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Re:Apple reports fourth quarter results on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:29PM (#50345681)
But you literally are? By looking at past performance you are trying to gage when to sell at a relative high.
Re:CVE-2026-98432: Linux IPv4 UAF on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:11PM (#50321846)
Whatever happened to NIST? Didn't they get their funding axed or something?
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:59PM (#50297982)
From the article:

> “A lot of the people who come into this money are flashy, and they’re signaling that they have wealth,” he previously told The Post.

As long as you don't brag about it, I don't really see this being a real world issue. I think credit card fraud is a lot more likely.

Re:A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:34AM (#50259070)
> I think a better question to ask, whatever someone's background, is "do you want to know the truth, even if it turns out you don't believe it now, and are you willing to follow it no matter what the cost?"

I don't understand. Is it a rhetorical statement from your part?

How can you know that what you are being told is the truth? If it can be proven, then there is no need to be told or to doubt it. If it can't be proven (or at least observed), then by definition, it is a belief, not a truth.

Also why would you agree to learn the truth if you're not going to believe it?

Re:OpenBSD 8.0 on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @08:04AM (#50165031)
To me that cringiness is oh so wonderful. Everyone is so weirdly afraid of their image, of how others think of them.

We've become sterile; caricatures of ourselves so that we can adhere to the groupthink. It's refreshing to see people unashamed to be themselves, with all of their weird parts.

How would foreclosing make the housing crisis worse? Wouldn't another family purchase the home thus creating a net zero?
Re:Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents on Sunday October 18, 2026 @10:37AM (#50141486)
> None of the comments so far are engaging with the OP, whose written testimony was included in the article:

Because of the extremely inflammatory title, perhaps? Replace "Gen Z" with a skin color or a religion and you'd get instantly banned from hacker news.

Also, from the article, it seems to directly contradict your comment:

> This conversation feels uncomfortable because it doesn’t offer villains or easy fixes. Horvath summed it up bluntly during his testimony. “A sad fact our generation has to face is this: Our kids are less cognitively capable than we were at their age.” His recommendation focused on restraint, dialing back screens in schools, and restoring depth before the next generation is doomed.

Re:Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @11:58AM (#50089730)
I thought you could click on it, press no/cancel, and it would disappear.
Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:20PM (#50078943)
> 1) By default, every word (each character, actually) you input into Spotlight/Siri gets time-stamped and sent to `smoot.apple.com`

Huh? How do you expect Apple to show live search results if they don't send what you're typing to their servers?

> 2) Even with a Pi-Hole blocking *.apple.com (i.e. using MacOS >> Networking >> DNS Server), on boot all modern Apple Silicon reaches out to security.apple.com (i.e. bypassing the user's manual-input DNS setting), using the DHCP-issued DNS IP [0]

From a quick google search, it seems to be if you enable "Find my" or pass word recovery with an Apple account. I think that's reasonable to expect if you enable these features.

Re:Thunderbird for iOS on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:30PM (#50078255)
From what I've heard though, Mail has pretty horrible searching in Apple land. Just for that, it may be worth it to look at alternatives.
Re:Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help on Sunday October 11, 2026 @11:16AM (#50044213)
> In other words, if X has a public API and Nitter is using it, then neither Nitter themselves nor the Nitter users have to agree to any terms of service in order to do so.

That's not true. Publicly available source code with licenses dispute your claim.

Re:EDG C++ front-end goes public on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @08:34PM (#49916286)
What about Green Hills?
> Maybe men with physical guns are bad at understand that type of thing.

Yup. Which is why they are in control. Don't underestimate how far a fool can go.

> In this particular case, the IT consultant was owed money by a failing business, and he put 1) a picture of the business premises, and 2) pictures of him firing guns, on a website where he was sure the business owner would see it.

From your own link, this was from 2 separate posts. I don't know man, this sounds like an excuse from the company to cause trouble and avoid having to pay the owed money.

Couldn't be bothered to read the article before commenting?

> James Bilson, global fixed income strategist at Schroders, said fiscal policy and debt sustainability are crucial for bond markets and the current rise in U.S. yields is not yet a sign of increasing sovereign credit risk.

> The cost of insuring U.S. sovereign debt against the risk of default, as reflected by credit default swaps, has fallen to its lowest since February, for example.

> "Combined policy is too loose to deliver sustained 2% inflation," he said. "This, in one line, is the root cause of the current weakness in bonds. Solve inflation, and many other problems become much easier too."

Re:Most people prefer traditional architecture on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:33PM (#49716784)
I fully agree! And if they still disagree, perhaps we could open special camps where we could forcefully reeducate them! After all, there is but one correct design language for buildings and it's a hideous slab of concrete that our ancestors would weep if they could see.

On a serious note, I've seen conspiracy theories about how such ugly modernist architecture is being used to break our spirits, to make us numb to ugliness and to promote an acceptance of mediocrity. While I originally dismissed it, I've become old enough to see many beautiful buildings replaced with caricatures of them. I'm starting to wonder if there weren't a kernel of truth to these ramblings.

Funny since the GrapheneOS devs praise the iPhone for it's security.

I personally prefer seeing real advancement that integrate both hardware and software like their EMTE[1] which no other vendor has had the balls to implement.

And I say that as a GOS user! My next phone will definitely be an iPhone, mostly because I cannot deal with the terrible Tensor SOC. My G4 overheats for nothing! Shameful

[1] https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement...

Re:We Must Pace the Frontier on Sunday September 13, 2026 @07:42PM (#49689954)
> That's a good thing, not a bad thing. Nobody is entitled to give you something that they spent (tens of?) billions of dollars to develop for free.

But the Chinese are doing just that?

> Which the courts have yet to actually make a ruling on. It seems like it's perfectly legal.

Legal != moral

Re:Room 641A on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:53PM (#49663424)
> A mission to secure the people whilst not infringing personal rights in today's world is a really really hard problem.

The problem is that the NSA violates everyone's privacy without a care in the world.

This makes it pretty easy for them. Stockpile a bunch of vulnerabilities and go to town.

When you cannot even know what their budget is (since it's classified), can you even know what their capabilities are?

Electricity here in Quebec is dirt cheap, state owned and 100% renewable. Our first 40 kWh per day is 7 cents per kWh which is roughly 0.05 USD.

Any calculations I've done made it unfortunately useless to buy solar and instead favoured investing the money in the stock market.

Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:39PM (#49631657)
The main problems from that Duo was that Microsoft didn't believe in it.

This lead them to use a garbage CPU and support it for something like 2 years.

Apple has the balls to keep updating the vision pro even after it flopped and it will probably get 7 years.

From the article, it seems more about chinese brands, no?

> Some records even refer customers to Temu or AliExpress for spare parts and repair instructions.

> But even for products that are technically compliant, the listed weblink still rarely offers a direct path to parts prices. For major brands such as Apple and Samsung, it can take some clicking around before you find what you need, Right to Repair says.

Re:Decapitating a MacBook on Sunday September 06, 2026 @09:24AM (#49586327)
> The battery bank from which I power my home is 12V (24V or 48V would be better and I’ll upgrade when the time is right). All my electricity comes from this battery bank.

> I have a power inverter, meaning I can use appliances with normal/household plugs, but the inverter wastes some power in the conversion process, stepping up from 12V to 220V. To then plug in a power brick, which will again throw away some power in converting 220V back down to whatever voltage a device uses, means double wastage, and a mess of plugs and wires.

Is this... a joke? How much freaking amps are you pulling? Average Canadian electricity consumption is 1270 watts. 1270 / 12 = 100+ Amps for one hour.

I'm guessing this is more of a third world situation and that electricity usage is much lower, but still...I fail to see how you would get to a setup like this. If you're fully off-grid then your generator or solar system could give you much higher voltage. If not, how are you charging the battery bank?

EDIT: From your CV, you are from the UK. I'm very confused.

Re:Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:35AM (#49521114)
> I’m not an uncritical Steve Jobs fan. I know, from having worked closely with people who worked directly for Jobs for many years, that he could be a mercurial, and brutish, boss.

That's a pretty big euphemism for Steve Jobs being a piece of shit. What I've realized throughout the years of working is that being able to work as a team is almost more important than your technical capacity. You can always become better in your field, but becoming a better human is a lot harder.

Re:ReactOS 0.4.16 on Monday August 31, 2026 @11:13AM (#49510766)
The reason industrial PLCs cost so much is because of their reliability. They need to be working flawlessly 50 years in the future. Trying to vibe code your way into a PLC compiler feels like it could blow up in your face after a little while.

That is also ignoring the safety PLCs with safety instructions that are certified for use with ISO 13849. Can you imagine getting inspected because your safety subsystem cause injury and you explain how you don't use the officially licensed software to program it.

For personal project, that could be fun however.

Re:Don't use musl if you care about performance on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:37PM (#49481933)
Maybe you're being sarcastic, but I'm pretty sure clang + gcc do offer these.

The problems at first glance :

- Not having control over the implementation detail of the interface that your library provides is probably not wise. Sounds like a lot of bad bug reports and edge cases that you have no control over.

- Not all compilers may provide these.

You have no idea how deep this rabbit hole goes. Search for EFF printers secret tracking.

Virtually all commercial printers embed an invisible identifier on every page printed.

Re:SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64 on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:23AM (#49418726)
What operating systems use SeL4? I know of the following:

- GenodeOS

- LionsOS

- A chinese car maker was using it as a hypervisor in their cars, IIRC

- What else? Are there any private deployments you guys are aware of?

Re:GrapheneOS in 2027 available on high-end Motorola phones on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @08:16AM (#49360506)
Realistically, most smartphones are made by the same ODMs. Since they don't make their own screens, shells, CPUs or modems, the only thing being set apart is the software.
Re:Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign on Saturday August 15, 2026 @07:34PM (#49315307)
Huh? Can't you very easily tell by checking if there is a light strip on the side?

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