are you suggesting the former is not a demonstration of a shocking lack of competency?

I'm suggesting we don't know how the account was hacked, which is true. could be due to incompetence or not. i don't know, nor do you

True, but don't you think the FBI director should be held to higher standards of security hygiene than average people? Because I'm interpreting your tone as "it could happen to anyone". At some point the doubt is gone and there's no more benefit to give...

Comments in this thread mostly reflect people’s own biases, that is a shallow projection based on the headline.

Appeal to authority, the logical fallacy, is not attempting to claim that authority is irrelevant or has zero signal whatsoever.

Slopliance?

In other words, we're still the product at HN: the customers are just not advertisers.

This blog not having any mobile layout is a bit funny.

cowsay "lemon pound cake"

Is this legal advice?

Do you want it to be? I think it's safe to assume that most comments are _not_ legal advice.

Congratulations!

It's sad to see someone running doom on a pregnancy tester?

No, people might be misreading his comment.

(To me) it seems that, he is saying how bad the situation of hardware/lock-in is that we are being excited over being able to run our own software on said hardware in the first place (Aka the reason why we are here)

Being able to run doom on pregnancy tester is actually good. If I paid for the tester, I am gonna use the whole tester to run doom (LOL)

So I think this is what they meant.

Or to put it more concretely in this context: Sony used to let you run Linux on PlayStations! There were all kinds of interesting uses for PS3s outside of gaming that they (initially) supported.

Actually it was a bit more nuanced.

After Yaroze, Sony thought PS2Linux would bring some indies into PS2, instead it got full of MAME and other emulators, hence why PS3 no longer offered graphics acceleration.

I do not own any Sony products and I am not a corporate cheerleader.

But “we” have to own that the reason that Sony stopped selling/supporting Linux in their machines is because “we” used it to circumvent copyright on closed-source games. It is the problem with “our” ethics, not theirs that led to Linux getting pulled.

That's BS. Linux/OtherOS on the PS3 only existed so that Sony could evade European tariffs on pure gaming consoles that were markedly higher than on general-purpose computers. Once the tariffs went, so went OtherOS support.

In any case OtherOS didn't have access to the full system resources and, on top of that, Sony actually lost money on PS3s because it was priced as a loss-leader, with game purchases being supposed to earn the actual money.

That entailed overcoming inherent technical problems, not roadblocks placed by the manufacturer with the intent of making it harder than it needs to be. It’s like the difference between climbing a mountain and breaking into a locked building.

Yeah, but if you vertically integrate you expand your target market, increase switching costs, and can charge rents, so everyone is trying to do it now.