Wrong thread -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44193198
Indeed
Readit NewsCaffeineLD50 commented on The impossible predicament of the death newts crookedtimber.org/2025/06... · Posted by u/bdr
CaffeineLD50 commented on Google restricts Android sideloading puri.sm/posts/google-rest... · Posted by u/fsflover
Ok, now try sending RCS messages?
I use signal. Don't need.
CaffeineLD50 commented on Google restricts Android sideloading puri.sm/posts/google-rest... · Posted by u/fsflover
I've got to say, some of the comments here are pretty funny.
> "The sideloading restriction is easily solved by installing GrapheneOS"
> "Unless they block ADB, I wouldn't say it's accurate to claim they're "blocking sideloading"".
Not to pick on these folks but it's like we on HN have forgotten that ordinary people use phones too. For some of us, it's not a limitation as long as we can solder a JTAG debugger to some test pads on the PCB and flash our own firmware, but for most users that's just about as possible as replacing the OS.
Murena has a preloaded fork.
Easy
CaffeineLD50 commented on Google restricts Android sideloading puri.sm/posts/google-rest... · Posted by u/fsflover
I'm pretty sure my degoogled Murena /e/ OS pixel 5 won't have this problem.
CaffeineLD50 commented on The impossible predicament of the death newts crookedtimber.org/2025/06... · Posted by u/bdr
I'm pretty sure my degoogled Murena /e/ OS pixel 5 won't have this problem.
CaffeineLD50 commented on How Should We Think About the Renaissance? chronicle.com/article/how... · Posted by u/prismatic
> a good witch burning and hanging now then? Now we "cancel" or censor (or on HN down vote 'trolls') which is no different.
Literal physical violence and death is VERY different to getting canceled or censored.
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CaffeineLD50 commented on How Should We Think About the Renaissance? chronicle.com/article/how... · Posted by u/prismatic
The Renaissance might have been a golden age in certain fields, but it was a thoroughly unpleasant era in other fields. For example, people started burning "witches" at unprecedented rates. And nobody at the time was even aware that they were in a "golden age" of any kind.
We still have witch hunts both figuratively and literally - we assign blame to innocent parties and jail or unelect them.
And awareness is irrelevant. When I listened to the golden age of punk rock (IMHO) I didn't need to be aware of it: its self awareness changes nothing
And there was no "field" of witch hunting: but even if it is conceded to be so, what's wrong with a good witch burning and hanging now then?
Now we "cancel" or censor (or on HN down vote 'trolls') which is no different. Intolerance and demonizing just takes different forms in different ages.
CaffeineLD50 commented on Oh fuck! How do people feel about robots that leverage profanity? arxiv.org/abs/2505.05831... · Posted by u/rolph
I fucking approve!
CaffeineLD50 commented on If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued betterthanrandom.substack... · Posted by u/weltview
The use of passive voice and vagueness hides the actors involved: namely management.
But they always have a spreadsheet where they calculate how they can convert your former salary into their bonus.
"Never underestimate (management) greed" - to paraphrase Scarface.
You've been asked before to avoid commenting in the flamewar style on Hacker News. If you keep doing it we'll have to ban the account. Please make an effort to show you intend to use HN the way it's intended.
Ban away. I don't need you.