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backendanonon Ask HN: Are there any all Linux corporations?

Interesting, probably not these days but it would be interesting to know.

backendanonon Is this Ad at risk of causing epileptic seizure?

I couldn't post there because Reddit allowed the advertiser to lock the thread with no comments. The Ad is very flashy, it hurt my eyes within seconds, I'm not epileptic, but I am worried for those who are.

backendanonon Domain Registrars Which Developers Recommend

For Google Domains customers being dumped onto Squarespace (like me):

https://domains.squarespace.com/google-domains

"Squarespace will honor all existing Google Domains customers’ renewal prices for at least 12 months after closing the acquisition, ensuring that domain hosting and management remains hassle-free."

It seems like there's no hurry to consider migrating yet.

If I do migrate:

  - might consider Namecheap
  - GoDaddy's renewal pricing I can't figure out
  - Porkbun sounds too hipster for my tastes though I do like pork
  - Cloudflare sounds altruistic but they want to get up all inside my domain's stuff with their proxying; I'm not sure if that could cause any issues with my Letsencrypt or other TXT records.

backendanonon How does Linux NAT a ping?

IPv6 needs to die. IPv4 using NAT ensures a moderately high level of privacy. IPv6 with privacy extensions does not.

backendanonon Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

First, there's nothing overbearing about the Ubuntu install.

Second, Fedora uses rpm management, rpm repositories sooner or later corrupt themselves, happened to me and others I know on Red Hat, on Fedora and on SuSE.

I'd use Debian but I've found Ubuntu's driver management to be far more stable and reliable, especially for WiFi.

backendanonon Coffee in a Can

I was in Sasebo, Japan in the early 1980's and remember buying cold coffee in a can from a vending machine similar to buying a can of Coke in the States.

backendanonon Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web

I've never used Tailscale or Mullvad, I do use a VPS and Wireguard that I configured and run. I'm wondering if people working at Tailscale or Mullvad could snoop on the traffic passing through their servers?

backendanonon Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot

> side step copyright protections

So, are you saying people should only obey the laws they agree with when those people feel they're morally justified higher than those who voted for the laws in the first place, because it's your opinion to do so or did I not grok what you are saying you support?

backendanonon Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot

The context is whether it extinguishes the legal protections of the owner by making the barrier to sue extraordinarily high. Conversely, if you write something that is copyright protected under the law, would you be OK with Microsoft effectively stealing that protected work and sharing it with the world without even attribution to you as the original author?

backendanonon Texas just got closer to blackouts than it has since 2021. What happened?

According to my Google foo, around 1000 people per day have been moving to Texas in the last three years alone. Put anywhere between a half million to three quarters of a million additional people on the power grid in a three year span and the grid is bound to have issues.

Also, really like how the majority of the comments sound like Reddit /r/politics's far left, adult man child, ignorant insights.

backendanonon Device offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication

At 1 million times less power than existing sound transmission systems I'd say it's probably less audio going into the water than a baby whale fart.

backendanonon Device offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication

As a former Submariner and Sonar Technician (trained in oceanography and underwater acoustics), it's interesting that such low power could be used. Long range underwater transmission of sound isn't a new thing. It's possible to passively track targets for up to 3000 nautical miles when the audio gets trapped in the deep sound channel.

The device discussed in the article has only achieved a distance of 300 meters using a slightly modernized version of sonar transducers and receivers that have been around for a very long time. I've seen MIT ocean projects meet the real world and go poof, but it's good to see people are out there trying to figure things out again, in the world after the pandemic.

backendanonon Preserving trust in photojournalism through authentication technology

Ok. I read it, thanks. I plan to continue using GPG.

backendanonon “Waterfall” doesn't mean what you think it means

> This seems to skip over the main issue I've had with waterfall - management picking dates before detailed analysis.

Yup. In Agile though, the opposite happens, we the devs are encouraged or coerced to agree to work tickets whose scope is not baked enough to start serious coding which should happen during planning or grooming...except raising a question you often get the "what part is not clear" condescending tone which discourages discourse and fleshing out of the ticket's scope.

backendanonon “Waterfall” doesn't mean what you think it means

> The biggest problem is that we don't have adequate tools for writing requirements.

All that's needed is a text field and someone who can write requirements.

backendanonon Preserving trust in photojournalism through authentication technology

Agreed, it's no better than using a fingerprint to secure a device.

backendanonon Preserving trust in photojournalism through authentication technology

GPG is not good now? When did that happen?

backendanonon The worst programmer I know

When there's a good, engaged PO then Scrum can work.

backendanonon Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome

I've had excellent support from Linux across a variety of machines for 2 decades. Dell, Lenovo and HP.

backendanonon Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality

I've seen several do exactly that on Reddit's IdiotsInCars over time.

backendanonon Labor unions are pushing hard for better pay and hours – and winning

Trade a corporate boss for both a corporate boss and a union thug, near mafia boss? No thank you.

backendanonon i386 in Ubuntu won't die

Agreed, I've gone through the same when I was on windows and switched back to Linux about three years ago. Windows games that I run, leading and AAA titles in some cases, runs better on Steam Proton.

backendanonon Silicon Valley “Pronatalists” Oppose Remote Work Despite Boosted Fertility Rates

I tend to be conservative. I don't hold those views at all. I know for a fact that I'm not an outlier. Your opinion seems to be misinformed.

backendanonon Silicon Valley “Pronatalists” Oppose Remote Work Despite Boosted Fertility Rates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism

I searched that page for "oppos" and could not find anywhere it suggested or stated that libertarians "actively oppose [liberty] of others". Your assertion seems to be very antithetical to the very views that libertarians hold dearly.

backendanonon Silicon Valley “Pronatalists” Oppose Remote Work Despite Boosted Fertility Rates

> misalignment can creep in whenever colleagues aren't together full-time, in the same place, every day

Been working remote mostly for 15 years. I haven't experienced, caused or observed any misalignment. I have experienced a high degree of productivity. I feel this is what some who run companies were afraid of, that many people can work remotely and be happier and be as or more productive all at the same time.

I disagree with some of the attacks of the SV leader's personal lives in comments on this page but I also disagree with anyone who tries to assert people must be in the office to be productive.

backendanonon Clean mount lists in Linux

The article is useless. What am I missing, I'll ask again.

backendanonon Clean mount lists in Linux

I'm OK with how the disk tools show stats on Linux, thank you.

backendanonon Clean mount lists in Linux

You want the mount points first? In school we were taught to think in what then where order. That's how the df -h command works on Linux, the way most people think. When you want to eat, most of us think what do I want to eat, then where.

backendanonon Clean mount lists in Linux

That command works fine on Linux, what am I missing?

backendanonon Princeton ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say GenAI hype has ‘spiraled out of control’

> Heck, my mom discovered it herself on Bing's homepage and was telling me I should check it out.

Sounds like grade A Microsoft marketing speak. But wait, there's more!