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New comment by redleader55 in "Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS"

redleader55 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:26:56 +0000

Richard Stallman has been talking about this since the 80s. One of the most famous and relevant examples of this is "The Right to Read"[0], from 1997.

0 - https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

New comment by redleader55 in "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"

redleader55 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:56:37 +0000

Because money has no value, if you don't give it one. If you make infinite money, it's worth 0. Same with the 100 companies - OpenAI and Anthropic are worth something, only if there's someone to buy the tokens. If any of them successfully proves that having a company is worthless, many companies fail, and then there's no one to buy the tokens.

New comment by redleader55 in "Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude"

redleader55 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:28:17 +0000

You are forgetting something very important. Microsoft has a much better track record of data policies being correctly enforced. Neither OpenAi or Anthropic have that.

It's not about the model or who gets the bribe, like a few folks in this thread imply, it's simply the guarantees that Microsoft is able to give to a public institution about what happens to their data.

New comment by redleader55 in "Tesla Roadster"

redleader55 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:00:15 +0000

We don't do politics here on HN, but I wouldn't touch a needle made by one of the companies of this douchebag. I'm talking here as a consumer who might end up on the wrong side of this guy's political ambitions.

New comment by redleader55 in "Docker Agent"

redleader55 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:41:15 +0000

The quest for staying relevant.

New comment by redleader55 in "Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account"

redleader55 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:39:21 +0000

How is this different from you not knowing what you are doing and adding products to your online store's DB for negative dollars? It's not, it's just easier.

New comment by redleader55 in "Void Linux Maintainer Orphans 100 Packages over AI Policy Dispute"

redleader55 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:06:48 +0000

Does that mean that Void will drop the Linux part? Linus very publicly announced they welcome AI submissions.

Seems like a very dumb hill to die on in 2026

New comment by redleader55 in "Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS"

redleader55 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:17:27 +0000

You're a banking app. Why do you need to check my phone or my os? The security is not in what phone I use, but in how sane your 2-factor auth is and if even exists.

New comment by redleader55 in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

redleader55 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:41:33 +0000

Right ... While we do that, let's also retype the assembly code the compiler produces, do the linking manually and check you got the same result as the linker, and then finally write the bytes yourself. Whether or not you manually bit-bang à la Morse code the bits to storage is left as an exercise to the reader.

New comment by redleader55 in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

redleader55 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:43:21 +0000

His name indicates a troll.

New comment by redleader55 in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

redleader55 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:34:18 +0000

It's even funnier because an attack, until proven otherwise, should make you assume the data has already left the environment.

New comment by redleader55 in "Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database"

redleader55 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:31:38 +0000

We had that almost 80 years ago for a few decades, but we shot a guy at the end of it. I hope the next one to suggest something like this remembers the history and refrains from it.

It did help the West, and especially the UK, to get as immigrants very high good plumbers and handy men. The rest of us went into STEM and are now working for FAANGS.

New comment by redleader55 in "GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims"

redleader55 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:38:56 +0000

It's funny the page recommends de-Googled phones, but requires a Google service(reCaptcha) to view the page.

New comment by redleader55 in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

redleader55 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:34:54 +0000

I think EU is warming up to the possibility that relying on US tech is has strategic consequences.

New comment by redleader55 in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

redleader55 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:23:44 +0000

Unfortunately it is a bit more complicated than that. All these phones run firmware, bootloaders, libraries under license from SoC providers, who package components from other vendors under a license themselves. Opening up the bootloader can be done, but two things have to happen: either the phone is crippled of various functionalities or the manufacturer is in breach of license because all the binary blobs become open and can be reverse engineered. No one wants to go through all of this for a few hundred people who are interested in running their home assistant on an exotic device.

New comment by redleader55 in "Moving beyond fork() + exec()"

redleader55 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:51:38 +0000

When cores start needing more than 9 bits to be represented and RAM is in terabytes, many of the old assumptions need to change. Schedulers need to be implemented in userspace, RAM needs to be allocated in GB, not in 4k, io needs to require less round-trips between kernel and user space and NICs need to do a lot more work before the data reaches the CPU.

New comment by redleader55 in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

redleader55 — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:11:24 +0000

If we are successful building an "ultra" human AI, it will require massive amounts of energy. That translates directly to "money". There will always be money unless someone finds a way to negate the second law of thermodynamics.

New comment by redleader55 in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

redleader55 — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:32:18 +0000

The dependency tree for anything in the software world is so large, that liability like you describe is not feasible. Tomorrow Anthropic's latest model will find a RCE in SYNs being sent to a server? Who is "liable" when you lose your Google account, your bank account, access to your car and all ways to prove to the government you are who you are all at the same time?

New comment by redleader55 in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

redleader55 — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:55:46 +0000

Others have already replied this is not exactly the case and it's trafficking weed and other drugs that gets you hanged.

That being said, I'm not so chill about weed. Weed people, like smokers before them, don't consider weed to be a big problem for the people around them and ignore anything you might have against it. That means you'll be laughed at when you ask neighbors to stop smoking two floors below you, to stop growing the plants in their tub, etc. It also means you'll have to go through a lot of places that smell like shit because people smoke weed there often.

New comment by redleader55 in "FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX"

redleader55 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:39:42 +0000

Statistically, I would look at deaths from that age group among space flight science and compare this "blip" to the p50. I don't think it's easy to say if 11 deaths/disappearances over 4 years is high or not, without looking at the problem this way.