Hacker News: ronsor

New comment by ronsor in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

ronsor — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:17:03 +0000

The default orientation of Americans toward government is already skepticism and distrust. The average person is questioning "why did you ever like the government in the first place?"

New comment by ronsor in "H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office"

ronsor — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:13:56 +0000

> Those who are under attack happen to also be the biggest copyrighter holders, so this would open up a new avenue of attack.

Don't threaten me with a good time

New comment by ronsor in "There Is Life Before Main in Rust"

ronsor — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:00:01 +0000

If you merely get feedback from a human, are they now a co-author?

New comment by ronsor in "Fable 5 Ported the Ladybird Browser to WebAssembly in One Shot and It Cost $552"

ronsor — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:57:38 +0000

A WASM browser is cool for general portability reasons. Right now porting browsers to bespoke targets is a major PITA, even for WebKit.

New comment by ronsor in "Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code"

ronsor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:26:08 +0000

I'm sure millions of people will rearrange their lives in due consideration of your morality overlord status.

New comment by ronsor in "The oldest surviving animated feature film at 100"

ronsor — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:59:57 +0000

That's fine, but all that means is that America should change and the others can stay the same if they want :)

New comment by ronsor in "TRPL: A copylet license that treats API usage as derivate works"

ronsor — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:57:59 +0000

> AI & ML Training

> If you train on TRPL code, the model weights and training data become "Functional Output" and must be shared. No black box models.

This doesn't work because AI companies don't accept licenses. Either the training is already infringing (in which case this doesn't matter much) or it's fair use/permitted by law (in which case this also doesn't matter much).

New comment by ronsor in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

ronsor — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:04:29 +0000

That's not really anti-AI. Anti-AI would mean avoiding it as a value regardless of practicality.

That sounds more like anti-enshittification.

New comment by ronsor in "The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography"

ronsor — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:07:58 +0000

Technically all RF communications are "public." You have to use encryption if you want security.

New comment by ronsor in "South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools"

ronsor — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:47:16 +0000

A better axis is libertarian-authoritarian, because the "left" and the "right" aren't inherently either.

New comment by ronsor in "The ways we contain Claude across products"

ronsor — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:07:48 +0000

This is how humans weigh most decisions in practice.

New comment by ronsor in "Multicore suppport for DOS is real – partly"

ronsor — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:03:54 +0000

> ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR

Hm?

New comment by ronsor in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

ronsor — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:25:59 +0000

> They taint every file you create as pirated and when you give that file to a licensed user, their legitimate copy will phone home and have their lawyers force the legitimate user to betray you.

Can this be manipulated to frame arbitrary users for piracy?

New comment by ronsor in "Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks"

ronsor — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:24:35 +0000

It probably would not pass scrutiny. The FCC can only even enforce broadcast regulations because the EM spectrum is a scarce resource; they don't for cable or Internet media.

Politicians in general have a bad habit of threatening and passing speech laws that judges torch on sight.

New comment by ronsor in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

ronsor — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:24:43 +0000

The amount of hassle involved with regular physical checks is why it's not implemented, regardless of attack prevention.

The cost of hiring a person is part of it but not really the core reason. People were sold on the Internet with "you can do things online conveniently" and reintroducing the need to physically go somewhere negates that angle entirely.

New comment by ronsor in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

ronsor — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:47:16 +0000

The software industry mostly gave up when they saw it wasn't working.

Even the music industry (of all of them!) mostly gave up.

Only Hollywood and the wider film/TV industry is so stubborn.

New comment by ronsor in "Free full BGP feed. IPv4 and IPv6"

ronsor — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:04:23 +0000

Only if they haven't enabled filtering, which would be ludicrous.

New comment by ronsor in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

ronsor — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:32:59 +0000

A lot of people in the movement think game companies are the root problem when what they actually have a problem with is current copyright law.

New comment by ronsor in "Protestware for coding agents"

ronsor — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:12:45 +0000

Would love to see more devs tanking their reputations with this.

New comment by ronsor in "A one-word answer to why EU lost control of Big Tech: Ireland"

ronsor — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:37:45 +0000

I don't think the EU ever had control of Big Tech to lose.

Tech companies like Ireland as a tax haven among other reasons. They would just as quickly leave if the benefits evaporated entirely.