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> Germany has sanctioned its own journalists

If we're talking about the same case, the EU sanctioned him, the man is at least dual citizen, and received Russian funds via his media company in Turkey, then proceeded to say it was all because it was about his coverage of Gaza. All of that is in the EU sanctions page, but "democratic" media coverage focused and pinned it on the Gaza bit.

If you're talking about Thomas Röper (of Anti-Spiegel) and Alina Lipp, well, it's even more clear cut, not sure how are you trying to sell legal action against those as lack of democracy. It's disingenuous in the best case.

Regarding UK, the 12k figure is real but related to all forms of communication, and by large involving threats, domestic violence and the like. Not for "social media posts".

>Tucker Carlson is under the gun for allegedly being a Russian or is it Iranian agent. But the US is a democracy.

Tucker Carlson took the grifter turn and makes money off it, not unlike Alex Jones. He'll behave like anything that can bring him manageable and profitable attention.

Exactly, sounds tautological.

What's the power consumption like?

Edit: just checked the specs, 47 kWh/mo, roughly 65W on average

> It's not easy, but it's their work.

There's a significant asymmetry though, it's not just a bit more work. I'm a bit cynical here, but often it's easier to just overengineer and be safe than to defend a simple solution; obviously depending on the organization and its culture.

When you have a complex solution and an alternative is stacked up against it, everything usually boils down to a few tradeoffs. The simple solution is generally the one with the most tradeoffs to explain: why no HA, why no queuing, why no horizontally scalable, why no persistence, why no redundancy, why no retry, etc. Obviously not all of them will apply, but also obviously the optics of the extensive questioning will hinder any promotion even if you successfully justify everything.

I call it race to the moral bottom.

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNqozQ8uaV8

I do it and never had an issue. I get odd emails every now and then with an unused address, for services/people I never contacted though. But I'm talking about perhaps 2-3 per year.

Assuming their mails follow a Poisson distribution, the 95% confidence interval for their new spam rate is 0-0.091 emails per day.

I started laugh reacting at Russian propaganda and now all I get is Russian propaganda, literally half of my posts are boomers, shills and people from "non-aligned" countries falling for the Russia stronk/based west evil/gay meme, and Russian embassies and consulates non-stop DARVOing. But before that it was indeed a constant flurry of thirst traps, ragebait, etc. I only keep using it for a couple of well moderated groups.

What I remember is that you could push OBEX calendar objects without much refusal from the phones and make people have alarms ringing at 3am, fun times!

Disclaimer: self plug[0]

I honestly believe everything will be normalized. A genius with the same model as I will be more productive than I, and I will be more productive than some other people, exactly the same as without AI.

If AI starts doing things beyond what you can understand, control and own, it stops being useful, the extra capacity is wasted capacity, and there are diminishing returns for ever growing investment needs. The margins fall off a cliff (and they're already negative), and the only economic improvement will come from Moore's Law in terms of power needed to generate stuff.

The nature of the work will change, you'll manage agents and what not, I'm not a crystal ball, but you'll still have to dive into the details to fix what AI can't, and if you can't, you're stuck.

[0]https://www.fer.xyz/2026/02/llm-equilibrium

I never expected to see this kind of drama on HN, live.

>Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

>people are underestimating how draining is operating and maintaining software

Yep. Many SaaS have an edge because they factorize the struggle of many customers, if a SaaS has 1000 customers, each customer vibing their way into a home-built solution will require dedicated efforts at maintaining it. Even with AI, those efforts aren't negligible.

Many companies don't even operate any IT infrastructure, cloud or otherwise, themselves, beyond office connectivity, AI replacing SaaS will require someone in charge of that at the very least.

Yeah, as someone who's been to Russia pre-war, and has worked and befriended Russians, the beam in the eye is quite strong in many. It's striking because the social contract there is basically that you're left alone as long as you don't become a thorn of the power, social network-mediated or not, and I'm not even talking about Putin and his entourage, but local administration in a remote village too. Zvyagintsev portrays it royally in Leviathan, as it's been portrayed by Dostoyevsky and Tosltoy before.

My most recent case: I went on holiday to a resort in Turkey, numerous Russians, families, retired, etc. I don't pass as a Russian-speaker (but I understand quite well) and once they hear me talking other unrelated language they naturally start to speak more freely in front of me (i.e. more liberal use of swearing, and even slurs if no other Russians are around).

While sunbathing, or at the restaurant, or the pool, they were talking about daily, mundane things, same in the restaurant, etc. But when floating in pairs 20-30m from the shore? Politics.

venera venera venera

In some cases, yeah, but in others it just sounds like a company with a lot of regulatory constraints and a strong "need to know" culture. Internal moat building often reflects in their business model as well. Not that I'd like to work in that environment, but I've seen it work and work well.

Related (and on the frontpage): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239177

Can't disagree, but zionism likes to conflate them, and US policy goes in that general direction.

P.S. Hi to the border guard reading this!

It's been a pain point for me for years with many services.

Shameless plug on the topic: https://www.fer.xyz/2021/04/i18n

Editing out because it can be misunderstood as a defense of tax evasion as per the child comment. I'll leave a quote from the cypherpunk manifesto instead

> We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

Prompt (Gemini 3 Thinking): Explain the proof to Fermat's Last Theorem

Response: Here is a summary of the Gillespie Algorithm (also known as the Stochastic Simulation Algorithm or SSA), a fundamental method used in computational biology, chemistry, and physics.

[... goes off on that ...]

Haven't tested the latest DeepSeek versions, but the first release wasn't censored as a model on Taiwan. The issue is that if you use their app (as opposed to locally), it replaces the ongoing response with "sorry can't help" once it starts saying things contrary to the CCP dogma.

Just moved to Niri, it's incredible how snappy it is. The animation makes what you did with the window much clearer vs. other wms where it just teleports, the scrolling just compounds to that effect. The scrolling is great because it tends to work at getting things out of the way when they're not relevant and bringing them back when they are, while not ending up with tiny windows like dwm/AwesomeWM/Sway (what I've been using for the last ~15 years).

For a while I daily carried an Asus EeePC 901 in my jacket's pocket. Surprisingly comfy if I carried something on the other pocket on top. But yeah my jacket had exceptional pockets.

System/34 or System/36, the game was RACE. Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYRuTHz-wwk

I have the feeling that there's a sandwiched generation who will have to protect both their parents and their children from these things.

One of the best P2P clients ever created is written in OCaml: https://github.com/ygrek/mldonkey

I'm still surprised it can do so many things so well, so fast.

Previous/related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847613

Literally the volatile keyword in Java is to make the Java compiler aware in order to insert memory barriers. That only guarantees consistent reads or writes, but it doesn't make it thread safe (i.e. write after read), that's what atomics are for.

Also not only compilers reorder things, most processors nowadays do OoOE; even if the order from the compiler is perfect in theory, different latencies for different instruction operands may lead to execute later things earlier not to stall the CPU.

> I'd love to see the internal details on that COE.

You'd be unpleasantly surprised, on that point the COE points to the public write-up for details.