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New comment by saddlerustle in "Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots"

saddlerustle — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:33:28 +0000

This ends up being pretty bad for competition because it does not block the largest AI scraper of them all: Googlebot.

New comment by saddlerustle in "Waymo to begin testing on San Francisco freeways this week"

saddlerustle — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:08:08 +0000

Waymo was not doing public rides in 2015. It was invite only and you had to sign an NDA

New comment by saddlerustle in "Waymo to begin testing on San Francisco freeways this week"

saddlerustle — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 01:41:26 +0000

AutoX and Pony.ai in China have been been offering rides to the public with no safety driver for much longer than Waymo

New comment by saddlerustle in "Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns"

saddlerustle — Sat, 04 May 2024 08:32:16 +0000

The overarching terms of the DMCA are specified by the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty, which every developed country has implemented.

New comment by saddlerustle in "S3 Express Is All You Need"

saddlerustle — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:52:44 +0000

That’s not true anymore with EFS Elastic Throughput

New comment by saddlerustle in "I think I need to go lie down"

saddlerustle — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:03:50 +0000

The gpt4-turbo api is now deterministic

New comment by saddlerustle in "Canadians will no longer have access to news content on Facebook and Instagram"

saddlerustle — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 23:14:43 +0000

They do actually, if they're roaming on a Canadian SIM

New comment by saddlerustle in "WhatsApp would not remove end-to-end encryption for UK law, says chief"

saddlerustle — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:58:40 +0000

The consequence for not obliging with the online safety bill is pulling out from the UK market. The consequence for ignoring legally sound US court orders is Meta executives going to jail.

New comment by saddlerustle in "WhatsApp would not remove end-to-end encryption for UK law, says chief"

saddlerustle — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:52:35 +0000

It's false. The OP is probably confusing it for the option of encrypting the backup with a 64-digit key (which is ~212 bits)

New comment by saddlerustle in "Sony's Legal Attack on Quad9, Censorship, and Freedom of Speech"

saddlerustle — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 17:43:09 +0000

The DMCA is the US’s implementation of the 1996 WIPO copyright treaty, which almost the entire developed world has ratified.

New comment by saddlerustle in "Tell HN: Domain fronting to be blocked on Azure"

saddlerustle — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 14:16:30 +0000

It’s too late. Whole countries block all eSNI requests, so it’s always going to fail open.

New comment by saddlerustle in "FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns"

saddlerustle — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:40:28 +0000

FTX was making a killing, so its token that paid out trading fees was worth a lot. To bail out trading losses in Alameda, FTX sent it cash in exchange for a bunch of its own token. This might have worked out fine, except now the moment everyone expects FTX to go bankrupt, it's bankrupt.

New comment by saddlerustle in "Much US “recycling” goes straight to the landfill"

saddlerustle — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:55:03 +0000

In terms of CO2 per unit energy burning plastic is much worse than burning natural gas (and much much worse than any zero carbon source). Energy is fungible, there's no reason to encourage producing CO2 when it's possible not to.

New comment by saddlerustle in "Global Encryption Day: Demand End-to-End Encryption in DMs"

saddlerustle — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 15:33:29 +0000

> What I find intriguing is that E2EE was significantly more common long ago than it is today.

This is absurd. Today a large fraction of the world's population is using E2EE via WhatsApp.

New comment by saddlerustle in "Meta Quest Pro"

saddlerustle — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:34:03 +0000

Ironically this is exactly what they were trying to avoid by just requiring a Facebook account for everything

New comment by saddlerustle in "WhatsApp Remote Code Execution in Video Call"

saddlerustle — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:05:16 +0000

Telegram implements video calling using bunch of sketchy C code same as WhatsApp and Signal. There's no reason to think it's less vulnerable these sort of bugs.

New comment by saddlerustle in "WhatsApp Remote Code Execution in Video Call"

saddlerustle — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 17:50:07 +0000

Notably on iOS there's no good way to isolate unsafe native libraries from the rest of your app without violating app store policies, because Apple enforces apps to be single process and doesn't allow use of its own sandboxing apis.

New comment by saddlerustle in "Systems and Cost Analysis for Nuclear Subterrene Tunneling Machine (1973) [pdf]"

saddlerustle — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 19:05:30 +0000

Why does efficiency matter at all? Tunneling costs thousands of times more than the energy cost.

New comment by saddlerustle in "Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?"

saddlerustle — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:25:20 +0000

Plenty of people rent single family units.

New comment by saddlerustle in "Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?"

saddlerustle — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:13:15 +0000

If companies can't own houses, and people can't own more than their primary residence, where should renters live?