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Sabinus··on Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips
The fix is turning the detection of the modified ram from a boot failure into a warning and log output, then tell users asking for support that they don't have support for Pis that were modified by third parties.

Instead we get restrictions on all users because some users buy stuff from random marketplaces online?

I don't know why you're suggesting the fix is that they offer support for 3rd modded RAM.

Sabinus··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
The Iran war has points, namely preventing a dedicated American enemy from getting nuclear weapons, contributing to Trump's legacy, and probably something to do with Israel. The problem is that it can't be won with current USA capabilities and everyone not in MAGA already knew this yet Trump started it anyway. The Ukrainians even offered drone defences before it started and were publically rebuffed by Trump. The ignorance and hubris of the Trump administration is truly remarkable.
Sabinus··on What happened to the Snowden archive
This article certainly did not improve my perception of Glenn Greenwald. Unprofessional, wild narratives in his reporting, and a changing story about why the Intercept fired their research division in charge of the files.
Sabinus··on US interest rates raised for first time in three years
America desperately needs ranked choice voting, everywhere it can implement it.

I would also argue mandatory voting would be useful but I don't think the Americans are ready for that.

Sabinus··on The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning
If you want an industry to act in a certain way you legislate for it, not wag fingers at consumers buying things. "If you want cheaper consumer devices we all need to individually stop using AI" is not useful or realistic.
Sabinus··on Fed Raises Rates as Warsh Bucks Trump to Contain Inflation
Plenty of diesel trucks though.
Sabinus··on How much oil-market buffer is left?
The amount of times "global commodity" was explained in this comment section was interesting.
Sabinus··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
I guess no one can fault the West for retaliating by paying people to light stuff on fire in Russia, for deterrence. And I guess no one can blame the West for sending Ukraine more missiles to fire into Russia, to end the war.
Sabinus··on Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions
The one-party-state and leader-for-life thing is a bit more substantial than egg eating habits. It's all fun and games while they're increasingly productive and not very internationally assertive but that won't last forever.
Sabinus··on The case against JPEG XL
If you're going to make claims of bad faith about other users like that you should link and quote.
Sabinus··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
We do, just not social media for the sake of extracting maximum ad revenue out of users. We're a widespread society we need large online spaces, but not ones algorithmically designed to addict and derrange users.
Sabinus··on Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019)
Look up how the wireless radio helped spread European fascism. It's not about "the people can think this but can't think that", it's "how does this new communication platform change the existing political culture and how will we adapt?"
Sabinus··on Remember Hong Kong
The way you've talked about the average Asian it seems like you're describing a cultural predisposition but representing it as a racial one.

And it's easy to see why HK citizens would have cultural preferences towards independent legal systems and political freedom. Their 'being Asian' is independent of this.

Sabinus··on Remember Hong Kong
What makes you characterise Hong Kong independence movements as naive economic nostalgia and not a desire for political freedom or independent legal systems?

Do you think individuals experienced more freedom under the British monarch and Parliament or under communist rule?

Sabinus··on Ask HN: Why does account age matter?
Reputation and past statements are useful tools in analysing people's beliefs and arguments and the reasons they make them.

Fully anonymous commenting creates certain incentives and you can see those at work on 4chan. There are good points and questions to be had there by anonymous posters but it's a more difficult exercise in finding and parsing them.

Sabinus··on Ask HN: Can we do a karma reset?
Neither link you posted showed anything to me other than you need a negligible of karma to unlock comment downvoting.

Do you want to quote the sections you feel detail how "high karma posting" is treated?

Sabinus··on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
The consequences of electing a wealthy grifter with obvious personality defects and a contempt for professional politics.
Sabinus··on Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
I struggle to understand why this article is interesting or upvoted.
Sabinus··on Young Americans have never witnessed a functioning foreign policy
The ex-President's son cashing in on the family fame is an utter nothingburger compared to Trump's children actively participating in government and diplomacy and taking bribes for themselves and the most openly corrupt President in US history. You ever looked up how much Trump's net worth has increased while President?
Sabinus··on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
And? You're suggesting she was assassinated for voting for Trump supported legislation, by a Trump supporter?
Sabinus··on Young Americans have never witnessed a functioning foreign policy
Hunter Biden is accused of doing 10% of what Kushner is doing in the open. It's very different.

And there isn't hundreds of billions "funneled through" Ukraine.

Sabinus··on The moral panic over data centres is foolish
A country who drugged their citizens into mindless robots would be shunned, sanctioned and perhaps attacked. Their economy would be isolated and not pose a threat from competition. It's an obvious attack on our collective humanity and is treated as such.

Until AI proves a systemic risk to humanity there would be no similar consensus on shunning its use, and the economic spoils go to the countries that adopt it.

Sabinus··on The moral panic over data centres is foolish
How is this any different to the invention of the cotton mill?

You don't get to pick and choose what productive technologies to adopt. You either adopt them, or you'll be paying the countries that do and you'll still lose your domestic industry to competition.

Sabinus··on Christmas Village shoppers no longer will be allowed to enter booths
>At the 2025 market, vendors and Christmas Village staff had temporary ramps that they could place out to accommodate shoppers who used wheelchairs or walkers.

>"Well, it was a great approach, but a very small group of people do not like that they need assistance to enter booths which able bodied don't need to ask for," Bauer wrote.

I wonder if that small group of people are pleased with the outcome.

Sabinus··on Norway's Oil Fund Proposes Selling Roughly $80B in U.S. Treasurys
Or you could just not spend any more and increase taxes.
Sabinus··on Renowned NYC Washington Square Park Chess Hustler 'Chichi' Detained by ICE
I understand the sentiment, and would expect that grace be given to American citizens, but the USA has millions of people applying for visas and citizenship that don't have fraud convictions.

And it's not the cold war any more, collecting chess champions doesn't give quite the same national prestige in 2026 as it did in 1980.

Sabinus··on FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
But the American public is petrified of systems like that because of the leftovers of frontier settler culture and fear of communism. They're apparently far more comfortable with the similar but worse systems being set up by corporations.
Sabinus··on Anthropic banned me for "suspicious signals"
The article could have benefited from a mention of why Anthropic is like this now. The reason this happened to you is Anthropic's systems presumably think your work looks like (Chinese) distillation and subscription-to-token-reseller-api practices.
Sabinus··on You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting
AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

"The strategy came to public light after [former Trump chief political strategist] Bannon told Michael Lewis in 2018 that "The Democrats don't matter... The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit".

Sabinus··on You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting
How are the Democrats 'just letting it happen' in your opinion? Are the DSA 'just letting it happen' too?
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