Hacker News: abigail95

New comment by abigail95 in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

abigail95 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:41:45 +0000

Surely the point is competition, growth and a higher quality of life?

Or is it actually a crusade against margin?

New comment by abigail95 in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

abigail95 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:38:26 +0000

You are agreeing with me. Apple would be violating the law by releasing it.

Thus the people that are mad at Apple for saying the EU is trying to stop them releasing this feature don't have much ground to stand on.

New comment by abigail95 in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

abigail95 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:34:22 +0000

I think that's exactly what people would be upset about as it was the impetus for the DMA in the first place.

New comment by abigail95 in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

abigail95 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:47:08 +0000

Phrasing it like that that without mentioning the $40B penalty if Apple releases the feature today feels a bit off to me.

New comment by abigail95 in "I am against GenAI and everything it stands for"

abigail95 — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:55:24 +0000

Well I guess that settles it. Losing to LLMs in CTF challenges must be in my head.

New comment by abigail95 in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

abigail95 — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:45:22 +0000

Same result and then Microsoft would be paying for arbitration

New comment by abigail95 in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

abigail95 — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:41:21 +0000

Yeah it gets radiated into space

New comment by abigail95 in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

abigail95 — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:33:37 +0000

Now Uber is profitable what stops a taxi from just competing again, forcing Uber to have to be unprofitable again?

New comment by abigail95 in "We don't know why Malawi is poor"

abigail95 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:38:07 +0000

Would you want to live there?

New comment by abigail95 in "The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news"

abigail95 — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:52:31 +0000

Should HN links be compensated on a percentage of non-click-throughs? There are people who just come for the comments. Would you support this law being universal and not only applied to Meta/news?

New comment by abigail95 in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

abigail95 — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:03:16 +0000

the people who do "AML checks" are the ones processing the transaction.

i don't do that every time i want to send money. private individuals don't just "run checks" - it would make commerce untenable and possibly unconstitutional.

say you get a passport, an address, a photo, a signature, a phone call - how do you verify any of this is real?

New comment by abigail95 in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

abigail95 — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:44:41 +0000

Even with a user agreement I think they need to gate their service behind that agreement, otherwise the agreement is optional and open ports are open for use.

You still need to form a valid contract - no notice, no assent, no contract.

If there's a gate that's being bypassed then this all changes but it doesn't seem like there is - and it doesn't seem like they can add one without breaking existing printers.

New comment by abigail95 in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

abigail95 — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:37:18 +0000

That's copyright circumvention not CFAA authorization circumvention

New comment by abigail95 in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

abigail95 — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:34:44 +0000

You must put authorization on your server if you don't want others connecting to it.

While the right of access is not granted by AGPL - it is not reasonable to run a public service with an AGPL client and say you shouldn't be connecting to it.

They are doing a lot of work to create implied consent under CFAA.

If you want to control access you must do something to control access - it must reach a threshold, it cannot just be a public user agent string.

New comment by abigail95 in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

abigail95 — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:10:47 +0000

With no authentication it's a "gates down" scenario and it's assumed that if you put your server on the open internet you intend people to connect to it.

With authentication it's "gates up" and then "without authorization" from CFAA kicks in. I think it's unlikely that a user agent string creates a "gates up" situation, especially not if it's from code granted under a permissive license.

New comment by abigail95 in "I’ve banned query strings"

abigail95 — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:03:39 +0000

use a unique url for each email

New comment by abigail95 in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

abigail95 — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:19:26 +0000

saying foreign investment is a bad or invalid growth strategy is wild

are you one of those anti-trade people where the only real ""growth"" doesn't involve foreigners

New comment by abigail95 in "The operating cost of adult and gambling startups"

abigail95 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:27:54 +0000

Adult websites have chargeback rates from single to double digits depending on the product. Airlines/Hotels/Uber/Cruises/Car Rentals do not approach this. You are off by one or two orders of magnitude.

New comment by abigail95 in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

abigail95 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:46:51 +0000

If anyone considers that outcome to be strange - that's how most things are supposed to be regulated. It's doubly specified in the wording of the constitution and 10A.

If one takes the opinion interstate commerce means buying, selling and transporting.

It's also how the current system works. Most drug convictions are based on state law. Federal drug prosecutions are 2% of the total. Every state has its version of controlled substances act.

Nothing much would change at all.

New comment by abigail95 in "Open source security at Astral"

abigail95 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:20:11 +0000

I don't think you are annoyed. You have done this to produce a reproducible linux distribution which your partners sell support for.

I wouldn't find this annoying at all - I would expect to have to do this for hundreds of packages.

Without unpaid volunteers things like Debian do not exist. Don't malign the situation and circumstances of other projects, especially if they are your competitors.

Compete by being better, not by complaining louder.