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willk··on NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers
I don't think that would solve anything. If a criminal is willing to get a gun by illegal means, why wouldn't they be willing to do the same for ammunition?
willk··on NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers
That is some real whataboutism though. You can build a gun with a machine shop too. You don't need a background check to buy a lathe though, do you?
willk··on Five Eyes Campaign Against Encryption Threatens Democracy
I have written my representatives in California multiple times on their bullheaded attempts to neuter encryption. They always reply with a line about "the children."

It seems that their minds are made up for one reason or another. It is unfortunate.

willk··on Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates
My wife successfully replaced her Pixel 6's batter with the iFixit kit. I think the kit was $50. It probably took 3 hours for her.
willk··on Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates
The Pixel 4 got 3 years of service. I'm not sure that is out of Google's promise. But, it does seem to be short lived.
willk··on Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates
It would be awesome if Google could get 3rd parties to do the same. But, I guess 1 phone out of thousands is better than nothing?
willk··on LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
It does seem like they have a lot. I’m on mobile, so I just glanced at the site.

https://supportcenter.lexisnexis.com/app/answers/answer_view...

willk··on Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths
I have a Onewheel XR. Mine took a nosedive at pretty low speeds and I broke my arm. Onewheel blamed me, I had a lot of experience on the XR and a lot of time skateboards and skates. The device problems, I’m happy they are acknowledging that. I don’t like that it is a voluntary recall. I don’t want store credit, I don’t trust Future Motion or their products.
willk··on Cisco Acquires Splunk
I think they’re trying to get off of it because it is so freaking expensive.
willk··on UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users
What happens if services just stop serving content in the UK? Will that get the attention of those who come up with these ridiculous laws?
willk··on Tech workers flocked to Austin. Now they're desperate to get out
If you are using Cloudflare for DNS you will run into that issue. It is by design.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-today-does-not-re...

willk··on SEC charges the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
I think we really should be looking at the tax-exempt status of religious organizations have that subsidiaries that are doing their taxes and setting up shell companies to hide where money is coming/going.
willk··on Amazon asks employees to be in office at least three days a week
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34837551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34838551
willk··on CPSC calls for full recall of all Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards
I had my Onewheel take a nose dive for no reason. I had just started moving forward on it, was probably going 8-10mph. I broke my arm. I contacted support, and they told me nothing was wrong with board that they could see in their diagnostic. I haven't ridden it much since as I can't trust it.
willk··on IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired
I hope this doesn't lead to stagnation in the product with ever increasing licensing costs. IDA is expensive enough as it is.
willk··on Cloudflare Warp
CNN
willk··on AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3
I have not. Now I need an other application running in the background. Moreover, if AdGuard needs to up, then you're going to need to restart Safari. Also, I have to enable 8 different extensions to get it to work?
willk··on Using a catch-all domain is a mistake
I got my wife to use a catch-all last year. She absolutely loves it.
willk··on Using a catch-all domain is a mistake
I couldn't agree more. I've been using a catch-all for probably 12 years now. Sure, sometimes you get a second look when you give an email that has the business's name in it, but who cares?

I get the benefit of blocking mail coming to me forever, doing fast sorts and searches, never have to worry if the company doesn't like a + in my email address.

willk··on Brendan at Intel.com
No, you get assigned something based on a convention. It used to be possible to get an alias for email.
willk··on New(ish) command line tools
Mosh isn't a replacement for SSH, it uses it.

> The mosh client logs in to the server via SSH

This is a cool list overall though.

willk··on Google warns of ‘devastating’ impact of defamatory hyperlinks ruling
Mirror: https://archive.is/pTEMr
willk··on Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS
Unless they decide that encrypted files violate their TOS.
willk··on Become a Signal Sustainer
> tick the box on the Signal iPad app that would make it available on M1 Macs

This annoys me the most. I don't see the downside of them enabling it. It would bring the Mac client into feature parity with the IOS client and eventually reduce complexity. It seems like it would be an easy win-win.

willk··on Sudan woke up without Internet
> Sadly though, a lot of Americans and especially people on the far left are not appreciative of the freedom of speech this country has, and continue to squander it.

Can you expand on this? I’d like to understand your view better. How does the far left not appreciate it?

willk··on Launch HN: Hera (YC S21) – macOS app to prepare, join and take notes in meetings
I would personally like to see offline storage.

Your current model of unencrypted on your database is a big no for me.

willk··on Intel restructures and creates new business units and leadership roles
> When I was at Intel in 2 years I saw at least 6 reorgs and had 4 managers. You can imagine my career growth or the lack of it. Unfortunately it needs a real deep clean of non technical power pint happy management and clueless engineers.

My experience at Intel as well. Just about 4 years and had 7 managers through 6ish reorgs. Oddly enough, they never changed the director level management. They did an other reorg the week after I left.

I think Intel's problem is a senior leadership problem more than anything. They keep shuffling the pieces around just to get the same results.

willk··on Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site
Why would they need a warning system other than their TOU?
willk··on Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site
> they've silenced the second-most voted for President in American history, because he isn't their brand of politics.

I think that is disingenuous. Twitter said "specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter" [0]. It wasn't his brand of politics it was how his supporters were interpreting him and incitement of violence like what was seen when his supporters stormed the Capitol.

[0]: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

willk··on 'My son spent £3,160 in one game'
These games were not just on Apple's platform. I think these types of games are predatory. What is wrong with just selling a whole game? It is hard to find any game these days that comes out complete. Blizzard did it with Star Craft 2 and for that reason, I refused to buy it.
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