limagnolia (u/limagnolia)

limagnolia commented on OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple blog.openpolicyagent.org/... · Posted by u/crcsmnky

diggan · 6 days ago

Was FoundationDB a CNCF project at the time of acquisition, or in some similar incubator/umbrella? Besides, seems FoundationDB was open sourced after Apple acquired it, wouldn't mean FoundationDB get more open after the acquisition? Although development stalled no matter what so maybe doesn't matter.

limagnolia · 6 days ago

Right, FoundationDB wasn't even open source when Apple acquired them. The FoundationDB story is a prime example of why it is important to use open source technologies for foundational infrastructure.

limagnolia commented on Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature sso.tax/... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon

tptacek · 7 days ago

This pops up on HN about once a year, and it's worth calling out that the SSO tax has mostly nothing to do with technology or with support costs and mostly everything to do with market segmentation. One of the clearest segmentation signals you get is that bigger, less price-sensitive customers all require SSO (because their SOC2 attestations require it).

You can get irritated about pricing systems that soak price-insensitive customers, but remember that the big price-insensitive customers pay for the price-sensitive customers, which is why this kind of segmentation is practically universal.

Previously, on this, from me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29892664

limagnolia · 7 days ago

I run a very small business, SSO is still very high up on my feature priority list, and I have passed on software/services I would have otherwise used for competitors that offered SSO at a lower entry-point.

limagnolia commented on MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/8/1... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko

PhilippGille · 9 days ago

Given the security issues that come with MCP [1], I think it's a bad idea to call MCP a "guardrail/sandbox".

Also, there are MCP servers that allow running any command in your terminal, including apt install / brew install etc.

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/

limagnolia · 8 days ago

The security issues aren't so much with "MCP", they are with folks giving access to LLMs to do things they don't want those LLMs to be able to do. By describing MCP as guardrails, you might convince some of the nimkumpoops to think about where they place those guardrails.

limagnolia commented on Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers? blog.mozilla.org/netpolic... · Posted by u/Vinnl

kstrauser · 12 days ago

He is not, nor am I, but I don’t see a reason you and I shouldn’t get the same legal protections as other groups. What about blind people who pipe the output of a screen through text-to-speech? Or people with epilepsy who can’t use flashy screens? Or someone who needs to enlarge print or change its contrast? There are plenty of medical reasons to need to alter their browser presentations.

limagnolia · 12 days ago

I agree with this in general, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is current law. Now, I will also say I am not a lawyer, and I can't say for certain its not, but having dealt with ADA claims and done a fair amount of research into it, I know that it is often a very misunderstood law. I believe that fighting to protect assistive technologies at all levels is a worthy fight.

limagnolia commented on Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers? blog.mozilla.org/netpolic... · Posted by u/Vinnl

kstrauser · 12 days ago

A friend raised what I consider a very valid point, that ad blockers are assistive technology for people with ADHD. They prevent the web from being an unusable mess of shiny distraction. And as such, in America, blocking ad blockers is a violation of the ADA.

I’m being completely serious here and so is he. I can barely use the web without ad blockers. They make it possible for me to participate in online life. Remove them and you largely remove me. An attack on ad blockers is a direct attack on even the slightly neurodivergent, and should be treated as such.

limagnolia · 12 days ago

While I am a huge fan of ad blockers, and as some one with ADHD I am very sympathetic to the argument, I suspect that your friend is not a lawyer, and/or is not very familiar with the limitations of the ADA.

limagnolia commented on “No tax on tips” is an industry plant newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

steveBK123 · a month ago

All bonuses soon to be labelled as tips.

limagnolia · a month ago

This is unlikely to be allowed, the last I checked, the law explicitly only allows "traditionally tipped jobs". How it gets interpreted and implemented in IRS Tax Code isn't clear yet, but they will probably have rules in place to prevent this.

Doesn't change the fact that it is a terrible idea.

limagnolia commented on “No tax on tips” is an industry plant newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

littlexsparkee · a month ago

Some interesting points: ~40% of tipped workers don't make enough to get taxed anyway, no tax on tips would actually advantage better paid workers like casino dealers who don't need the help. NToT is described as a campaign to distract from minimum wage increase initiatives.

limagnolia · a month ago

They may not pay any income taxes, but they almost certainly pay FICA taxes. If the NToT includes FICA, they would be better off. However, I still think it is terrible idea to advantage some employment classes and means of compensation over others like that.

limagnolia commented on FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection newatlas.com/infectious-d... · Posted by u/MBCook

philipkglass · a month ago

It was developed by Gilead Sciences, Inc. The way they can afford to make it cheap for people who can't pay is by charging high prices for insured Americans. You can see this with their earlier developed treatment for hepatitis C:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilead_Sciences#Pricing

Gilead came under intense criticism for its high pricing of its patented drug sofosbuvir (sold under the brand name Sovaldi), used to treat hepatitis C. In the US, for instance, it was launched at $1,000 per pill or $84,000 for the standard 84-day course, but it was drastically cheaper in the developing world; in India, it dropped as low as $4.29 per pill.

Low priced HIV drugs for the poor is part PR and part pragmatism. Poor people can't pay the sorts of drug prices that insured Americans do, and poor countries aren't going to enforce drug patents purely for the benefit of American corporations, e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicines_and_Related_Substanc...

Gilead looks gracious by preemptively embracing the situation that was going to occur anyway (poor patients aren't going to pay high prices).

limagnolia · a month ago

But if they are offering royalty-free production to generic manufacturers, why wouldn't insurance companies simply insist on using the cheaper generic?

limagnolia commented on Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship polygon.com/news/616835/v... · Posted by u/mrzool

aiiane · a month ago

Interac doesn't have a monopoly in Canada; Visa / MC obviously have a presence as well.

limagnolia · a month ago

Are there Visa and MasterCard Debitcards there? From what I saw, and again only a basic look, Interac is the only major player for Debit Cards. Of course, I welcome more competition if Interac were to enter the USA market.

limagnolia commented on Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship polygon.com/news/616835/v... · Posted by u/mrzool

dleslie · a month ago

Americans ought to adopt the Canadian Interac system.

limagnolia · a month ago

Care to elaborate? Based on the Interac Wikipedia page, I see nothing that would indicate that their monopoly in Canada is any better than the MasterCard/Visa Duopoly in the USA.