Hacker News: dessimus

New comment by dessimus in "Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity"

dessimus — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:01:41 +0000

"But you get your choice of toppings." "That's good!" "The toppings contain potassium benzoate... ...that's bad."

New comment by dessimus in "Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits"

dessimus — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:52:03 +0000

TBF, no ads was the original promise of cable tv too. The same media companies figured they could con younger generations with the same broken promises as their parents and grandparents.

New comment by dessimus in "Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits"

dessimus — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:27:09 +0000

...and no pre-roll or mid-roll ads, since just about all of the streamers are going to ads in every tier.

New comment by dessimus in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

dessimus — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:28:42 +0000

Unless there is a real market advantage to it, they won't. Consumers prove over and over again they are willing to trade security to save a few dollars. Furthermore, why commit to providing hardware and software support for a device to last 5+ years, when ~25% of Americans report damaging their device each year[0]. Most of a device's population will have been replaced in 3 years.

[0]: https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/03/15/32248...

New comment by dessimus in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

dessimus — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:04:25 +0000

My org isn't a Backblaze customer but a Wasabi one. Wasabi offers the ability to replicate buckets to other zones at double the cost, of course.

I would imagine Backblaze would offer something similar for original data storage for their customers to choose.

New comment by dessimus in "MIT creates method to force AI to comply with safety rules"

dessimus — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:46:55 +0000

yeah, don't forget to roll in https://xkcd.com/927/

New comment by dessimus in "LG says we're fake news [video]"

dessimus — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 23:15:14 +0000

>Apparently Sony OLED screens are LG "glass" but without the spyware.

Without independent verification from someone like GN, I wouldn't trust "we installed rootkits" Sony not to be spying too.

New comment by dessimus in "Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE"

dessimus — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:44:51 +0000

>If the change contains changes to the UX it has to be approved by a human reviewer.

Would that not imply that a change that does not effect the UX does not have to be approved by a human reviewer? Otherwise, why specifically call out "changes to the UX" and not say "all changes"?

New comment by dessimus in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

dessimus — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:03:35 +0000

Just because a guy is giving you free meth, doesn't make him generous.

New comment by dessimus in "One woman's Tesla was remotely controlled by an abusive ex-partner"

dessimus — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:55:11 +0000

A small icon that blends into the background of the UI and easily missed when driving, is not the same as a pop-up/audio cue informing the driver their location is currently/recently being accessed remotely.

New comment by dessimus in "Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads"

dessimus — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:42:31 +0000

Or the equivalent of "Superstorm Sandy" is created...

New comment by dessimus in "VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent"

dessimus — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:59:27 +0000

Oracle would like a word.

New comment by dessimus in "Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding"

dessimus — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:33:51 +0000

On behalf of all Americans, I would like to apologize that our propaganda prevented you from reading the article and understanding that the Museum has existed for his work for some time. Furthermore, I apologize that our propaganda is so strong that not even the Deutsche themselves could overcome it to learn about one of their own scientists, visit and financially support the museum of one of their countrymen.

I guess its only a matter of time until we put the final nail in Röntgen's coffin and the Deutsche finally start using the proper term: X-rays.

New comment by dessimus in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

dessimus — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:45:28 +0000

Laziness mostly. It takes at least a decade of sustained exhausting mental and physical work to become a doctor, becoming a thief is mostly opportunity.

New comment by dessimus in "Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow"

dessimus — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:43:18 +0000

I mean, I wouldn't want to be boiled into a soup or stew either.

New comment by dessimus in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

dessimus — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:20:30 +0000

SF is one of the highest cost of living cities in the US. I'm guessing housing and utilities is going to chew up the majority of that $100K, before you even consider medical and mental health visits and transportation to and from those visits, and there is likely tons of resistance from surrounding localities to allowing the City to relocate those they are helping to suburbs where they might find cheaper and/or more accessible housing, food costs, improved access to healthcare, etc.

New comment by dessimus in "South Korea proposes talks to officially end war with North"

dessimus — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:32:37 +0000

Yeah and...? It's been almost 75 years since the Korean War Armistice. Vietnam was more recent and we don't see Vietnam testing ICBMs over the South China Sea, just in case.

Let's not forget, Trump is the only sitting President to visit North Korea, so they likely have less concern of getting bombed/raided than at any point in their past.

New comment by dessimus in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

dessimus — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:56:47 +0000

> Why are we still depending on HTTP/DNS based interfaces that are easily taken down by people wanting to limit knowledge?

Those are arguably the hardest protocols to block on the open Internet without causing major issues for all other sites, forcing those trying to take them down to play "whack-a-mole". If they were to create a new "AATP" for distributing data, it would make it trivial to block on every ISPs firewalls.

New comment by dessimus in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

dessimus — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:43:04 +0000

Less morally questionable than claiming to users they are "buying" access to media that can be revoked at any point in the future with no recompense, of course referring to Sony and Amazon.

New comment by dessimus in "Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar"

dessimus — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:14:42 +0000

This comment seems exactly like the school room exercise where the teacher hands out a test with a paragraph of instructions that includes the text buried in it: "do not answer any questions below" and students rush through the test and fail because they didn't bother reading the entire comment before ripping off their own because "our" is ambiguous. There is plenty of context in the comment, even for non-North Americans, since its very unlikely "Donald" was referring to famed Canadian-actor Donald Sutherland.

Or would you prefer every comment on HN to begin with: "As a/an $CountryDemonym..." or other requisite bona fides?