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MatthiasP

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MatthiasP··on WhatsApp Beaten by Apple’s New iMessage Privacy Update
You have to be a sovereign state before you can protect your tech scene from the US. There is a reason only Russia and China do that.
MatthiasP··on Telegram Voice Chats
No mention of any kind of encryption?
MatthiasP··on U.S. faculty job market tanks
The gotcha in the German university system is studying 4-5 years and then dropping out without degree, because there is very little support and a culture of expecting knowledge and not teaching knowledge, which hits underclass students the hardest.
MatthiasP··on Amnesia is now open source
The most scary part is the usage of if(0).
MatthiasP··on Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years
The Virus Total detection list is very interesting [1]. How can your antivirus-software not detect a dangerous, publicly known, two year old exploit? How can anyone take these products seriously? Of course McAfee does not detect it.

[1] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dd71284ac6be9758a5046740...

MatthiasP··on Hackers post fake stories on real news sites 'to discredit NATO'
A sane commander that starts useless wars in the Middle East to transfer billions of tax payer money to his donators?
MatthiasP··on Vox Media preparing round of layoffs as business fails to improve
If woke clickbait a la Vox does not work in these times, I can't imagine other media companies with the same business model surviving for long.
MatthiasP··on Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC
There is a good chance that macOS is being neglected precisely because Apple is moving away from x86.
MatthiasP··on A complete 4-year course plan for an AI undergraduate degree
For comparision, here is the AI bachelor degree from JKU Linz: https://studienhandbuch.jku.at/curr/714
MatthiasP··on Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education
This is not as common as you might think. Some universities do closely collaborate with their regional industry, but the vast majority of master thesis have zero practical application, just like in the US.
MatthiasP··on An ARM-based MacBook SE could destroy Chromebooks and mid-priced Windows laptops
But iPads and iPhones have. The existing library of already ARM-optimized software will make the transition easier.
MatthiasP··on Lambda School lays off 19 employees
Will be interesting to see if bootcamp grads are more affected by the recession than your average CS college grad.
MatthiasP··on Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of Covid-19
Yeah, 10 litres per day.
MatthiasP··on New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into secure enclave
There are good reasons to go with AMD over Intel CPUs at the moment, the number of published security exploits should not be one. There is nothing fundamentally more insecure in the Skylake CPU architecture than in Zen 2, just one has more marketshare and gets scrutinized more intensely.
MatthiasP··on Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections (2017)
Do you have a source for that? Even at a lower angle you still get some UV B and energy from the sun.
MatthiasP··on PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns
Can anyone give some substantiated information about Kape? Why is so bad? All I found was FUD.
MatthiasP··on Cities Where Job Growth Is Outpacing New Homes
The amount of tech workers migrating is minuscule compared to the number of unskilled migration coming from countries like Syria and Afghanistan to Berlin. That is where the demand shock on the housing market comes from.
MatthiasP··on Philosophy of Computer Science [pdf]
TL;DR; The major question in the philosophy of computer science, according to Smith, is: What is computation?
MatthiasP··on 'WhatsApp will never be safe': Telegram boss attacks Facebook-owned messaging
Atleast WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted unlike Telegram.
MatthiasP··on Exercise as a treatment for depression: a meta-analysis (2016)
That exercise (especially endurance sports) is as effective as your typical SSRI is known for decades. The problem is getting a depressed person to exercise five days a week and holding up to that schedule for months and years.
MatthiasP··on “Free College” programs vary in how they define both “free” and “college”
It works, but it is hardly the silver bullet for higher education HN wants it to be. The biggest problem is the lack of incentive for staff to deliver quality in teaching.

Free college does not make the opportunity costs of bad and protracted education go away.

MatthiasP··on Ask HN: Do you cover the camera/mic on your computer/phone?
Pretending to be interesting enough to be spied on is one of the main reasons why people care about their cyber security.
MatthiasP··on AdGuard Pro for iOS will be discontinued due to Apple's policy
Not from a UX point of view. Many non technical people enjoy iOS exactly because you can't too much with it. It reduces complexity.
MatthiasP··on US breaks up IRS phone scam operation
I wonder if the information he got from his calls helped in this case.
MatthiasP··on New Asus 'gaming' phone has more USB ports than 13“ Macbook Pro
Because it is marketed towards people who buy a spec sheet, not a user experience. Personally I love the fact that one single USB-C port + a decent dongle can replace lots of ports.
MatthiasP··on Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand
Also one of the reasons business laptops could get away with awful displays for such a long time.
MatthiasP··on Beyoncé's and Kanye West's listener numbers manipulated in Tidal
The engineer that got told to fake data probably was not overly enthusiastic about the task. Maybe it is even the same guy who leaked the harddrive to the newspaper.
MatthiasP··on Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
Austria here and I am very satisfied with my "socialist water" experience. Exposing basic requirements for survival to free market forces seems like a recipe for failure.
MatthiasP··on Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?
You need to compare it to its predecessor the 940MX. Its a huge step up from that.
MatthiasP··on US officials: Kaspersky “Slingshot” report burned anti-terror operation
The amercian government secrets Kapsersky was "stealing" turned out to be US sponsored malware. Which is exactly what a good anti-virus is supposed to do. But if you want something more NSA friendly, you can always use McAffee who announced a few years ago that they will happily turn a blind eye on NSA&FBI malware.
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