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kobayashi··on Google to buy Wiz for $32B
That is totally unfounded. Their book of business is huge. You think Google is paying 32B of shareholder dollars because of a foreign intelligence agency? Keep your conspiracism to yourself.
kobayashi··on Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
OK, but I think you missed the point of the question above. The point was whether a court can compel people to explain a secret code, and whether there should be a different standard, if that code involves the computer or not
kobayashi··on Millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed
Seems like a submarine. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
kobayashi··on Reddit banned Reddiw's (alternative API) subreddit and author's Reddit account
Yes, it still works. The desired reddit API call is made to reddiw instead of reddit which acts like a relay
kobayashi··on Apple TV prompt requires another Apple device
The OP said that would not work. https://twitter.com/hugelgupf/status/1614843798928109569
kobayashi··on Disney surpasses Netflix in global paid streaming subscribers
Are you certain of that? Your notion seems counterintuitive to me.
kobayashi··on T-Mobile Blocking iCloud Private Relay for Some, but It's Not What You Think
This deserves much more attention given the initial report’s high ranking throughout the day. It’s an important clarification to what’s happening. Even as a non-T-Mo customer, I was initially very concerned.
kobayashi··on Bob Saget has died
I believe you but wow that is very surprising
kobayashi··on Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
I do not even want to think of what grad school would have been like without Zotero. A shudder-inducing thought.
kobayashi··on Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS
You can steal ideas to which one doesn’t have a legal right.
kobayashi··on Kobayashi’s Maid Dragon Translation Notes
Different Kobayashi.
kobayashi··on Apple sends DMCA takedown for IP address
Many different organizational cultures within the massive mothership org. Yet still remarkable that this famously top-down controlling and highly organized company doesn’t address some of these blatant and persistent shortcomings.
kobayashi··on Apple sends DMCA takedown for IP address
The duality of Apple is rather remarkable. They are among the most brilliant organizations of the modern world, and simultaneously one of the most incompetent (speaking both of this event and other times working with Apple teams).
kobayashi··on ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
They are not. It’s open sourced, not FOSS
kobayashi··on Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless future
SQRL seems like a good option that incorporates public/private keys as an alternative to passwords
kobayashi··on The humble egg is an example of what’s wrong with nutrition studies (2019)
While you accurately describe Brand Power, it really has nothing to do with the topic at hand —- the biases surrounding nutritional research.
kobayashi··on Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet
I'm not sure if, or how, one should engage with an apologist for a tiranical, genocidal, dictatorial regime.
kobayashi··on Why is signal servers using Java and not Erlang
Back when it was TextSecure.

Also, it's worth noting that the Signal team didn't work on WhatsApp. It was WhatsApp that chose to integrate the Signal protocol, which Open Whisper Systems/The Signal Foundation open-sourced their protocol.

kobayashi··on Elon Musk moves to Texas
That would drastically undermine the point of those, and any future, subsidies. I would also find it to be immoral.
kobayashi··on TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B transistor GPUs
I’d very much like to read more about such a policy. Do you have any recommended reading?
kobayashi··on When Jewish wives beefed with butchers and changed the world
Any individual view on the religious merits of kosher slaughter isn’t necessary in determining its humaneness. The facts stand on their own. There is of course a separate discussion to be had on the value of ritual slaughter to an individual or group’s religious expression, but I think that needn’t be considered in order to determine that animal killing according to kosher laws is not an inhumane method of killing an animal, and it’s rules of slaughter were among the first and most enduring form of an animal welfare.

Also tangential to this entire conversation is the merit/morality of animal consumption whatsoever, and whether it can be morally defended in the modern context, but I think that’s also best left for another day.

kobayashi··on When Jewish wives beefed with butchers and changed the world
That is simply inaccurate and Kosher killing has always had humanity in animal killing front and centre, even far before the concept of treating animals humanely became widespread in human societies. The notion that an animal should be electrically shocked so that it is “stunned” before being killed is a matter for debate and is not definitely more or less humane.

There is often room for improvements, including reducing pre-slaughter stress, but when done right kosher slaughter is among the most humane forms of killing an animal. For example, with a skilled _shochet_ a cow can collapse within 10 seconds and not react at all to the cut itself. The requirements for even the sharpness of the knife are paramount, such that the animal feel no/a minimum of pain. Contrast this with the overwhelming majority of slaughterhouses, both today and over human history, and I hope you’ll see that kosher animal killing is far different from what you described above.

kobayashi··on Tone-Deafness Test
@parsianka if you own this website letting you know that the TLS cert has expired
kobayashi··on Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line in Censorship
I strongly disagree. This thread breaks down the ridiculous nature of the claim and makes clear why the spread of (likely purposeful) misinformation in the lead up to one of the most impactful elections in US history.

https://twitter.com/dantoujours/status/1316844679783223297?s...

kobayashi··on Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions
It’s good but not as good as LS in network management. However, HO does allow for read/write management, which is a significant advantage over LS, which does now have that capability.
kobayashi··on Shopify CEO says long hours aren't necessary for success
Wrong Twitter link posted. That’s about Apple and RSS
kobayashi··on You Promised Me Mars Colonies but I Got Facebook
Please post the Thiel article
kobayashi··on Congressman's phone password is 111111
This is itself bad advice. The proper solution is a truly random password, committed to memory, and all others being stored in a password manager, which is itself secured by a separate strong password
kobayashi··on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Related longform article from a first-person perspective:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/07/07/a-sudden-illne...

Edit: Weird...this article now also on the first page of HN.

kobayashi··on Ask HN: YouTube down?
I was setting up a new network and thought it was my settings! I've been driving myself mad for the last 45 minutes thinking that I had fudged up somewhere! Thank goodness for this post
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