JensRex

>extra room

That excuse as been thoroughly debunked, since Apple no longer includes a headphone port on iPads either. It was purely a financial move to sell their own wireless headphones, after they bought the "Beats by Dre" brand name.

Cloudflare has never been anti-censorship. This kind of service fits them like a glove. They're going to love being the moral police.

>a fun nerd term

It absolutely isn't. Lots of things have dead man switches, like locomotives and heavy machinery, and they're named as such.

>Not if it is in an airplane.

Even less so if it's on the space station. Or on a Mars rover. But we're talking about cars. Something a lot of people like to mend for themselves.

A mechanical switch is easy and cheap to fix or replace. A touch screen is the opposite. It cannot be repaired, only replaced. A switch can usually be cleaned easily, to restore its function. And proper quality switches can be actuated millions of times before failure.

Significantly less.

This feels like somebody setting up a GoFundMe to pay off their credit card debt. They paid their CEO an absurd salary, and now they need more money. That sounds like a you-problem.

Try arguing with less snark.

Every comment like yours attacks the strawman that the CEO and employees should not get paid. Nobody is saying that. But I'm absolutely not going to donate anything while the CEO takes out over 800000 dollars in pay, and it looks distasteful to me to go around begging for donations.

You're right, I don't know what I was thinking with that comment.

Per recent postings on HN about /dev/urandom, wouldn't it fine to use data from that, rather than bothering with AES output. /dev/urandom should be cryptographically safe.

I've gotten a few of these, and I don't really see the point. I got one from my phone company, assuring me that I would not experience interruptions. Well okay then - I wasn't expecting it to go down, and in case it did, that's when I would expect an email about it.

It honestly just feels like brands are treating this as an excuse to send email reminding people that they exist. "Hey since you're just sitting at home on your couch in your underwear, why not shop for new pants on LEVIS.COM, so you can look sharp when this whole things has blown over!"

I feel like flagging these as spam.