rogerthis's comments

On: What's your favorite RSS feed reader?

[rogerthis]

Inoreader.

On: Software engineers are not (and should not be) tec...

[rogerthis]

Thus we don't need that much software engineers. Things should start to get cheaper (considering everything else the same).

On: Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plai...

[rogerthis]

Not only. Probably all ISPs around the world who provides their customers a modem with an embedded (or not) WiFi router do the same.

EDIT: also, if your ISP has a mobile app from which you can change any password on ISP provided devices, then most likely it goes around in plain text (inside TCP/TLS packets, at least).

On: Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M...

[rogerthis]

A brick in the ladder to open source heaven.

On: Ask HN: Are some Google domains down?

[rogerthis]

Some unusual spike in reports related to Google systems in Downdetector Brazil.

On: Introducing Copilot+ PCs

[rogerthis]

As it has been said so many times, tech privacy aware people are the minority. It won't make any difference for my non-tech neighbor (in fact, he will probably be delighted if it helps him with something).

[grugagag → rogerthis]

Not if you tell them beware, all this will be used against you in some way in the future.

[ptero → grugagag]

Unless there is a specific, believable, near term risk people will just ignore it.

Most would submit genetic material to 23andme and similar organizations with no restriction on its use. Yes, if could theoretically backfire not just on them, but also on their kids. But unless they see it as a near-term likelihood they will not care enough. My 2c.

[grugagag → ptero]

Well, that implies arrogance on their part. And there’s some blame from us too for not warning them enough I guess.

[frde_me → grugagag]

The problem is that there's no concrete thing to point to as to why this would be used against them in the future

(I agree with the point, but it's just not trivial to make people aware of this)

[pquki4 → grugagag]

Doesn't the fact that lots of people use Facebook daily despite the scandals say something?

It's abundantly clear that most people don't care about how their data are used. Here "most" means people outside HN.

[onemoresoop → pquki4]

Lots of people I know completely stopped used Facebook. Some are still on IG though...

On: Slack AI Training with Customer Data

[rogerthis]

Teams have better voice/video. But chat is far worse, absolutely shit, though Slack seems to be working to get there.

On: Google I/O Thoughts?

[rogerthis]

Every year they demo lots of things I never see later.

On: The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes

[rogerthis]

Sort of related: "GSMA Open Gateway", specially the quality related APIs.

On: Htmx and the Rule of Least Power

[rogerthis]

A dev myself, I see any new tech that looks like something I've seen before, but different from the immediately previous, as the natural young revolt against the old (5 years older), in an attempt to be important (i.e., e.g. being paid). Sometimes I'm younger than last year too, and I throw away a lot of what I learned. I should strive for wisdom: knowing what should come and what should go.