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hosteur··on NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand
What is your agenda?
hosteur··on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops' CPUs
Hmm.. I guess if this explains why my new work Dell Latitude becomes extremely laggy and unstable when doing Teams meetings with multiple video streams. My 5+ year older Dell Latitude did not have this problem.
hosteur··on Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
Please make an unofficial client for windows too. The official one sucks so much it is hard to even describe.
hosteur··on Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k
> Let it fail and see what happens.

It will get replaced by a proprietary protocol/paid service from each Azure, Cloudflare, Google, AWS, ...

The rest of us will be S.O.L.

hosteur··on Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
How does that integrate with the "Dock" or menu bar at the bottom? (new to Mac)
hosteur··on Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
Profiles are great. But last I checked, it did not seem possible to run two parallel instances of Firefox with separate profiles. Has this been improved?
hosteur··on The Farmer Was Replaced [video]
You are not alone. I don’t get why you are downvoted.
hosteur··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
I use shift insert to paste all the time.
hosteur··on I only use Google Sheets
Do you have a good automated way to back up Sheets, etc?
hosteur··on Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander
> Honestly my biggest gripe with the moonlander is its too many keys

Can't you just program it such that you do not use the keys you find unnecessary? Perhaps even remove the switches?

hosteur··on A new experimental Google app for Windows
Why would anyone let Google run a local app to index their local files given that their business model is to spy on you against your interests?
hosteur··on Apple Photos app corrupts images
That the workflow could be better does not really excuse the software corrupting the images. This is like the "you are holding it wrong" type excuse.
hosteur··on Apple Photos app corrupts images
I am not letting Apple Photos touch my photos. Neither Google Photos, etc.

All my photos are managed using Digikam and developed using Darktable. They are also visualized via immich, but immich only has access via a read-only mountpoint.

Everything is hosted locally of course.

hosteur··on Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Causing SSD Failures
You seem to be implying that Linus Thorvalds should also be liable for damage caused by Linux kernel.

I don't think the analogy is good. You might be better off replacing Linus with Apple and Linux with macOS. In that case, I would definitely think Apple should be held liable if an update to macOS bricks some hardware in a Mac.

But with Linux, it is different: You do not have a business relationship with Linus.

Sure, if you bought your Linux distribution from, say Red Hat, and it bricks your server, I think you might have a good case against Red Hat(IBM).

hosteur··on Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Causing SSD Failures
They should be held liable if their software bricks hardware.
hosteur··on The cost of interrupted work (2023)
So is it on xkcd?
hosteur··on How well does the money laundering control system work?
In Europe, we have: Phone repair shop. Pizzeria. Gambling cafe.
hosteur··on Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
I use Firefox bookmarks and curate and organize them zealously.

I hate the fact that I am not able to self-host Firefox Sync.

hosteur··on Open office is giving you secondhand ADHD
I thought this would be about OpenOffice.
hosteur··on Using Sound Waves to Put Out Fire: Story of Two George Mason University Students
So wind blows out fire?
hosteur··on Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening and why it could fail [video]
Let’s hope so.
hosteur··on Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
It probably do not have a majority in this target segment. Which is something.
hosteur··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
> The problem isn't sending an Ad to Wallet.

Yes it is

hosteur··on Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration
You don’t think global warming would happen regardless of oil being sold by a monopoly or not?
hosteur··on Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?
> Absolutely not! The moment you have universal state-issued identity, you will be expected to provide it for everything, including tons of stuff that doesn’t require identity.

Indeed this has happened in Denmark already where for example DBA (Danish version of ebay) started soft-mandating MitID verification. Soon to be actually mandatory.

hosteur··on Knowing where your engineer salary comes from
HR, management…
hosteur··on HTTrack Website Copier
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27789910
hosteur··on Career Advice in 2025
> Honestly I think the mistake we made was calling it “work from home” instead of “telecommuting”.

I am curious. Why do you think calling it telecommuting would have made any significant difference? And what difference would it have made? Where do you imagine we would be today if more people referred to it with that word?

hosteur··on Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update
One more reason to never allow a tv on the internet.
hosteur··on Major outage at mail host Migadu
Admin dashboard is down as well even though the status page shows green. The admin dashboard shows 502 Bad Gateway when logged in.
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