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lazyier commented on Amazon admits no basis for damages in $1M asset seizure by DOJ? twitter.com/amy_k_nelson/... · Posted by u/ilamont

LatteLazy · 3 years ago

I am very confused by this.

First on Amazons claim: the key parts of the screenshots she herself provided are blacked out. So they show nothing?! Someone has specifically removed only the parts relevant to her claim.

Second, on the Civil Forfeiture: They have gotten most but not all of the cash back. If the DOJ actually admit there is no case why not insist on all of it (and lawyers fees and interest etc)? And also, the DOJ are VERY clear the only reason they didn't fight the return of the money is that there is an ongoing criminal investigation and they don't want to prejudice it. The DOJ having an open case AND secret sources seems like the opposite of proof you're innocent.

Third, it seems entirely fair and reasonable for Amazon to have pressured the DOJ to seize/freeze assets. Isn't that very standard in any case of fraud (or whatever this is ultimately prosecuted as)? I don't know why Op talks about it like it is evidence of conspiracy...

I don't know much about this case. Civil Forfeiture seems like bullshit to me. It's confusing to me how long US cases seem to take (both before and during court proceedings, ditto for the Jan 6th prosecutions that are only just getting going). But these claims seem suspicious as hell...

Please do correct me if I am missing some key point here?

lazyier · 3 years ago

In a sane country you are innocent until proven guilty. That fact you exist as a human being is all the evidence you need to prove you are innocent.

If you have to "prove you are innocent" the government is the one violating the law, not you.

Seizing your family's wealth and denying you ability to make a living is punishment for a crime you are not convicted of. That itself alone is beyond violation of justice.

And yes it is "standard" for the government to leverage administrative law to seize assets before a court case. The true purpose of this is to deny a person ability to defend themselves against the government. This is the very definition of evil and tyranny. There is no excuse.

> Third, it seems entirely fair and reasonable for Amazon to have pressured the DOJ to seize/freeze assets. Isn't that very standard in any case of fraud (or whatever this is ultimately prosecuted as)?

Well just wait until somebody decides to seize everything you own with no explanation, no crime, no evidence, and no ability to appeal and see how you "fair and reasonable" it feels after that.

lazyier commented on Ask HN: Why isn't there something like Let's Encrypt for document signing? · Posted by u/ElTimuro

ElTimuro · 3 years ago

How can something so fundamentally math-based as Public-key cryptography be so heavyliy patented?

lazyier · 3 years ago

patents are government granted monopolies on algorithms. "Algorithm" defined as "a set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations"

It's just series of steps, a recipe. You do "A", then "B", then "C" as outlined in a patent then you violate a patent and the person has the right to sue you. Whether the steps are outlined involve math or not isn't really relevant.

What is covered and not covered by a patent is very arbitrary and based on court precedent. Any sort of sanctions against "pure math functions" are usually easily worked around by including "as done in a computer" or similar language.

Patents are a very good way for governments to retard progress while rewarding large companies for investing in large numbers of lawyers.

lazyier commented on PipeWire 0.3.62 gitlab.freedesktop.org/pi... · Posted by u/jrepinc

seba_dos1 · 3 years ago

> That said, I've had daily issues with it, from it slowing video playback (weirdly, by about 10 seconds over 20 minutes or so, only noticable when watching something synchronized with someone else), over crackling noises with speakers when no audio is playing, to straight up lags and skips every few seconds with certain devices.

How is that "better than pulse ever did"? The only issue I had with PulseAudio on several machines in last decade or so was Bluetooth A2DP connection being very capricious.

I have recently switched to PipeWire and it actually improved Bluetooth, but I had to disable Wireplumber's libcamera backend because it made it regularly eat 100% of RAM. No complaints after doing that. Crackling noises or desynchronized video playback would instantly take it into "unacceptable" territory.

Sounds like you have severe issues with both PA and PW. Maybe your hardware is the problem?

lazyier · 3 years ago

I estimate about 75% chance it's a configuration problem on his end.

The "I hate Pulse Audio and especially Lennart" crowd tends to want to either go back to "Alsa" or tried at some point to install the old OSS drivers and then gave up.

This means trying to configure dmix to work properly, trying to configure your audio outputs with tools like 'alsamixer' and things of that nature.

This is about a 100% guaranteed approach to screwing up audio in Linux. For years it is what unsuspecting newbies were told by "really smart people" on the internet when faced when any sort of audio issue and all it really does is ensure that their OS audio is going to turn into a dumpster fire.

The only way to fix it is to aggressively find your "custom" audio settings for every application, find all the alsa configuration files and delete them. And then find out where your distribution saves your alsa mixer settings between reboots and link them to /dev/null and reboot.

Audio settings of this nature are very persistent and nothing Pulseaudio or Pipewire can do to help you fix it.

lazyier commented on macOS Subsystem for Linux github.com/macbian-linux/... · Posted by u/dzdt

jstarks · 3 years ago

We work very closely across the file system, kernel, and virtualization teams, so I don’t think we can blame Conway’s Law for WSL2. And actually our WSL1 fork performance wasn’t too bad IIRC—we have real fork at the Windows kernel level, it’s just not something that can realistically work with the Win32 programming model. I also think we will eventually resolve the file system performance issues.

No, the most important reason to choose a VM instead of a reimplementation of the Linux ABI is long tail compatibility. You can’t realistically replicate and then keep up with every corner of the Linux kernel’s interface. And so with WSL1, software will randomly not work, or it will randomly break after an apt upgrade, and users will get frustrated and switch to a VM anyway. Might as well get perfect compatibility and still have nice integration with Windows via the WSL2 approach.

lazyier · 3 years ago

WSL2 is better. I'll take correctness over a slight loss in performance.

Also Linux is very fast. So it's not like there is a huge performance loss in most cases, I am guessing.

lazyier commented on macOS Subsystem for Linux github.com/macbian-linux/... · Posted by u/dzdt

darkwater · 3 years ago

Once upon a time these were usually posts on one own blog (self-hosted or not), started with a HOWTO keyword and helped the people just in the same way. Nowadays everything developer must be on GitHub or it won't ever be noticed.

/Old man yells at clouds

lazyier · 3 years ago

It is an improvement. Having documentation include with source code means that they can updated together and is less likely to be out of date.

Provided, of course, they don't use the github wiki stuff or use separate repos for documentation.

lazyier commented on US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years engadget.com/us-border-fo... · Posted by u/jaarse

thesuitonym · 3 years ago

A government controlled by its people, instead of controlling its people, doesn't need to worry about being overthrown.

lazyier · 3 years ago

Yeah, but that defeats the purpose of creating the state in the first place.

The entire point is being able to tell people what to do for your own profit.

It's a lot easier if you pretend you are doing it for the subject's benefit as it reduces the resistance to rule immensely. But you don't want to let that go too far or they start getting a big head and start thinking that paying you billions of dollars is optional.

lazyier commented on “I don’t care about cookies“ web extension acquired by Avast i-dont-care-about-cookies... · Posted by u/SamuelAdams

yrro · 3 years ago

Waah the big bad EU forced companies to disclose how they are using my data!

What I would like to see browsers do is grow a feature that tells web servers what uses of my data I consider acceptable, so that I don't have to waste my time every time I visit nearly every site on the entire damn Internet.

But we've been there before - P3P, Do-Not-Track, and now Global Privacy Control. Until regulators force web sites to obey signals from browsers, we're going to be stuck with these bloody popups.

lazyier · 3 years ago

> Waah the big bad EU forced companies to disclose how they are using my data!

The people that should be mocked are the EU bureaucrats that thought this was a good idea and the people that defend it.

It's a idiotic legislation that does NOTHING to protect your data. It's feel-good nonsense that EU can occasionally use as a club to extort business corporations that they want something from.

The only thing that it accomplished is to create a false sense of security in the public.

These companies are not trustworthy and neither is the EU government.

The correct solution to this problem is at the browser level and at the human level. Don't disclose information to the internet you don't want to show up on the internet.

lazyier commented on Pre-exposure to mRNA-LNP inhibits adaptive immune responses in mice pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3... · Posted by u/hammock

mabbo · 3 years ago

> On the other hand, we report that after pre-exposure to mRNA-LNPs, the resistance of mice to heterologous infections with influenza virus increased while resistance to Candida albicans decreased.

It sounds to me as though the tradeoff being made here is: a slightly decreased immune response generally, but a better immune response to the thing you've been immunized against. That seems to be a reasonable tradeoff if there's something really bad going around.

But as they say in the paper summary: more research is needed.

Also: this is purely in mice. They have zero data on whether this is true for humans.

lazyier · 3 years ago

I donno. Seems like white blood cells are kinda important.

We have a huge number of interactions with bacteria and viruses and all sorts of microorganisms. Hundreds? Thousands times a day? Scratches in the kitchen while preparing food, for example, floods our body with stuff that white blood cells are required to deal with.

Giving up some of the ability to deal with those for a small reduction in the symptoms associated with a specific disease doesn't seem like a useful trade off.

lazyier commented on Pre-exposure to mRNA-LNP inhibits adaptive immune responses in mice pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3... · Posted by u/hammock

ta8645 · 3 years ago

While this appears to be a positive outcome... this:

  "our studies highlight the need for more research to determine this platform's true impact on human health."

Is a terrifying admission about the gamble that was taken. The truth is, we didn't know for sure if things would be this positive or not.

lazyier · 3 years ago

> Is a terrifying admission about the gamble that was taken.

Right, but according to Reddit, the Australian/New Zealand governments and other places people who didn't want to expose themselves to this stuff where all ignorant selfish assholes.

lazyier commented on Dump these small-biz routers, says Cisco, we won't patch their flawed VPN theregister.com/2022/09/0... · Posted by u/sorenjan

pessimizer · 3 years ago

They shouldn't be expected to update these for as long as they're useful. They should be required to open up the hardware if they refuse to update the software. That should be the rule: you get to pretend that locking people out of the hardware is for their own good as long as you continue to update their software for free. You can't just be allowed to arbitrarily EOL perfectly functional hardware.

lazyier · 3 years ago

If you are buying a Cisco router you are buying a closed source product. Why would you expect them to open source anything when you are happy to give them money for closed source firmware?

You are literally paying them for being closed source.

Stop rewarding these corporations for screwing you over and they will cease to screw you over. Either they will change their ways or go out of business if enough people feel the way you do. And, regardless, you would have solved these sorts of problems for yourself long before that happens.

It's been a very long time since Cisco was the only game in town for enterprise networking. Companies like Broadcom have released powerful ASICs that allows practically anybody to build a high performance routers and switches.