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sensitivefrost··on Disney begins laying off 7k employees
Why would people buy it on disk when it was released onto Disney+? It has other metrics of success - it was one of the most streamed programs in March 2022.
sensitivefrost··on Atlassian to shed 5 per cent of workers
They have doubled in size since 2020, but before that they were appropriately sized.
sensitivefrost··on Iran says suspected schoolgirl poisonings occurred in more than 50 schools
Are you saying that you think all these girls, at 50-60 schools across the entire country, who are displaying these symptoms, all at the same time, are suffering from... hysteria?

O...kay.

sensitivefrost··on Apple delays its mixed reality headset by two months, to debut at WWDC this June
If you've ever tried to manage Apple products on an enterprise level, you'll find it hard to believe they give a shit about enterprise.
sensitivefrost··on Thoughts on getting laid off after nine years at Twilio
Twilio fired 17% of its staff. There was no handover.
sensitivefrost··on Australians scour desert for dangerous radioactive capsule smaller than a penny
At least Western Australia is incredibly underpopulated and remote.
sensitivefrost··on Female spies of MI6
Literally two paragraphs down it says she has since retired from MI6.
sensitivefrost··on Tell HN: Travis CI is seemingly compromised (once again)
Bug bounty people (myself included, though mine's quite aged) have written scrapers on all the main popular CI/CD platforms, to automagically scrape tokens from logs & submit bug reports to get paid. Unsurprising if malicious actors have done the same.
sensitivefrost··on Earth might be experiencing 7th mass extinction, not 6th
"Do we need to stop something called a 'mass extinction'" is certainly a take.
sensitivefrost··on Tcl Ported to Go
OpenBet use it quite a lot as well, so it powers a large number of the world's most popular gambling sites.
sensitivefrost··on Intel plans thousands of job cuts in face of PC slowdown
Uh, yeah, you didn't realise it was a scam when all the politicians trying to get that bill passed had investments in the companies getting the money?
sensitivefrost··on EA announces kernel-level anti-cheat system for PC games
Yeah but to be fair, those games were nowhere nearly as popular as FIFA is today both casually and competitively.
sensitivefrost··on iOS 16 Available September 12th
It's definitely not a US thing.
sensitivefrost··on Former Owner of T-Mobile Store Guilty of $25M Scheme to Unlock Cellphones
The same way it works in other countries? lol
sensitivefrost··on VRchat bans mods, embraces EAC
That's not what VRchat's blog post say at all, though.

"Every month, thousands of users have their accounts stolen, often due to running a modified client that is silently logging their keystrokes as well as other information. These users – often without even realizing it! – run the risk of losing their account, or having their computers become part of a larger botnet."

People running a backdoor client and getting their passwords stolen? That doesn't sound... wrong?

sensitivefrost··on VRchat bans mods, embraces EAC
How so?
sensitivefrost··on Playstation confirms chain of 5 vulnerabilities on PS4/PS5
Yes? That's how bug bounties work. Companies that care about their security pay for bugs. Those that don't, don't. Sony care, but $20k for this chain of bugs is pretty poor, especially when they offer up to $50k (for criticals). I'm curious why Sony think this is a High severity and not Critical.

EDIT: looks like it's not critical because of this https://twitter.com/theflow0/status/1535424299397369856

In which case, 20k still feels low, but not as unfair.

sensitivefrost··on The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 languages
Interesting. The end implies he doesn't want to clean carpets any more. I hope he can find a job translating in a capacity that makes him happy to use his language skills he clearly finds so much joy from.
sensitivefrost··on Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
I could mildly ignore the invasive telemetry on my terminal (of all things), but making me sign into the terminal to use it is really bizarre behaviour. You make it a point on your web page that it isn't "yet another Electron app", but damn does it behave like one.
sensitivefrost··on Jack Dorsey has regrets about building Twitter
Why would you feel sorry for people making a ton of money working for a tech corporation? They know what they sign up for. Like, don't feel bad for Meta employees either or employees of weapons manufacturers either.
sensitivefrost··on Ask HN: Is it reasonable to ban Windows OS from our workplace?
I mean you can. Compromising Windows networks that are poorly configured is hilariously easy.

That doesn't mean a Linux/macOS network is more secure inherently - I find people patch their macOS and Linux devices a _lot_ less than on Windows, so I find a lot of older bugs and exploits work really easily.

Entirely depends on how good you actually are at your job & keeping stuff locked down and patched.

sensitivefrost··on Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world
None of them, they're being massively hyperbolic and disingenuous because a piece of hardware isn't perfect the first iteration thus the reviewers who think a great device is great must be paid.
sensitivefrost··on Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal
"Sony panicked and bought a company that has one franchise (Destiny)."

If you think Sony turned around and bought Bungie in the 2 weeks since the Acti-Blizz acquisition was announced, I dunno what to tell you.