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Tomte

163,416 karma · joined August 23, 2012

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

Knuth cheque owner.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/2uo; my proof: https://keybase.io/2uo/sigs/3Nc5FGsaD-8qFEmS8FvyXv9aA3sAS6hx29MBPq8g6EA ]

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Tomte··on CVE Tracker
The name is amusingly often misunderstood in Germany as a French government agency (this is anecdata, I‘ve just heard that several times in the last few months). It just sounds French, I guess.
Tomte··on OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18
> I would have thought […]

That‘s a common misunderstanding how licenses work on HN. Often even worse: "MIT allows relicensing" (no it doesn‘t, and sub-licensing is something different).

Behold the full set of licenses and copyright notices that apply to the Linux kernel, scanned with FOSSology[1] and ScanCode[2], and curated by licensing professionals: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Open-Source-Compliance/pac...

Yes, you need to supply all of those if you distribute the Linux kernel in binary form. No, most companies don‘t do that in practice. Yes, they are in breach of all those licenses. Yes, next kernel release there will be changes.

I‘ve long been procrastinating on writing a blog post about exactly that.

[1] https://www.fossology.org/

[2] https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit

Tomte··on What the heck is /pkg?
As a new Mac user I could not decide between Macports and Homebrew, and I went with pkgsrc/pkgin. Cannot complain, have had zero reason to revisit that decision ever since.
Tomte··on I got a C&D 1h after reverse engineering Serum 2 into an Open Source alternative
Good.

Serum is a cool and very reasonably prized synth, and you‘re just pirating it.

No, your AI-washing does not count as an independent reimplementation.

Tomte··on Show HN: Opensidian
Why do you put a license on it when it‘s obviously not copyrightable?
Tomte··on Knuth reward check
I like to use https://youglish.com/ when I have a question about English pronunciation.
Tomte··on Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape
Because everyone copies it: the word is Dunkelflaute. U, not a.
Tomte··on Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
They need to be, but many plugin developers simply break the GPL.
Tomte··on Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project
Issues removed, and a notice: Currently running an internal code audit.
Tomte··on StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
Same here, but the GitHub thread actually calls that out as a known bug. Swipe from the left. Intention is that clicking sonewhere on the map closes the dialog.
Tomte··on Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
It is, but that‘s why I trust Honest Achmed (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959). He is a man of integrity and will not be bought!
Tomte··on Walking Men
Even better: Emden, Germany.

https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/otto-waalkes-enthuellt-ot...

https://www.wn.de/welt/kultur/hupf-otto-hupf-emden-ehrt-komi...

Tomte··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
Back issues of The London Review of Books.
Tomte··on How to Write with an LLM
I found his description of Classical Style very confusing and disorganized. You‘re much better off reading the original, Thomas & Turner.
Tomte··on How to Write with an LLM
It‘s been available under different variations of the title, you don‘t need the latest one, and amazon.de should have a used copy for five Euros or so.
Tomte··on Apple detectives solved mystery of ancient tree and rewrote the history of fruit
The coolest thing about some apple cultivars is how their story is "someone found an apple tree at the side of a road with tasty apples", and people kept grafting them to this day. Boskoop, for example.
Tomte··on CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3
We don‘t support Ukraine because we‘re very good and selfless people. We support Ukraine (still too little!) because we don‘t want the Red Army at the Rhine.
Tomte··on We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation
You were just one click away from finding out:

"Figure 2. Using a sample of 2,972 respondents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, each of whom had been rated on a five-point scale of attractiveness […]"

Tomte··on We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation
Gelman (2018, and reiterated 2024): "Bayesians are frequentists." (https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2018/06/17/bayesians-...)
Tomte··on EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member'
America is a big importer of toilet paper from Canada. :-)
Tomte··on EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member'
Months ago: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canadians-s...
Tomte··on EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member'
You don‘t want to have any level of association with us, as you‘ve made clear repeatedly over many years, involving many insults.

Don‘t expect the EU to actively offer anything again. Do the first step (after getting a clear view what proportion of your population actually wants that).

The United Kingdom would be a great member, as you had been. But that ship has politically sailed.

Tomte··on Why EAV Sucks
I love their "Geld oder Leben" album so much.
Tomte··on Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
But they won‘t buy a second personal phone to protect their privacy in a chat group.
Tomte··on Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
Is there a messenger that allows anonymous group chats, i.e. for union organizing in a company?

As far as I can see, you can invote people to a group chat using QR flyers, but your Signal profile is visible to everyone in a chat, so everyone knows what Tina in marketing thinks about it.

Because nobody is going to have a burner phone with a data plan for a separate Signal identitiy.

Tomte··on Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
The Erlang front page was nice, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11
Tomte··on Textream – A Free Teleprompter for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
I would have thought, mirror-imaging would be a must-have feature for a teleprompter app.
Tomte··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
If only they managed to tell the mobile app to tell the model to reply in English to English prompts.

I suffix everything with "Reply in English", and even so I‘m getting lots of Chinese.

Tomte··on [dead]
Karma farming with predictable URLs about to become interesting. Simply flag it.
Tomte··on iPhone Duo
This page does not exist at the time of this comment, and I‘m so sick of people submitting predictable URLs before they go live, just to be first. We also see that with LLM model releases regularly.
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