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throwmeariver1··on Ask HN: Do you use an anti-virus program?
There is no need for antivirus if you are technical literate and have a good grip on your threat assessment. If you handle a lot of external storage you don't know the origin of I would advise to have raspberry pi around with clamav to check them before sticking them in any workstations or servers. As general advice stay away from consumer grade products they are mostly filled with dark patterns and snake oil even by providers that do good security research. If you are on windows and feel the need for AV, a hardened [0] Windows Defender is really all you need.

[0] https://0ut3r.space/2022/03/06/windows-defender/

throwmeariver1··on Is a recession coming? Alan Greenspan says the answer is in men's underwear
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throwmeariver1··on The Worst US Defense Program of All
But it's on substack it must be true!
throwmeariver1··on Is a recession coming? Alan Greenspan says the answer is in men's underwear
HN is really going to shit. Now it’s just a don’t give XYZ clicks. 2-3 years ago it would have been at least a 3-4 pager of paranoid induced nonsense.
throwmeariver1··on Omega Swatch Speedmaster
I still don't understand what you mean with the loss of dignity what is the loss of dignity? Do you mean that the arbitrary value you put on OMEGA watches should not be compromised by offering a cheaper version?
throwmeariver1··on Omega Swatch Speedmaster
How would the brand lose "dignity" by doing a coop with their mother brand? Do you perceive the value of a OMEGA watch by the marketing instead of the watch making?
throwmeariver1··on Omega Swatch Speedmaster
Salty about what exactly? Put it in words please.
throwmeariver1··on Omega Swatch Speedmaster
Sold out and for 10x the price on ebay...
throwmeariver1··on Launch HN: Koko (YC W22 Nonprofit) – Online Suicide Prevention Kit
? Paying with data is still a paywall if I want to use it just because I want to help I can’t without giving up my SUICIDAL users data. Srsly good intentions bad execution and what part of the comment is against the site rules?
throwmeariver1··on Whatever happened to QuickTime?
Hardware accelerated codecs happened.
throwmeariver1··on Apple forced to allow sideloading and 3rd-party app stores under new EU law
sideloading was never a term used in any official documentation or communication the term was coined by the android community. we have to pick our own nose for that one.
throwmeariver1··on Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018)
The problem is not with the services itself it's more in regards of infrastructure, backups etc. If you run the services yourself there is not a single point of failure as you would have with a SAAS.
throwmeariver1··on Kaspersky added to national threat list by FCC
I would have called Russia and China rogue states before at least in the online space. There are just to many state sponsored hacking activities that you have to paint them as bad actors.
throwmeariver1··on Mourning loss as a remote team
Sometimes there is just nothing to say not everything is nefarious it could also mean that even if you think you had a close relationship to your colleague it really wasn't so close at all because otherwise they would give you a heads-up afterwards.
throwmeariver1··on Kaspersky added to national threat list by FCC
Honest question who still uses kaspersky, avast, norton etc in a corporate environment?
throwmeariver1··on I wish Safari browser didn't exist
Yeah, Safari has problems but iframes should have been made obsolete with frames and frameset in HTML5 and if M$ didn't lobby for it they would be... so much for #Safari #Explorer.
throwmeariver1··on Apple Is Working on a Hardware Subscription Service for iPhones
I don’t get this argument iPhones are the phones with the highest longevity 4-5 years software upgrades. Repair shops have displays and batteries on hand and the labor is cheaper than for most android phones. Even years into the product cycle you get new accessories and parts. I used my SE for 5 years with two battery changes for 50 per pop and my wife used her 7 for 4 with one battery and display change. Even after the 3-4 years of use you can get good money for your phone from resellers which refurbish the phones and sell them again. This is not happening in the android space at all. It’s FOMO from users and nothing else. Calling it forced obsolescence is hybris.
throwmeariver1··on Mozilla’s Vision for the Evolution of the Web
That's for anyone who wants to join the browser game to figure out. Mozilla is going downhill fast so everyone clinging to it is just delaying the inevitable. The new winning browser is either going to be a forked or new engine it certainly is not going to be Gecko with the Mozilla Foundation at the helm. It's just stupid to pretend that there is hope for Mozilla or Firefox if there is no purge at the top.
throwmeariver1··on Mozilla’s Vision for the Evolution of the Web
Firefox is irrelevant with a marketshare of 7% and it's not needed. What is needed is a true competitor for Chrome not a long forgotten fever dream.
throwmeariver1··on Ask HN: Is FAANG possible if you have a serious mental illness?
I am Bipolar never was a problem.
throwmeariver1··on Why We’re Moving to a Membership Model
I hate these overly naive intros as if they are the victim of something. You need money and you think that a subscription model fits the best like for 90% of your competitors. You did not look around to find some magic way to monetize you sold your product for cheap to onboard more users and are now either running out of money or you hit the tipping point and MAUs for subscription. Painting everyone in bad light but doing the same is dishonest and is setting yourself up for failure. I give them 3 months until the first dark pattern starts to appear on their canceling page.
throwmeariver1··on NLAW anti-tank launcher unboxing and instructions video
The AK was designed for easy and fast maintenance the gun can be easily disassembled, cleaned and lubed in a matter of minutes, without training. If you can change a lightbulb you can “strip” an AK.
throwmeariver1··on China Eastern flight MU5735 crashes, 132 people were on board
Their phones might have but the passengers would be unconscious.
throwmeariver1··on China Eastern flight MU5735 crashes, 132 people were on board
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...
throwmeariver1··on Qualcomm is adding AV1 support, which could be huge for online video
Their wiki page, every review when you google hevc vs av1… the better question is how do you get your information?
throwmeariver1··on A sequence that we see all the time in the world of junk science
You know what happened in 2014? We just don't know why does everyone feel the need to be right and no one can admit that from an external point of view SOMETIMES you just can't know the real reason behind actions of other people.
throwmeariver1··on The Asymmetry of Open Source
No you just believe art must have a value either from the artists skillset or materials and this is just not true at all.
throwmeariver1··on The Asymmetry of Open Source
A lot of great art is free what you mean is the art perceived as "expensive" by the art industry. Cisco vs OpenSource...
throwmeariver1··on Popular Patreon creators are being hit with Vimeo price hikes
All the examples in the article are from paying customers…
throwmeariver1··on AMD Fires Back with 7 New Chips
DDR4 boards are in the same ballpark as AMD.
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