Hacker News: rstat1

New comment by rstat1 in "Refusal to Give the Govt Passwords to Personal Mobile Criminalized in Hong Kong"

rstat1 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:40:16 +0000

The letter of the law says you are correct. Reality however disagrees. People who are most definitely US citizens have in fact been put in jail for the simple not-crime of refusing to provide passwords to their devices to law enforcement.

New comment by rstat1 in "Refusal to Give the Govt Passwords to Personal Mobile Criminalized in Hong Kong"

rstat1 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:36:22 +0000

The US has been doing that for years already. There's plenty of stories of people (US citizens included) being detained by border agents in US airports for refusal to provide said agents with access to their devices.

New comment by rstat1 in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

rstat1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:09:59 +0000

So if a company uses as part of its marketing for a product the phrase "advanced security, privacy, and connectivity for homes of every shape and size" and then is later found to have lied about the "advanced security" and "privacy" part of their marketing by shipping firmware with security bugs, does that not now fall under the "deceptive" category of the "unfair, deceptive and fraudulent business practices" part of the FTC's mission?

Sounds like it does to me. Also you're forgetting the part where the FTC under a prior administration either banned DLINK from selling in the US or heavily fined them for selling routers in the US that they knew were running insecure, buggy firmware.

(both quotes were taken verbatim from first, Netgear's US website, and secondly the Bureau of Consumer Protections' section of the FTC's website)

New comment by rstat1 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

rstat1 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:17:03 +0000

If that is truly what you think, then you clearly haven't used a Linux desktop distro since then because that absolutely incorrect.

New comment by rstat1 in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

rstat1 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:26:50 +0000

OS makers should not be in the business of enforcing censorship. If you want to shield your children from the "horrors" of the internet either use proper parental control software, or don't allow access at all like you said until your kids are mature to understand what's going on

The onus is on the parent to the be parent. Not the tech industry, and especially not the government.

New comment by rstat1 in "Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linux LTS Kernels"

rstat1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:57:05 +0000

Google did it with the Tensor-powered Pixels a while back, from w/e they shipped with to 6.1

New comment by rstat1 in "MacBook Neo"

rstat1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:55:46 +0000

You can with Dev Drives now apparently, which don't use NTFS and disable ALL the filter drivers (including the Defender one)

I stopped using Windows just as these were added so now I'm curious if there's any actual performance benefit to using the.

New comment by rstat1 in "MacBook Neo"

rstat1 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:37:03 +0000

I'd wager that's more likely due to Windows than the hardware. Like sure the hardware does play a part in that but its not the whole story or even most of it.

My C++ projects have a python heavy build system attached where the main script that runs to prepare everything and kick off the build, takes significantly longer to run on Windows than Linux on the same hardware.

New comment by rstat1 in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"

rstat1 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:55:10 +0000

Doesn't need to be in the cloud for it work everywhere.

New comment by rstat1 in "Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations"

rstat1 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:55:32 +0000

>>he thought his job would be in jeopardy if he didn't publish

Where'd you get this from? The author's response on Bluesky doesn't imply this at all.

New comment by rstat1 in "Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default"

rstat1 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:38:55 +0000

Here’s the PR explaining why they disabled this function

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/pull/18336

Seems like it caused tons of problems due to the variability of TPM quality among other things

New comment by rstat1 in "S&box is now an open source game engine"

rstat1 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:51:30 +0000

and also source 1

New comment by rstat1 in "Dr Matthew Garrett v Dr Roy Schestowitz and Anor"

rstat1 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:58:59 +0000

Its WILD to me seeing Techrights described as "well-established, respected and trusted"

New comment by rstat1 in "The disguised return of EU Chat Control"

rstat1 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:45:51 +0000

You can still care about forthcoming invasions of one's privacy and while still understanding that the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution is only intended to prevent state and federal governments from censoring you. Not corporations.

Semantics are very important when it comes to legal matters.

New comment by rstat1 in "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"

rstat1 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:09:48 +0000

Most of the requirements for that feature are UEFI features or a TPM, and have nothing to do with the CPU

The actual CPU requirements are VMX, SLAT, IOMMU and being 64 bit, which have all been available on the Intel side at least, since at least 2008, with some coming available even before that.

The CPU requirement was just an attempt to force people to buy new hardware they didn't need. Nothing more.

A perfect example of this is the Ryzen 5 1600. Its not officially supported but meets every single one of the requirements and had no trouble enabling the feature in the run up to the release of Win11 (before it was blocked for no reason). I know this because I did it.

Also they marked all but one 7th Intel Core CPU as unsupported, and the one they did add just so happens to be the one they were shipping in one of their Surface products. No way you can tell me this list was based fact and not the whims of some random PM when they do stuff like that.

New comment by rstat1 in "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"

rstat1 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 18:46:40 +0000

VBS is also in Windows 10 and has no problem working on CPUs that aren't "supported" in Windows 11

New comment by rstat1 in "Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition"

rstat1 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:03:06 +0000

That they presently have no problems doing without this crap, so proving that they don't need it.

New comment by rstat1 in "Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition"

rstat1 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 05:57:15 +0000

They've had plenty of opportunity to do this and haven't, so would find it incredibly unlikely they would magically start to have a problem now

Not to mention doing would basically kill game as one of the biggest reason people even still play Minecraft is the modding scene, not the minimum viable effort that have been the official updates for last number of years.

New comment by rstat1 in "German government comes out against Chat Control"

rstat1 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:27:08 +0000

ChatControl is just lawful interception under a different name, but worse.

New comment by rstat1 in "German government comes out against Chat Control"

rstat1 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:21:04 +0000

And we all know those laws are never abused and are absolutely only used to target criminals.