That would bankrupt every news organisation in the USA.
Seems like a good idea then
Readit News_blk commented on A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-n... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
It is when a human publishes it. Which is why they're also liable for it.
I agree in general and that should be the position but it's probably more nuanced than this in practice: who published it when it's a dev that writes a script that just spits junk into the wild or reinforces someone else's troll-speech?
Or it'll end up like California cancer warnings: every news site will put the warning on, just in case, making it worthless.
Yup. Or like "necessary cookies" that aren't all that necessary when it works just fine without.
_blk commented on Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train finance.yahoo.com/news/mu... · Posted by u/malchow
The most interesting data running through Starlink is Ukrainian and Russian military comms (including feeds from drones). I wonder if Musk actually plans to tap into that.
"Good luck" [in Russian accent]
_blk commented on Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train finance.yahoo.com/news/mu... · Posted by u/malchow
_blk commented on Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train finance.yahoo.com/news/mu... · Posted by u/malchow
I never understood the business case for Starlink. You're either on fiber or 5G.
Take your RV for an extended stay at the National Parks. RV parks are full of Starlinkers and I *love* the service.
Roadtrips with kids are so much better too. The residential dish's in-motion performance is phenomenal and it's not even made for that.
_blk commented on Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites lightwaves.io/en/eu-audit... · Posted by u/cmkr
This is a massive risk that will affect half the internet or so.
.onion might be exempt but while the TLD "." is anycast worldwide for the actual DNS service, Verisign still signs the cert. Isn't that a show-stopper for dependencies on dns-over-https or https altogether or do .cn, .ru, .ir etc all add/replace with their own independent signatures ?
_blk commented on Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites lightwaves.io/en/eu-audit... · Posted by u/cmkr
Not accurate.
It has nsa.gov on the leaderboard as having no US dependencies.
It wrongly says one of my sites is using Cloudflare.
It says that one of my sites that is hosted in the US (no CDN, US IP address) has no US dependencies.
it treats social media links the same way was embeds.
it gives gov.uk a perfect score. Maybe by design because it is hosted in Europe, but if so it should not say its EU sovereignty.
I do not think that is the case because it also gives a perfect score to https://english.www.gov.cn/
I do not know how it got to the HN front page - people presumably vote it up without checking it actually works.
Its just not anywhere near accurate.
This is more of an attempt at a political stunt. The CCP's website gets a perfect score, admin.ch also gets a perfect score while Switzerland is most-definitely not in the EU.. non-US is more accurate than EU but you only see that when stars start flying.
IMHO: Just scrap the politics and show what regional deps a site has - that'd actually increase value quite a bit.
_blk commented on Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager jampa.dev/p/lessons-learn... · Posted by u/jampa
Honestly, I’m not sure.
If I know what was going on transparently I am stressed. As an ordinary employee, I don’t need to know everything and therefore don’t need to worry about it.
As a leader, it's important to provide not just the meat but also the veggies. What people end up eating is up to them, but serve the full course! If as a ME, I start deciding who needs to know what, information will be perceived as incomplete because people always talk and engineer are often smart enough to read between the lines. So the transparent umbrella is a great analogy. Communicate bad news as fast and coherently as possible - group meeting with open questions works well for me but be ready to address the potential fears: "In my current assessment, that's not going to be a problem, I'll let you know if that changes." and of course "Thanks for asking, I didn't consider that and I don't know yet. I'll clarify" is a valid answer, if you do indeed clarify.
If you're genuinely stressed with that, talk to your lead about it and they'll find a way to filter a little more while not giving you the feeling of being left out.
Apple will do this too. Your laptop encryption key is stored in your keychain (without telliing you!). All is needed is a warrant for your iCloud account and they also have access to your laptop.
sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/filevault-on-macos-tahoe-no-longer-uses-icloud-to-store-its-recovery-key/
Thanks, that's good to know. I suspect WhatsApp's "we're fully E2E encrypted" would be similar too.