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astro1138on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

Is that going to accelerate copyright violations for AI training? https://cuiiliste.de/domains contains just a lot of piracy sites.

astro1138on Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers

After decades of a liberal and left senate, Berliners reelected CDU who bankrupted Berlin 25 years ago.

astro1138on New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS

If it is no longer closed, it might proliferate just like Linux once it gathers a critical amount of users. :)

astro1138on MySafeSpace – Whitehouse.gov

Hacked and defaced? Cyber security at a low point.

astro1138on Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels

When it comes to urban design, I consider balcony solar panels to be less of a nuisance than cars on the streets.

astro1138on Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations

Is Freedom of Speech only meant for US citizens?

astro1138on The uv build back end is now stable

So, this puts the Python runtime on Node.js' battle-proven libuv?

astro1138on XOR's Shader Arsenal: A collection of various tiny shaders

Very interesting. How do I view without X?

astro1138on Show HN: SVG Animation Software

There's a Github link but there are no repos. How do I package this for my favourite Linux distro?

astro1138on SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces

fvwm95, or newer: https://github.com/jcs/progman

I'd love a similar compositor for Wayland.

astro1138on Comcast is rolling out 'ultra-low lag' tech that could fix the internet

> L4S pulls this off by giving internet packets an indicator that lets them know if they’ve run into congestion or queueing along any of the hops in their trip between a user and whatever they’re connecting to.

Sounds a lot like ECN (RFC 3168) which was specified in 2001.

astro1138on Can Germany Fix Facebook?

Before FB had global world domination, a clone called StudiVZ was fairly popular in Germany. It was regarded at least as controversial.

astro1138on Is Arduino no longer open-source?

There is no source code either for the WiFi stuff in the ESP8266.

astro1138on Most of Mars' air was 'lost to space'

What does that mean for terraforming? Establish a magnetosphere first so that solar winds don't drag away an atmosphere?

astro1138on Deutsche Telekom says 900k fixed-line customers suffer outages

For Deutsche Telekom fiber you don't need no special router. Dial in with PPPoE over VLAN 7 similar to VDSL, minus the VDSL modem.

astro1138on TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging

Conversations.im

astro1138on Instant.io – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent

You'd still have to wait for the first block of data (piece in BitTorrent lingo) to complete.

astro1138on Why is a Rust executable large?

Why not link the Rust libstd dynamically?

astro1138on Apple’s actual role in podcasting: be careful what you wish for

archive.org

astro1138on Show HN: WOPR – A markup for rich terminal reports

I wonder if it's manageable to build a converter to SVG with just XSLT?

astro1138on 31c3 videos are up

append .torrent to any file url

astro1138on 31c3 videos are up

the conference is still ongoing at this time.

astro1138on BitTorrent secures and open-sources DHT bootstrap server

Hi, that last link was my talk from 3 years ago. Last year at 29C3 a couple of friends proposed doing this kind of security with elliptic curve cryptography. See the lightning talks recordings. Their code is here: https://github.com/rtreffer/dht

astro1138on Ask HN: Who are the 100 people who most changed the world?

Napoleon Bonaparte

astro1138on A new breed of Chrome Apps

I've been hacking on a Chrome App for the past few weeks and have been wondering how to open a tab instead of a new window. That announcement leaves me confused: what's new exactly? Is it even possible that the new stuff has been in the docs for months?

astro1138on Think Distributed: A Distributed Systems Podcast

Oh dear, can't listen to that on headphones. Built-in microphones and VoIP quality make my ears hurt. Listening to sophisticated podcasters definitely spoils you.

astro1138on Distributed Everything

Yes, that is what SILC is for. It has been around for really long.

astro1138on Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: JSON operators

It would be lovely if they could add support functions for:

RFC6901: JSON Pointer

RFC6902: JSON Patch

astro1138on Firefox OS Developer Preview Devices Announced

I still use a Nexus One class (HTC Desire) which seems to have specs that are on par. I want Firefox OS but why would I buy another device with the same functionality?

astro1138on More on Postgres Performance

tl;dr

Use EXPLAIN ANALYZE and read the manual.