esbranson's comments

On: TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals co...

[esbranson]

Imprisonment. Eventually, executives will want to spend their wealth in a First World country.

On: OpenRCT2 – RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 in browser using...

[esbranson]

Emscripten's user agent (browser) Javascript is quite cryptic and was rather difficult to adapt Emscripten-compiled WASM to custom web apps. (Had to look at Emscripten example web app.) Congrats.

On: When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk

[esbranson]

The notion that this policy is to hide spy satellites from world or even regional powers is laughable.

On: TP-Link cannot get IPv6 firewall right

[esbranson]

I believe this is covered by RFC 6092's REC-49 from 2013.

           Internet gateways with IPv6 simple security capabilities MUST
           provide an easily selected configuration option that permits
           a "transparent mode" of operation that forwards all
           unsolicited flows regardless of forwarding direction, i.e.,
           not to use the IPv6 simple security capabilities of the
           gateway.  The transparent mode of operation MAY be the
           default configuration.

On: GJS: Node.js Like Runtime for Gnome

[esbranson]

There is also WebKitGTK for interacting with and rendering regular web content within GTK apps. It uses JavascriptCore AFAIK instead of SpiderMonkey.

https://webkitgtk.org/

  #!/usr/bin/gjs

  const Gtk = imports.gi.Gtk;
  const WebKit = imports.gi.WebKit2;

  class SimpleBrowser {
    constructor() {
        this.application = new Gtk.Application({
            application_id: 'com.example.SimpleBrowser'
        });

        this.application.connect('activate', () => {
            this.window = new Gtk.ApplicationWindow({
                application: this.application,
                title: "Simple Browser",
                default_height: 600,
                default_width: 800
            });

            this.webview = new WebKit.WebView();
            this.window.add(this.webview);
            this.webview.load_uri("http://www.example.com");

            this.window.show_all();
        });
    }
  }

  let app = new SimpleBrowser();
  app.application.run(ARGV);

On: A 22 percent increase in the German minimum wage: ...

[esbranson]

If employers could reduce labor hours, they would. Regardless.

On: Jaywalking legalized in New York City

[esbranson]

Good idea.

On: NY Times gets 230 wrong again

[esbranson]

Not a lawyer either, but I believe regulations on speech, as here, are scrutinized ("strictly") such that regulations are not allowed to discriminate based on content. Moderation is usually based on content. Whether something is fact or not, opinion or not, is content-based.

Citizens United held that criminalizing political films is illegal. Allowing Fahrenheit 9/11 to be advertised and performed but criminalizing Hillary: The Movie is exactly why Citizens United was correct and the illiberal leftists are wrong.

On: US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust ca...

[esbranson]

That thought may be comforting, but no.

Don't mistake the limited-purpose US Government for your state government. Colorado does quite a bit, from healthcare to environment to policing. And so does the US, for those subjects it has jurisdiction, and has been doing so for hundreds of years.

[Clubber → esbranson]

>>The US government has been working solely for their donors for the last 40+ years. Any benefit the voters get from lawmaking is coincidental.

>That thought may be comforting, but no.

Why would that be comforting?

[esbranson → Clubber]

Not sure. The US Government has accrued a couple hundred years of unbroken political agitprop directed at it. From my observations, many people are comforted when anything tends to validate it, and otherwise ambivalent or oblivious to anything else. Underlying that is legal information that is inaccessible for most; the only books you can't check out of a library, a multitude of websites that never quite work. Newstainment that profits from attention does not help.

[Clubber → esbranson]

There was a study on it that made a big splash a while back. The interpreted version is that policy is made for the wealthy and special interest groups. If it happens to coincide with was the public wants, it's merely coincidence.

https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-...

Sorry for the Vox link, that's what came up.

On: IRS Direct File adds 12 additional states, covers ...

[esbranson]

Cash App demands you give up your rights to file taxes. That's a hard no.