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_ache_··on HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden
No no, it's the same.

The OFAC apply to US companies only and forbid VISA/MasterCard to manage her transactions (and a LOT of others companies ... like a lot, not just Visa and MasterCard).

Legally Europeans bank shouldn't apply US sanctions, maybe they do, but legally, they should not (CJUE thing, I'm not an expert). I don't think it ever happen, because ... money launder generally doesn't complains about US sanction, it's wasn't a problem.

_ache_··on HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden
No. It's a MasterCard/Visa only (and Amercian Express I guess, maybe JCB too).

So technically, she can pay by card in France, Belgium, India and others countries that don't rely exclusively on Visa/MasterCard.

With local cards.

_ache_··on Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal
I'm using ollama with local LLM for completion (tabby-ml) and Open WebUI for chat. What will be the goto local ACP server working with ollama ?

Ideally working with toad to experiment with it.

_ache_··on DOJ uploaded a 12-SEC video showing Epstein attempting suicide? [updated]
Why deleted ? The link in the pdf is fine, it's not deleted.

I don't think I should post the link here because it is death related, but I just quickly type the URL and it works fine.

_ache_··on Mozilla right now (Digital Painting)
The problem with AI is privacy.

Firefox should be the browser that respects you privacy (the only one...). Integrating AI undermining the efforts of making it the privacy oriented browser.

For now the AI is forced and ridiculously complicated to disable (with new options in about:config poping in each new version). The promise to have an "disable all IA features" is still a promise.

_ache_··on Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
I don't see how child abuse content is a risk for a airplane manufacturer but that is not how Palentir is used at Airbus.

I'm talking about the Skywise data platform.

https://www.aircraft.airbus.com/en/services/enhance/skywise-...

_ache_··on Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
I don't think Airbus is fighting terrorists, child abuse or political opponents. So what is your point ? Airbus is fighting industrial espionage.
_ache_··on Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
Good, and them get ride of Palantir as a "data manager". It's a step in financing EU sovereign cloud providers.
_ache_··on Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’
I agree, but that is nothing new. The original SaaS was already proprietary.

And btw, the "reverse engineering" close was already here too. You can check the archive.org of Jan 2025, months before the Qualcomm acquisition.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250120145427/https://www.ardui...

So this citation, is basically fake news and FUD. The *now* part is false and this hide the fact that the "platform" is only the SaaS.

> Phillip Torrone had warned [...] Arduino’s users were now “explicitly forbidden from reverse engineering or even attempting to understand how the platform works unless Arduino gives permission.”

_ache_··on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
This can fool someone from one location and only in one way (if you are near Somalia and expect a 10ms latency, a virtual VPN can't reduce latency to simulate been in Somalia). So it have to be dynamic to fool multiple locations to stay probable.

But anyway, *you can't fool the last-hop latency* (unless you control it, but you can control all of it), and basically it impossible to fool that.

_ache_··on 4 billion if statements (2023)
Yeah... I come here to talk about that. Should have been

  for i in range(0, 2**8, 2):
      print("    if (number == "+str(i)+")")
      print("        printf(\"even\\n\");")
      print("    if (number == "+str(i + 1)+")")
      print("        printf(\"odd\\n\");")
or

  for i in range(0, 2**8, 2):
      print(f"""    if (number == {i})
          puts("even");
      if (number == {i + 1})
          puts("odd");""")
_ache_··on An SVG is all you need
I really like SVG, I did a lot of things with it and some interesting ones. The only blame I have is that it is sometime slow.

Like for QR Code, precise maps or +100 pixels wide squares. More than 100 "DOM" elements and it will take multiple seconds to show.

The animations also are slow too, compared to canvas, plain CSS or Lottie but nothing very cursed, it's mostly fine.

_ache_··on Post-transformer inference: 224× compression of Llama-70B with improved accuracy
No, it's a waste of time.

I mean, the process should have been to contact some local academics to discuss the mater. If I say it works (or it doesn't) I'm adding near nothing to the claim, as I'm not an academic myself.

Big claims like this need clear and solid work. Here it just looks like LLM generated.

_ache_··on Post-transformer inference: 224× compression of Llama-70B with improved accuracy
Looks very fake. Self published (Anima-Core is NOT a journal), no academic anteriority, very strong statement, no peer-review, no public history of technical skills. Did I mention the use of Github via the interface only?

At the same time, possible since it's only classification tasks. I mean, the method explained is technically plausible, a lot of people thought about it, we were just unable to find a method to do so.

Very unlikely true, unfortunately.

_ache_··on Feedback doesn't scale
> You can't know 200 people, but you can know 10 people who each know 10 people

You are still 100 people short to know 200 people, but I got the idea.

The 100 people limit is already know by most of teachers. Having more than 3 classes, it is mostly impossible (very hard) to have a "deep" follow up of each student. Having more than 6 classes and it is strictly impossible to follow them even in the best conditions.

_ache_··on Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
I agree, I laugh out loud at that pun.
_ache_··on Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
Thank you for the technical write up. I have no expertise in the BTE area but it's clear enough for me to understand.

The swap pattern is very interesting but even if it's silly, maybe experimenting with an actual camera to detect cameras may give you a good base line to what to expect from a working Rayban banner.

_ache_··on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
I don't particularly like Zig, actually I don't like the language. But I have to admit, it's a bold move, free software projects should be encouraged to do the same.
_ache_··on FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
Even a 5090 can handle that. You have to use multiple GPUs.

So the only option will be [klein] on a single GPU... maybe? Since we don't have much information.

_ache_··on France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors
Yeah, "Le media" and "Mediapart" are "left wing" newspaper and not billionaire owned, there is right wing too, but they are smalls. Libé isn't owned by Kretinsky but Patrick Drahi, Kretinsky owns Mariane (right to far-right now...).

But anyway yeah, in France (and in other countries too ) there is a media oligarchy.

Check the France problem: https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/PPA https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/IMG/png/poster_medias_fran...

Other countries with broken media ecosystem: - Australia: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/17/the-br...

But also USA and Poland for example.

_ache_··on 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18
No, the link is off. Ether they rename the article or it's an error from HN side.
_ache_··on Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal
It's a little step but a step forward. JXL is on part with AVIF and WebP2 most of the time but is very much better to share photography.

There is no reason to block its adoption.

_ache_··on How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
I'm just wondering. It's only reported the experience of Nicolas Guillou. But they are 6 and most (+3 prosecutors) of them aren't French.

In France, there is the CB system, that can be used in France to pay by card. Outside of France, it's VISA/Mastercard only. So the others judges can't even pay anything by card, even in they own country. I'm not sure they can even get money from an ATM.

_ache_··on Run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images)
I have an "error" "I am not a teapot"

719 - I am not a teapot Espresso Web (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) at raymii.org

Looks suspicious, ... not 418, 719.

_ache_··on Valve is about to win the console generation
5 years ago, if someone told you about a commercial Linux gaming console. You were right to laugh.

Now, with IA cheating being the norm now, I think Valve has a real chance to add a microchip to "certify" its console and so playing Fornite (or over 3A) on it.

Will be a added value over a gaming PC, I don't think they will miss this opportunity for too long.

_ache_··on Rouille – Rust Programming, in French
You must learn about Baguette#.

An implementation of OCaml (similar to Haskell, but from France instead of UK), but with french pastries name. It was half a joke, half a serious study project.

https://github.com/vanilla-extracts/ocaml-baguettesharp-inte...

_ache_··on Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest
How can you have a localhost reference as canonical? You should fix your jekyll configuration I guess.

<link rel="canonical" href="http://localhost:8080/en/dinversiones" />

_ache_··on Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem
You are quite rude here. I was asking questions. The benchmarks are very new and don't explains why it can used for training.

But if FP4 means 4bit floating point, and that the hardware capability of the DGX Spark is effectively only in FP4, then yes. That was nonsense to wish it could have been used for training. But it wasn't obvious from the advertising of nvidia.

_ache_··on French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence
That is a very good question.

The short answer is you can't. But There is enough hints that he maybe implicated at least as much as his collaborators.

One for example, is a testimony of a "smuggler" that he deposited the dirty money 2 times to his collaborator and once directly to Sarkozy. Not enough, he could lie.

A write-up of a meeting preparing the coming of Sarkozy (in arabic) that suggests there is another important subject to the visit of Sarkozy in Lybia. In a way that coincides, we know that the discuss alone (Gaddafy, Sarkozy and Guéant without any diplomatic representative only translators). Not enough, maybe it was another secret subject.

That may explains the famous trip of Gaddafy in Paris. (10 of December 2007, which was an unexpected move regarding his implication in multiple "plane terrorist attacks" (DC10 UTA ( UTA 772),Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie)) and the "greatness" of the trip which was in "great fanfare" very uncommon one. https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3984020 Maybe Sarkozy really trade welcoming trip for good contracts but nobody trusts that.

It can also explains the implication of Sarkozy in nato air strike on Lybia to help the rebels (that leads to Gaddafy death). Gaddafy may have ask for help to interfere the revolt, and Sarkozy couln't politicaly explains it so did the opposite. At that moment, Lybia official reported that he must get the money back and that he was financed by their money (one of the two who reported it is dead, the other one is in exile and it's more complicated because he first support Sarkozy to get extracted from Lybia as he was caught by the rebels). At that time, nobody trusted the Lybia representative as the regime was a terrorist state.

Sooo, you can't tell that he knows, but it does explains a lot.

_ache_··on French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence
I hesitated to call it a nickname, as the name is "Paris-La Santé".

But got covered by Wikipédia "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_de_la_Sant%C3%A9", so I did called it a nickname too.

I'm pretty sure it can be called a "Métonymie de lieu" but I just didn't want to insist about that, it feels a little pedantic.

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