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AHOHA··on I don't trust Signal
Thank you, I’ve always highlighted most of these points here in HN and I get heavily downvoted and attacked being “paranoid”, how is it paranoid if you don’t even have a way to confirm the physical servers are secure from memory injection attacks/boot attacks/etc.? How would you verify after the audit, something was changed? Phone numbers are inherently have broken security by protocol design (and I personally have a lot of personal work on attacking GSM protocol, and I know how easy it’s for 3 letters agencies with enough funding and access to exploit it), why I don’t have an option to choose? Why it was shilled so hard that time when WhatsApp went dark? There’s a LOT of sketchy things, there’s noway I would trust it, never will.
AHOHA··on Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet
All free VPNs == malware

All paid VPNs == honeypots

AHOHA··on How I feel quitting my own startup
Although it wasn’t as a founder, but I can relate, in one of a small startup I got hired as the first engineer, rest were a founder and sales guy and a part time HR girl, so as expected, I solely built the architecture, few fully fledged platforms, dozens of PoC, successfully delivered projects, then after 1.5y the second engineer got hired, now I’m guilty as probably you mentioned being emotionally attached to my work, after all, I really was invested in it, I even designed the icons for these platforms and the proper catchy names in addition to the software/hardware engineering design, to writing the docs and even pitching the work for technical clients since sales guy had no idea what the work was beyond the concept.

After a while, same thing started to happen, promises were made these platforms can deliver even though technically is impossible (so you can guess later when the client know these promises were BS), not getting invited to critical meetings, sales team (grew later than one guy) is gatekeeping the communication and only dripping to engineers the client requirements after they add their own unrealistic expectations, started to exclude me for training clients on how to use these platforms as only sales team are doing those (funny as most of the time, the first question they get asked and they are stuck, and ended up they calling me during the session remotely), and after long discussions that it isn’t possible to be carried by sales and need a technical team, they quickly hired a co-op to act as one during these sessions… among other issues, I call these situations are simply sabotaging the company/startup based primarily on greed, in this case it was by the sales and CEO followed later.

Now I had my lessons learned in that experience, but I’m sure your situation is worse being the founder, but I felt a good peace of mind after leaving them so hopefully you did the good thing.

AHOHA··on ‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags
>that's not what's happening here. Is it? For the same context, I saw a couple days ago an elementary teacher publicly shaming and attacking a kid just because he doesn’t want to participate in that, it isn’t about expressing anymore, in a normal “liberal” situation, whoever wants to express has the freedom and who doesn’t want to participate have the freedom not to do without being attacked by any means.
AHOHA··on Cash-strapped Taliban selling tickets to ruins of Buddhas it blew up
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65787391
AHOHA··on DIY framework laptops are fully assembled machines that get manually taken apart
Will it ever die this cringy trend of “content creators” with that silly face in the thumbnail?! Why would I care about your reaction let alone shoving it into my face.
AHOHA··on ‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags
Isn’t that the “core” principle of being liberal? Free to believe whatever you’re believing in without forcing or shaming others from not following your ideology?. I find it fair to ban the flags as long as other religions can’t announce theirs too like curches bell or mosques Azan or whatever. Why would you teach my kids about X ideology in school while others aren’t allowed to do the same? The meaning of multiculturalism and diversity is not shoving someone ideology into others’, and certainly not getting upset when people don’t like your ideology.
AHOHA··on Security Expert Defeats Lenovo Laptop Bios Password with a Screwdriver
Well, the old concept is still valid: as long as you have physical access to it, you can breach it.
AHOHA··on Gov. Greg Abbott signs new law mandating armed security at all Texas schools
80s/90s school movies: it’s all about bullying etc.

Nowadays: literal war zone!

AHOHA··on Gen Z workers are exhausted – and seeking solutions
When boomers are owning 2 houses and sometimes even a cottage, 2 cars at least, used to support the whole family with one salary, while millennials/Z are sharing the house and sometimes the room itself with others, work paychecks to paycheck, barely afford anything to live let alone to enjoy life, and at work corps try to force the same old cultures used before (made primarily for extroverts) on a generation that are mostly introvert and even text each other in the same house for anything that those jobs feel exhausting with energy deprived to work in such one, and we wonder why they are like that?! Shocker!

There are ways to fix it, but none of them is democratic, because young ones can’t vote for their future while boomers are still able to vote, so they won’t vote for someone who will prohibits owning more than two properties, or force early retire for people beyond X age, and so on.

AHOHA··on Proton mail user experience nightmare
Yep! The only problem (if you consider it problem) is when protonmail started the service, in addition to the password and 2FA, there’s an extra password for the mailbox itself, which they “merged” later both the email and mailbox passwords when they introduced the .com one, so all new email needs one password, old .ch ones need two passwords.
AHOHA··on Make an effective executive LinkedIn profile
Linkedin is probably the most cringy “social” site in the internet, I never understood how it became the “professional” or the defacto for business social network, to the point some companies require you having one..
AHOHA··on Proton mail user experience nightmare
>protonmail used to always be protonmail.com

Ahmm, it used to be protonmail.ch! I have few emails with that old one!

AHOHA··on PRC changes “employment” definition to at least 1 hour of work per week
I think we do the same when it comes to poverty level, just change the definition and boom, most of north Americans are high middle classes and higher income families!!
AHOHA··on Illinois prohibits weapons, facial recognition on police drones
They technically can record the video by the drone and then later do the face recognition offline just like any recorded video by personal cams. Also, face recognition on drones isn’t the worse, what’s the flight time, max 40min? Yeah that’s barely a threat, are they also banning the same recognition on other cameras like the ones installed on the roads, urban areas, traffic lights that are working 247? Guess not, it’s just a theater to create the illusion “we care about your privacy and security” or whatever. Ban police dogs, ban the concept of “shooting then asking”, ban hiring the scum of the town and make them go through a very thorough and proper education, not a useless 2 years academy, among other things. But none of that will happen because it’s deeply corrupt.
AHOHA··on Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
Right!? Tells you a lot about our current pathetic narrow minded society, “Reddit mods!!” my arse, I need to see the same movement for bigger issues like housing, homelessness, low wages and others.
AHOHA··on Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
Volunteer means they are doing good for the public, these morons aren’t paid and their only motivation there is to have that sense of power over other users to feel important.
AHOHA··on Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
Shockers!! Funny how these mods who work for free thought they have any leverage.. now if they control the instances like a federated nodes, then maybe.
AHOHA··on Hepatitis A outbreak plaguing strawberries sold at Trader Joe's, Costco and Aldi
Unbelievable, anyone knows the strawberries sold at the Canadian Costco came from what farm/brand? I know the blackberries are from “sweet karoline” as I have them in the fridge right now.

Edit: not sure is it only frozen ones? Or fresh as well?

AHOHA··on Google warns staff about chatbots
Warning its employees from using chatbots for anything productive and entering sensitive information, yet recommending and marketing their chatbot for the public..
AHOHA··on Cancer rates are climbing among young people. It’s not clear why
Vaping, unhealthy or genetically modified foods, poor and thus stress, among other.
AHOHA··on Ask HN: Company wants to try out switching from Native dev to React Native dev
Do you have any control or power to that decision? Or at least any leverage to pull?

If you (and your teammates) can’t do anything to stop or at least delay that decision, it’s the time to update your resume and start interviewing other companies.

AHOHA··on Jack Dorsey: VR headsets will have people ‘drinking their food out of straws,’
>That’s the future we’re driving towards, with everyone in floating chairs, drinking their food out of straws and constant 24-7 entertainment

Isn’t that WallE reference? At least credit it.

>https://www.stby.eu/wp_15/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Wall-E-...

AHOHA··on Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved
Now that valuable piece must be saved and taken care of, and there’s no where else except the British museum!! ;)
AHOHA··on The Next Crisis Will Start with Empty Office Buildings
>and the consequences for landlords, banks, municipal governments,

So as expected, those are the big players in shilling and pushing for RTO.

Can’t wait for the residential housing artificial inflation to crumble too, will the government side by landlords/corps as well?

Also, most of the article is about “cities loosing traction and hurt its overall look and revenue”, a revenue and development at what expenses!? At the expense of those poor souls employees that are in this neo-slavery and rat race, the pandemic was a major reality check slap for most employees and how they are wasting their lives for someone else profits, I don’t think things will ever get back as it used to, and that’s a good thing.

AHOHA··on Show HN: I built a website that generates fake users for an idea
Pretty good, tried it on some specific stuff and did good! If it’s possible to add extra customization like the number of pros/cons, or randomize it among the users to give it some realistic results.

Edit: if you can also share a site or something to know when you publish the other tool, that would be great!

AHOHA··on First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources
>Given statements to congress by government officials that would contradict this conclusion, will there be repercussions for misleading the public, lawmakers and the scientific community?

Laws are created to control the poor, else mostly will find a way to twist it. https://files.catbox.moe/pkkzal.jpeg

AHOHA··on Ask HN: Is my collection of mobile devices a fire hazard?
>drug mule

More like a moose mule!

>https://files.catbox.moe/vtyjud.jpeg

I actually wish one day to fly the above drone, but for other smaller heavy-lift drones, you can easily have a pair of these giant batteries (2 for redundancy) that can go more than that, for example this 12S that I used yesterday in one of the heavy-lift drone, the pair is around 9kg, obviously, when you do a BVLOS operation, you would need at least 6 pairs, and the logistics of these are quite something, including the protection against external damage.

>https://genstattu.com/ta-plus1-0-15c-16000-12s1p-c-xt90.html

Edit: the 6kg mentioned above is this if you’re interested: https://genstattu.com/tattu-pro-22000mah-44-4v-25c-12s-1p-li...

AHOHA··on New Twitter CEO’s first email to employees
There’s nothing I hate more than these cringy corporate emails..

>We are TOGETHER!!

No, we are not, you will replace them in week for the silliest reason, cut the BS.

AHOHA··on Ask HN: Is my collection of mobile devices a fire hazard?
To have your smartphone batteries buldge? Maybe, especially Samsung, to have these batteries suddenly explode? Unlikely especially for laptops, phones/tables is still probable. If I were you and want to just make sure all is safe, you can buy some of these li-ion bags/containers that are fireproof, and store the batteries inside, and label them with their devices. I do that in addition to drones batteries, some of them are 6kg each!
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