fujigawa

You're from NZ, which perpetuated one of the most brutal COVID lockdowns, including allowing police to enter homes without a warrant to enforce quarantine and restrictions.

The US routinely bans unsafe products. Far east garbage riddled with security holes are unsafe products.

Do you think it's impossible that there are undocumented folks living under false identities and/or stolen SSNs casting votes in elections? It's a yes or no question.

To put it another way, do you believe non-citizens in this country illegally (and thus already breaking the law), have some sort of deference when it comes to obeying election laws?

Thankfully we have the spry 45 year old election judges to oversee it all.

Is it your contention that if someone was an illegal immigrant as alleged, and in doing so able to pass a local government background check without arousing suspicion, someone wouldn't be able to outsmart some 80 year old election judge who is volunteering her time that would otherwise be spent watching reruns of Judge Judy?

The system is not as airtight as you purport it to be.

> And have you looked into the big employers, not Harriet Homeowner, but the meat packing plants, to see how carefully they examine documents?

The larger an employer's size, the more likely they are to do business with the federal government, which mandates the use of E-Verify.

One of the more egregious stories that made national news and captured the zeitgeist of this situation was the alleged illegal immigrant that was working as a sworn police officer in suburban Chicago:

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-...

So given that this was allowed to happen, you want me to believe it's impossible for an illegal immigrant to cast a vote in an election? In Chicago? Where the dead people vote?

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/2-investigators-chicago...

> In all, the analysis showed 119 dead people have voted a total of 229 times in Chicago in the last decade.

It's natural to assume that, but what is more likely happening is they are targeting an individual, everyone else is detained in the melee, and they sort it out and ask questions later.

I'm not saying that's the right way to do it.

But this notion that roving bands of assassins are driving down the street looking for browns is likely an exaggeration (made worse by misinformation on social media).

Something like > 30% of ICE agents and > 50% of CBP officers are Latino themselves. It's incongruent with the narrative being presented.

If your governor did his job instead of grandstanding none of this would have likely happened, or at least not on this scale. But his position is understandable, since every detainee is one less eligible voter.

> People are basically living their lives. About the closest an ordinary white/Black family here gets to direct disruption is needing to make special arrangements with their landscaping people.

I've watched a few local news clips on the topic, they seem to be dominated by what I would term angry old suburban white women. What annoys me is once you peel back the thinly veiled feigned anger, it becomes clear they are mostly angry over uncertainty if Pedro will be able to shovel their driveway this coming winter.

It's sad but no one seemed to care until their landscapers, roofers, etc. were impacted. Which begs the question, were they all deliberately going to the lowest bidder? Were they more upset about that vs. the human factor in any of this? (The assumption is a contractor on the up-and-up is verifying citizenship etc. before hiring employees.)

I've literally watched news reports where people have openly declared "I don't care if they're illegal" (as long as their lawn gets mowed).

Perhaps some self-reflection is necessary to see if that attitude is how we got here in the first place, and the response is an over-correction.

People of high integrity generally hold these jobs.

Not Googlers threatening a general strike because they took onion bagels off the cafeteria menu.

What do you propose that is better? VC-backed smartphone apps?

Aircraft have much better quality electronics than a $20 tabletop radio located some distance away by whoever is ripping the stream.

I know it seems like an insignificant detail, but it's a totally different OS with a completely different lineage!

It's not 'macOS'. The correct nomenclature is 'Mac OS'.

You're right, the world is better off having some Asian kid taking apart your junk and breathing in solder fumes with no protection, rather than you running a legacy box in your basement that uses some extra kWh per year.

After all, he probably won't live long enough to tell his grandkids stories about power-hungry hardware.

That reminds me, my homelab could use a SPARC box just because.

>Maybe the consulting section includes payments for programming work? Presumably at cheap rates, if so?

Have we reached the point on the timeline where we believe low-level operating system code should be acquired at "cheap rates"? While simultaneously, I assume, believing webshit cloud bollocks still demands top dollar?

Pure ragebait, location awareness existed pre-Teams in Lync/Skype/whatever.

Sounds like this was written by someone who thinks they're being sneaky by fucking off at work. They already know. Badge swipes and 1000 other ways.

They cheat and use busybox.

Meanwhile OpenBSD running all the default network services like sshd and smtpd uses < 32 MB RAM and that's with full ksh and real tools. That doesn't happen by accident.

The most compact, minimalist general purpose OS out there by far. Tiny memory footprint and loaded with network services built-in.

Linux has become so bloated its users can't in good conscience make fun of Microsoft anymore, they are worse.

Debian refuses to install with less than 512MB RAM, the text only installer will choke with less than that, it's pathetic. That's a console-only install, no GUI.

They are all equally crap. I'm convinced the people designing collaboration tools don't have to use them on a daily basis.

I'm gonna be honest, you sound like a problem employee.

The companies not using Microsoft, are using Google. Which in my experience is equally or measurably worse.

Just personal data points, but every avowed Microsoft hater I've ever worked with has been... difficult. Like a-drag-on-the-team-because-he-refuses-to-use-company-tools difficult.

Edit: How does an aged post on this site go from +4 to -1 in the span of a few minutes?

It's believable when the industry has pivoted to pushing SaaS garbage in every place imaginable to the point that on-prem solutions don't exist anymore. Do you expect them to not use email either?

Remember, the industry told us we're in a 'zero trust' world now. The network perimeter is an anachronism.

OTOH you know damn well they keep the important stuff airgapped, in which case the title (and your predictable reaction) is just fanning the flames. It could very well be they 'breached' the receptionist's PC she uses to browse Facebook to pass the time.

If we follow the same pattern, iOS 27 and corresponding releases will be completely flat and look like Mac OS System 7. Chicago font wants to live another day.

Windows 8 got some serious hate back in the day, it had some sound ideas that were implemented poorly, but no one could deny it was lightweight. It had the smallest memory footprint of all the modern Windowses IIRC.

Appears to have also disabled that bot on HN that would be frantically posting [dupe] in all the other AWS outage threads right about now.

> For-profit companies cannot be in control of these mechanisms.

But they are not in control of Secure Boot.

Microsoft runs a root CA that is pre-installed on most PCs. It could have been Verisign or someone else, but MS made sense at the time, likely because they had additional code signing expertise.

You are free to delete these keys and/or install your own. If there wasn't preexisting infrastructure, Secure Boot would be DOA for most people.

I chuckled at his indignance over how these things are legal and how easily you can buy them. Chinese will sell you anything to make a buck. It's just business. You can go on Amazon right now and buy a high power 1kW FM transmitter, drop shipped, and set up a flamethrower pirate radio station on a rooftop of your choosing. The cherry on top is they are likely super low quality with crazy spurious emissions.

Of course the FCC will probably be up your ass in half an hour if you tried it; the point is the equipment is readily available in a few clicks, no questions asked.

Don't get me started on the instantly-blind-yourself-and-everyone-else lasers you can buy on eBay (they'll sell you matching counterfeit laser goggles too).

He told other people what to invent, all whilst leaving his Mercedes in the disabled parking spot.

That's an achievement.

>to pay developers less

Oh no, he only paid them $300k/year? How did they survive without selling their kidneys to the black market?

> This was not the case with the initial rollout of Secure Boot, it was combined with locked BIOS to lock PCs so that they could only boot Windows 8 on some devices. This was the case on Windows RT ARM machines from that era.

Okay, but, that was like 15 years ago, on some shitty first-run computers that no one bought. A failed first attempt. I've never met a single person that owned, or has ever used, a Windows RT device.

The world has moved on. But oddly continues to buy bootloader-locked iPhones and Androids by the bucketful.

Dwelling on the past isn't going to move us forward. Anyone pushing the "Secure Boot and TPM are evil" trope in 2025 is objectively a fool and should be ignored. Most don't even realize what a TPM does, they think it's some secret chip inserted by glowies into their computers to prevent them from running free software. No.