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Re:European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:35AM (#50348784)
Yet another "initiative". I remember the European Processor Initiative that went precisely nowhere.

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

How many times are you going to post this exact same comment in this thread?
Re:Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:39PM (#50121650)
The fact that vulnerabilities in the packages you mention wouldn't count towards the "2 remote holes" as they're not enabled in the default install?
Re:Bitwarden Dual License Model on Saturday October 10, 2026 @12:27PM (#50034445)
It's all just slow and mediocre. The Windows desktop client is a massive almost 400MB-download behemoth (and is electron-based), and if you have SSH keys you want to store in it you have no choice but to use it. Oh and you can't log into the browser extension automatically from the desktop client.

Admittedly the mobile clients have since been rewritten to be native (they were _really_ slow before), but Keyguard is still much faster/lighter.

I started using 1Password at work and it's just a.. nicer experience? It does all this and more. Everything is fast, the browser extension is more proactive/recognises fields better (Bitwarden can't really do multi step logins), and the desktop client isn't a chore to use.

The best comparison I would give is comparing Immich and Jellyfin (if you've used these), they are miles apart in terms of end user experience/polish/efficient design. One is engineered, the other feels like it's been hacked together by hobbyists.

Re:Bitwarden Dual License Model on Saturday October 10, 2026 @11:12AM (#50033746)
Looks far too sloppy for me to trust this software with my passwords...
Re:Bitwarden Dual License Model on Saturday October 10, 2026 @11:10AM (#50033726)
IMO Bitwarden really isn't that well engineered software, and I now use Keyguard on Android/Vaultwarden server instead. Reminds me of Subsonic, with many competing clients/servers. Hopefully someone will write a third party browser extension as the current one is quite slow/buggy.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:55PM (#50009353)
Read the report, these WITCH companies are also included ;)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-24/tsmc-s-ar...

Older article, but seems like things are going pretty ok?

Re:Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap on Saturday September 12, 2026 @01:04PM (#49674482)
I would honestly not recommend beginners use JOSM - the web based iD editor [1] is much easier to learn and will hold your hand a lot more.

[1]: https://learnosm.org/en/beginner/id-editor/

Deeply unserious company so not surprising
Re:deSEC – Free Secure DNS on Friday September 04, 2026 @01:43PM (#49567791)
Completely different thing
Re:Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root on Monday August 31, 2026 @03:42AM (#49506777)
To be fair it's possible the situation has changed since I last checked. But at least it used to be this way (https://flatkill.org/2020/). I'm glad the situation has improved in terms of security, but I'm still not a big fan of the flatpak design as a whole.
Re:Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root on Sunday August 30, 2026 @01:22PM (#49500690)
Indeed, and most flatpaks have access to the home directory so are also able to do this even though they're """sandboxed"""
Re:Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @10:57AM (#48832828)
OpenStreetMap - seems to be done with concentric circles, e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1365317072 and a dome on top

There is a good wiki page on this: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_Buildings

FYI someone else has probably already traced this through Strava, which is allowed to be used for tracing: <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Strava#Data_Permission_-...>
Obligatory mention of https://xiph.org/video/ which clears up a lot of misconceptions.
Re:Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration (2025) on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:48PM (#48635957)
Ah, fair enough. Well Firefox should support Brotli by default, so it's probably something going on on my machine.
Re:Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration (2025) on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:36PM (#48635797)
FYI your server returns Brotli encoded content, even if the request has only Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, zstd - making it unreadable in for me (Firefox on Fedora).
Par for the course for the Tata group. Reminds me of the JLR hack last year, who outsourced their computer systems to Tata.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/20/jaguar-land...

Microsoft bought Vercel???
> remember GPT 2 is too dangerous to release

FYI, this was when Dario was still at OpenAI.

I remember a while back neverssl.com would happily serve HTTPS requests! Another good alternative is http://httpforever.com/
Re:Open source AI must win on Saturday June 13, 2026 @08:20AM (#48516574)
Sure, but it doesn't lower the cost or increase the efficiency of the system
Re:Khamenei Dead on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:56PM (#47199509)
Re:Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:27PM (#46221451)
Uh, the HDMI forum is non-profit
Re:How bad can a $2.97 ADC be? on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @02:11PM (#45583037)
LCSC is definitely genuine. I'm not sure why people are so surprised that companies like Mouser have insane markups.

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