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EraYaN··on Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
Well the user certainly doesn't know how to determine trust, otherwise scams and social engineering wouldn't work.
EraYaN··on Mistral Large 4
Honestly the sentiment on the streets was WAY different when you guys had Obama, like not even close. Sure some grumblings about your guys love for starting wars in the middle east. But it's not even close now. People really don't like the way the US is behaving right now. The complaining is way more out there, even influencing business decisions and political choices...
EraYaN··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
At least where I am (the Netherlands) there are plenty of mills still milling.
EraYaN··on The scourge of x86 emulation
The actual product people understood it to be paramount to the success of the product and so I feel like from up high there was actual commitment.
EraYaN··on Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers
Yes, your MDM lets you do almost everything you want to Windows. You can really tell that it is a commercial first offering, or at least used to be. And given that as a company you are also paying them I guess they don't care that much that there are fewer ads.
EraYaN··on What Happened to HackerOne?
Some of them can have 1 rpi take down a full 100 node cluster, so sure sev:lo but the cyber insurance often want them fixed anyway. But it will probably take it happening before C-suite decides that 0 revenue is a problem.
EraYaN··on Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)
And if you happen to be in some parts of Europe they will have a 6 pin connector that will send out data telegrams with all the stuff from the meter. DSMR is the standard that defines it for the Netherlands and port is called P1, seems to be (slowly) spreading. And you can also (wirelessly) pair a gas meter to the electricity meter to read that as well, and the new ones give you up to date data every second. Regulators CAN just make this happen clearly.
EraYaN··on Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
I mean being activist is sort of the whole point of the ACLU? And besides it's not like this would be the first time stuff like this happens. You don't have to imagine it, just learn history.
EraYaN··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
I mean at least the pipelines almost always seem to work...
EraYaN··on The RAM shortage could last years
The real disconnect is that the user doesn't really care all that much. It's mostly the designers who care. And Qt for example but also WPF let you style components almost to unrecognizable and unusable results. So if everyone will need to make do with 8GB for the foreseeable future, designers might just be told "No.", which admittedly will be a big shock to some of them. Or maybe someone finally figures out how to do HTML+CSS in a couple of megabytes.
EraYaN··on We should revisit literate programming in the agent era
Because the why can be completely unrelated to the code (odd business requirements etc). The code can be known to be non-optimal but it is still the correct way because the embedded system used in product XYZ has some dumb chip in it that needs it this weird way etc. Or the CEO loves this way of doing things and fires everyone who touches it. So many possibilities, most technical projects have a huge amount of politics and weird legacy behavior that someone depends on (including on internal stuff, private methods are not guaranteed to not be used by a client for example). And comments can guard against it, both for the dev and the reviewer. Hell we currently have clients depend on the exact internal layout of some PDF reports, and not even the rendered layout but that actual definitions.
EraYaN··on Museum of Plugs and Sockets
There are GFIs that can deal with a welder, you will have to swap it at the panel.
EraYaN··on Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
No, they will point out that the way to make GCC better is not really in the code itself. It's in scientific paper writing and new approaches. Implementation is really not the most work.
EraYaN··on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
The difference is visibility, with a van you can often see as close as 1,5 m in front of you due to the short hood. The problem is a lot of the newer trucks and SUVs are so tall that a full child (or 5) just disappear in front the car.
EraYaN··on Blender Lab
Essentially that someone needs to get involved that wants it/uses it and is also willing to pay for it.
EraYaN··on Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states
Well you should mostly do that in the primaries, when you are down to two, pick the least evil one.
EraYaN··on Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent
Wouldn't that intern just use an NLE (be it Premiere, Davinci Resole etc) anyway? If you need to style subtitles and edit shorts and video content, you'll need a proper editor anyway.
EraYaN··on Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
The non-passing test was only added like 17 hours ago: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/14d24f7a530f58...

So this is a good thing even for coreutils itself, they will slowly find all of these untested bits and specify behaviour more clearly and add tests (hopefully).

EraYaN··on The death of thread per core
There are some neat tricks to remove almost all the pack and unpack time. Apache Arrow can help a ton there (uses the same data format on both CPU and GPU or other accelerator). And on some unified memory systems even the send time can be very low.
EraYaN··on My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
YC isn't that unknown and you can absolutely judge that org for funding stuff like this, you really don't need that much detail. And if you have interacted with a lot of the "founders" you know that statistically you're in the clear to judge them all too. It's a pretty weird world where a lot of dumb exists, like A LOT. The realities of their lives are frankly immaterial anyway, it's about the output (and input in case of VC money).
EraYaN··on My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
Well be prepared for it to get MUCH MUCH worse, two AI agents battling it out trying to get each other to mess up. While all the human have no idea what the hell is happening.
EraYaN··on Fictional K-pop bands zoom to top of US music charts
This is just an animated movie sound track which had a normal production team and voice actors.
EraYaN··on The Rise of Whatever
Most of the financial services and systems are all still on very boring old databases (hell quite some cobol still touches a ton of it). Since well they don't need to get hype funding for their Series A or whatever. Databases are just pretty good and processing data efficiently. It's a tiny tiny part that actually runs on some blockchain.
EraYaN··on The Rise of Whatever
If you use a nice enough writing tool it will do en/em and any other dash for you semi automatically anyway. Even Word does it when AutoFormat is turned on. Although it normally chooses the En-dash (U+2013) instead of the Em-dash (U+2014), this also depends on your language.
EraYaN··on systemd ParticleOS
Well the key is to always do clean-installs and join the fleet and decommission the old machines. Machines are essentially immutable and disposable, so upgrades are done with full machines. And if anything hardware goes bad on whole or sometimes half racks.
EraYaN··on Is the world becoming uninsurable?
I don't think you quite get how little money it is for these types of operations, 25m is essentially missing 2-3 zeros before it becomes anywhere near usable and even worth it to bother.
EraYaN··on Is the world becoming uninsurable?
I think the point is more that the insurers are not the real target for your wrath. You should not motivate your congress person to do something about the insurance necessarily. It's probably better to look at a level further up the chain for example.
EraYaN··on Is the world becoming uninsurable?
All of those are a result of American's favorite hobby though, not maintaining infrastructure, because ooh no taxes. LA has not raised enough revenue for decades it seems. The amount of pot holes in even the most expensive neighborhoods was already to damn high.

At some point the US really needs to do bit of cultural reform so they can start paying for all that low density development and the costs associated with it. So stuff can actually be maintained.

EraYaN··on Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer
For multiplayer it's really about the people you play with, with is the incentive. Basically doing that stuff with friends is a ton of fun. And you can also include some people new to the game which multiplayer makes much easier for them.
EraYaN··on Company claims 1k% price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival
I think he means AWS/Azure/GCP and other hyperscalers.
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