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Tomte

163,446 karma · joined August 23, 2012

Open Source Compliance, Functional Safety, OT cybersecurity, Education Science.

Knuth cheque owner.

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Tomte··on My two-part desk setup (2025)
What is the lamp, the one that‘s like a paper globe?

That was everywhere in my childhood.

Tomte··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
That was my impression, as well, but I recently met SFC people and they assured me that the judge is taking the third party beneficiary doctrine very seriously, it‘s not off the table. Funnily, because Vizio objected to the tentative ruling, it has little meaning now.

The trial in August will handle the TPB stuff, as well. It will be streamed, btw.

Tomte··on On The <dl>
Yes: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/grouping-content.html...
Tomte··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
> GPL itself does not forbid you from dynamically linking

GPL does not contain the words "dynamically linking". That‘s just a common interpretation as a shortcut.

In this case there are arguments for the program-plugin communication to be "intimate" and as such falling under "derivative work". But it‘s easy to take the other side, as well.

Tomte··on FSFE intervenes against Apple before EUCJ for the second time
FSFE distanced itself from FSF at one point: https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210324-01.en.html
Tomte··on LKML: Linus Torvalds: Linux 7.1-rc4
> the continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable
Tomte··on Physicists Can't Agree on What Quantum Mechanics Says about Reality
https://archive.ph/S4fJm
Tomte··on Did we just time-traveled?
git commit:

--date=<date> Override the author date used in the commit.

Tomte··on Did we just time-traveled?
They just call https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.1/libdoc/date/rdoc/Date.html... or similar.
Tomte··on Leaving the Physical World
Third world is historically outside the American (first world) and Soviet bloc (second world).

I don‘t think it‘s terribly relevant today, but why beat around the bush? Let‘s call it how we mean it:

Poor.

Tomte··on Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)
Yes. It’s mentioned at https://www.thomas-huehn.com/myths-about-urandom-revisited/

Of course, when searching for man urandom you still found the old versions at the top of the search results for years and years afterwards. And the German Wikipedia page will probably never change.

Tomte··on Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)
Hey, someone submitted my old article. On my birthday!

Oh, people hate it… and even someone I definitely look up to.

You‘re absolutely right, though, I don‘t remember it being that bad, and probably I just read over it when resurrecting the article, because I‘m so familiar with every word.

I‘ll slap some <hr> tags on it when I‘m back home from my holiday.

Tomte··on AI is using our Open Source code to replace us. We need new licenses now
No article with that title. Flagged.
Tomte··on Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)
Some C++ quiz with ++a and a++? It‘s always about sequence points, or better the lack of sequence points.

It‘s the standard technical C++ blog post everybody seems to write.

Tomte··on Show HN: KI im Mittelstand oder KI-Frustration? inkl. Demo
Not a Show HN, just some article in a language only a minority here can read.
Tomte··on Ask HN
Orthography and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_(sociolinguistics)
Tomte··on Dark Star (Film, 1974)
A prime example how German dubbing tried to make films more comedic. Like the Bud Spencer/Terence Hill films that were a huge success in Germany because of the slapstick dialogue not present in the Italian original.

In Dark Star they renamed Alien to Hüpfgemüse, which roughly translates to hopping vegetable. It‘s a hoot!

Tomte··on What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting
As a child I saw an acted segment about ball lightning in childrens‘ TV, following a person around the house, and had nightmares for a long time afterwards. The thing is spooky as hell.
Tomte··on Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
Yes so far, but it‘s switching heavily towards Markdown.
Tomte··on Breaking up with WordPress after two decades
Disclaiming warranty and indemnification are different things.
Tomte··on DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier
I tried after reading parent, and the DeepSeek app refused and suggested to switch topics. I don‘t know if the chat interface uses v4, though.
Tomte··on Ask HN:Do people configure Claude Code to use other models
I just did that today. See https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations...

A few environment variables and Claude Code uses DeepSeek. I was actually surprised how easy that is.

Tomte··on Before GitHub
They are getting access to a supercomputer soon, and will be scanning all their archive for licensing information (using scancode and ort), security information, and other metadata.
Tomte··on Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port
You can simply look at the GitHub repo where most of the commits say $Name and Claude
Tomte··on Flickr: The first and last great photo platform
Is HEIC/HEIF support somewhere on the roadmap? I know people have been asking for years and you don‘t want to be a backup site, but display photos. But this whole conversion thing makes me uncomfortable anyway.
Tomte··on Flickr: The first and last great photo platform
For a simple static "here are my photos", I‘ve found https://github.com/bep/gallerydeluxe today, and really like the focus on photos, not UI and thingies flying in and out of the viewport all the time.
Tomte··on Flickr: The first and last great photo platform
I just tried glass.photo. It doesn‘t allow to upload more than 10 photos at once, and if you upload 2 or more you have to put them in a so-called series (like an album?).
Tomte··on Michael Rabin has died
[flagged]
Tomte··on Google has a secret reference desk
And again Stuttgart City Library. It has almost become the default image of a library.
Tomte··on The End of Eleventy
Just last week updating Hugo broke my templates. That‘s happening every few months. They deprecate and then remove or rename template variables like crazy.

Great tool, though.

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