MatthiasP
Re:WhatsApp Beaten by Apple’s New iMessage Privacy Update
on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:13AM (#25684892)
You have to be a sovereign state before you can protect your tech scene from the US. There is a reason only Russia and China do that.
Re:Telegram Voice Chats
on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @07:21AM (#25516798)
No mention of any kind of encryption?
Re:U.S. faculty job market tanks
on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:53AM (#24869489)
The gotcha in the German university system is studying 4-5 years and then dropping out without degree, because there is very little support and a culture of expecting knowledge and not teaching knowledge, which hits underclass students the hardest.
Re:Amnesia is now open source
on Thursday September 24, 2020 @05:53AM (#24576978)
The most scary part is the usage of if(0).
Re:Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years
on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:47AM (#24186287)
The Virus Total detection list is very interesting [1]. How can your antivirus-software not detect a dangerous, publicly known, two year old exploit? How can anyone take these products seriously? Of course McAfee does not detect it.
[1] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dd71284ac6be9758a5046740...
Re:Hackers post fake stories on real news sites 'to discredit NATO'
on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:13AM (#24009402)
A sane commander that starts useless wars in the Middle East to transfer billions of tax payer money to his donators?
Re:Vox Media preparing round of layoffs as business fails to improve
on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:45PM (#23839939)
If woke clickbait a la Vox does not work in these times, I can't imagine other media companies with the same business model surviving for long.
Re:Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC
on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @09:37AM (#23466524)
There is a good chance that macOS is being neglected precisely because Apple is moving away from x86.
Suddenly, Social Justice Matters More Than Social Distance
Re:A complete 4-year course plan for an AI undergraduate degree
on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:56AM (#23322449)
For comparision, here is the AI bachelor degree from JKU Linz:
https://studienhandbuch.jku.at/curr/714
Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education
on Thursday April 30, 2020 @12:00PM (#23032320)
This is not as common as you might think. Some universities do closely collaborate with their regional industry, but the vast majority of master thesis have zero practical application, just like in the US.
Re:An ARM-based MacBook SE could destroy Chromebooks and mid-priced Wi...
on Saturday April 25, 2020 @09:55AM (#22978124)
But iPads and iPhones have. The existing library of already ARM-optimized software will make the transition easier.
Re:Lambda School lays off 19 employees
on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @02:17AM (#22942795)
Will be interesting to see if bootcamp grads are more affected by the recession than your average CS college grad.
How the pandemic could shatter college dreams
Re:Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of Covid-19
on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:10AM (#22601562)
Yeah, 10 litres per day.
Re:New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into sec...
on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @04:04PM (#22539073)
There are good reasons to go with AMD over Intel CPUs at the moment, the number of published security exploits should not be one. There is nothing fundamentally more insecure in the Skylake CPU architecture than in Zen 2, just one has more marketshare and gets scrutinized more intensely.
Re:Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infect...
on Monday March 02, 2020 @11:15AM (#22465680)
Do you have a source for that? Even at a lower angle you still get some UV B and energy from the sun.
Re:PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns
on Saturday November 23, 2019 @03:19AM (#21613061)
Can anyone give some substantiated information about Kape? Why is so bad? All I found was FUD.
Re:Cities Where Job Growth Is Outpacing New Homes
on Thursday September 12, 2019 @05:17AM (#20949546)
The amount of tech workers migrating is minuscule compared to the number of unskilled migration coming from countries like Syria and Afghanistan to Berlin. That is where the demand shock on the housing market comes from.
Re:Philosophy of Computer Science [pdf]
on Monday September 09, 2019 @01:18AM (#20915376)
TL;DR;
The major question in the philosophy of computer science, according to Smith, is: What is computation?
Re:'WhatsApp will never be safe': Telegram boss attacks Facebook-owned...
on Saturday May 18, 2019 @03:52AM (#19946271)
Atleast WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted unlike Telegram.
Re:Exercise as a treatment for depression: a meta-analysis (2016)
on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @09:17AM (#19553707)
That exercise (especially endurance sports) is as effective as your typical SSRI is known for decades. The problem is getting a depressed person to exercise five days a week and holding up to that schedule for months and years.
Re:“Free College” programs vary in how they define both “free” and “co...
on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:51AM (#17977596)
It works, but it is hardly the silver bullet for higher education HN wants it to be. The biggest problem is the lack of incentive for staff to deliver quality in teaching.
Free college does not make the opportunity costs of bad and protracted education go away.
Re:Ask HN: Do you cover the camera/mic on your computer/phone?
on Thursday August 09, 2018 @04:40PM (#17728279)
Pretending to be interesting enough to be spied on is one of the main reasons why people care about their cyber security.
Re:AdGuard Pro for iOS will be discontinued due to Apple's policy
on Thursday August 02, 2018 @08:02AM (#17670791)
Not from a UX point of view. Many non technical people enjoy iOS exactly because you can't too much with it. It reduces complexity.
Re:US breaks up IRS phone scam operation
on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:46AM (#17598648)
I wonder if the information he got from his calls helped in this case.
Re:New Asus 'gaming' phone has more USB ports than 13“ Macbook Pro
on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:59AM (#17244927)
Because it is marketed towards people who buy a spec sheet, not a user experience. Personally I love the fact that one single USB-C port + a decent dongle can replace lots of ports.
Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand
on Friday May 11, 2018 @08:25AM (#17046735)
Also one of the reasons business laptops could get away with awful displays for such a long time.
Re:Beyoncé's and Kanye West's listener numbers manipulated in Tidal
on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:27AM (#17028760)
The engineer that got told to fake data probably was not overly enthusiastic about the task. Maybe it is even the same guy who leaked the harddrive to the newspaper.