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If you publicly intimidate users with a bias, you are not facilitating a fair and safe place to share ideas.

It's a concept called inclusivity, I think you should read up on it a bit.

One, maybe two examples contain personal attacks. You're going deep into threads to find these. Sounds more like a witch hunt than a fair and balanced analysis of my contributions. Ganging up is an understatement.

The rest? Get real. Cherry picking at it's finest. You're barking up the wrong tree here and I have no problem defending those comments ad nauseum.

I'll say it again since you're really not getting it: feel free to email me if you'd like to continue this in a more professional manner. I'll keep flagging comments that blatantly ignore this.

How many times is enough? I've now politely asked three times to be contacted via email if you need to, twice specifically for this altercation. Please don't make the same mistake a fourth time, as an admin and representative of this dying site.

> Stop being unreasonably pedantic about my own words.

I'm taking your words at face value, you can communicate more clearly but it is your choice to do so.

Oh cool, even the site admins are ganging up on me. Most of those comments are taken entirely out of context, or direct replies to comments that were replies to my own, but you do you.

I am using HN in the intended spirit, and I'm sorry that you're letting the echo chamber color your perception of perfectly acceptable comments. You can email me if you'd like to continue discussing this in a more professional manner (why else would I fill it...?), but I have to say this is an appalling showing of leadership on your behalf, and I hope you address it soon.

Public intimidation does not make for a safe and healthy culture. Period.

> Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with?

Because engineers (and managers) contrive problems like this to the point they are useless solutions.

Any Subsonic music server works well with this: https://github.com/simojenki/bonob

Because if it was actually perfect that's the only feedback you'd give...?

> It's so close to basically no issues

There are issues. You can keep contradicting yourself by explaining how perfect means there are still problems. I'm enjoying it.

Back in my day, we used to trade CDs to share music.

Is the convenience of technology still worth it?

> I haven't really encountered any issues besides the downtime that has occured maybe twice since I bought the yearly two years ago.

> I never really notice those three submenus except when I'm logging into a new device and it takes like ~10 seconds to unpin them.

Maybe it's just me, but the way you've written these sentences makes it sound like you have buyers remorse. Doesn't sound like things are "basically perfect."

FWIW, I left Plex two years ago for Jellyfin, and haven't looked back. Never even bought the garbage Plex Pass.

Plex lost their best users by missing the point of self hosting entirely. Nobody wants to deal with third party downtime, even if it is rare and intermittent.

I think most products go through phases like this. Plex has some diehards that have stuck around (I think it's just buyers remorse for the Plex pass) but I think they are at a 5th or 6th tier of "customer" at this point, seeing the continuous churn spiral they are fighting.

Which is going right over the heads of these bots.

> a grifter's imaginary numbers

Can you address the argument without negatively framing the source of it?

Notice that they attacked the source, rather than addressed the argument.

Inflation is definitely higher than 7.7%. Seems to me there's a lot more energy going into that propaganda wave than anything else.

They started by attacking the source, I'm not sure why you're acting as if that isn't the case.

We're sure you review all the code you run.

>Why couldn't the entire system be E2E encrypted by default, though?

Probably because getting the system together in its current state was enough work.

> In 2022, that's my standard expectation from any service.

You have high standards. Do you expect others to raise their standards as high as yours...?

How did these Twist bulbs account for differences in time zone? If I have some of these lights and I move hundreds of miles to a new time zone, plug the same lights into the new home, how do they lights know?

You're pretty clearly not continuing this in good faith. I have no problems calling out your pedantic bullshit.

You get what you give. I don't think I need to send emails to the one who has no problem calling others out in public.

It's pretty simple, I requested that concerns about conflict of interest are taken offline. But, here you are, making snide remarks in public at another person. Zero for two.

For what it's worth, I spoke up on this because I would be quite annoyed if someone did not give me the courtesy of correcting a mistake in private before broadcasting publicly about it. It doesn't matter if it comes from a stranger or a trusted friend. I can tell you aren't picking this up, but I'm happy to explain it ad nauseum so you can be a better individual to your peers.

>It's a courteous social more of the HN community

From what I can tell, the "norm" is to gang up on new folks without thinking critically about it. It's reddit with less complexity and more ego.

You get what you give.

> why not practice what you preach

From your profile: "I subscribe to the ideology of live and let live."

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It's impolite to assume on someone's behalf in public.

Could you explain how messaging in private is so hard to do if you have no problem making the comment in public...?

You seem to have a really hard time grasping that this entire comment thread we are part of wouldn't exist if OP had reached out about their concerns in private.

If we are not all polite, we all have to be rude.

Be polite.

You're only glad because they assumed correctly. Kind of sad you're failing to recognize this.

> seemed quite diplomatic

Turns out it is more diplomatic to reach out to someone privately first. God forbid we set a better example than the one being set.

It's a single comment on one hackernews thread that is already buried.

You're bikeshedding.

> There aren‘t any DMs on Hacker News

Good thing they... (checks notes) ...know exactly who made the post and can reach out to them on LinkedIn or email them.

Cultural norms are reinforced by good examples, there's nothing good about snippy public comments. Reaching out to them privately isn't hard, and, dare I say it: is more inclusive. I don't think I need to explain the origin of the word assume.

I wouldn't roll it yourself without a serious security audit. A tool like that is just bad opsec, would help an adversary immensely.

A DM is reasonable. Calling someone out in public like that is childish.

What a weird comment.

As long as the master key stays local and is hashed/salted before being sent to BW, you have nothing to worry about. You can verify this yourself.

> he was only working on problems several orders of magnitude smaller in scope

Isn't that kind of the point? Tesla would have L4 if the architecture was built right, but it wasn't, and now they're scrambling.

I think George made it very clear that the architecture is what these companies spending billions are getting wrong. Tech debt is more expensive than you think at the cutting edge.

You know what is total fluff? Tesla FSD. Disgusting. At least comma is honest about their hardware, and that's about all it comes down to.