Hacker News: palunon

New comment by palunon in "Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys"

palunon — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:54:51 +0000

There is actual encryption here. The base64 JSON only encodes the salt and parameters of the key derivation function used to encrypt the data.

New comment by palunon in "Defold: cross-platform game engine"

palunon — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 13:05:47 +0000

Wouldn't the artists be the ones to have standing, instead of the Blender Foundation?

New comment by palunon in "DA, sheriff, who shared woman's nude photos on phone are covered by QI"

palunon — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:39:07 +0000

No, it was designed to shield law enforcement officers violating the Ku Klux Klan Act from legitimate lawsuits. See [1], which is the case where it started. Qualified immunity is only relevant when the lawsuit is not frivolous anyway...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierson_v._Ray

New comment by palunon in "A woman made her AI voice clone say "arse." Then she got banned"

palunon — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:35:30 +0000

If you look at the significance of the place (The Tian'anmen is literally on the national emblem of China, and the tomb of Mao is on the square for example), it's hard to rename something that widely known. It's much easier to pull one of the events that happen there under the rug, because unlike in the west the name is associated to much more.

New comment by palunon in "DuckStation"

palunon — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 20:47:56 +0000

What? Creative Commons is good, but [it wasn't meant for code](https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...), and the No-Derivative and/or Non-Commercial Licenses are specifically incompatible with free and/or open source software.

Specifically, it violates freedom 3 of the FSF definition (redistribute changes), and section 3 of the OSI definition (Derived Works). This freedom is at the core of what FOSS is.

And that's before the violation of freedom 0, "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose" of the non commercial licenses.

New comment by palunon in "Helping wikis move away from Fandom"

palunon — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:19:04 +0000

AFAIK most of those just pay a human in a low income country.

New comment by palunon in "WireGuard-rs – Official Rust implementation of WireGuard"

palunon — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 02:27:24 +0000

I don't think this commit has anything to do with wireguard. It's a fix of a bug in the kernel TCP stack, which wireguard doesn't use. (Beware, the wireguard-linux repo is a "fork" of the complete linux kernel)

And even if it did, a userland TUN implementation of the wireguard protocol probably doesn't have the same bugs as the linux kernel one.

New comment by palunon in "WireGuard-rs – Official Rust implementation of WireGuard"

palunon — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 02:10:45 +0000

Looking at the supported platforms, it looks like the only one is Linux. The README has this to say about it though: "This will run on Linux; however YOU SHOULD NOT RUN THIS ON LINUX. Instead use the kernel module; see the installation page for instructions."

New comment by palunon in "France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones"

palunon — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:21:07 +0000

The national assembly (our House) is usually the one with the last say.

Bills are either "law proposals", meaning they are introduced by parliament members, or "law project", introduced by the government.

New comment by palunon in "France legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones"

palunon — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:13:37 +0000

The bill authorize it using any technical means, specifically mentioning using classified methods («prescrire le recours au moyens de l'État soumis au secret de la défense nationale»)

New comment by palunon in "Tips for better coding with ChatGPT"

palunon — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:25:56 +0000

For an article in the Nature scientific journal, sure. For an op-ed on Nature.com? Nah.

New comment by palunon in "FBI agents accuse CIA of 9/11 coverup"

palunon — Mon, 08 May 2023 18:45:49 +0000

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2006/March/06_opa_113...

> The reauthorizing legislation makes permanent 14 of the 16 sunsetted USA PATRIOT Act provisions and places four-year sunsets on the other two

New comment by palunon in "Pure Sh Bible"

palunon — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 21:25:57 +0000

> Similar for `sed` which is often only known and used for "replace string a by string b in input" use cases.

Sed has at least the vi users who may know ex command from the vi command mode. Awk needs to be learned for itself.

New comment by palunon in "Ron: Rusty Object Notation"

palunon — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:28:25 +0000

> Once you start coming up with rules about how you'd do that, you're inventing a serialisation format, and you're exactly back to the problem where your original question arose.

Which is exactly what savefile does.

New comment by palunon in "Plaid Layoffs"

palunon — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 01:22:32 +0000

> When I hear people talk about doing what you can to not have mass layoffs I don't think what they mean is that the company has an obligation to the employees that overrides their obligations to their shareholders

Depends on who's talking/the situation. When you hear people talking about not closing a profitable factory instead of laying people off to delocalize, that's pretty much what they mean.

New comment by palunon in "Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google Search"

palunon — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 01:28:57 +0000

> Any company that doesn't do regional pricing is only interested in doing business with rich countries. Which sucks but is understandable. I wish they were more honest about it though.

This may be true if your cost per client/customer/etc is either negligible (such as with digital goods delivery), or dependent on their country (eg. retail).

Here, the bulk of their cost is computing resources, and they (according to their profile page) don't even make enough to cover it with the current price. I don't think this cost would go down with the customer location.

Yeah, it sucks a lot that people in rich countries can afford things people in other countries cannot, but that's kinda what "rich country" means.

New comment by palunon in "French court: refusing to disclose mobile passcode to law enforcement is a crime"

palunon — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 22:05:06 +0000

Civil law as in not common law, not civil law as in not penal law.

Countries with civil law systems tend not to have contempt of court (or very limited versions). Of course, that's variable from country to country, civil and common law being more akin to trend than hard categories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)

New comment by palunon in "French court: refusing to disclose mobile passcode to law enforcement is a crime"

palunon — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 09:29:35 +0000

In france you are judged for a specific crime of not giving up (as in the article), carrying up to three years in prison and 270 000€ in fine.

We don't really have contempt of court, mainly because we have a civil law system not a common law one.

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI0000...

New comment by palunon in "French court: refusing to disclose mobile passcode to law enforcement is a crime"

palunon — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 09:11:16 +0000

The cour de cassation giving a decision in its plenary formation pretty much means it's over.

The case specifics still need to be judged based on that, but as far as jurisprudence goes, this is it.

New comment by palunon in "Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things"

palunon — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:34:41 +0000

> Which works not just to preserve the previous statement from internal inconsistency

It doesn't. You now have 4 numbers.