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Re:After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:43PM (#50294724)
Is it? He took a plane, surely
Image tags are not are versions and shouldn't be treated as such. The tag "19.3.6" refers to the version of Gitlab, which hasn't changed. This is why everyone should pin their images to a specific sha and setup a process to get notified on changes
Or you could, you know, read the changes your approving
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:29PM (#50199244)
It hasn't passed yet, but legislators are very hard at work trying to "catch up". [1][2]

And there are other countries outside the US and Europe, it's not just a "EU" thing. (I wanted to write North America first, but even Canada does blocking, in some cases even without court orders [3])

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site... [2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/congress-has-another-s... [3] https://piracymonitor.org/canada-evolving-piracy-threats-pro...

Re:Google cloud outage takes down banks on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:03PM (#50171088)
Depends on where the EU-licensed institution is headquartered, as monitoring is done by the states. But I'll say it's very likely that there will be an angry call or a review at most. Some manager will have to write up how they want to mitigate problems in the future, and this plan is maybe implemented in the next few years. If this is the first problem of an institution, a fine is rather unlikely.

Generally with acts like these: You don't have to be fully compliant in practice. You need to know how compliant you are, have a plan to improve things, and prove that you are working on it. But if you are "close enough" (depending on who audits you), non-compliance isn't a direct route to fines.

Re:Voxtral 3 on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:39PM (#50170743)
From the two examples I could find on the page, it sounds stilted, but not "hilariously" bad.
> restocked multiple times a day

[citation needed]

Where I live, stores don't open on Sundays. Many apparently do in France, but I imagine not all of them. So there are potentially 24 + 12 hours where nobody's there to check stuff

Re:Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:30AM (#50149820)
"binary compatibility" in the JVM sense shows up during runtime, anyway. The Throwable should maybe have been a subclass of LinkageError (which indicates a binary compatibility problem; though I'm sure there's a good reason why it isn't): Right now the MatchException can easily be caught by mistake, which wouldn't be an issue if it were a MatchError.

However, it doesn't change the behavior much: LinkageErrors can also happen any time at runtime, not necessarily during startup. Just like the MatchException.

Re:The Fatal Flaw of 911 on Friday October 16, 2026 @06:23PM (#50125564)
That would be trilateration. But no, your phone is perfectly able to transfer your GPS position during a 911 call, as well.
The sloppiness shows, the performance is awful (Firefox on Pixel 8)
Firefox on Android, sometimes the question is off screen after answering a question
Re:Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:18AM (#50102587)
The CRA applies to every kind of device
Re:`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach on Saturday October 10, 2026 @08:19AM (#50032183)
Unless of course, you need to unlock your password manager, which is not integrated with your browser, because corporate IT doesn't allow browser extensions or desktop apps so you're bound to a web app ...
A smart coffee maker is one of the earliest smart home appliances: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2324/
Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:16AM (#50017565)
It took me a bit after I had to switch to a Macbook, but by now I'm pretty used to switching between Linux and Mac. But the one thing I'm still not used to after a few years is the position of []. It's still a 50/50 whether I hit it on mac
Re:Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:12AM (#49992312)
But it is a shared library? It's used in both Chrome and Firefox.
Re:House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:11AM (#49992296)
lowercase m. 15 meters, not 15 million tunnels :D

If you're interested in secret tunnels, check out Colin Furze on Youtube!

It was speculated that xbox streaming of GTA6 will be available on PC, but it was already denied.
Re:An Algorithmic Failure Beneath the Secret Ballot on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @06:28AM (#49976549)
This would need at least a majority of die-hards present in a (near) majority of polling locations. At this point, the party can probably win the election without fraud.
Re:Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:29AM (#49975766)
There's no guarantee that the COOL SMARTHOME SENSOR V1 has the same sensor or MCU like the COOL SMARTHOME SENSOR V1 that I can buy. Sure, it's interesting to know, but it's not too usefuly
Re:Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art on Saturday October 03, 2026 @04:09AM (#49942299)
I don't know much about the "creative people scene" what are some examples of creatives becoming "censorship-hungry prudes"?
Re:Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:29AM (#49930115)
We're talking about a browser _engine_. The shell/chrome is irrelevant in this context
Re:Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:35AM (#49918399)
> And I believe this was a way to annotate that something was… fixed, maybe? Or on its way to being fixed?

A "Rotte" is the crew working on railway construction. So I assume this is a label to warn that personnel is on the tracks

Re:September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:20AM (#49908574)
> Which former employer is going to make a quick buck? The grid operator or the grid operator lobbyist?

Well, both. Katherina Reiche was CEO of Westenergie until she joined the current government; and was, at the same time, listed as a lobbyist. She also caused controversy when she presented a plan for energy politics that was _very similar_ to plans by major electricity providers (including the parent company of her previous company). Or when she directly asked the electricity provider EnBW for better arguments why we should build more gas power plant (directly violating lobbying laws). That's just a small excerpt; the list of controversy is long.

But tbh, I don't think there's a big conspiracy about the empty gas tanks. Yes, Reiche is most likely corrupt (which is a huge deal), but afaiu, the gas tanks are empty because nobody wants to pay for the gas right now.

PS: Just today, Reiche ordered Sefe GmbH to stockpile more gas [1]. Sefe is conveniently a public company. So private companies don't have to buy expensive gas, because the public is going to take care of it.

[1] https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2026-09/gasspeicher-deutschla...

Re:There is more to code review than (automatable) detection on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:44AM (#49874793)
We're using Github Copilot to review some of our PRs (the functionality that's built-in into Github directly). Man, I hope that people are using better agents for code review. Because if Github Copilot is in any way comparable to what the "machines will review all code soon" people are using, then I'm really worried. It's nowhere close to "good". It can find some obvious things, but it misses too much and has too many wrong findings.
Re:PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock on Saturday September 26, 2026 @04:46PM (#49860382)
It doesn't, sadly. The new kid on the block, Morphe (there was some classic open source drama) directly gives you the link to the correct apkmirror page, don't know if revanced also did this. But it makes things easier. Tbh, I only update every few months, it's bearable
If I remember correctly, back then all "good" entries in the contest solved the game by syncing with the RNG and could basically predict where and how new asteroids would spawn. The difference between entries was planning ahead movement and residence against control issues due to the contest setup (like inputs getting delayed). I wonder how Astra managed so much better, I thought the problem was already solved
Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:50AM (#49827110)
And what brings you to this very wrong impression?
Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @02:50PM (#49820690)
Not that I agree with the comment you're replying to - but I find this response funny, when just today there was a link on the front page about the US military bombing a school because of AI output
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but isn't a sizeable part of the article about how Air can be used with any agent (section "The future is multi-vendor")

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