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Look up the capabilities of GBU-28 and other Bunker Busters first.

That is not what I have heard.

AFAIK those with protected addresses has not had their address compromised. But ID and name still is.

And with the rest exposed it is now trivial to see what adresses are "interesting".

I used to agree.

But since then I have experienced how scared mugglers get when they get a threatning mail with the only legitimacy of naming and old leaked password.

This will be easy to exploit on a scale.

Scammers used to prey on the weakest hence the many Nigerian Princes. But as they get more sophisticated and move up the chain they start to look more and more legitimate.

For those not getting the scope of this. The following has been compromised for all living danish citizens and foreign nationals which have had recidence. And quite a few dead ones as well.

- Social security number

- Age

- Sex

- Family relations

- Physical address

- Protected addresses

- Sex change

This is a country with quite good health records. Unfortunately also previous problems with proper non-reversible anonymisation of said data when used for research.

This is were security meets the real world. The number is not secret but people have been taught to keep it confidential. And when you know the last 4 digits social engineering har become a lot easier.

CPR is the national register of all people (Central Person Register).

CPR is the administrator. There is more information in the linked press release from the ministry:

https://ufm.dk/aktuelt/pressemeddelelser/2026/oktober/omfatt...

This is a huge headline story in Denmark today and I choose to link danish content as they are the primary source.

The only current english language sources are paywalled:

https://www.thelocal.dk/20261005/hackers-get-personal-info-o...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/denmark-d...

Non-paywalled but major danish news outlet (National Brodcaster):

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/live-uvedkommende-har-haft...

You are not wrong. I have tried some of the faster ones in Prague and Kiev. The difference in numbers does not sound like much but it sure does in real life.

The speed combined with the wind can be quite wild.

You might also enjoy this comparison with London:

https://youtu.be/UWJot1Q2LgY

The video also explains that escalator speed is now set via international standards.

I thought I "knew" this but this T-Shirt video let me down the rabbit hole: https://youtu.be/CMoZjcpgivM

Which means I now feel obligated to recommend:

https://youtube.com/@theironsnail

https://youtube.com/@shiftfashiongroup

Both have great videos on garment quality. But with the inevitable caveat that they are in the business themselves. I take it as an insiders perspective and watch out for content marketing (while being tainted!).

It seems to be easier to find better clothes if you are a bit of a hipster type. Those kind of stores still care for quality. My friend has such a shop and tells me that even for them it gets harder to source good vendors as it is a continuous race to the bottom.

But it does! (Or did)

The first theatrical release had a drab narration by Harrison Ford. At places it makes it sound like a cheap film noir detective story.

The Directors Cut is the unbutchered version.

Maybe 4D chess by Ridley Scott. Most had seen the optimized version first and was prepared for the magic which is the recut version ;-)

I have the opposite feeling with Apocalypse Now. The Redux version killed the pacing and explained too much. The added scenes are by themselves worthwhile (and explains later actions) but makes the complete movie a bit heavy handed.

By comparison Blade Runner feels more ethereal even though the both cover dark subjects of human nature.

Unsure if you are saying there is no collective responsibility or think it is time to bring out the pitchforks?

So morals are good at a certain pay level?

Thank god I am just a minion who now can go home worry free. Yay!

Not quite. That would just be boiling the frog.

It is an important fight for our future with our tech overlords. But sure - some will be happy owning nothing.

This is really one of those "First They Came" moments.

Unfortunately convenience trumps all. So for many "its just a cookie".

Really?

Because the industry really respected DNT[0]?

Regulations are needed when the kids cannot play nice in the school yard.

GDPR is actually not that bad if you read it rather than subscribing to much of the malicious compliance we see.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

Nonsense.

You are correct that people keep stating such things. But it is incorrect.

That example would be an essential cookie, also known as a strictly necessary cookie.

A shame this FUD is still being spread.

You cannot trust which number which is signalled to the end user.

Most spam calls I get is shown as legit numbers. If I call them back they will go to an innocent and unsuspecting user.

Google is already collecting this information and shows numbers as "probably spam". It is hard to enforce this harder even with collateral damage as you cannot trust the number which is signalled.

Legislation is in this case a good thing which might get the telcos to take this more seriously. This needs to be handled on an operator level. Nothing will happen without legislative incentives.

The world is run on SS7 which has a lot of problems which inertia and lacking incentives makes hard to overcome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7

"Don't worry. I'm greek".

What an absolute gem. Thank you for sharing this.

Yeah. I find it important to laugh at the absurdities of life. I found this to be a home-run (albeit light-weight).

It really surprised me how it seems to have polarized people. I never seem to learn.

I grant you that it might pander to a certain audience.

You are 100% correct on good fiction.

I have the feeling that you will not like Franz Kafka.

Without elevating this piece to that level I think we can still agree to disagree on what good fiction is.

Or maybe your humor is better aligned with the socially-contingent reality of Franz.

But your perspective is valued. I need to shake of my bias and remember that there are no easy wins. For each point there is a counter. And I find it hard to argue against yours as my bias makes your stance feel very dismissive. Everything then turns into wedge issues.

I would have preferred an argument based on why the piece was flawed not how. Then I could counter with my experience and we could have had a conversation.

Enough Internet for me today! ;-)

This was such a funny and refreshing read. Especially to find on this VC fuelled forum.

There was so much truth in this on a Dilbertesque level. If you can learn from this you are winning.

I am not saying "VC bad". I am saying it is a sharp-edged tool which you need to wield with great care. This humorous piece really points out the pitfalls.

Worth the read - do not just lurk here in the comment section (as I usually do!)

I have noticed many non-techies simply put words into the address bar and click on the first link from the search result.

So if people just remembers spacename.house then that might be enough.

My dad tend to skip the TLD part as well. The results usually work. When they do not - he gets very confused.

The Internet is really a gold rush for scammers.

I did not understand a thing from that link. But clicking on 2 blue boxes allowed me to download 143 MB of "something" from europe.

Too many secrets, indeed!

Well, yes. You are right.

But as I read the OP it is that he objects to the barrier of entry. He would prefer (possibly very harsh) rate limiting over the hassle of registrering an account. Maybe combined with a weak "nag" screen.

It might be hard implementing in a bulletproof way as IP restrictions are easy to circumvent. But it might be "good enough" to drive more adoption.

I'm a bit on the fence. It would be an interesting experiment.

I did that at home. But I needed to try several KVMs until I found one which was stable. And I hate all the cables.

I agree that the industry hates its consumers and likes to mess things up. CEC never always quite the same. Not supported on many GPUs etc.

I do not want to appear to condone LG. But actually (sorry!) some supoort[0] it using DDC side channels (0x50 rather that 0x51). But I agree it is painful. Yet I prefer it over my cable spaghetti.

[0] https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/wiki/Switching-input-so...

Most people are unaware that the should buy a monitor with USB and DP-Alt mode. The same people are also unaware that they should ensure the same for the laptop they are buying.

Lower prices are always nice. But such things can be found at reasonable prices. I think awareness is a larger problem.

I am happy enough with the built-in speakers. But I do agree that line level aux out on the back would be nice.

What a great idea. It should be obvious and easy but DDC commands are hard to find and should be documented better.

I have a Dell U4323QE in the office and look forward to trying this out. I wondered if it was the same DDC commands so I googled a little and found this gist (concerning DDM):

https://gist.github.com/nebriv/cb934a3b702346c5988f2aba5ee39...

Which has the very useful comment:

https://gist.github.com/nebriv/cb934a3b702346c5988f2aba5ee39...

Which states:

#define LUMINANCE 0x10 #define CONTRAST 0x12 #define VOLUME 0x62 #define MUTE 0x8D #define PBP 0xE9 #define SWAP_USB 0xE7 #define SWAP_INPUT 0xE5 #define INPUT 0x60 #define SUB_INPUT 0xE8 #define INPUT_ALT 0xF4 // alternate address, used for LG exclusively? #define STANDBY 0xD6

I much prefer simple DDC commands over using something like Synergy or Barrier. I think it is a much cleaner solution.

Totally out of fashion today but think of TN3270. Rather than "streaming" they were forms based and heavily keyboard driven. This could easily be mimicked by a GUI but keyboard shortcuts has become an afterthought.

I still today meet users missing those old workflows. But they express it as "old text interface" aka TUI. If you listen to them you realize they mean blazing fast and shortcut driven. When you work with data entry you care about speed - not animations.

Any beginner likes eye candy. The veteran has stopped caring.

I tried but could only find the slides:

https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/good_bad_ugly/

Do you have a link?

You missed the point.

The bike is for biking. Of course it is annoying when people bring it on the bus. Or park it in front of my door.

The bike on the metro is not rare because it is annoying. People do simply not have that much tact. It is more rare because people bike those distances and you pay extra on the metro. It is free on the S-Train which also covers longer distances - hence more bikes.

I find bikes annoying in general as well. But that is because they are usually attached to a human.

The point was that it can actually work.

It is not all of nothing. It is an integrated system which actually works.

This was a reply to a comment which claimed that bikes could not work in a large city with a lot of bikes and public transportation.

The same people often argue that bikes cannot work in cold weather.

Copenhagen has fairly decent public transportation and biking is quite common.

Bikes are allowed basicly everywhere: https://dinoffentligetransport.dk/en/how-to-travel/bicycles-...

Caveat: Bikes are not allowed in the Metro during rush hours 07:00-09:00 and 15:30-17:30. But it is allowed the rest of the time and has 24H service.

You should also know that the greater Copenhagen area is covered by "S-Trains" which are running on dedicated (not mainline) tracks. So metro-ish.

The S-Trains have dedicated space for bikes: https://youtu.be/hgfOxNRAktI

So even bumblebees can fly if you let them.