<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: throw_a_grenade</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=throw_a_grenade</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:47:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=throw_a_grenade" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh, this gave me an idea. OP should be able to get a hold of this „report” by subject access request. Law enforcement exception to GDPR doesn't apply to private companies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:21:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424314</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424314</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>10-20× more in private sector for senior leadership/advisory role sounds reasonable, but still, I wonder if some part of that compensation stems from the fact that the person is availing him/herself as an asset of influence, i.e. can be used to push narrative through media while posing as independent, credible expert. Needs further research and/or A/B testing I guess.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:44:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397275</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397275</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's deliberately written that way, by lawyers who are making sure they (Adafruit) won't accidentaly admit to something they didn't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:17:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368707</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They cetainly get to argue before two sets of judges. Otherwise it's not justice.<p>I wanted to make clear that press release is not a valid substitute for a court order. And it's OK to publish one before the final instance issues it's verdict.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 18:50:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313656</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313656</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my world people are innocent until proven guilty before a court of law, twice. Yes, even business people. Executive branch shouldn't be able to just bankrupt a company and tell the owners to go through the courts to maybe recover the money in 10 years, if they're innocent after all.<p>There were several such cases in my country before we joined EU, most high profile one was against Optimus SA (predecessor to CD Projekt), where they just took people's money, without cause as they courts later found. Never again.<p>So the middle ground is, Temu can choose to play hardball all the way to ECJ, but if they are wrong (they are and they know it), the cost will be substantial (200 M€ + interest + daily fines + interest). So I think they'll enter talks, pay 200 M€ and pinky promise to delist offending items.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 17:16:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312206</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They'll put them on naughty list that will be enforced by financial institutions, i.e. it will be an infraction for credit card operators to process such a payment. Financial operators have well oiled compliance facilities and the payment won't clear. If Temu won't get the money, they won't ship the parcel. And if they won't ship, then there will be a bit less carcinogens in EU. Good stuff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 15:29:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310415</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's actually both: they handed one-time fine for past behaviour (about 200 M€, not final, can and most likely will be appealed and paid in like 10 years or so; cf. Apple tax breaks in Ireland); and threatening more fines if they don't play along in the future. One of the kinds of punishment that Commision can slap (subject to court oversight, ofc) is „daily fines”, which is a fine that accumulates with constant daily rate up to the date the company complies, or some pre-set maximum, which usually calculates to several months, and need to be reissued afterwards (which is an opportunity to double the daily amount, and again, can be appealed to a court).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 15:24:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310305</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "Donald Trump and sons to be 'forever' exempt from tax audits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://archive.is/5hYwT" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/5hYwT</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 17:49:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48211413</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48211413</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48211413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why not? They'll spin a new LLC for every title and leave it empty shell, without capital to be recovered by the users should they sue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 22:26:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154739</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mostly works, some stuff doesn't. The worst thing that doesn't work is alternative maps (e.g. OsmAnd).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 11:21:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147229</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "Debian must ship reproducible packages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's npm that's affected, therefore it's not even considered when choosing language/ecosystem for writing distro tools. You'll find no sane distro writing package manager in javascript precisely to avoid this joke of a supply chain.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 08:25:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082036</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082036</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> it doesn’t pertain to you until you pay<p>Respectfully, that's bollocks. The data, by itself, either does, or it does not. Exchange of unrelated money does not change anything in the data itself. IOW, it's the data that matters, not a wannabe-service that is pitched to the rightful owners.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 13:37:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049278</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049278</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, of course. In European cities there are GDPR disclosures hanged on the lampposts on which CCTV cameras are mounted. The disclosure contains retention period and contact to data processing inspector where you can request the data. You probably need to specify the timestamps and haw to recognise you.<p>In commercial buildings the disclosure may hang on the wall besides main entrance.<p>Everything as designed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:49:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048800</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, that's the point. If the data pertains to you, it's yours. No "iff I pay for it".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 11:40:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048176</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048176</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "We need a federation of forges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Look, life is complicated and not a single issue, contrary to what admins of many of those fedi instances would like. Typical human has views on multiple subjects, but it takes only a single incorrect opinion expressed to have you ejected. Worse yet, it happens by leveraging the admin of your instance: they go to the admin and tell him/her that if you're not banned, they'll defederate the whole instance. IOW they're bullies, and bullies squared at that: they designed a whole protocol to enable bullying.<p>Again, go check #FediBlock. If you'd like a specific example of the single issue vs multiple issues, pay specific attention to trans vs black conflict there and see how it is played by both sides.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:58:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955295</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "We need a federation of forges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They'll then defederate also from you. The argument goes, you're a nazi/facist/racist/*phobe, because you associate with (== did not defederate from) the designated nazi/facist/racist/*phobe.<p>Yes, it's that toxic. Go subscribe #FediBlock hashtag if you don't believe me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:51:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953569</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is that when car drivers decide the rules are nonsensical it's bad, but when bicycle drivers decide the rules (that, please note, apply to everyone on the street, car or not), it's somehow A-ok?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:52:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47915031</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47915031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47915031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Not clear whether soldiers are acting on their own or following policy.<p>It mostly doesn't matter, unless they're punished. If they're not, then the policy is, what they did is okay. That's why it's important to keep army disciplined.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:28:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845298</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845298</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>„There” — you mean where? Generally in the West Bank or intruding into Palestinian homes to abuse their children?<p>I'd wager Palestinians would throw them out of their homes. Instead, parents had to stand there helpless.<p>If you meant generally, I think they wouldn't be there without soldiers at all, illegaly tranfering own population into occupied territories.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:10:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845176</link><dc:creator>throw_a_grenade</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845176</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throw_a_grenade in "Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Who was abusing?<p>It's possible that in some cases it was settlers. So technically not soldiers. But soldiers protected them, incl. from any resisting abuse.</p>
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