Hacker News: bootsmann

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

bootsmann — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:28:04 +0000

DMA is killing innovation by, checks notes, not allowing Apple to lock out competitor products from competing on an even playing field?

New comment by bootsmann in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

bootsmann — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:43:32 +0000

Its honestly so annoying, every 3 years we have to vote against the same garbage proposal because the SVP is unwilling to accept the will of the electorate.

New comment by bootsmann in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

bootsmann — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:38:53 +0000

Immigration is being controlled, EU immigrants require a work contract to come here (and consequentially 80% are employed with the rest split between spouses, kids and students). I strongly prefer this system over having some random bureaucrat in Berne decide who is "valuable" and who isn't.

New comment by bootsmann in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

bootsmann — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:33:49 +0000

It is a population cap, you can read this proposal its like 5 lines of text.

New comment by bootsmann in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

bootsmann — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:32:32 +0000

> more people with certain skills (if you're filtering based on that)

This is how freedom of movement works, yes, and it's a key reason why our country is so rich.

New comment by bootsmann in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

bootsmann — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:50:50 +0000

I can sell the tomatoes in my garden for twice the price of those in the supermarket and still make massive loses.

New comment by bootsmann in "Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years"

bootsmann — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:08:08 +0000

> the research doesn't mention anything about the socioeconomic environment in which each of the children grew in.

The main trick behind randomized control trials is that you can disregard factors like this because these effects would be randomly distributed as well.

New comment by bootsmann in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

bootsmann — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:24:38 +0000

SpaceX needs 4 profitable consecutive quarters to be included. If you have a lot of faith that they will achieve this I recommend you buy day 1 so you can ride the highs when the passive money eventually pours in.

New comment by bootsmann in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

bootsmann — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:21:48 +0000

Read the quote you posted again

New comment by bootsmann in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

bootsmann — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:22:44 +0000

S3 is strongly consistent, if you need it anyways you can just use s3 keys to deconflict and store the workflow state.

New comment by bootsmann in "Building durable workflows on Postgres"

bootsmann — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:07:02 +0000

Advisory locks are preferred for this anyways because holding a lot of SELECT FOR UPDATE doesn’t scale too well.

Edit: Actually I checked this again and apparently the advice has now changed to the inverse.

New comment by bootsmann in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

bootsmann — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:20:37 +0000

You’re going to need to strongly source this one, sounds completely made up.

New comment by bootsmann in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

bootsmann — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:58:26 +0000

Is it really a false positive if railway lets people run abusive services on GCP and then GCP consequently shuts them down?

New comment by bootsmann in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

bootsmann — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:39:57 +0000

You need a separate pin because windows lives on the encrypted disk so you need to decrypt it before you can boot completely.

New comment by bootsmann in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

bootsmann — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:34:53 +0000

fTPMs also have similar issues. The real takeaway is that if your threat model includes actors capable of executing attacks against BitLocker you need to put a password/pin on it in addition to the TPM.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.14717

New comment by bootsmann in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

bootsmann — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:32:20 +0000

This is what the Digital Euro is supposed to be.

New comment by bootsmann in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

bootsmann — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:20:18 +0000

I think Mastercard and Visa are deathly afraid of having their nice duopoly regulated more tightly (as is already done in the EU) and therefore they consequentially put in a lot of effort to steer clear of topics that would give politicians a good excuse to do so.

New comment by bootsmann in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

bootsmann — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:55:26 +0000

The reason why it is done this way is that “social media” is much harder to delineate and also not what is generally considered harmful.

New comment by bootsmann in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

bootsmann — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:18:03 +0000

The price you pay for anthropic must include the price of training new and better models which is incredibly costly. If you use the models someone else already spend money to develop you don’t need to pay this price.

New comment by bootsmann in "EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs"

bootsmann — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:05:32 +0000

Can you model the flow of the attack you want to mount here?

Is it the following:

Issuer revokes the wallet of Alice and then publicly says “This ID is Alice btw” and then verifiers can check their lists to see whether any of their received signatures are revoked (in which case they must be Alice)