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Re:EU ChatControl is back on the agenda on Saturday August 31, 2024 @06:57AM (#41407902)
How would a law stop criminals from using encrypted applications without sharing private keys with gov? Shootings, pedophiles, drugs, terror etc should definetly be higher on the scale than hosting an illegal application.

In addition to this, how do they expect to implement this for non-EU companies? The DNS blockades that are already going on today are less than efficient.

Re:Germany hits 80 GW milestone on Sunday December 24, 2023 @12:58PM (#38755208)
You’re also importing tons of renewable energy from scandinavia. Sweden for example exported 39TWh in 2022 alone - which of a majority is renewable energy.

And in addition to this, if you’d build the new energy sources based on coal, things would of course just get worse while implementing renewables doesn’t increase emissions in the same fashion.

Re:Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted on Sunday December 17, 2023 @01:13PM (#38674939)
I agree, whenever other senior / mid-level employees quit you’ll have to pickup the slack as it’s hard to find the right competences - specially at a discounted rate.

Personally I did manage to get promoted, but not before giving notice.

When looking at my employer - they’re enforcing a 3/2 hybrid model during the last 6 months. Before that more or less everybody worked from home 100%.

During the WFH period we had more deployments & less incidents than ever. In addition we had less sick leaves (due to tolerance being higher when WFH). Yet - the leadership is ignoring this and enforcing the hybrid model.

Re:Show HN: Kody Tools – I developed 300 tools in 6 months on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:03PM (#34384586)
Are these tools opensourced?
Re:Linux Kernel MultiPath TCP Project on Sunday October 16, 2022 @03:07AM (#33221706)
How is this superior to bonded / teamed interfaces?
Not sure where your kids attend but where we have ours it’s ok for them to take pictures and upload to a private portfolio only available to individual kids parents.

Then there’s a blog where pictures are allowed for kids where the parents pre-approved that they could upload to the blog (available to all parents).

However, yes - parents aren’t allowed to take pictures - of kids other than yours.

Re:SikuliX – Automate what you see on a computer monitor on Sunday February 13, 2022 @04:12AM (#30320435)
Reminds me of a program called SCAR (Shit Compared to AutoRune). It was designed for runescape but was also frequently used for other things.

https://scar-divi.com/oldmanual/

Re:Ask HN: Beginner Guide to IRC? on Sunday January 03, 2021 @04:59AM (#25620812)
Not sure what you’re interested in. But efnet, freenode & quakenet has been the major networks over time. Some channels may require registration though. You can start with a client like mirc, textual or irssi.
What about the fed buying bonds? This has been going on for a long time and the only people who profits from this is people in debt since it keeps the interests down.

This in turn makes other people willing to pay more for whatever person x invested in with the accumulated debt, since debt is cheap and backed by the gov, people today rarely see it is a risk anymore.

Technically depending on traffic and road conditions it’s possible to get there faster in a supercar than a heli. It may however not be the safest option.
Fact is though, it doesn’t matter much where in the world you’re looking to buy. If it’s a capital you’re expected to pay close to $1m or more for a house, even in places like Beirut where the houses don’t have central water, electricity/internet infrastructure is extremely poor. Prices are the same. This in a moment in time when the majority of people barely can afford food due to the pandemic and financial meltdown that has occurred.

The main reason behind it all is the low costs of taking on debt, which in some scenarios is totally insane. Italy for example that has been bailed out several times can get rates around 1%. What kind of entity would accept the risk of default when the profit is close to none after inflation?

The world is obviously in a debt bubble - the question is only when it will pop & how dramatically it will happen.

Re:Automotive Grade Linux on Monday August 24, 2020 @08:40AM (#24260029)
Why wouldn't it be possible to have a similar system in a car as in a rocket? The manufacturer could easily rack up 3 somewhat cheap compute nodes to validate the outputs. This really shouldn't be much more than $10k extra - for the end consumer. And the fact that a lot of cars sell for $100k or more this cost should be negligible for self-driving capabilities.
With the app you can also change the cancellation level, they’re pretty isolated even with the feature powered off entirely but it helps out in some situations.
Is there any good reason to research this at all since the virus is mainly transmitted through surfaces and is not in itself airborne? Sure there are drops that can last long enough in the air to infect people but it’s far from the biggest point of infection.
The main problem in Sweden hasn't been the rejection of a lockdown, it's not protecting the elderly care well enough. But this is what happens when there are barely any educated people within it. Compared to Norway for example that have a mandatory 3 year nursing education to be working within the elderly care. Heck the absolute majority of the elderly didn't even get any treatment once the infection was a fact.

And these country's are much in a lockdown still. Norway for example - you're not allowed to travel far north from Oslo. In comparison to many other countries, Sweden's tactic could go on for years while many others would and already have started to give up on theirs.

Some consumers aren’t aware that it will be a subscription and some doesn’t even know how to manage their subscriptions.

Sure, apple is usually pretty customer oriented if contacted. But this is nothing more than a greed.

Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:59PM (#23616705)
Have you been to copenhagen? If u’d head out to eat you won’t find anything for less than 500 SEK/pp unless u want fast food. Drinks are cheap though :)
Maybe they can use their resources to something useful now instead of a 30 yr old murder which may even been exceeding the prosecution time limit, depending on the motive. Also everyone has known for the past 20 yrs that nobody is gonna get convicted for it.
Re:Living without a SIM card on Sunday February 09, 2020 @06:42AM (#22281642)
In Sweden the banks issue the BankID instead, the certificate is tied to the phone/pc it’s downloaded to and is not connected to the phone# at all. You can however connect for example ”Swish” to your bank accounts for seamless transactions through youe phone# but it too has to be authenticated with bankid.

I’ve never really heard of a case when the bankid/authentication to any Swedish banks has been compromised with the exception of the users signing in fraudulent actors.

Re:Living without a SIM card on Sunday February 09, 2020 @06:37AM (#22281623)
He mention the risk of having stuff injected in the header while being connected to an isp. But doesn’t care about public hotspots? Personally I would rather trust a couple ISP’s than random hotspots.
I’ve rearranged my portfolio. Now I mostly focus on smaller cap companies. The stakes are lower but the overall risks and returns are higher.
Re:Five Years of Btrfs on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:52AM (#22160400)
Is there any specific reasons to run btrfs over for example ext4? You can create/shrink/grow pools, create encrypted volumes etc by using LVM.

It all depends on the application but in the majority of cases the io performance of btrfs is worse than the alternatives.

Redhat for example choose to deprecate btrfs for unknown reasons while SUSE made it it’s default. The future of it seems uncertain which may cause a lot of headache’s in major environments if implemented there.

Re:Ask HN: What is the hardest part of self-learning? on Saturday January 25, 2020 @10:28AM (#22146608)
I didn’t see many challenges, except for a steep learning curve. Got hired as a junior, while having less knowledge in various subjects than uni graduates, I faster learnt and became productive in the tasks that we manage. Some even failed to meet the requirements since they focused too much on the theory and never got to the stage to actually apply it.

It may have been to my advantage that my senior peers quit & went on parental leave for months leaving me alone within the environments that I’m responsible for after only 8 months. Making it even steeper but also forcing me to apply the changes that I saw correct

Which can be resolved by running SCCM
Re:Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:37AM (#22002015)
It sounds like they didn’t have any backups at all but rather relied on a active-active replication link to a secondary storage.

Edit: who knows it may be related to the HPE issue.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/hp-warns-that...

In Stockholm it’s really common to jaywalk. There is a law against it, but there is no punishment unless you caused a dangerous situation so you’re not going to get stopped by the cops for doing so.

Also I was quite suprised the first time I heard of it being on to run a red light if you’re turning right. This is not legal AFAIK in all of Scandinavia nor the majority of Europe.

Some countries may aldo choose to prosecute you according to their law, which may be even harsher.

I’m aware of one case in specific. 2 brothers killed a person in Sweden, one got caught and got 12 years the other one fled to Libanon which rejected the request to extradite him but chose to prosecute themselves. The sentence was death.

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