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kronoon Little Snitch Mini

This is false in multiple ways (one of which would be legal for this - I believe - Spanish organisation), but I suspect you know this and are simply just trolling now.

kronoon Little Snitch Mini

It transmits telemetry non-consensually before you even get a chance to tell it not to. That is, unless you know of this beforehand and are also tech-literate enough to understand this can be circumvented by disabling your internet connection before you first open the application - something you cannot reasonably expect from all users, seeing as how this telemetry gathering is not advertised anywhere and had to be found in the source code.

kronoon Little Snitch Mini

LuLu itself sends telemetry to Sentry by default

kronoon The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux

”Hacker”news in 2023 ;-)

kronoon YouTube relaxes profanity and monetization rules following creator backlash

Not quite a match but it did lead me to the term "door-in-the-face technique" which is explained in this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

kronoon YouTube relaxes profanity and monetization rules following creator backlash

Does this type of implementation strategy for unpopular changes (taking two steps forward, waiting out torches and pitchforks, and then taking one step back to intended level) have a specific name that it is usually referred to as?

It is so incredibly evil

kronoon Europe's big tech bill is coming to fruition

That is not at all what I'm proposing and I'm honestly baffled as to how you ever came to that conclusion.

Surely you can imagine the possibility of us coming up with systems and processes that are both non-anarchic as well as different from what we have today.

kronoon Europe's big tech bill is coming to fruition

Expanding and institutionalising the current situation will only serve to entrench it even further and make it practically impossible to move away from. I would not call this a positive development. Not even in the slightest.

kronoon Nobody needs a faster dishwasher – solve real user needs

That is a fair point, although I wonder how long this will hold true considering the ever increasing prevalence of heatpumps, sun-boilers, and other such equipment.

kronoon Nobody needs a faster dishwasher – solve real user needs

That is precisely why you should let your $0/hr spawn pick up this menial task rather than doing it yourself - assuming your time is worth more than theirs, obviously :)

kronoon Nobody needs a faster dishwasher – solve real user needs

Your children, if you have any, should make for rather efficient dishwashers at no additional cost if you play it smart.

kronoon Oldest Human Genome from Southern Spain

East-African Homo Sapiens and so very much "human" bones dated to be approximately 350–130 thousand years old according to https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04275-8

kronoon The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code

The distribution of consequences rather than discovery of violations is what I expressed my cynicism about.

kronoon The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code

You are missing the point entirely.

Yes think of smaller entities - which are not all commercial, mind you - just don't think of them more often and more thoroughly than the multinational megacorporations that have been racking up endless violations, most of which they are continuously worsening rather than fixing, and are in many cases actively trying to litigate into oblivion.

kronoon The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code

As previously implied this does not conform to my own observations

The idea is good and I'm all for it, but mostly due to said observations I'm not convinced its practical implementation will be very effective at all

kronoon The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code

Yes (see my reply to your sibling comment 1) but these are not large cases and I'd rather not connect this HN account to my real life activities.

All but one of the cases ended in a warning, but it does show the increased scrutiny that smaller entities seem to enjoy.

Edit: just to clarify me or my business were not directly involved with all those cases, but in the one that we were, it was something we had simply overlooked with regards to GDPR and all was good immediately when the auditor determined we had resolved the problem

1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35012128

kronoon The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code

Source I have experienced this with my own business, and saw it happen to other commercial as well as non-commercial entities with previously implemented acts and directives.

It's not dissimilar to how the tax authorities always seem to pick small timers for a random extensive audit.

kronoon The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code

Of course, as per usual, this will come with entirely unfair and unproductive enforcement. Multinational corporate violators will be left alone or get sent on their way with a slap on their wrists, and small one-time hobbyist violators will get prosecuted into dissolution.

kronoon The Vanilla JavaScript Toolkit

http://vanilla-js.com/

> Vanilla JS is a fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework for building incredible, powerful JavaScript applications.

Not entirely relevant or particularly useful but never gets old

kronoon Single sign-on Mastodon available for all Dutch education and research

> It's really not that difficult.

What exactly isn't?

kronoon Single sign-on Mastodon available for all Dutch education and research

I have only declared my concerns with regards to the unintended side-effect of this project as explained in my top level comment. I have no qualms with and never even brought up this "principle of the initiative" as you call it.

kronoon Single sign-on Mastodon available for all Dutch education and research

Thanks for clarifying, this makes things slightly better than I had originally assumed. The personal connection still being on file with an authority remains a pain point though.

kronoon Single sign-on Mastodon available for all Dutch education and research

In my opinion we should be countering the normalisation of using a single identity/persona for all offline and online activities across multiple platforms, not encourage it. The consequences for rubbing public opinion the wrong way are too significant, too long lasting, and far too easily triggered (through misinterpretation or even as the result of weaponisation by some or other adversary).

kronoon A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most

It's so frustrating even pursuing that with Apple for these very common issues. They'll gaslight you with the friendliest of words and nicest of smiles until you just give up and bugger off for good.

kronoon Ask HN: Dealing with ADHD Without Medication?

Funny you ask, that is not ideal to say the least.. It has caused unnecessary stress and I've had to do a few days without meds several times during Covid when I wasn't able to go pick them up due to the limited pharmacy openings.

Luckily I have an awesome and very understanding GP who stretched my prescription to 90 days permanently. As I understand it there's no hard limit here in The Netherlands, but this is about the maximum he can get away with in this case.

kronoon Secretive military space agency stepping out of the shadows

What an incredibly well-timed and affably packaged reminder of the US' current and future space-bourne potential.

Whether intentionally so, perhaps in response to something that goes or might soon be going both literally and figuratively over our heads, we'll probably never know.

Either way, the message will no doubt be picked up on by one or two certain countries from across the Atlantic, both of which have relatively recently also started launching and doing stuff up there.

kronoon Apple orders entire supply of TSMC's 3nm chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs

Here is the story in video format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1dzNuyq6O0

I highly recommend checking out the other videos by that YouTube channel as well.

kronoon Let's build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible

Just the title of this post alone should make it more than obvious that the article is not about preventing anyone to view data, but rather to grant anyone access to it in an exploitative way.

In response to the article itself: you might even be able to get such an extension on the Firefox Extensions store and just maybe get a "Recommended" status too. Refer to my comment in another post from a few days ago for other such current violations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34832280

kronoon Software 2.0 (2017)

Not just inaccurate, but also code that is undesirable in several other ways of varying severity that a human is less likely to produce at all, or more likely to reject if it had originated from any other source.

The fault lies with humans treating these programming AIs like the greenest of junior bootcamp devs would treat the most accomplished senior engineer.

kronoon Pentagon Declines to Answer If It Shot Down $12 Balloon with $400k Missile

Blowing stuff up is just another means of communication

Looking at that train derailment incident with the chemical spill and fire that recently took place in Ohio, it seems to me that the established order is rather willing to take the exact type of risk you describe