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carstenhag··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
That’s completely normal in many countries, Germany for example doesn’t let you pick offensive or clearly-bad names for the child. You can’t call your kid Hässlich (Ugly) for example. You can also not use X12-Whatever-Allowed-In-US.

But apart from that, there’s no list, you can invent names.

carstenhag··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
Why would "right now" matter if the war has been ongoing for 4.5 years? I live in Germany, many ukrainians moved here, had several coworkers and their families move.
carstenhag··on Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)
iOS will natively let you select the text, as it does ocr on ever image. Maybe Android does the same.
carstenhag··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
There’s always things to improve or to add. Road surfaces, benches, trash bins, table tennis spots, etc. StreetComplete on Android helps make some common tasks really easy to do.
carstenhag··on .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?
Well it was already very late in the day (21-22?) so the impact was not big I would say
carstenhag··on .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?
I know that people are joking, but of course we also have (extra paid) on call shifts.
carstenhag··on Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
99.5% want to. Not something that will change.
carstenhag··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
My old mac was supposed to be donated to some place, but they had forgotten me to tell the iCloud lock is still on there. They wrote me on LinkedIn and as they were a good employer, I did unlock it
carstenhag··on Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
I developed Android apps for an EV charging platform for 5 years. Now working for Mapbox to integrate a navigation app into cars. Quite complex environment. Most Android topics are exactly the same as on a phone, it’s quite fun though because your app can control car functionality

(Germany/Munich)

carstenhag··on Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System
This is about 3 people in a meeting room joining with their laptops, without a meeting room audio setup (or it being bad)
carstenhag··on Ask HN: What is the current state of the art in BIG (>5TB) cloud backups?
Probably just above normal b2c backup services, and below company requirements
carstenhag··on Ask HN: What is the current state of the art in BIG (>5TB) cloud backups?
Syncthing will do a 1 to 1 connection if possible, else it will use a relay server. Traffic is encrypted. Open source. After the initial setup of marrying the devices together, it's just a matter of starting the application. Pretty much what you want?
carstenhag··on Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector
Do you need a CDN for a static html, no images? I would guess no, even if you.are being bombarded with requests
carstenhag··on Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
I really hate my bakery, the buns are only edible for some days, after that, they grow mold!

Without sarcasm, it is entirely reasonable that when the OS is EOL by the 1st party, software support for it by 3rd party also ends soon after that.

carstenhag··on People are using iPad OS features on their iPhones
On Android you can use split screen apps. Either some apps are broken (including some I was part of writing...) or it's really annoying to put in text when both apps are open. It's really just useless almost alway
carstenhag··on You can't cURL a Border
It doesn't exist, because it's complex to set up and up until 5 years ago almost no one wanted to do this. Now some people want to do it, and they can use an Employer of Record via facilitating companies. But the visa situation will probably still be difficult, it's pretty much a gap
carstenhag··on A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler
I was scrolling and scrolling, waiting for the author to mention the new methods, which of course every Android Dev had to migrate to at some point. And 99% of us probably thought how annoying this change is, even though it probably reduced the number of bugs for Turkish users :)

Unrelated, but a month ago I found a weird behaviour where in a kotlin scratch file, `List.isEmpty()` is always true. Questioned my sanity for at least an hour there... https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTIJ-35551/

carstenhag··on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
You can do this in software, I tried it a few times with games and just other stuff ~10 years ago. Why would it have to be a hardware solution?
carstenhag··on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
I am pretty sure governments around the world want it to be cheaper, but at the same time know that it must be very strictly regulated. Even if that makes it pricier, one can't call that "fake costs".

Also, it takes decades to build them, very often then also getting delayed. Why even consider it nowadays?

carstenhag··on Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office
I used to say the same, but now I have to use Slack + Gmail + Meet + Google Calendar + Drive + whatever else Google has.

All of this has integrations into each other. Somehow a slack bot can show me calendar entries. Why I would even need such a broken UI/experience is unclear to me. I can't see when people usually work. Meet chats disappear once the meeting is over.

At Teams/Outlook you have a million other issues, but all things considered, I preferred it.

carstenhag··on iPhone Air
Tried the Fold on a Google event and it was really nice. I would get one, but I don't want to spend so much money.
carstenhag··on European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices
MasterCard leaked address + full credit card data about 90.000 people in Germany. Everyone that signed up for a lawyer (that was paid 15% of a possible payout) got 250-300€, including me. If only 10.000 signed up, it's already 2.5 millions.

https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/mastercard-zahlt-kunden-...

carstenhag··on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
Someone here commented saying they claimed they did not even use it for training, so apparently it was useless.
carstenhag··on I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
This is, as the title mentions, the cheapest EV. It's really old. It did not have tech that pretty much all EVs have nowadays.

Nowadays you don't have to do this. You can. Just like with your phone or laptop.

carstenhag··on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
Just disable the feature/plugin in your IDE of choice. Android Studio/IntelliJ: https://i.imgur.com/RvRMvvK.png
carstenhag··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
"we all know... Play Store... full of malicious garbage" - please point out how that statement is true, given we all know this apparently.

Yes, there are apps out there that try to trick the system and when you use them, instead of looking innocent, it's actually a casino app or something. But Google usually finds those. Are there any apps impersonating a bank? Because that is what regular people care about & think of when someone says "malicious".

They don't care if an app tracks what other apps are installed, what the user taps on, etc. Arguably they should care, but they don't lose money from it.

carstenhag··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
Wrong analogy, as you need to register at Steam to sell a product. To share an executable for Windows, you don't. It's also not about taking a cut.
carstenhag··on A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website
Or "so 1 Pimmel" ("such 1 penis")
carstenhag··on Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US
Weird argument, as you could apply it to every patent issue in the world. Just as an example: Better video encoding is good for the world, so h264/hevc patents must be void.
carstenhag··on Blurry rendering of games on Mac
Meta: the name on HN was "Blurry game rendering on Mac" or something. Now we have the same title as in the article - clickbait-sounding. Why?
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