the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Hare is a boring programming language
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the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What IRC client do you use?
telnet
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Apple is becoming an ad company despite privacy claims
In your comment you were begging one of the worlds most valuable companies to "allow you" to pay more for their already exaggeratedly expensive products, for the purpose of not seeing ads. And if that wasn't already submissive enough, you also voluntary become complicit in this ill-behaving industry by suggesting that ads are fine for the vast majority of people that could not or would not want to afford paying a premium on the already premium, for not seeing adds.
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Apple is becoming an ad company despite privacy claims
Sir, have some self respect. If you're willing to pay several thousands USD for a phone, I don't believe the ads are the actual issue here.
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: France is working on an ultra-secure phone for Emmanuel Macron
This title gave me some heavy l'etat, c'est moi vibes.
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: European Parliament hit by 'sophisticated' cyber attack
I'd be curious to read exact numbers, to find out whether Cloudflare would have helped with this. Because if so, I must admit that it would slightly tickle my funny bone.
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Mercedes Makes Better Performance a $1,200 Subscription in Its EVs
I'm honestly curious, is Mercedes still relevant enough for post-boomers for anyone to actually care? As far as I understood they try to position themselves more into the premium niche anyway.
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M
You mean a hacker that would need to enter your house, look for your hardware wallet, beat the mnemonic out of you and quickly enough steal the coins for you to not be able to transfer them yourself before he manages to find a computer with internet access that is sufficiently hidden to not be traced back?
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M
Good luck getting your money through the legal system when the bank collapsed!
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Social Media Is Dead
That title is (unfortunately) not true.
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
I wish there was a way to filter 'twitter' from all incoming HTTP.
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Reclaiming Mobile Privacy with GrapheneOS
Glancing over to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33550824 I'm wondering... does this GrapheneOS have plausible deniability?
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Meta lays off 11,000 people
That is how cabals work.
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Signal Introduces Stories
Reading the comments here I believe there is one detail that needs to be mentioned. Many seem to uphold the opinion that, while the feature is not for them, they aren't mad about it as they feel it brings Signal closer to the masses and is hence a good thing.
One key aspect to consider, however, is the fact that at the end of the day the feature requires code in order to work. Code can contain flaws. When working in encryption it's usually the less code the better, as it limits the attack surface.
It begs the question, just like with the introduction of their payments feature, whether the additional amount of code, which could realistically introduce new flaws, is justified by the benefit it brings to a platform that's main focus is private, encrypted communication?
To put it differently: Will citizens, dissidents and journalists in authoritarian regimes be benefitting enough from this feature to justify the additional attack surface its code has introduced?
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose your passwords in case of death?
Well said, good sir!
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: GitHub Copilot investigation
Sir, you and this comment section should get a room.
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Mental Outlaw Tests OpenAI Whisper-Translation and Transcription
Because he's an AlphaNerd.
Also kudos to the submitter for not linking the YouTube video but instead the Odysee one.
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Judge declines to overturn Elizabeth Holmes guilty verdict
Yeah, think about the poor investors and VCs. Burn the witch!
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to handle open source contributors that do “too much”?
Man, I'd wish to be having this issue...
the-anarchist | 3 years ago | on: Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome
Your honesty is being appreciated.
Would you say that the "big ideas" are being explored purely out of keeping stuff "exciting" or more due to an actual need for them? 50 years is a long time and requirements change.