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bnjms··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
The only thing I’m looking for from antitrust is a moratorium of a few companies from buying their competition.
bnjms··on Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees
They’re more like taxes than rents. It’s a constant cost applied to all goods because of the ubiquity of use means we pay with or without playing the credit card/payments game.
bnjms··on Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
HBM can be used for GPU though. I wish it was more common.
bnjms··on Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification
So in red states porn is being used, and in blue states TikTok and Instagram are being used. Is anyone tracking who is behind the concerted efforts here? For example, which organizations, executives, lobbyists and politicians are valid and responsible parties?
bnjms··on REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
They retain their value because they _are_ useful for real work and are mostly built for longer lives. Even if new purchases are for luxury reasons used purchases have prices pushed up for working people.
bnjms··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
I would have guessed as much. I don’t understand why the west allows Chinese firms to act on their contracts a law when interacting with their markets. There is no reason to allow Bamboo to continue selling in North America or Europe if they’re out of compliance here. Sales can be blocked until compliance with local laws.
bnjms··on If AI writes your code, why use Python?
If you’ve not heard of Lojban you may not have heard of Sapir-Whorf. Or you’re indirectly referring to it.

https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/relativi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

bnjms··on IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
Thanks for the correction. I understand it is seen but wonder if it was in keyboard only in the past.
bnjms··on IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
Tab key is both a control character moving the cursor to the next input and also an input representing the tab character as you see in a text editor.

Now that im thinking about it I’m convinced capslock would have been superior next field key and alt+capslock to be used for toggling capslock. But it’s not obvious to me capslock [e: must be] seen by the OS. It could be changed on the keyboards themselves.

bnjms··on Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)
Just a gut check but it feels ugly to put auth in an L3 proposal.
bnjms··on US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology
I’m for looking for the existing cameras. I’m against a panopticon where any “trusted” LEO with an account can query and have ring + flock + OnStar + Tesla etc all aggregated to follow anyone. Ring has this now. I would guess some cities have it for traffic cameras. What I’m really against is having it privately owned as an end run around laws restricting government surveillance.
bnjms··on Why are we still using Markdown?
Asterisk * has other uses too. Even more common than footnotes would be x*y=42 X=42/y

edit: HN automatically finds this example and puts in escapes to make it work. From elsewhere in the discussion I just want AsciiDoc.

https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/asciidoc-vs-mar...

bnjms··on Why are we still using Markdown?
I agree that file paths should be in `backticks`.

Or italics can be //double slash// to avoid ambiguities with file paths. That still leaves the windows style //some/file/path as ambiguous But I’ll never accept single * as natural for italics.

bnjms··on Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
> though unlike India I think very few Americans have paid a bribe to a cop.

No one, left or right, thinks there is street level corruption. Not the kind accessible to someone in a traffic stop. I have experienced it in Mexico and think that kind of corruption would still be worse because I cannot imagine how to recover from it. I have hope that a few high profile arrests of c level fall his may turn the tide. If not then there are extrajudicial methods open to American culture.

bnjms··on Filesystems Are Having a Moment
This seems like the place to ask. What other big ideas have there been since everything-is-a-file? I’m not aware of any. And it seems like we want another layer of permissions on device & data access we spent have before.
bnjms··on RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello
This is exactly reverse of the right idea. If parents need to censor things the solutions are the same as corpos are going to. Put the censors at the device or “mitm” the connection, either actually with a proxy, or maybe with a browser and curated apps - which is again on the device.
bnjms··on GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
Who do we lobby to get this removed from the auditors checklists? This is a solvable problem but it’s political. And if we don’t solve it personal computing is at risk.
bnjms··on WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system
Can you say what products make use of this technique? i.e. is it well known like Juniper Mist or not publicly available?
bnjms··on The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
How much cost do you consider a first time home as costing?
bnjms··on U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office
I’m unfamiliar with academia but doesn’t this only measure formal funding? It doesn’t measure collaboration with separate EU funding.
bnjms··on Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
It’s immensely misleading. At least with a valid legal order we are still living by rule of law. With the recent actions I can’t say ICE is acting by rule of law.

Having said that I won’t go back to Windows.

bnjms··on Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
People arguably cannot have integrity unless all other companies they compete with also have integrity. The answer is legislation. We have no reason to allow our government to use “private” companies to do what they cannot then turn over the results to government agencies. Especially when willfully incompetence.

The same can be said of using “allies” to mutually snoop on citizens then turning over data.

bnjms··on US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says
> Afghanistan Iraq

Comparing to US immigration support following the Vietnam war this is shameful.

bnjms··on ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
It sounds like you’re unfamiliar with January 6th. Many of the people active in J6th were prosecuted. Most were pardoned by Trump. I understand the GP is saying these same people have joined ICE. I’ve seen a picture of one ICE officer(?) with an SS tattoo below their ear. That should bar employment in the law enforcement but there he is.
bnjms··on Say No to Palantir in the NHS
Every time I’ve heard Peter Thiel speak I’ve believed he cares about other things. I’m more concerned about his implementations of things.
bnjms··on Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1
> You need to have been convicted to receive a pardon, the petition should be not to prosecute.

Hahaha / I’ve made myself sad

bnjms··on Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
How does one learn to think about companies buying each other. It’s counterintuitive to me for an entity with stock to buy stock in another entity which could itself own stock in the first.

The way you write it I can’t see why WB would be allowed to sell itself when it makes the most sense for Patamount to go bankrupt some time from now and be split up amongst US media; Netflix/HBO/Disney/Peacock

bnjms··on GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
Does the Celebrite leak say out can break recent iOS?
bnjms··on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple
Yes. But I think the point is a good one. With CLI there is a recognition that there must be a method of learning what the verbs are. And there are many traditions which give us expectations and defaults. That doesn’t exist in the chat format.

Every time I try to interact with one of these llm gatekeepers I just say what I want and hope it figures out to send me to a person. The rest of the time I’m trying to convince the Taco Bell to record a customer complaint about how its existence itself is dystopian.

bnjms··on TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped
How so? Are the Americans relatively lazy or just unwilling to put in tedious but necessary extended hours?
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