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trasz4

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trasz@FreeBSD.org - FreeBSD committer, Cambridge researcher, NAFO fan, 50 Cent Army member, lifelong deviationist. Likes Unix, HP calculators, and Skinny Puppy. Hates when people get killed, especially for religion and oil.

PS. To the Americans among you, the 50 Cent thing isn't really true; see https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

Previously (as "trasz", "trasz2", spot the pattern) banned for pointing out that HN tolerates racism, and that they are lying about their moderation policies.

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trasz4··on RV-Cure: A RISC-V Capability Architecture for Full Memory Safety
How is it different from CHERI?
trasz4··on FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs
For my particular case it's about something similar in purpose to sandboxing, but with providing the compartment (ie a process subtree) with an alternative kernel to talk to, to minimise the attack surface between that container and the host kernel.
trasz4··on Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?
>From what I have heard, all of these issues come back as soon as someone comes off the drug

Same as with drugs for hypertension, depression, hyperglycemia and many, many others. Not every drug is supposed to somehow permanently cure you.

trasz4··on Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?
We used to believe it was not possible to stop people from getting their funny movie clips from China.
trasz4··on Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?
One works, the other doesn't.
trasz4··on DM32 – a modern take on the HP-32SII calculator
32S didn't use menu scrolling though.
trasz4··on ‘Eternal’ Guantanamo prisoner tells of decades of US torture
Slavery is not a problem as long as you personally don't own any slaves, right?
trasz4··on TikTok is now banned in Montana
Because you only know the Google's side of the narrative.
trasz4··on FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs
Yes, NetBSD did accomplish that, but I expect it to become more commonplace.
trasz4··on DM32 – a modern take on the HP-32SII calculator
Prime is a completely different product, because it's aimed at a completely different target group: students, not engineers.
trasz4··on DM32 – a modern take on the HP-32SII calculator
In somewhat related news, HP is releasing reedition of HP-15C this summer.
trasz4··on A $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB
In military/aerospace you're mostly paying for the paperwork, not anything physical.
trasz4··on FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs
This will also make a lot of difference once we can run lightweight, userspace kernels ("rump kernels").
trasz4··on U.S. prison labor programs violate fundamental human rights, new report finds
>Words matter especially right now when Ruzzia is propagandizing everything to find allies for their illegal war.

This is actually a good argument, and one of the reasons I've been abstaining from criticising western countries lately. But now the world consensus on Russian invasion has been reached, support for Ukraine is working full speed, so I think I can return to my regularly scheduled programme.

trasz4··on U.S. prison labor programs violate fundamental human rights, new report finds
Of course it is. But "Hacker News" isn't controlled by hackers, it merely uses them to as the source of free content.
trasz4··on U.S. prison labor programs violate fundamental human rights, new report finds
The thread is flagged, because HN is marketing branch of YCombinator, and publishing information that's inconvenient to their business partners isn't in their best interests.

Of course the admins will claim this isn't the case, but there's no reason to believe them, and lying is commercial companies' standard modus operandi.

trasz4··on ‘Eternal’ Guantanamo prisoner tells of decades of US torture
It is you, if you're an American citizen. Same way current Russian invasion isn't "Putin's war", every Russian is partially responsible.
trasz4··on ‘Eternal’ Guantanamo prisoner tells of decades of US torture
He could reveal more info on USA's inhumane practices obviously.
trasz4··on TikTok is now banned in Montana
>This is the same logic that China uses to ban all western apps

Except it doesn't. It's just that apps are required to follow local laws, and many companies - like Google - don't want to, because their entire business is exploiting users' privacy.

trasz4··on TikTok is now banned in Montana
TikTok app is no different from YouTube app or Twitter app in that regard.
trasz4··on TikTok is now banned in Montana
So, the First Amendment doesn't mean shit if banning free speech is required to make YouTube make money again.
trasz4··on U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
"Non-inflammatory" ways of fighting religious fundamentalism and fringe theories don't work.
trasz4··on U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
>Of course I meant that there are plenty of _valid_ secular arguments.

And I've responded there are none. And you've not been able to provide any.

>Regardless, you may find that the right of the mother to bodily autonomy outweighs the right of the fetus to life, but not everyone will weigh the situation the same.

Of course, in particular people who believe woman are not proper humans. And it just so happens that this is the view of Catholic Church.

>Some argue that the temporary albeit serious inconvenience to the mother

I don't think this line requires any comment.

>The funny thing is that each side seems to think this

Again, same as with any other fallacy, like flat earth.

>if you cannot understand the other side's arguments, that is a weakness of your own mental model

If you cannot understand flat earther's arguments, that's a weakness of your own mental model? :)

FWIW, I do understand those arguments. It's just that I also understand they are stupid and evil - because they flow from ideology which is stupid and evil.

trasz4··on U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
>There are plenty of secular arguments against abortion.

There are plenty of secular arguments for flat earth. It's not about the number of arguments, but about their validity. There are no secular arguments that don't depend on logical fallacies or invalid assumptions.

>Abortion balances the life, health, and happiness of the mother against the life of the unborn fetus.

And similarly when talking about forcing someone to donate their blood, or part of liver for transplant we'd need to balance the rights of the forced donor and the rights of the prospective transplant receiver, right?

>IMO this is one of the most ethically challenging questions that we're still arguing about as a society.

It's not only not one of the challenging ones, it's not a serious question at all. Modern ethics is pretty clear on reproductive rights.

trasz4··on U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
Sure, but there's a fundamental difference between christianity in culture and promoting female genital mutilation or denying reproductive rights.
trasz4··on U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
>Also, “life begins at conception,” or at another very early stage, isn’t a Christian innovation. That’s the belief in Shia Islam.

This is a lie ("In Shia Islam, abortion is "forbidden after implantation of the fertilised ovum.", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_abortion). I guess it never occurred to you why even the Sharia countries are not as extreme on abortion as Christian ones.

>Certain Sunni schools also prohibit abortion at any stage.

Obvious lie, ibid.

>Buddhist

Nope, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_abortion

>Same thing in Hinduism

Okay, so this one is not entirely wrong, just mostly wrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism_and_abortion).

Once again: "life from conception" is a fringe view specific to Catholicism and borrowed by other extremist branches.

trasz4··on U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
>I'd be very surprised if there were zero atheists that were anti-abortion.

Well, sure, there were _some_, eg both Hitler and Stalin have delegalised abortion in their countries. But I'm not sure if that's the kind of moral oracle that todays christian fundamentalists would like to remember.

trasz4··on U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
You have an inalienable right to express any view on flat earth in the US. But it doesn't matter if the state law is enforcing religious rules, like in the case of abortion ban.
trasz4··on The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up
You do realize that using VPN makes the company you're paying for that VPN gather way more of your internet browsing history than the UK's surveillance program?
trasz4··on Uncensored Models
Can you elaborate on the difference? How is maintaining views that go against the accepted scientific consensus different between those two cases?
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