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New comment by tremon in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

tremon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:46:43 +0000

I also don't think Apple should be coerced to host content. However, as long as they insist on gatekeeping all installs on the iPhone platform they should be. If Apple doesn't want that coercion, they are free to relinquish their app store monopoly.

New comment by tremon in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

tremon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:52:58 +0000

The data recovery process needs to be validated too, preferably before customer data actually needs to be recovered.

New comment by tremon in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

tremon — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:10:08 +0000

Crazy people used to gun down schoolchildren who could be conveniently ignored. You can be sure that the ownership class won't just be sending thoughts and prayers here.

New comment by tremon in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

tremon — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:58:42 +0000

I'm of the view that it's violence of the non-political kind that is never justified*. Political violence can be legitimized, as an option of last resort. There's plenty of historical examples where groups of people were denied every avenue of redress until they turned violent. As an example, read up on the history of most labour unions.

* one exception being defense of life and limb.

New comment by tremon in "DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public"

tremon — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:07:49 +0000

"This is unconstitional because Trump doesn't like it" is not a very strong argument. The position he's holding is called "Public Office" (not private office) for a reason.

New comment by tremon in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

tremon — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:46:22 +0000

Putting it in the hands on the GNOME foundation will just result in a lot of new soon-to-be-mandatory APIs and numerous configuration variables with only one allowed value.

New comment by tremon in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

tremon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:18:45 +0000

> the device uses FDE and the key is provided over the network during boot

An example of such an implementation, since well before TPMs were commonplace: https://www.recompile.se/mandos

New comment by tremon in "Veracrypt project update"

tremon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:52:08 +0000

Do you expect the EU to insist on a different solution once the US solution is in-place in all US-based operating systems?

New comment by tremon in "Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers"

tremon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:44:35 +0000

It was the Clinton administration that started regulatory proceedings against Microsoft, but it was GW Bush that was president during the conclusion of the case. And, true to form:

> The Department of Justice, now under Bush administration attorney general John Ashcroft, announced on September 6, 2001, that it was no longer seeking to break up Microsoft and would instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...

New comment by tremon in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

tremon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:53:17 +0000

There's no inherent contradiction with a majority of drivers rating themselves above average: each driver is free to prioritize "good driver"-traits differently; e.g. if I value road safety and my neighbour values total travel time, we are probably both objectively better drivers according to our own metrics.

That said, 93% of car drivers are worse than me. Obviously.

New comment by tremon in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

tremon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:35:22 +0000

That's not a eugenics argument, that's merely an evolutionary argument (identifying a change in selection pressure). The eugenics argument would first have to make the case that the people are stupid/intelligent because of their genetic lineage rather than their upbringing.

New comment by tremon in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

tremon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:54:48 +0000

> I am the administrator of that computer and I want the thing I installed to be available to a specific run-user

Are you saying you use root access to install something to a specific user's home directory? That's gross.

A user installing something for themselves should not need administrator access. You only need admin access for making system-wide changes.

New comment by tremon in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

tremon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:50:51 +0000

I never understood that eugenics criticism of the movie. They make zero references to genetics in that opening sequence, and the nurture side of that argument is readily trotted out as a truism even here on HN: "people from affluent parents have easier access to education".

New comment by tremon in "Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of EuropeanUnion inaction"

tremon — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:03:26 +0000

You can not know the false negative rate without investigating 100% of all photos. You are asking for the impossible.

New comment by tremon in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

tremon — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:00:37 +0000

This is not about 100% perfection at launch, this is about civil equality. Launching without broad support for use cases creates a two-tier society.

New comment by tremon in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

tremon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:35:15 +0000

...and how decisively Trump was prosecuted for the 6/1/21 attempted ~coup~ tourism, and for how thoroughly the Epstein child abuse ring was dismantled, and...

Yes, the only chance the US has going forward is to primary all current incumbents and hold both party leadership accountable for complicity in treason.

New comment by tremon in "The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE"

tremon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:15:16 +0000

Yes. You not knowing whether you are in trouble or not is a feature, not a bug.

New comment by tremon in "What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router"

tremon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:05:10 +0000

The risk is minimal if you control or trust both networks. A network boundary is a natural choke point for access control, so that's where it's usually implemented. For an ipv4 boundary router (as is the topic of the post) you almost certainly need to configure Network Address Translation because your internal network addresses are non-routable on the Internet (at uni my dorm had public IP addresses for each student computer, fun times).

As for the GP's example, running VM's or containers* on your own machine? I'd say the default ACCEPT policy is fine. However, silently changing such a setting on software installation is a problem because if the machine is multi-homed (i.e. has more than one network interface), you've now created a network route outside of the network admin's control.

* The default for docker and podman is to use a private network, not a bridge anyway.

New comment by tremon in "What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router"

tremon — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:05:33 +0000

Aside from the fact that "a CPE" is grammatically incorrect, you are also semantically wrong. A router is any device connected to multiple networks that can forward packets between them; and consumer-premises equipment includes everything that's directly connected or consumes a service from a telecom provider. Landline phones, set-top boxes and satellite decoders are also examples of CPE.

It's like me stating "you're not a man, you're a human!" and then expecting you to be in awe of my profound wisdom.

New comment by tremon in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

tremon — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:17:11 +0000

Sure, but people who didn't know better until this particular incident do not deserve the title "engineer". Being able to classify and manage risks before they happen is engineering 101.