So friggin’ cool. Well done.
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iJohnDoe commented on ICE Begins Buying 'Mega' Warehouse Detention Centers Across US bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/saubeidl
Why not call them what they are? Concentration camps.
They’re concentration camps. What else do you call a place built to hold tens of thousands of people? Why do you need 75,000 beds if you’re not planning to cram people in?
Then what happens after they’re locked in there? Are they processed one by one? Do the math. Even with absurdly optimistic assumptions of one hour per person, eight hours a day, every single day. You’re still talking about more than a year to get through 75,000 people. And that assumes perfect efficiency, no delays, no shortages, no illness.
While all that’s happening, people will get sick, injured, desperate. People will die. And after someone is “processed,” where do they go? Immediately put on a plane and sent back to their home country? Is that realistically happening at scale?
This setup isn’t about processing people. It’s about warehousing them. And when large numbers of people are caged indefinitely under those conditions, deaths get written off as “suicides.”
iJohnDoe commented on Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown securelist.com/notepad-su... · Posted by u/natebc
FTA - The original person posting about the unusual behavior was truly helpful.
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27212/autoupda...
Thankfully the responses weren’t outright dismissive, which is usually the case in these situations.
It was thought to be a local compromise and nothing to do Notepad++.
Good lessons to be learned here. Don’t be quick to dismiss things simply because it doesn’t fit what you think should be happening. That’s the whole point. It doesn’t fit, so investigate why.
Most tech support aims to prove the person wrong right out the gate.
iJohnDoe commented on Show HN: I built a habit tracker that doesn't shame you for missing a day amble.today/... · Posted by u/tusharnaik
Really cool. Easy flow. Super awesome you can just starting using it. I wish every online app followed this.
iJohnDoe commented on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.h... · Posted by u/cbeuw
One of the reasons I use iPhones is that Apple controls an integrated hardware/software experience, which makes it less likely that private information is being leaked despite the presence of privacy controls.
I wouldn’t be so confident. The article even references this. Apple has used third-party baseband devices in the iPhone since the beginning, which was from other manufacturers. All bets are off regarding security when this is the case. This does included microphone access.
The article touches on this by saying Apple is making the baseband/modem hardware now. Something they should have done since day one, and I’m not sure what took them so long. However, it was was clear they didn’t have the expertise in this area and it was easier to just uses someone else’s.
The Apple TV's pretty good. I imagine I'd have a hard time switching to a Shield TV unless it gets a CPU bump, whereas Apple still keeps making newer models with modern-ish phone SoCs.
What makes the Apple TV desirable? It’s $185. Why would I choose it over a Roku $30 or Ultra $80?
There might be a time when software developers become obsolete, and I don't pretend to know the future, but if today's models are anything to go by then it won't happen any time soon.
At the end of the day, there'll still be a need for highly skilled technical experts, whatever that job looks like.
> software developers become obsolete
> there’ll still be a need for highly skilled technical experts
Two different things.
Yes, many, many software developers will become obsolete in certain industries. It’s already happening. Putting on blinders doesn’t make it go away.
Yes, highly skilled technical experts will absolutely still be needed.
iJohnDoe commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster
> version of explorer that's so fast
I've tried this a few times. Windows 10. Downloaded the 2MB file, double-clicked on it, and nothing happens. Same thing when I tried it a few months again. Put it in a command prompt and no output of an error.
I'm starting to worry I just launched something malicious.
iJohnDoe commented on AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen theregister.com/2026/01/2... · Posted by u/ilamont
Does AWS actually care whether end users know a SaaS product is running on AWS? Probably not. AWS is paid by the SaaS company to host the platform. That’s the core business model.
The opposite would be more concerning. If I knew in advance that a service was running on Azure, I might think twice before using it. AWS has strong brand confidence, which arguably makes them the “plumbing” of the internet. Most users don’t care or even think about this anyway.
If AWS doesn’t have a single killer feature that makes everyone want to use them, then yes, they become a Lumen. In that case, their killer feature is reliability.
Calling out any cloud provider’s downtime is poor form. No platform is perfect; all of them experience outages. Cloudflare once mocked another provider for an outage, only to suffer a major one themselves the following week. Karma.
I agree with the point about Bedrock. As an AWS loyalist, I found it underwhelming and never went back to it. That’s a real problem for AWS if they want new products to gain traction.
The article is completely right about one thing. AWS needs a Netlify-style product if it wants to be seen as cool or relevant in this current tech phase. They have something close, but as usual, it’s more complicated than it needs to be.
iJohnDoe commented on Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you' sciencealert.com/scientis... · Posted by u/mikhael
I once read “The Joy of Living” by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. It should come with a warning. It broke me for a year. I’m actually grateful for the existential crisis it caused me. But it was a brutal experience at first.
Can you share a bit more?
Should more read the book to get the same powerful benefit you received or stay away from the book?