Hacker News: Osiris

New comment by Osiris in "FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems"

Osiris — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:19:21 +0000

Or of just a power outage or driver causing a loss of write back cache.

95 and 98 and ME crashed on a regular basis. I specifically remember upgrading from ME to XP and being so happy with the massively improved stability of the NT kernel over the 9x kernels.

If you think that's 9x was stable and reliable, you may be thinking very nostalgicly.

New comment by Osiris in "Kagi Reaches 50k Users"

Osiris — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:12:17 +0000

I've been a paying member for a while now. I'm happy to support a company that isn't Google or Microsoft for search.

New comment by Osiris in "Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo"

Osiris — Tue, 13 May 2025 17:29:20 +0000

Use the GitHub CLI.

You can do nearly everything the website does entirely in the terminal.

New comment by Osiris in "Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds"

Osiris — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:36:43 +0000

The 180-page injunction outline the reason for it and the goals of the injunction. They knew the court ruled against them for specific reasons but came up with a solution that didn't take into account any of the stated goals into account.

Their solution didn't address any of the goals of the injunction.

IANAL.

New comment by Osiris in "Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds"

Osiris — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:33:25 +0000

At some point it has to be documented as to the decisions made and the reasoning.

If there is literally no documentation up until the final moment, doesn't that itself act as evidence that they were consciously and deliberately not wanting their reasoning documented?

Why not just do the right thing. Damn.

New comment by Osiris in "Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral"

Osiris — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:25:13 +0000

The end of the order says that they are referring the issue to the DoJ for criminal charges, which is where a fine would be issued if found guilty.

New comment by Osiris in "Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral"

Osiris — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:02:50 +0000

The breach being that they offered a payment method outside of Apple Pay. That's exactly what he said.

New comment by Osiris in "Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral"

Osiris — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:01:07 +0000

Fauci? What does he have to do with Apple?

New comment by Osiris in "Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral"

Osiris — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:59:00 +0000

Given that the CFO encouraged Cook to violate the court order tells me that they calculated that

1. Any fines for not complying would be less than what they would lose by complying

2. That no individual would suffer any consequences for blatantly disobeying a court order.

In my opinion, the whole concept that a company can break the law but no human can be held responsible is insane.

I really hope that criminal charges are brought against those involved in making a conscious choice to both lie to the court and ignore the court order. Hopefully that will make other executives think twice when put in the same situation.

New comment by Osiris in "Redis is open source again"

Osiris — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:49:46 +0000

My guess is most people are using Redis via cloud providers. Did any cloud providers switch away from Redis?

New comment by Osiris in "Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor"

Osiris — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:47:48 +0000

I understand applying path filters in URLS and search strings, but I find it odd that they would apply the same rules to request body content, especially content encoded as valid JSON, and especially for a BLOG platform where the content would be anything.

New comment by Osiris in "Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature"

Osiris — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 06:39:26 +0000

It was also replaced with the Composite proposal, which is similar but not exactly the same.

New comment by Osiris in "Layered Design in Go"

Osiris — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 01:21:01 +0000

What do you mean by "can't"?

"Can not" means "not possible", but it's clearly possible.

New comment by Osiris in "Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source"

Osiris — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:27:43 +0000

It seems to me what they are really doing is offering a free self-hosting license to businesses that make less than a given amount in sales.

This allows them to offer a free "plan" without incurring the hosting costs of providing the service.

New comment by Osiris in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

Osiris — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:43:45 +0000

Clearly not ALL users are happy because users of non-Apple watches are unhappy that their watch can do things with Android it's not allowed to do on iOS.

It's not reasonable to make a blanket absolutist statement like that.

New comment by Osiris in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

Osiris — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:32:30 +0000

And yet Apple has shown many times a willingness to use vague language of their rules to block apps they don't want. Past behavior can't predict future behavior.

New comment by Osiris in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

Osiris — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:31:07 +0000

The reason is irrelevant. Apple watches can do things that Apple doesn't allow other non-Apple devices to do.

The law doesn't care why they choose to do it. The result of the decision is what constitutes illegal monopoly behavior.

New comment by Osiris in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

Osiris — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:28:59 +0000

Really? Did you have to pair your Apple watch? Did Apple sign the software on the watch? Did Apple build special APIs and tools into iOS to support certain features of the Apple Watch?

Apple is demonstrating here that they can control every aspect of what you can do with your phone, including not allowing Pebble to work.

Apple doesn't even allow you to replace broken parts in your phone unless it has an Apple approved signature that can be validated.

New comment by Osiris in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

Osiris — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:23:20 +0000

Source? What data do you have that "prohits unsafe choices" is the only or #1 reason that people buy an iPhone over an Android?

New comment by Osiris in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

Osiris — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:22:06 +0000

Microsoft absolutely got in trouble for purposefully making other Office suites not work correctly on Windows, for using private Windows APIs in Office that other companies didn't have access to, etc.

If Apple makes a watch that can receive and send iMessages then there is no reason any other device shouldn't be able to use the same APIs that Apple uses.

It absolutely creates a system where competitors literally cannot compete with the same features.