jonne
@jonne@infosec.pub
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
There’s (admittedly comparatively expensive) alternative processes, and even if you stick to the old process and just stop using coal for electricity generation you’d cut coal use by 75%.
Not to mention, the carbon that stays in the steel doesn’t actually go into the atmosphere, so there’s less CO2 emissions for that specific use if you can substitute the fuel used for heating.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
There’s alternative processes, and if you avoid burning oil for fuel you can basically do all that with the amount of oil that’s in easy reach instead of using tar sands or drilling into even more difficult to reach places.
- Comment on Burning out: how Australia’s bid to cut smoking rates exploded into suburban tobacco wars 2 weeks ago:
They really need to stop raising the prices until they can get this under control.
- Comment on NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025 2 weeks ago:
Would be nice to drop the price for lower speeds instead.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, make the logo a button or something.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
I have copilot in my IDE and it’s basically worse than the ‘dumb’ autocomplete that just builds off the existing codebase. Copilot knows all the code on GitHub, but doesn’t seem to know anything about the local codebase.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft makes a lot of money hosting the platform that enables the efficient leveling of Gaza. They’re the new IBM in many ways.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
Can’t wait to hear Bari Weiss’s take on this.
- Comment on WordPress demands conf organizers share social media logins. 2 weeks ago:
There’s probably already a bunch of forks people could move to, if needed, people could coalesce around one. That should be a drop-in replacement that the hosting provider could even do for you.
- Comment on WordPress demands conf organizers share social media logins. 2 weeks ago:
About time.
- Comment on IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines 3 weeks ago:
If you run a franchise, you have to get the machine from a specific vendor. That vendor makes a killing charging for their techs to come over to fix those machines. There’s some videos on YouTube that explain how the scam works.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
All of them? I’m pretty sure there’s still a lot of white south Africans around, just because there were a few incidents doesn’t make it largely peaceful. The alternative to a peaceful transition is Rhodesia, if you want to go the route of constant escalation.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Except that the slave owners were fine after the civil war. There were no mass executions, they got to keep their property (slaves excepted) and they retained so much political power they managed to reverse reconstruction within a few decades.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the IDF bombed buildings, then the bulldozers came in to clear the streets so the tanks could go through. At no point was anyone allowed to try to rescue anyone from the rubble, and those people are definitely not counted in the official death statistics. We’ll never really know how many people were killed.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 3 weeks ago:
CNN has to run every story through the Israeli censor in their Jerusalem bureau. The only mainstream outlet that doesn’t go through that process is Al Jazeera, and Israel closed their offices.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure we’ll soon get an article about how the pilot felt sad about bombing a hospital.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, moving to the EU to escape regulation doesn’t seem like a smart move.
- Comment on Microsoft will end Windows 10 support in exactly one year 4 weeks ago:
Probably best not to boot it, or windows update might overwrite Grub.
- Comment on Facebook is going to show you even more content from accounts you don’t follow 1 month ago:
Jesus, the feed is already pointless as it is. I’ve just given up on it already, but they just keep going.
- Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 1 month ago:
I assume SEO spam?
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
I mean, realistically it’ll juice the stock in the short term until things catch up to them in 6 to 12 months.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
Yeah, there’s going to be hilariously bad outages at AWS within like a year.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
It’s like reverse stack ranking. They’ll be left with the people that couldn’t find another job.
- Comment on Israel preparing for a limited ground operation in Lebanon: media report 1 month ago:
despite Washington exerting unprecedented pressure in the past few days to prevent such a move.
It takes one phone call with the message that the US will not supply weapons to them any more.
- Comment on Diego Garcia: What is on the secretive UK-US island in the Indian Ocean? 1 month ago:
Great episodes as well.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
I actually check Twitter from time to time and it is slowly dying. Ken Klippenstein was one of the accounts I was following and now he’s gone too.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
If someone were to buy it, ban the Nazis and get advertisers to come back it’s still salvageable, I guess. The longer Musk owns it, the bigger the chance is that it’ll become the next MySpace.
- Comment on Nancy Pelosi's husband sold more than $500K in Visa stock ahead of DOJ action 1 month ago:
They still shouldn’t be trading individual stocks, whether they have inside information or not.
- Comment on Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers. 1 month ago:
He backed down when Brazil blocked him. If Apple and Google decided to threaten to delist Twitter, he’ll back down.
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 1 month ago:
Yeah, that was a cash cow for a few years and now everybody has their phone on vibrate.