ossyrial (u/ossyrial)

ossyrial commented on We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem old.reddit.com/r/linux/co... · Posted by u/neelc

mozball · a year ago

It is very puzzling. We have a plethora of brands from chinese, korean, european and american companies to kickstarter-funded projects to reskinned odm designs in developing markets,- all vying and clawing at each other to stand out in an oversaturated market with more cameras, more pixels, more features like AI, and filters and what-not. Yet not one of these companies think to release a phone that proffers to give the best rooting experience or Lineage OS compatibility - or better yet, comes with LineageOS out-of-the-box.

ossyrial · a year ago

I believe Fairphone used to ship models with LineageOS out of the box—their new models optionally ship /e/OS, which I'm not familiair with but seems similar on the surface.

ossyrial commented on Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe? theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/_Microft

sorokod · a year ago

Why would the data being deleted be a precondition to a law suit in this scenario?

ossyrial · a year ago

It wouldn't, but 23andme keeping DNA data means that they would easily be able to deal with the lawsuit in this hypothetical scenario.

ossyrial commented on Who is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri despite evidence of innocence innocenceproject.org/who-... · Posted by u/bjourne

edanm · a year ago

> It should require incontrovertible proof.

There's really no such thing.

Instead, there is a very high burden of proof, there's a lot of protections built into the process, and, most important, it's an adversarial process in which one side is standing up for the defendant. If the evidence isn't good enough, the defendant's lawyer can and must show that to the jury, with them making the final decision on who is right.

ossyrial · a year ago

> There's really no such thing.

Which, in my opinion, is a fantastic argument against the death penalty.

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf

ossyrial commented on We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi labs.watchtowr.com/we-spe... · Posted by u/notmine1337

ohashi · a year ago

This is the most obvious reason why Verisign is a monopolist and should be regulated like a utility. They make false claims about choice and not being locked in. You buy a domain, you use it, you're locked in forever. And they know it. That's why they fight tooth and nail to protect their monopoly.

ossyrial · a year ago

There is an alternative to such regulation though. In the Netherlands, all registrars are required to support automatic transfer between registrars. You can lookup your "transfer code", which you can enter at a new registrar, and they will handle that your domain is transferred (with proper DNS etc) and your old subscription stops.

ossyrial commented on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? blog.cryptographyengineer... · Posted by u/md224

Canada · a year ago

No, you miss the point.

If HN decided to ban all posts about Donald Trump that is moderation. Users voluntarily submit to this policy by participating in the site, and if they do not, they will be banned.

If the State of California required that all web sites run from their state are REQUIRED to ban all posts about Donald Trump, that is censorship.

Moderation is "your house, your rules" while censorship is someone else imposing their rules in your house.

Do you see what I'm saying? When France is talking about "moderation" of Telegram, what they actually mean is censorship.

ossyrial · a year ago

Thanks, I see and agree.

ossyrial commented on Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch blog.hopefullyuseful.com/... · Posted by u/ranebo

happyopossum · a year ago

> Reminds me how, in USA, it’s the only civilized nation I’ve been to where you must have a prescription to purchase contacts and glasses

Anecdotally this is far from true. Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and the UK for example require a prescription for anything more complicated than reading glasses.

There are plenty of reasons why, mostly summed up by your comment about “whatever magnification you need” - eyeglasses for distance vision are infinitely more complex than “magnification” and if you’re buying anything other than reading glasses without a proper exam and matched lenses, you’re doing yourself harm.

Unless of course you are talking about reading glasses, in which case you’re also wrong, as you can get those for a couple of bucks pretty much anywhere in the US with no prescription.

ossyrial · a year ago

> [...] the Netherlands, [...] for example require a prescription for anything more complicated than reading glasses.

I have never needed a prescription to get (non-reading) glasses in the Netherlands. In fact, there are webshops where you can purchase any pair of glasses (obviously, you have to enter the values of an eye examination).

ossyrial commented on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? blog.cryptographyengineer... · Posted by u/md224

Canada · a year ago

Let's stop repeating this word "moderate" when what we're talking about is censorship.

Moderation is what happens here on HN: Admins have some policies to keep the conversation on track, users voluntarily submit to them.

Censorship is when a third party uses coercion to force admins to submit to them and remove posts against their will.

Durov has been arrested for refusing to implement censorship, not for anything concerning moderation.

ossyrial · a year ago

> Moderation is what happens here on HN: Admins have some policies to keep the conversation on track, users voluntarily submit to them.

What do you mean by users voluntarily submitting to these policies? This distinction seems key in your argument, but I don't see what alternatives to submitting I have here, making it involuntary, right?

ossyrial commented on The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud berthub.eu/articles/posts... · Posted by u/ahubert

epistasis · a year ago

You are using both with your energy generated numbers. That's where they come from.

Your solar TWh comes from 25GW at ~15% capacity factor, and to get your nuclear numbers you're looking at 1.6GW for each of nuclear "plants" when each reactor is usually about 1GW or less. There are ~90 reactors in the US, at 54 plants. The article is assuming 1 reactor per plant for the Netherlands.

ossyrial · a year ago

> The article is assuming 1 reactor per plant for the Netherlands.

Small addition that isn't mentioned in the English version of the article, but only in the original Dutch version: the article talks specifically about the Borssele power station [0] (which has a power output of 485MW).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borssele_Nuclear_Power_Station

ossyrial commented on Google is a monopoly – the fix isn't obvious theregister.com/2024/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn

missedthecue · a year ago

I think we need a better term than monopoly, that separates it from what people usually mean which is 'the best product'. I literally cannot think of any sort of product or service with lower switching costs than internet search. Typing bing.com takes 0.8 seconds and costs $0. Hundreds of orders of magnitude easier than switching to a different railroad if only one goes through your town.

Google is a big ass company and enjoys outsized market share because people choose to use it. Everyone who buys a MacBook or Surface computer or smartphone does one thing immediately and that's to download Chrome. It's literally the first thing people voluntarily choose to do after powering on the device for the first time.

I'm not sure why we need government interference here which in all likelihood would change no customer behaviour but probably just add a few extra clicks in front of the Chrome downloading process.

When Alphabet begins doing something like banning Google Fiber customers from accessing bing.com, that will be interesting. But there honestly very minimal anti-competitive behaviour like that happening at the moment.

ossyrial · a year ago

> Google is a big ass company and enjoys outsized market share because people choose to use it.

If this were true, Google could make the immediate and easy decision to increase their annual profits by $26 billion, by simply stopping to pay browser vendors to make Google the default search engine. https://untested.sonnet.io/Defaults+Matter%2C+Don't+Assume+C...