It's an education problem. A lot of people no longer understand the advantages of general purpose computing.
What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
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Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
LLMs only know how to use emdashes, semicolons, and ellipses because human writers used them first. The way I see it, a large part of "respecting yourself as a writer" in current year is not letting the mere existence of LLMs change how you write, just because a bunch of people have latched onto cheap signals like the presence of certain punctuation as a hallmark of LLM output. I don't really think an LLM wrote this,…
It's not the semicolons or em dashes but the textual content that struck me as weird. > The iPhone’s locked-down nature wasn’t a restriction; it was a selling point. Was it really? I thought it was more about having 1 device that did it all when it launched, and app stores were a rather late addition if anything that still was more pro app store than pro lockdown. To be clear, I think most of the text in that article…
> Was it really? I thought it was more about having 1 device that did it all when it launched, and app stores were a rather late addition if anything that still was more pro app store than pro lockdown.
I don't really agree with it either.
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you have the right to run what you want on your machine, then they do too. So then the problem gets moved up to why are you (or group of you) not powerful enough to negotiate being able to run what you want and either not need “them” or be important enough that “they” need you. And the answer will come down to the fact that 90% of people don’t care about running whatever they want on their machine, and they want t…
> So then the problem gets moved up to why are you (or group of you) not powerful enough to negotiate being able to run what you want and either not need “them” or be important enough that “they” need you. How tiresome. You're right, we gotta become more powerful. Via radicalization. They seek to marginalize us . To turn us into second class citizens . To destroy free computing as we know it, destroy everything the w…
> if you’re on this site
My brother in , you are not on a Hacker site. This site exists as the community arm of one of the most capitalistic venture capital ecosystems on the planet.
When are you all going to stop expecting HN to be what it’s not?
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So then the problem gets moved up to why are you (or group of you) not powerful enough to negotiate being able to run what you want and either not need “them” or be important enough that “they” need you. How tiresome. You're right, we gotta become more powerful. Via radicalization. They seek to marginalize us . To turn us into second class citizens . To destroy free computing as we know it, destroy everything the w…
> if you’re on this site My brother in , you are not on a Hacker site. This site exists as the community arm of one of the most capitalistic venture capital ecosystems on the planet. When are you all going to stop expecting HN to be what it’s not?
> My brother in
Off topic but how does this work for non-believers?
"My brother out of" ?
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
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> This is why Windows requires Secure Boot. No it isn't, and no it doesn't.
Elaborate?
I am not aware of any concrete evidence that would even suggest that the creation of Secure Boot had anything to do with Hollywood.
And it is quite demonstrable that Windows can function without Secure Boot.
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
> if you’re on this site My brother in , you are not on a Hacker site. This site exists as the community arm of one of the most capitalistic venture capital ecosystems on the planet. When are you all going to stop expecting HN to be what it’s not?
> My brother in Off topic but how does this work for non-believers? "My brother out of" ?
I mean, it's your choice. I'm not a believer myself, so I just sub... nothing, lol
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
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So what actually happens in Sweden: there are two officially sanctioned authentication apps: BankID (originally developed by banks) and Freja. Both only run on a mobile phone. For government services, both will work. But you must use some of them, otherwise no government for you. You can still do some things by paper, but those are getting rarer and rarer nowadays. The general assumption is that everything is done on…
Wow, thanks for the actual response. Absolutely wild. I'm pretty speechless to be honest. How does a hellscape like this become normalized?
People in general absolutely love this, and are proud that their country is so "modern".
I meant: it is convenient. No doubt. I do use all this because it is convenient. When it works, it is great. The dumb part is to not have a backup plan.
All these things were done for a single reason: cost cutting. They cost less, and the "old-fashioned" flow that could work as a backup no longer makes financial sense so it is retired.
But then again, here we are. Here and now, without a phone, without agreeing with a relationship with a foreign entity and their one-sided T&C, you won't even be able to get service from your own government. And you need to maintain your good standing with that foreign company in perpetuity, because if they ban you as a person then good luck — your are going to be cut off from your own government, your own bank.
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can also just resign the binaries in one quick CLI command. That can’t go away because it’s baked into the post-compile build stages of Mac and iOS apps. So relax, this thread is all a bunch of silly FUD.
If you are a developer, with the developer tools installed, sure. That's already well out of reach of the average user.
Average user doesn’t even know what side-loading is, nor do they care.
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can also just resign the binaries in one quick CLI command. That can’t go away because it’s baked into the post-compile build stages of Mac and iOS apps. So relax, this thread is all a bunch of silly FUD.
Yeah, haha. This is not FUD: try to do the same on iOS.
Yeah I do it nearly everyday. You can side load all you want with a developer account.
Re: What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
#310There is a DMCA exemption for jailbreaking smartphones.
Not for tablets or game consoles though.
The killer app for jailbreaking is usually running unlicensed games.