Hacker News: pabs3

New comment by pabs3 in "Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it badly ahead of Apple's WWDC"

pabs3 — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:00:30 +0000

There were 5G towers being attacked during COVID, because of delusional conspiracy theories:

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53285610 https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/5g-health-concerns-and-c... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-03/5g-conspiracy-theory-...

New comment by pabs3 in "The OnlyOffice Git repository for Android has been deleted"

pabs3 — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:42:21 +0000

There is a copy of it on Software Heritage:

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory...

Achiving 900M Lines of the OIN Linux System Table

pabs3 — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:18:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2026/05/18/oin-linux-system-table-software-heritage-archive/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48218606

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

pabs3 — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:14:41 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/inside-the-fight-to-force-vizio-to-share-linux-based-source-code-for-its-tvs-os/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48218580

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by pabs3 in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

pabs3 — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:20:41 +0000

Some links about GPL & TiVo:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t... https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...

New comment by pabs3 in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

pabs3 — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:08:53 +0000

I don't know what the solution to slop is. Maybe the bubble will implode at some point. Until then, just close down issues/pulls or remove projects from GitHub I guess.

New comment by pabs3 in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

pabs3 — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:05:15 +0000

The xz incident was only discovered by accident, not by someone actually verifying the tarball and test cases were not malicious. We still don't have verification of tarball build reproducibility anywhere. The closest you can get to verified builds is what the bootstrappable builds community built in hex0/stage0, and what stagex built on top of that. I'm guessing even they haven't read through all that source code though. There aren't even good tools for distributing reviews, there is crev, but the stagex folks think it has some deficiencies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701394

New comment by pabs3 in "The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam"

pabs3 — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:15:45 +0000

Thats the entire history of companies right there though? They have always socialised costs, privatised profits.

New comment by pabs3 in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

pabs3 — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:05:01 +0000

Under the LGPL, statically linked Qt is also fine, as long as the user can relink your proprietary code with a modified Qt library.

New comment by pabs3 in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

pabs3 — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:31:35 +0000

> someone (or something) who's concealing their identity has nothing to gain from recognition

The xz supply chain attacker hid their real identity, created fakes one and gained recognition over time in order to gain more access and add the backdoor. So TLAs and other bad actors at least are interested in gaining recognition.

Peter Neumann has died

pabs3 — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:17:45 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_G._Neumann

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188787

Points: 311

# Comments: 24

Google: Continued commitment to Chromebooks, and looking ahead

pabs3 — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:06:50 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/chrome-enterprise/our-continued-commitment-to-chromebooks-and-looking-ahead

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188729

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Language Registries Are Unstable by Default

pabs3 — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:53:44 +0000

Article URL: https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/15/language-registries-are-unstable-by-default.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188328

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pabs3 in "Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes"

pabs3 — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:16:38 +0000

Tesla is full of open source software, including the Linux kernel. They probably are GPL violators though.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/may/18/tesla-incomplete-... https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/oct/30/calling-all-tesla... https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/dec/21/tesla-no-source-c...

See also this interesting slide deck about the GPLv3 and cars, I expect that regulations would mean you could not drive cars with modified software (similar to what happens with solar inverters):

https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...

New comment by pabs3 in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

pabs3 — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:57:36 +0000

Fuck You, Bambu Lab. Go Ahead, Sue Us

pabs3 — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:57:09 +0000

Article URL: https://gamersnexus.net/fk-you-bambu-lab

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115681

Points: 123

# Comments: 19

Fossier – GitHub spam prevention for open source repositories

pabs3 — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:02:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/PThorpe92/fossier

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115192

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Cults of TDD and GenAI

pabs3 — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:57:28 +0000

Article URL: https://drewdevault.com/blog/Cult-of-TDD-and-LLMs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115151

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by pabs3 in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

pabs3 — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:11:14 +0000

Don't get me wrong, Amazon are evil for sure, and worse than those companies.

New comment by pabs3 in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

pabs3 — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:53:07 +0000

That is incorrect, the FSF licenses would require Amazon contribute code forward to their users, not back to the project.

Also, Amazon were already contributing code back when these companies changed their licenses, the companies don't care about code contributions, just money.