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pttrsmrton Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake Processors

The support seems quite good actually. I haven't used it personally, but I use a Huawei Matebook (with Arch) hence looked around for kernel patches and touch support – only thing not working for me is hardware buttons and the fingerprint scanner, but there is a patch for hardware buttons on the SP. Lot's of activity on https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/

pttrsmrton Show HN: DeepUI Programming Studio – A different approach to programming

Like so many projects on the internet: Lots of big words and ideas, but no content. Show us some actual tech and code and I might throw my money your way. Or better: Release your code under an open license and I might even throw my time your way!

pttrsmrton Show HN: Learn how to build a small Twitter clone in 7 days

This is why I love hackernews.

pttrsmrton Our attempt to disrupt messaging

From their privacy policy: "We cannot decrypt or otherwise access the content of a message. We also can not decrypt what physical person actually send or received a message."

Well, that's great to hear, but as always: These are just words on a page, how can I know it's true? Where's your code? Where's your security audit? Who's the team?

I really like the idea, and believe if done right it actually can do some so-called disruption, but I think in this market a real disruption will only come if you manage to decentralize (at least so I don't need to trust your servers to be up for me to get my messages) and open source it, but still cater to the masses.

You're running a freemium business model, a model which works well (some ways even better) also with open source code.

pttrsmrton Linux Distribution for Programmers and Web Developers

This so much. The only time i see it making sense to release a full-blown distro is for marketing reasons or making a more unified aesthetic experience like for example Elementary (which certainly has its own issues, but that is another story) or for a very specific purpose like Kali or Tails. There are, however, a jungle of different software and solutions out there so sometimes I appreaciate a "curated" list of de facto software to test. Having to install a whole distro for that, virtually or otherwise, might be the definition of overkill.

As always the problem is in the possibilities: The different systems (both distros and user installs) are so differently configured, that a script most certainly will mess it all up.

The best solution I can see (at least for my use) is to expand the dotfile-approach to encompass applications and more advanced settings too. But I guess it has certain security a related issues?

pttrsmrton ReMarkable Paper Tablet

Great to hear from you guys directly! I guess we (i.e techie internet folks, you included) have been served so many crowd funded promises that it's difficult to believe things that are too good to be true. Although I'm personally a big advocate of keeping stuff open, I do understand that a small company has to have some secrets for themselves.

Now I see you're also a developer at KDE which certainly gives credibility to your statements! But on the same note I truly hope the information from the device will be encrypted on your server, and that an opt-out of this sync will be possible. And if there will be support for Owncloud or the like, you've literally made my dream device!

I truly understand and support that you don't promise stuff that aren't really made yet, and I really hope the privacy concerns will be taken as serious as they are.

pttrsmrton ReMarkable Paper Tablet

I was sold until this line:

"Your thoughts, whether they’re words or sketches, are instantly synced to reMarkable’s cloud service"

Imagine for a company only five years back to literally say that your thoughts are sent to their server. I welcome any product that understand we need less distractions and less help from so-called AI, but there are many reasons to be cautious about this one (preorder, latency claim and lack of technical details being some of them).

EDIT: After looking a bit more around, their technical claims does seem credible. Their CTO is/was even a developer at KDE, so let's hope they also will support open standards and personal servers. If so then it's literally the device I've always been dreaming of!

pttrsmrton What's wrong with Software nowadays and how we can fix it

At first glance, it seemed like yet another silicon-valley-neoliberlist-style lots of words and ideologies, but no code and practicalities. But it seems like OPs thesis has a more hands-on approach:

http://zells.org/res/Zells_DiplomaThesis.pdf

pttrsmrton A practical guide to securing macOS

Step one: Don't use macOS

pttrsmrton LCS-1 – Oldest spacecraft still in use

"[I]t has no power supply or fuel; it is merely a metal sphere."

There's something beautiful about that.

pttrsmrton [dead]

Well, these aren't exactly ssh-commands. These are just commands.

pttrsmrton Fire balloon

Eventually, an Army fighter managed to push one of the balloons around in the air and force it to ground intact, where it was examined and filmed.

Wait, what, how??

pttrsmrton The Mystery of the Missing Hotel Toothpaste (2013)

Nice! Just found this: http://99percentinvisible.org/article/user-illusion-everyday...

pttrsmrton Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

(...) if future warfighters are to understand, appropriately trust, and effectively manage an emerging generation of artificially intelligent machine partners.

There's something eerie about the sound of that.

pttrsmrton The Mystery of the Missing Hotel Toothpaste (2013)

Oh no, this like a "cannot unsee"-picture. I will never be able to stay at a hotel again without being troubled by the lack of toothpaste.

It begs the question: What else in the world do we not see until we see it?

pttrsmrton DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo

Interesting. Source? Maybe they're hosting? Both are based in the Netherlands. http://www.routit.nl/oplossingen/cloud/

pttrsmrton DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo

Supertip: Use !sp instead of !g to get googles results but without the tracking.

pttrsmrton The brain is not a computer

Provocatively naive - does anyone nowadays really think the brain Works like a computer? A much more interesting focus is on non-representationalistic understandings of the world seen in the discussion.

pttrsmrton Swedish (centre) right-wing party's new logo wasn't quite thought through

Hence the "(centre)", but according to Wikipedia: "...it has since the leaderships of Lars Leijonborg and Jan Björklund in the 2000s become more conservative and positioned itself clearly on the right"[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberals_%28Sweden%29

pttrsmrton Viber adds end-to-end encryption

More great news from the world of communication, but yet again I'm wondering how we can trust the encryption to really be end-to-end without access to the code. Are the messages still traveling through Vibers servers? Is there any way to know?

pttrsmrton Vis: A Vim-Like Text Editor

But what does it got that vim doesn't?

pttrsmrton Hacking my Tesla Model S

It probably is pure PR. The first poster of the article on HN[0] is hemera — the author of the article, whose account was opened just for the sake of posting that article. (S)he is active in the next post[1], but behaves more like a PR-employee than a hacker having spent two months of research on this stuff.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440612 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441113

pttrsmrton Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca says leak came from hack

What do you guys think? Was it really a hack, or do they just want to smooth over internal difficulties?

pttrsmrton Mutt 1.6

Do you smell that smell?

pttrsmrton Ask HN: Aaaargh?

This is the one! Thanks a bunch, will fund. Haven't seen ubu before, but am already a big fan of monoskop! Great reads lay before me.