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gressquel··on Ask HN: Does anyone know if Apple plans to address the MacBook keyboard issue?
let me piggy-back, is Apple going to have proper HDMI ports in future? Im going surface book the moment my current macbook stops working.
gressquel··on The Decline of the MacBook Pro
Karma, should never have removed HDMI ports.
gressquel··on What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub
I myself am optimistic but some few questrions popped up:

Microsoft is very proactive removing things from azure and shutting down sites as soon as they receive DMCA complaint or abuse complaint.

Are they going to remove important github repos like these if they get DMCA or other complaints?

https://github.com/Roy47Zhang/CSGO-Aimbot-Project (cheat for Counter strike)

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl (download from video streamers)

https://github.com/kurtcoke/DemonHunter_Exploitkit (exploit kit)

https://github.com/lontivero/vinchuca (p2p botnet)

the second I hear any repos being removed by Microsoft, I i will dump my private repos and leave.

gressquel··on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
what did they do with LinkedIn?? I havent noticed any change.

as for Skype, its completely ruined. I have it installed but I am scared to open it. Horrible GUI. Constant updates and generally just useless now.

gressquel··on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
I am gonna wait and see. I know they messed up Skype really bad, but LinkedIN for example they havent touched and destroyed. I will wait and see..
gressquel··on [dead]
The price of btc is not 9300 as article says but 7400 $.

Article date is 5/7/18 AT 11:53 AM ?

gressquel··on China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments decline 21% in Q1 2018
Peter Navarros Death by China is a good read too
gressquel··on Apple Reports Q2 2018 Results
2. No, iOS people are not switching. They are staying but not buying newer models due to lack of innovation. Personally I would never switch to the cesspool named Android. Laggy, malware infested garbage
gressquel··on Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages
yet Zuckerberg is testifying as I write, denying, dodging the responsibility and questions. I can't believe it, instead of laying down and confessing, he is trying to justify and blame everyone but Facebook.
gressquel··on Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live
The senators asking the questions are completely clueless. EU/GDPR will properly deal with FB.
gressquel··on Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live
please dont link to facebook.com. its on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ValJMOpt7s

gressquel··on Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming it’s journalistic
I am usually a advocate for privacy and right to be forgotten but in this case I am with Google. The criminals can easily erase their conviction and start 'scamming' victims again. Remember a time when I was looking for apartment and I Googled the name of the owner only to find news articles about how he had built 2 apartments inside one, even though they had no fire escape.
gressquel··on Facebook will add “unsend” feature after secretly deleting Zuckerberg’s messages
I don't really know, but as facebook usage declines they will become more and more desperate to make up for the loss of revenue. One of these days when most people have moved over to another platform there will news in the media "Facebook sold users private chatlogs".
gressquel··on Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network
I have a feeling none of these "decentralized" social networks are going to succeed in capturing the users, but I believe one of these will attract the users for something else than the feature "decentralized". When it happens, whoever owns the site will then move away from the initial concept and build the site around the side-effect feature that attracted the users and then capture the entire audience and thus kill facebook once and for all-.
gressquel··on Large collection of Nazi artifacts discovered in Argentina (2017)
is it weird to find them fascinating? I am a millenial and WW2 and its horror is something that I have learnt, but to meet survivors (of holocaust) and surviving items is very exciting.
gressquel··on Mark Zuckerberg apologizes in full-page newspaper ads
I will repeat my previous post:

I expected a non-conditional apology but there he is blaming on a single app being able to extract data. We dont want apology for the breach, we want apology for collecting all the data for so many years. We want to FB to delete the data they have collected even if it means a massive reduction in advertisement revenues. But I guess none of his algorithms can foresee the end of FB.com in the western part of the world.

Good night sweet prince.

gressquel··on Zuckerberg Takes Out Full Page Ads to Say “Sorry” for “Breach of Trust”
I expected a non-conditional apology but there he is blaming on a single app being able to extract data.

We dont want apology for the breach, we want apology for collecting all the data for so many years. We want to FB to delete the data they have collected even if it means a massive reduction in advertisement revenues. But I guess none of his algorithms can foresee the end of FB.com in the western part of the world.

Good night sweet prince.

gressquel··on Tim Cook wants ‘well-crafted’ privacy regulations after latest Facebook scandal
Comes from a guy bending over for communist regimes to protect the revenue. I have 0 respect for people who sell their core principles for money.
gressquel··on Show HN: Where is Sci-Hub now?
Don't wanna sound like a party pooper. But isnt this the same as what movie streaming sites are shut down for, linking to sites with copyrighted material?

For information: I love to download or stream movies and tv-series.

gressquel··on UN blames Facebook for spreading hatred of Rohingya
It happened last week in Sri Lanka too. Although the government was quick to block FB i think 3 muslims died.
gressquel··on U.S. Government Strikes Back Against Chinese Investment
I think Japan, Germany and South Korea prefers to "lease" US military as they're doing now rather than having their own military as the sole defence for the country. Germany in particular has shown signs of enjoyment in such an arrangement, leaving them to focus on other issues like building their economy and commanding EU. There is a reason why Trump is demanding more commitment from other NATO countries. An analogy to computer game would be, US is defending the NATO countries (+japan og SK) while the others are focusing on 'booming'.

If one day germany, japan or south korea were to decide to have referendum to remove US troops and get majority vote, I am sure US would remove their troops. So in short: no, US is not holding a gun to them because the other countries are certainly enjoying US nuclear and military umbrella protecting their territory.

gressquel··on U.S. Government Strikes Back Against Chinese Investment
China as a superpower will cease to exist if its economy crashes. Its economy is very dependent on EU and US. So yes, they will have to respect the rules.
gressquel··on U.S. Government Strikes Back Against Chinese Investment
I hope you can forgive me but I feel its very demanding to write this over and over again. I think I have written about the Sri lankan airport thing before in detail. The reason I leave the keywords in my post is so people can do a google search and find the necessary information.
gressquel··on U.S. Government Strikes Back Against Chinese Investment
The most recent is docking of Aircraft carrier in Vietnam for the first time since the cold war.

There is also a closer relationship with Taiwan and new bills being made to apporve sale of weapons.

The american ships and aircrafts have also ignored the territory of the artificial islands sending signal to all the commerical boats that the water is for everybody to use.

gressquel··on U.S. Government Strikes Back Against Chinese Investment
I meant Myanmar actually. But you are right Uighur is another black mark on chinese politics.

Btw the chinese government is a support to burmese actions towards the Rohingya population, thats what I meant with my initial post. I am not going to repeat everything but there are plently of articles.

gressquel··on U.S. Government Strikes Back Against Chinese Investment
My proposal is the initial proposal the western countries had for China. Let them into WTO and give the all the opportunities western countries have. And China certainly made good use of it. But the proposal also expected China to adapt to democracy and values like free trade. But instead they have become corrupt with power and gone the wrong direction, even electing a "dictator". Now its time to take away the giveaways:

- If China is going to practically make life hard for western companies to operate in China, then same will happen to Chinese companies. Huawei is already experiencing this.

- If you are going to steal intelectual property and mass-produce items then this will have implication on trade.

- WTO sanctions needs to be implemented until China starts to respect the rules that every other country follows.

gressquel··on U.S. Government Strikes Back Against Chinese Investment
1. China with its vote in UN security counsuel was a major suppord for Burmese government to do what what they did without fear of being punished. Google "China Rohingya" theres plenty of articles.

2. Are you literally justifying building island in other countrys sovereign territory? There is absolutely no excuse for this. How would Beijing like it if France or US moved their aircraft carrier 1 km outside of Shanghai?

3. China may not be capable of attakcing through convential war, but they are doing more nastyness without it. Supporting the Sri lankan governments assault on the tamils literally killing 60 000 people in the last weeks of the war in 2009. Imprisoning nobel pieze price winner till his death? Punishing Norway economically for awarding nobel peize price? Suppressing the muslim population in their country (Uyighur?) Stealing technologies and preventing any outside countries from enforcing IP-theft lawsuits.

The list is too long to mention.

gressquel··on U.S. Government Strikes Back Against Chinese Investment
I really dont like the Trump administration for various reasons, but one thing they have done right is showing firm hand against China. Especially when it comes to the artificial islands in South China sea and also the attempts to buy western technology by buying companies and institutions in US.

I hope more countries wake up to what China is trying to do. Artificial island, Rohingya-cleansing, Sri Lanka airport etc. Its just the beginning, we need to be prepared.

gressquel··on Vero – An ad-free social network
"powered by Ethereum" -well I aint joining a site whose scalability relies on Ethereum who couldnt even handle few million cryptokitties.
gressquel··on YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get back to baby pictures'
You're right, whenever I see embedded FB-video on forums or reddit I avoid it. If its really a must-see video, I open it in incognito mode.
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