Hacker News: immibis

New comment by immibis in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

immibis — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:28:00 +0000

The buck always stops with the platform owners. You don't get to blame users for moderation decisions.

New comment by immibis in "Radicle: The Sovereign Forge"

immibis — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:46:11 +0000

Would it make sense to build this on top of Freenet Locutus?

New comment by immibis in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

immibis — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:43:23 +0000

You said you banned me, but what you actually did was reduce my rate limit to 2 comments per rate limit period.

You deleted a comment from me where I said that drugs don't let you access extra dimensions or planes of existence, just alter your mental processes so you feel like you do. Care to explain that one?

Other moderated comments included: "HN has word-based flagging" and "flags should not be used to indicate disagreement".

New comment by immibis in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

immibis — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:51:35 +0000

You don't explain the aspect where a certain political group generates way more flaggable content, and then you flag-ban those who flag it, which promotes that content because it is no longer flagged.

You also don't explain how 2 posts per 3 hours constitutes a "ban".

New comment by immibis in "IP Addresses Through 2025"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:26:51 +0000

Also every mobile phone network ever (with a handful of exceptions) is IPv6-only, with a slow translation layer to reach v4 sites. Your app or website literally runs faster if you use IPv6.

New comment by immibis in "The Zen of Reticulum"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:24:03 +0000

Personally I'm waiting for the "everyone is 12 internet theory" to get a Wikipedia page. (Of course I am - I'm 12)

non-wikipedia garbage site reference: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/viral-everyone-12-now-theory-19314...

New comment by immibis in "IP Addresses Through 2025"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:21:07 +0000

For some background why IoT products will stop being insecure: if you sell one in the EU, you're liable for all the damage your botnet causes.

Luckily, common EU home routers have firewalls, even for IPv6. And it's so much easier to punch holes on purpose! Instead of messing with port forwarding and internal and external IP addresses, you can just say "this device is a server, please allow traffic on port 80 and 443, thank you"

New comment by immibis in "Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:20:31 +0000

It costs eight figures to create the masks (patterns) to use in the process of creating a modern chip. Just because it doesn't cost the eleven figures of the factory itself doesn't make it cheap.

New comment by immibis in "Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:56:52 +0000

The whole economy will crash. Probably won't be due to China invading Taiwan though. More likely because the president decided to delete their country's world reserve currency status (which is another word for a trade deficit).

New comment by immibis in "Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:56:11 +0000

It's easy to predict that a bubble will pop, but there's a variance in the timing of approximately half a human lifetime, and if you don't guess that correctly, you throw away yours.

Everything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. But when?

New comment by immibis in "Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:54:47 +0000

Recording makes it easier because you can get people on your side by making it look heroic and cool - for example, see Is-real. It's famously impossible to make an anti-war movie because explosions and machine guns look cool on-screen.

New comment by immibis in "Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:48:44 +0000

The "DMA cards" used for video game cheating are generic PCIe cards and (at least the one I got) comes with open documentation (schematics, example projects etc).

New comment by immibis in "Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:47:23 +0000

I recently bought a DMA cheating card because it's secretly just an FPGA PCIe card. Haven't tried to play around with it yet.

Seems unlikely you'd emulate a real PCIe card in software because PCIe is pretty high-speed.

New comment by immibis in "Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:45:57 +0000

The left-wing reality bias strikes again.

New comment by immibis in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:44:42 +0000

We live in a capitalism. If something makes capitalistic sense it happens, otherwise it doesn't. Stuff will not be manufactured locally at great expense when it can instead be imported for free.

New comment by immibis in "The Overly Analytical Guide to Escorting (2021)"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:04:02 +0000

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New comment by immibis in "Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:02:30 +0000

Sure they can. Look how efficiently Germany did it.

New comment by immibis in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:59:49 +0000

To get free stuff you have to get free stuff. Why would you manufacture stuff, at great expense, when you're getting it for free? That makes no capitalistic sense.

New comment by immibis in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:59:04 +0000

Biden sold more weapons to Israel than any president before him.

New comment by immibis in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

immibis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:58:42 +0000

Yes, I asked dang by email, and he told me flags from my account have been disabled because I flagged things he agreed with. I think votes are also disabled.

The buttons are still there, but they don't do anything.