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My first read on your comment was the tone in it is inflammatory and designed to provoke vs make a point or a validate argument. That is likely why you were downvoted. I can very much be accused of doing the same thing in some of my comments on emotional topics and in general the results are not as good as if I had framed things as a statement or a question without being emotional. YMMV.

So I was down voted in this. Let me make this clear...if you are the irrational anti-science anti-vaccine person and have the right to down vote please do so, but have the stones to post a reply saying it so the rest of us can add you to the ignore file.

Get vaccinated. If you do not for other then a real medical reason you are a terrible person that might just cause the death of a young child. Fuck you.

Directly said in the article:

“Users’ photos, converted into a string of numbers through a process known as “hashing”, will be compared with those on a database of known images of child sexual abuse.”

I have been in Manhattan for the last week with my family. I have seen 10+ free vaccinations locations. If you want to get vaccinated you can, no matter what your means.

Not being vaccinated put the risk on the kids, which is unconscionable.

So pre-Covid I would fly 160-200k KM per year. I loved the 787. The higher humility and cabin pressurization along with the larger windows makes the flight so much better.

To be clear, this was well planned, in a safe environment, at dusk sitting on the back acre with family and friends and a small dose with constant communication.

These type of drugs have been shown time and time again to be massively effective in treating depression, anxiety and PTSD. It is a crime that ultra conservative socialty morals have prevented a more in depth study of their use. The fact of the matter is we treat our vets with a cocktail of drugs for PTSD that have major side effects and provide little relief. It was my experience and the experience of serval people I know that had PTSD that the use of magic mushrooms provided a substantial and sustained relief.

Seems to me that the DoD should build a cloud agnostic solution.

So I have a family member that suffers from depression. At some point at a party we convinced her to drink some mushroom tea. She was amazingly together for 6 months after. Magic mushrooms should be legal.

They should go back to OfficeVison (PROFS). That always worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_OfficeVision#Earlier_PROFS...

AWS makes around 26% margins (not broken out, it’s markets best guess). At a medium size it can make more cost effect sense to run your own……with the understanding that you have to build a cattle farm, and pets are forbidden. If you every allow a pet, then just go to AWS, et.al.

It’s completely different. Let’s start with the moon has no atmosphere so you do not use parachutes to land on the moon like you do on Mars.

Your statement is nonsense.

As an aside to this…..I worked for a switch vendor. We where asked by the DoD to provide commands to disable heat, etc. related shutdowns. ‘Nuf said.

Arista was pushing leaf-spine in 2008....

Dropped Reddit in general a few years ago. Much happier. I sometimes read the tech stuff that friends link but otherwise done.

It is an amusing story from a completely different time and place in IT. Today people would just loudly and publicly complain on Twitter and other social media to embarrass the vendor into sorting it. Sharing a story, not speaking to the nature or the correctness of the solution. I have worked on both sides. Once when I was on the vendor side a very large customer returned a very expensive switch as RMA. A set of 16 ports stopped working. The cause in the end, the customer had gotten an SFP stuck and tried to rip it out, pulling the cage from its solder joints on the board. 3 switches in 2 months. We smiled, swapped all of them and then the sales team had a chat with the customer to help resolve the issue (their 3rd party SFP with a crappy designed latch). Is what it is.

Correct.

To the other comments. We where a good customer that experienced an amazing stupidly high failure rate in a part that others also reported the same issue. The cost of deploying these systems and having them fail randomly broke planning and wasted the teams time and impacted our IT cost metrics. The cost of the support ticket, time and replacing and re-imaging a system was not free. We of course tried very hard to be preemptive in sorting this once we ID’ the issue. The vendor did not care, so another path was taken in order to help express our unhappiness to the vendor which resolve the issue. We paid additional money by paying for a brand name vs for white box with the idea that we would prevent this type of failure.

Back in the mid 90s I was working in IT at a midsized company. We used Compaq desktops (this is the Pentium Pro timeframe). The HD in the system where quantum fireball (IIRC). They failed at an amazing rate all in the first 3 months (30%). We called Compaq at one point and said, look we want replacement drives for all of our remaining systems. After much back and forth (stupid on their part as we had 1000+ machines over their complete line, including servers, so good customer) they refused to help saying “we will only replace them as they fail.” Fine, as you wish. A week later we called into support and reported the failure of 50 HD. They did not believe us. Sent 3 technicians. After they tested the 20th HD the look on their face was priceless. At some point one of the techs noticed the taser on the one of the other work benches in IT. An hour later we received a call from the sale rep telling us that they would replace all the current drives in every system with this model as long as there are no more “mass failures.”

Also…

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/03/1002881337/officer-who-sold-p...

There are a ton of different types of murder charges. This can be codified to be safe.

1. Make ransom illegal to pay. 2. Fine the hell out of any company that has not kept up with best practice in security. Require the board and exec staff to resign without payouts. 3. Make minimum jail time for ransomware hackers 100 years. 4. Make any hack that can be attributed to a loss of life (like shutting down a hospital) a death penalty offense. 5. State actors get economic death penalty - no US company or company that does business with a US company is allowed to do business (banking, etc.) with the state actor for 1 year for each offense. 6. Authorize NSA to retaliate in kind vs state actors.

At the height of the Roman Empire a citizen could walk the length of it without fear, because if they where attacked and killed the legion would burn the city / village to the ground that was responsible.

We had the Cold War and not a Hot War because of mutually assured destruction. I fail to see a reason not to bring that balance to hacking by state actors.

Bla, bla, I am a bad person. No, I am suggesting a reasonable measurable set of steps that force the companies to do better while imposing great risk to the criminals and state actors.

In my 20s-30s, a few beers or cocktails before dinner. Then a few bottles of wine (with friend, co-workers). Then scotch, or the like. At late 40s, I could write off the next day.

Now, a cocktail (lockdown has turned my wife in to master bartender). Glass of wine with dinner. Maybe a whiskey after. All good.

Have friends over, turns into a bit to much and write off next morning.

I am an American. I drink 2 glasses at wine at dinner, maybe a cocktail before, and a whiskey or the like after. Dinner is an event for the family. We talk about the day. We take time to cook it for the most part. The other day we had the new neighbors over, cheese, meat and fish board, and lots of wine. Eating and drinking with friends and family is joy and happiness.

All of this is quite reasonable.

WhatsApp has 2B users vs. 1.6B for Apple. Of the 1.6B for Apple there is a group that would not use iMessage, but any other 3rd party application, like Whatsapp.

The fact that you are left of a chat does not make Apple a monopoly. The people in your group could choose to all switch to the same application, of which most of are closed source. I spent a ton of time in APAC and while each country has different most popular chat apps, the group of us that have spent years working together on and off at different companies all agreed on a common chat app. It's just not hard.

I have a few long term friend groups where a member has an Android and the text is green. No issues sending them text at all. The MMS stuff can be broken but that is not Apples fault.

Your argument is Apple once again the same as everyones else, and appeal to everyone be open because it is your philosophical view of things and it would make your life simpler.

Apple is a for profit company. They are not a monopoly on chat because they choose to offer their users a better experience over the standard SMS (which they supported).

I am frustrated with all the people that miss that distinction. They are a private entity and can do what they way within the outline of the law. You can vote with your pocketbook, or run for office and get the laws changed.

Also, the OSS vs non-OSS comment: you cannot take for granted that everyone here comes down on the side of the GPL 100%. There are a ton of us that work/worked at companies that did priority software because that is what made sense for the business model. We do not write software for free - ie, there has to be a method to pay our bills. I personally have major issues with GPL3 when it comes to creating works for a profit company. No major ones with GPL2, Apache, MIT, etc.

I do not think that Apple is maintaining a full GA level release cycle testing and release planning for a version of IOS that can allow 3rd party apps. The key here is the RELEASE TO GA.

Of course they have internal builds that are signed and allow you to do whatever they want internally, but having a shipping GA with the normal protects and support for all the work and validations that would go into supporting 3rd party installations.

Your resume says you where an Intern at Apple, so I am sure you are correct in the fact that they have an unlocked internal build, however my points are valid about the difference between that and a GA PRODUCTION release.

Note, Apple has some pretty strict NDAs so...

So I have a use case that makes it interesting vs. my current cable provider even when I have the business level service. The power goes out here, either from winds, fires or PG&E shutoffs. Okay cool, have generator, solar, etc. Internet still goes down after a bit and stays down until power comes back because the cable providers node does not have enough power to deal with 18 hours of no power. With Starlink, I am going to be good. I am in SV so it is not like I am on a farm in the midwest someplace.

We to be fair their argument is 100% valid. Apple is very successful in selling their HW as is without the feature certain users want. The reality is that adding that feature would have a great deal of cost behind it for very little growth on their already impressive numbers. Everyone here on HN likes to criticize Apple for not allowing 3rd party stores, but in general wants their HW. This community is self selecting for the tech people so they think this is reasonable. My wife and kid and my friends that are not in tech do not care about 3rd party at all, and when I have asked them the answer is "I buy Apple because it just works and I do not have to think about it. That would add complexity I do not want!" This is Apples market, not HN were this is the norm:

Me: "Great, do not buy an Apple protect." HN: "But I like their HW." Me: "Well then you have to deal with their SW restrictions." HN: "But I do not want to, why cannot they not just do this for me, it's just SW."

Wash, rinse, repeat on every story on AppleHW. I would really love to be able to read the comments on the interesting aspect of the story without 80% of the comments going back to this debate for once.

Apple is NOT a monopoly, therefor you cannot force them to change this. You can buy another device that allows you to install 3rd party stuff. Do that.

Why would they? It is more work. It is 2 code paths to write, to test and plan for. There is a cost associated with this that will not likely be recovered in any reasonable price difference on the phone versions.

The child brith death question is a good one. The simple answer is that our brain size (and thus size of our head) evolved much quicker then the needed birthing exit path.

No I was clear. The US should have stopped Hitler at the start of 1939 but we waited until Pearl Harbor to get involved. It was a clear moral failing on our part. As to the USSR, the western powers were willing to risk the planet to stop them in the Cold War and I am not saying anything different here about China. If the USSR had invaded West Germany there would have been war. I am saying if China invades Taiwan it should be treated the same way. Are you saying that NATO should not have defended West Germany in the event of an invasion by the USSR because it risk the end of the human race? Tell me where do you draw the line? It was clear when it was Europe to most people yet some people seem to have an issue when the same logic is applied to non-Europeans of Taiwan.

Democracy is worth defending even at the risk to the human race. We as a race are not worth our own existence if we do not understand that.