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New comment by bnjms in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

bnjms — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:57:05 +0000

I would have guessed as much. I don’t understand why the west allows Chinese firms to act on their contracts a law when interacting with their markets. There is no reason to allow Bamboo to continue selling in North America or Europe if they’re out of compliance here. Sales can be blocked until compliance with local laws.

New comment by bnjms in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

bnjms — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:38:54 +0000

If you’ve not heard of Lojban you may not have heard of Sapir-Whorf. Or you’re indirectly referring to it.

https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/relativi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

New comment by bnjms in "IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields"

bnjms — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:43:54 +0000

Thanks for the correction. I understand it is seen but wonder if it was in keyboard only in the past.

New comment by bnjms in "IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields"

bnjms — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:11:40 +0000

Tab key is both a control character moving the cursor to the next input and also an input representing the tab character as you see in a text editor.

Now that im thinking about it I’m convinced capslock would have been superior next field key and alt+capslock to be used for toggling capslock. But it’s not obvious to me capslock [e: must be] seen by the OS. It could be changed on the keyboards themselves.

New comment by bnjms in "Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)"

bnjms — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:09:03 +0000

Just a gut check but it feels ugly to put auth in an L3 proposal.

New comment by bnjms in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

bnjms — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:04:19 +0000

I’m for looking for the existing cameras. I’m against a panopticon where any “trusted” LEO with an account can query and have ring + flock + OnStar + Tesla etc all aggregated to follow anyone. Ring has this now. I would guess some cities have it for traffic cameras. What I’m really against is having it privately owned as an end run around laws restricting government surveillance.

New comment by bnjms in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

bnjms — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:02:22 +0000

Asterisk * has other uses too. Even more common than footnotes would be x*y=42 X=42/y

edit: HN automatically finds this example and puts in escapes to make it work. From elsewhere in the discussion I just want AsciiDoc.

https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/asciidoc-vs-mar...

New comment by bnjms in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

bnjms — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:52:42 +0000

I agree that file paths should be in `backticks`.

Or italics can be //double slash// to avoid ambiguities with file paths. That still leaves the windows style //some/file/path as ambiguous But I’ll never accept single * as natural for italics.

New comment by bnjms in "Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies"

bnjms — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:55:59 +0000

> though unlike India I think very few Americans have paid a bribe to a cop.

No one, left or right, thinks there is street level corruption. Not the kind accessible to someone in a traffic stop. I have experienced it in Mexico and think that kind of corruption would still be worse because I cannot imagine how to recover from it. I have hope that a few high profile arrests of c level fall his may turn the tide. If not then there are extrajudicial methods open to American culture.

New comment by bnjms in "Filesystems Are Having a Moment"

bnjms — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:22:10 +0000

This seems like the place to ask. What other big ideas have there been since everything-is-a-file? I’m not aware of any. And it seems like we want another layer of permissions on device & data access we spent have before.

New comment by bnjms in "RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello"

bnjms — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:05:10 +0000

This is exactly reverse of the right idea. If parents need to censor things the solutions are the same as corpos are going to. Put the censors at the device or “mitm” the connection, either actually with a proxy, or maybe with a browser and curated apps - which is again on the device.

New comment by bnjms in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

bnjms — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:32:25 +0000

Who do we lobby to get this removed from the auditors checklists? This is a solvable problem but it’s political. And if we don’t solve it personal computing is at risk.

New comment by bnjms in "WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system"

bnjms — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:11:10 +0000

Can you say what products make use of this technique? i.e. is it well known like Juniper Mist or not publicly available?

New comment by bnjms in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

bnjms — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:52:07 +0000

How much cost do you consider a first time home as costing?

New comment by bnjms in "U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office"

bnjms — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:46:01 +0000

I’m unfamiliar with academia but doesn’t this only measure formal funding? It doesn’t measure collaboration with separate EU funding.

New comment by bnjms in "Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered"

bnjms — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:37:14 +0000

It’s immensely misleading. At least with a valid legal order we are still living by rule of law. With the recent actions I can’t say ICE is acting by rule of law.

Having said that I won’t go back to Windows.

New comment by bnjms in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

bnjms — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:21:39 +0000

People arguably cannot have integrity unless all other companies they compete with also have integrity. The answer is legislation. We have no reason to allow our government to use “private” companies to do what they cannot then turn over the results to government agencies. Especially when willfully incompetence.

The same can be said of using “allies” to mutually snoop on citizens then turning over data.

New comment by bnjms in "US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says"

bnjms — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:09:37 +0000

> Afghanistan Iraq

Comparing to US immigration support following the Vietnam war this is shameful.

New comment by bnjms in "ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree"

bnjms — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:21:59 +0000

It sounds like you’re unfamiliar with January 6th. Many of the people active in J6th were prosecuted. Most were pardoned by Trump. I understand the GP is saying these same people have joined ICE. I’ve seen a picture of one ICE officer(?) with an SS tattoo below their ear. That should bar employment in the law enforcement but there he is.

New comment by bnjms in "Say No to Palantir in the NHS"

bnjms — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:29:42 +0000

Every time I’ve heard Peter Thiel speak I’ve believed he cares about other things. I’m more concerned about his implementations of things.