Hacker News: Rygian

New comment by Rygian in "When A.I. is a member of the family"

Rygian — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:05:28 +0000

There is a stark difference between gossiping to individuals vs to a multi billion dollar company whose business is to sell ads targeting you.

New comment by Rygian in "Probably check on your smart appliances"

Rygian — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:00:08 +0000

In Europe, the Cyber Resilience Act mandates the manufacturer to:

* Report any security breaches within 72 hours to a public body (country's CSIRT + ENISA).

* for "all products with digital elements [...] including those already placed on the market before 11 December 2027"

Products must be sold with a "secure by default" config, with automated security patching enabled by default (opt-out), with reporting on possible unauthorised access, with data collection minimization (tie-in to GDPR), with an SBOM, with dedicated security testing, with public disclosure of vulnerabilities, …

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cra-summar...

Cyber Resilience Act

Rygian — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:53:40 +0000

Article URL: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918924

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Rygian in "France powers down several nuclear reactors due to extreme heat"

Rygian — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:11:24 +0000

Their nuclear reactor goes away every night though.

New comment by Rygian in "My main Android phone is now 99% Google free"

Rygian — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:08:23 +0000

It's way too late for alternatives now, unless regulation is created to break the monopoly.

New comment by Rygian in "White House app auto-downloads to government phones, can't be uninstalled"

Rygian — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:50:28 +0000

"Google app auto-downloads to Google phones, can't be uninstalled" has been the norm since day 1 and before.

What is newsworthy here? The fact that yet one more third-party (the White House) does it too?

New comment by Rygian in "The room the economy can't see"

Rygian — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:50:14 +0000

> I don't like zoning codes because too often they are placing restrictions that restrict freedom for some value that isn't objective.

That might be a literal case of Chesterton's fence.

New comment by Rygian in "What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?"

Rygian — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:56:24 +0000

Humans have gotten real good at reproducing and staying alive despite external circumstances, up until their offspring can reproduce too.

So, individuals will reproduce.

New comment by Rygian in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

Rygian — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:18:27 +0000

With that perspective, how do you prevent scope creep when preparing a census exercise? You would collect everything and the shape of each house's kitchen sink, because "it can be useful".

New comment by Rygian in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

Rygian — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:01:01 +0000

The United States are listed as a secular state (ie. it "is or purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion")

Edit: As I research a bit further, I have stumbled upon an interesting counterargument [1] that enumeration of ethnicity and ethnic groups results in "more political discrimination and state-sponsored violence targeting ethnic groups". Perhaps a similar conclusion could be reached about religious census information.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2...

New comment by Rygian in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

Rygian — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:25:03 +0000

"What is your religious affiliation" makes absolutely no sense in a census exercise. IMO.

New comment by Rygian in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

Rygian — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:24:44 +0000

> I think the industry is optimizing for the wrong thing.

Indeed: The industry optimizes for speed, time to market, and features, and applies the ostrich model to everything that doesn't bring short-time revenue (security considerations, accessibility, vendor lock-in, interoperability, …)

This has been going on for as long as the industry exists, and now we start to have the proper tools to assess the damage and understand the brittleness of it all.

New comment by Rygian in "Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?"

Rygian — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:01:02 +0000

"Excuse me sir, would you mind carrying this extension that goes against your core business of selling ads?"

Publish it as a Firefox add-on instead.

New comment by Rygian in "I'm So Tired of Ads"

Rygian — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:20:44 +0000

Ads not only need to be relevant to me. They also have to be presented to me only when I am interested in the category of the advertised product or service. Otherwise they're just spam.

(Consider the typical "you just bought a new fridge, so let's show you ads of fridges".)

New comment by Rygian in "HTML-in-Canvas Demos"

Rygian — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:17:48 +0000

How long until a canvas is used to render the full chrome of a web browser (e.g. including the TLS padlock), showing a fake benign URL in the (fake) address bar while having the user interact with a malicious page?

New comment by Rygian in "Click (2016)"

Rygian — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:11:34 +0000

> we include it in our terms and condition and privacy page, but I don't think users truly grasp how those tools work

Since you did collect the metrics, you had direct knowledge of how many users opened the T&C and scrolled down to the place where you mention you're recording their session.

Would be interesting if you can share an aggregate statistic of that.

New comment by Rygian in "Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts"

Rygian — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:51:13 +0000

All the questions about sneeze are either about open air, or Newton's third law. Did really no one ask what happens if you sneeze while wearing a spacesuit helmet? Does the visor have a windshield wiper on the inside?

New comment by Rygian in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

Rygian — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:05:08 +0000

I'm glad we don't have exclusion zones like that one in France either.

New comment by Rygian in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"

Rygian — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:23:54 +0000

You misread my comment.

If someone can deliver the same greater value to society using less electricity than you, they should be rewarded.

New comment by Rygian in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"

Rygian — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:19:34 +0000

Punitive pricing is a great thing.

The less energy you spend to deliver value, the better for everyone.