Hacker News: tremon

New comment by tremon in "Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch"

tremon — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:20:47 +0000

For every cell mechanism that's being abused by cancer to fuel its growth, there are other cells in the body for which that mechanism is crucial for their correct functioning. Wholesale editing every cell in the body mostly guarantees that the patient does not die of cancer -- the cure will kill them before the disease does.

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

tremon — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:05:41 +0000

The primary European failure here has been to allow the hollowing out of the EU tech space. There have been plenty of web tech players in the EU; the US policy over the last 30 years has been to absorb them into US companies or buy them off using US capital, and the EU strategy has been to very much encourage that.

But it is complete fantasy to use the current landscape as evidence of capability. It would be equally shortsighted to say "How would the US replace Chinese manufacturing? There simply are no equivalent supply chains in the US, regardless of pipe dreams that pedophile sycophants regularly conjure up. The US seems hellbent on becoming poor and economically irrelevant".

New comment by tremon in "Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine"

tremon — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:49:01 +0000

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New comment by tremon in "Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine"

tremon — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:45:38 +0000

> “We welcome that the Zurich Commercial Court confirmed our right to publish a counterstatement”

Well that certainly is one way to spin having 22 of your 23 counterstatement requests dismissed by the court.

New comment by tremon in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

tremon — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:24:41 +0000

Indeed. One is expected in a healthy democracy, the other is essential for a totalitarian state.

New comment by tremon in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

tremon — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:04:58 +0000

> YouTube is an example of a site that Firefox has trouble handling

That's fully on Google. I use plenty of other streaming sites where Firefox handles full-screen video just fine. Coming from the web search company that penalizes the rest of the Internet for slow-loading pages, Youtube is basically an embarrassment and I'm convinced this is completely intentional.

It's gotten so bad that I don't even try to watch Youtube in-browser any more; when someone posts a link that I think might be worth the effort, it goes straight into youtube-dl and I'll watch it offline or not at all.

New comment by tremon in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

tremon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:58:24 +0000

Probably referring to the content platform: https://nebula.tv/

New comment by tremon in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

tremon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:47:42 +0000

> Freedom of DNS choice has nothing to do with DoH

The attack vector that DoH offers is that data exfiltration companies will start shipping their own DNS resolver in javascript to work around DNS-based filtering. They can't do this with regular DNS because the network traffic can still be observed and blocked independently, but how will you block a browser from accessing specific https URLs without MITM'ing all traffic?

So yes, DoH does have something to do with DNS choice: it can completely subvert the OS-provided domain resolver service as well as the browser-configured one.

New comment by tremon in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

tremon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:13:49 +0000

If setting warehouses on fire can be called terrorism today, then the Boston Tea Party was equally an act of terrorism then.

New comment by tremon in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

tremon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:08:54 +0000

You are basically admitting that the US is already past the point of no return on the road to full-blown oppression: too many government workers not accountable to the people.

New comment by tremon in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

tremon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:26:07 +0000

> I don’t know that regular political violence is positively correlated with worker protections

In fact, it's quite easy to find examples of political violence being used to reduce worker protections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence_in_the_Uni...

New comment by tremon in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

tremon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:35:04 +0000

The FUD is claiming that those banners are mandated by the EU, rather than malicious compliance from the industry.

New comment by tremon in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

tremon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:00:31 +0000

Possibly, depending on how they're activated. If the layer is only activated while another key is pressed, that's not stateful (i.e. no different from yet another Fn key). I'd say that layer toggles and one-shot key modifiers are stateful control, yes.

Personally, I've found that I prefer layer shift keys over layer toggles. It takes more mental effort to track in which layer I'm working than to hold a key while pressing another. The only persistent layer toggles I use is to switch the entire keyset to a different layout (qwerty vs workman vs single-handed, or switch the right half to numpad).

New comment by tremon in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

tremon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:26:54 +0000

That claim is easily disproven: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fi...

New comment by tremon in "Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints"

tremon — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:01:26 +0000

It can reasonably be said to be out of scope for a diabetes conference if the organisers don't want to include it

So the organisers of a conference can control the topics that its attendees want to talk about in the hallways of the venue? They don't have to extend any agency to the attendees, they're just dumb consumers here?

New comment by tremon in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

tremon — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:45:42 +0000

Actually, that's battery. The assault is by the person recording without consent.

New comment by tremon in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

tremon — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:36:18 +0000

What makes you think they haven't already?

New comment by tremon in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

tremon — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:52:23 +0000

The only sensible take is blue team good cop, red team bad cop; they're still both cops, working for the system and against you. You can see from the voting record that there's always just enough dems to defect to pass through any laws that the GOP wants through. The Democrats in congress are still guilty of treason against the Constitution, the number of exceptions to that rule remains in the single digits.

The only non-violent way to save your country is to primary all current incumbents and convict both party leadership for treason.

New comment by tremon in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

tremon — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:43:37 +0000

> Fuck those people

Trump already called dibs.

New comment by tremon in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

tremon — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:39:02 +0000

Science is antithetical to rule-by-decree or other forms of despotism, since it strives to disprove any and all claims. The powers that be simply don't like to be told "you're wrong", and that is the core of what science does. It's as simple as that.