techrat

And how often you see on HN how people should vet who they do business with... but now are saying they're mad at hackers for going after someone who "happens to host some bad websites and not someone like Youtube instead cause they have [this] video, too!"

Epik is notorious for being a safe haven to the most extreme of right wing sites. There's simply no way you could not know what their business model is.

Guilt by association might suck, but they still willingly associated.

> Epik is owned by Rob Monster, who is a open and proud Neo Nazi and antisemite. You chose to do business with him despite of who he was and what he enables

When I first heard of Epik, it was due to the kinds of sites/domains he handled that were being kicked off other services for egregious reasons (including and not limited to: hosting white supremacist shooter manifestos, doxxing for murder). That in of itself told me to stay far, far away from Epik.

Advocating for free speech doesn't mean moral abandonment, either. There's a reason things like fighting words, threats of harm aren't considered protected speech... and there's (sadly) quite a few on here who still have yet to learn that part of the lesson when it comes to speech online.

Epik's business model is to specifically cater to Neo Nazis.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy4yg9/the-far-right-has-fou...

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/11/problem-epik-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)

> Epik is known for providing services to websites with far-right content, such as the social network Gab, video hosting service BitChute, conspiracy theory website InfoWars, and neo-Nazi message board website The Daily Stormer.[1][6][28] It was described in 2019 by Vice as "a safehaven for the extreme right" and in 2021 by The Seattle Times as "a home for far-right websites" because of its willingness to host far-right websites that have been denied service by other Internet service providers.[1][29][30] In 2021, The Daily Telegraph wrote that Epik was "a safe harbour for websites said to be enabling the spread far-right extremism and carrying Neo-Nazi content";[25] the same year, Fortune called the company the "right wing’s best friend online".[9] NPR reported in February 2021 that "when websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet, the sites often turn to [Epik] for a lifeline."[13]

Good for you. Meanwhile I just had to restart Firefox because it pegged a CPU core at 100% and wouldn't refresh.

And this was after nuking the configs and doing an "sudo apt purge firefox && sudo apt install firefox"

So now we have the Whiny Nerd Paradox.

Google is evil because they took over the web with Chrome.

But they're still evil because they're singlehandedly keeping Mozilla alive with funding.

Yes. Especially evil for keeping distant competition alive.

And really evil for enforcing web standards with a browser engine that works.

And also evil because they open source everything.

Grr. Google bad, of course.

Or maybe you have rose colored glasses on from using Firefox in isolation.

It's a memory leaking hog on every system I use it on. Windows, Ubuntu, even Android.

Even back to the days of Phoenix, it always had issues with not eventually turning into a leaking process.

Funny how they always stop responding at this point.

"I don't like what Apple is doing."

Then out of nowhere and off topic:

"GOOGS IS WORSE!"

It's purely Pavlovian to them by now.

> So some market segmentation has to exist. If Intel threw away every chip that had one of the four cores come out broken, they’d lose a lot of money and have to raise prices to compensate.

Except in the case with the Pentium special edition 2 cores and i3 parts, Intel actually designed a separate two core part that wouldn't have the benefit of re-enabling cores among hobbyists.

And then there's the artificial segmentation by disabling Xeon support among consumer boards... even though the Xeon branded parts were identical to i7s (with the GPU disabled) and adding (or removing) a pin on a socket between generations even though the chipset supports the CPU itself (and the CPU runs on the socket fine with an adapter.)

Intel definitely did everything they could to make it as confusing as possible.

64GB Desktop.

Apt runs weekly.

Firefox still blows.

> So tell me what you mean then.

I already have.

Being disingenuous is all you have left, apparently.

Funny how you say 'we old timers' when you remind me exactly of the same sniveling types who whined about everything "Micro$uck" etc... on Slashdot back in the day... It's tiresome and doesn't contribute one bit when you defeat any points you may legitimately have with all that griping. What's the point in tossing out the age card here? Being smug is a sign of immaturity, not wisdom. So you may call yourself an old timer here but it seems you haven't grown up, either.

A company putting an ad on their own website for their own product isn't an abuse of market position. That's the falsehood I'm referring to.

Everything else that you keep tossing back in as "do you mean..." is an attempt to evade that point that I made and to put words in my mouth.

Don't trust Google? Don't like Chrome? Don't use it. It's not like we've only got one bundled browser to work with these days. Even if it's crypotrash mining and referral link hijacking software like Brave. That's better, right? Or Apple's stagnant Safari. Or... Perhaps you'd be more comfortable in Lynx or Mosaic. They work as well now as they used to then.

So. Yeah. Chrome has market share because it continues to remain better than the alternatives. Not really that difficult of a concept, methinks.

The difference between then (IE/Windows Bundling) and now (Chrome/Google Advertising Might) is that we still get everything Google releases as open source. Use de-Googled Chromium and move then fuck on with your life.

Get off my lawn, punk.

The point with my reply is that you have enough to point out about the Chrome situation without having to resort to tenuous claims or outright falsehoods.

Google had to have had the better product otherwise you wouldn't have been introduced to Chrome by using their search engine.

Firefox is a dumpster fire half the time. I use Firefox still for exactly ONE website: Facebook. To keep it sandboxed.

I still have to restart Firefox at least once every other day because it leaks and becomes a runaway process.

No plugins/addons. As stock as it gets. One single website only... and it still pukes all over itself.

A company putting an ad for its own product on its own website is not an example of a shady tactic.

"Allowed?" Next you'll tell me that Microsoft should be forced to exclusively advertise other browsers other than their own on Bing before search...

> so if this isn't abuse of market power then I don't know what.

Abuse of market power would be preventing the mention of any other browser when using search and Google has never done that.

Or how about a better example: Apple actively preventing any third party web browsers on iOS, then later only allowing third party web browsers to use the Safari Engine. THAT is anticompetitive.

Google simply has the better product in this case.

Tips are counted as pay, buddy. Legally if hourly rate + tips falls under minimum wage, the employer has to cover the difference. Either way, tips are income and thus taxed as such. No idea why you could ever expect that it's tax free.

For shits and giggles, I dug up an old IBM K6-2/300 Mhz motherboard I had in the shed, maxed out the ram (256MB) on the board and used a CDRom to install the latest Debian (Squeeze) I could on the SD Card/IDE Adapter.

Just so I could try to run an IRC server off of it.

Took about 3 hours to compile UnrealIRCD for it, but it worked.

From what i could see of the resource usage, it should have been fine with 128MB Ram.

The biggest issue I encountered was finding a distro old enough for a CPU without CMOV instructions that still had backported packages that were required to build the IRCD.

ChanServ is a relatively modern function of IRC. For a good while, still to this day on some networks, services did not exist.

Looks like it may just be you. No issues on a cheap $300 no name Android device. Renders and scrolls fine.

Your argument is that iDevices like the iPod and iPhone require more stringent 'massive capacitor' power delivery with an inline battery over... more power demanding/complex devices like laptops? And other phones that had removable batteries?

Sounds like an attempt to handwave away bad design principles.

"Lots," eh?

Every laptop I've ever owned will run with the battery disconnected.

Except the Macbook, of course.

The simple fact of the matter is that Apple routinely makes design decisions that are not only questionable, but compromise the usable life of the device in the process. And keep repeating the same mistakes over and over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8

Having reduced or nonexistent performance after removing the battery was never normal. It's bad design. Period.

https://www.engadget.com/2008-11-22-macbook-and-macbookpro-s...

almost all apple idevices will not run plugged in if the battery is dead. thought I could do this on an old click wheel iPod but nope, had to replace the battery before i could use it. it did not use to be common, i had no issues keeping other devices like my xperia play powered on when removing the battery, but that is also a device where the battery is meant to be user replaceable.

Which is why Apple is doing everything they can to serialize parts like the display. They always have been the worst about locking out third party repairs since the second Jobs era.

> A company wouldn't offer it if they didn't expect to make money

Companies certainly offer 'extended' or longer warranties compared to a competitor as a selling point with the intention to deny all claims and issues. Asus is particularly bad about this.

> How do you know he wasn't just lying to see if you would unintentionally confirm his lie?

Or how much of it was bait? "I never said such a thing." > "Now are you calling me a liar?"

Then you should be able to provide an actual link of an in the wild exploit.

So basically, you have no in the wild exploit that you can have me load up on my phone and have it become compromised. Got it.

Thanks for proving my point.

> Maybe because it's news and critical Android remote exploits are found often enough to not be news.

Then you should have no problem being able to find one that will exploit my phone. I even gave you the specific Android version AND security patch level to target.

Get at it instead of pointing to the sky and saying "look!"

I'll make it easier for you.

I have a Nubia phone which runs Pie.

Its last security patch is dated August 5th, 2019.

Play Services and Chrome are fully updated.

Where is there an in the wild exploit that you can point me to? Proof of concept or otherwise. I'll happily load it up in Chrome on my phone and let it compromise my system.

Meanwhile there's a zero click iMessage exploit article still on the first page of HN.

> AMD has stopped selling mid-market & down-market.

Chip shortages and supply chain issues, bruh. Let's not pretend it's not also affecting other suppliers. It's not an AMD issue.

Intel's hubris is still getting in the way.

When companies like Cloudflare are openly announcing that none of their upcoming servers will use Intel, you have to admit something's wrong.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/01/cloudflare_picks_amd_...

> "We evaluated Intel's latest generation of 'Ice Lake' Xeon processors," Howells wrote. "Although Intel's chips were able to compete with AMD in terms of raw performance, the power consumption was several hundred watts higher per server – that's enormous."

Lake has turned out to be Intel's decline into Bulldozer chip style design issues. They might perform fine but they're too hot, too outdated and too expensive.

Apple is one of the last companies I would consider 'open' on any front.