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'Vulnerabilities will always arise. What matters is the speed and success with which they are resolved – and nobody provides fixes available faster than Canonical.'
I understand from other discussions that Sam has several houses in SF alone (plus other cities). He did not discuss maximizing the utilization of those?
Re:French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:30PM (#50309031)
The combination of ignorant politicians and smart lobbyists is universal.

Edit: why would VLC or any online company stay in France?

Re:5-MeO-DMT sometimes cancels the Ebbinghaus illusion on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:51AM (#50305676)
I want to try this myself and was disappointed the test was not online (anymore).

So I vibe code one:

https://ebbinghaus-effect.greulen.workers.dev

(a one shot in DeepSeek, with only manual adjustments for the sizes)

Maybe. Go code is designed to be readable and stable. My guess is that most Go code is running fine with garbage collection. There are always edge cases and then just choose another language.
Re:Forecasting Financial Markets with Timestral on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:55AM (#50229560)
> Returns showed no consistent advantage over simple forecasts, while range-volatility results differed between stocks and equity funds.
Re:I Did This Without Your Knowledge on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:59AM (#50206207)
> 14.000 words, 55 min read

Yes

Too big to fail, by intention
Re:Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:00AM (#49974764)
Ikea stopped with the Zigbee sensors I think? It is all Matter now?
Re:Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:44PM (#49881644)
Pretty sure the chip will need regular updates and therefore a subscription.
Re:Good people refuse to do bad things on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:35AM (#49800227)
How convenient would it be if the line between good and evil cuts between individuals and not through every human heart.
Re:Notes on the Brothers Karamazov on Sunday September 20, 2026 @06:43AM (#49774490)
> Not beating my wife was considered amazingly progressive by my Russian relatives 20 years ago.

Who was supposed to beat men?

Re:Open Battery Information on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @06:35AM (#49534376)
Very interesting. I have several battery based Stihl tools. One battery seems problematic and this hopefully give more details.
I am surprised nobody here mentioned the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightyear_0
A similar Dutch find was made into a podcast series (also in Dutch): ‘Liefste Lies’. An amazing story!

‘Liefste Lies, een podcast over verlangen.

In Sittard is een koffer gevonden met honderden liefdesbrieven uit de jaren 40 en 50 aan één vrouw: Lies. Tientallen mannen, onder wie Toon Hermans, en een enkele vrouw schrijven haar hartstochtelijke liefdesverklaringen, smeekbedes om een foto en huwelijksaanzoeken. Allemaal, en veelal tegelijkertijd, denken ze dat Lies de ware is, tot ze hen onherroepelijk in de steek laat. Wie is deze mysterieuze vrouw? Voor wie zal ze kiezen? Hoeveel vrijheid heeft ze en hoe is dat nú eigenlijk in de liefde?’

As long as the legal department is very serious, that might work rather well.
Re:Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:22AM (#49408665)
To enable work from home?
Re:AI Paper Trail: What does AI know about you? on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:03AM (#49341865)
Good point
I cannot read the article. Does it say anything about profit?
Re:Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware on Sunday August 16, 2026 @08:27AM (#49319417)
From what I understood, when I looked into it a while ago, some car makers use an encrypted ODB2 (needed by Comma.ai to communicate driving instructions).

See for example: https://autel.us/security-gateways/, 'Automakers with security gateways installed include Stellantis (Dodge, Chrysler, Ram, Alfa Romeo, FIAT, and Maserati), Nissan and Infinity, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen and Audi.'

Re:AI Paper Trail: What does AI know about you? on Sunday August 16, 2026 @06:11AM (#49318612)
ChatGPT link for export: https://chatgpt.com/#settings/DataControls

After some verification I got this by email:

'We have started preparing your data export, this process may take a few days. We will email you when it is ready to download.'

So it might take a while to test the Paper Trail. I am curious though!

Claude is much easier. Link: https://claude.ai/new#settings/data-privacy-controls

Then it shows 'Export started'. After two minutes I got an email with a download link. Good one, Claude!

EDIT:

I uploaded the export of Claude to Paper Trail. Looking at the results it makes all sense in itself. It is more the way that details are grouped that makes it scary, something to think more about my AI usage.

Re:China is now the world's greatest oil power on Monday August 10, 2026 @11:03AM (#49244653)
> This ability to turn oil demand on and off, ostensibly at low economic cost, allows the world’s biggest oil importer to move prices just as the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (opec) and its allies have long done through their control of half of global output.

This is not about production. You should read the article and not only the title.

Yes, very useful to see what a cable is capable of. Mac only.
Back in the day, in my EU country, everybody drove shift gear. Automatic gear was frowned upon. Nowadays everybody drives automatic. People like ‘boring’ comfort, it shows everywhere.
> Investors clearly aren't familiar with rocket launches.

That is exactly what Musk was counting on. Reality is boring and no fun. People want promises, stars and dreams.

So this is something like https://paseo.sh ? I use that sometimes and like it. Not only mobile but also a web UI.

On your homepage you only compare with two proprietary ones. Please consider adding Paseo as well.

Re:Y Combinator.singles on Sunday July 05, 2026 @06:45PM (#48798675)
> one email for waitlist updates.
Unless you have some specific reason for being in the EU, I suggest you also look into Singapore.
If the company is managed 'day by day' by a local director (for example by a company like Intertrust or Trustmoore) then the non-local board and/or shareholders can indeed flyin to have 'a meeting with extensive discussions where all decisions where made and some papers were signed'. I had a company in Singapore for some years doing this.

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