an army that downvotes any comment on that isn't Apple positive.

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: I can’t upgrade the firmware of my toothbrush because I once did jailbreak

Ten bucks says that by you 'accepting the risk' your accounts are now flagged as not be covered for any losses that the bank 'says' are due to hacking as per some legalese in one of their 100 page agreements.

Just saying this sounds tinfoil hat to me, but I would seriously consider changing banks. I would not want to hold any account, especially credit cards, for a bank that has allowed me to opt to ignore a security risk

dayjobpork | 5 years ago | on: Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up

Possibly taking one of the best parts of Firefox, the addons, and replacing it with a system that doesn't bother to support many of the most popular addons.