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jcarrano··on 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling
You could jump on a train from NL and be in Belgium in 15 minutes, get a "bootleg" physical copy of the diary and head back to NL. No one is suing for that.
jcarrano··on TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access
> usernames were passed as arguments to getent(1) to retrieve the corresponding passwd entry

Always try to use actual API/system calls (in this case getpwnam) instead of calling sub-processes.

jcarrano··on Actegories
Watch his lecture series on YouTube. We you started programming, you had to adapt your brain to the way of thinking of computer programs. Think of this as an continuation of that evolution, were you acquire new methods of reasoning that can abstract many apparently different problems into the same concept.
jcarrano··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
> life is short—play naked!

Such a concise way of saying what I've been thinking for a long time.

jcarrano··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
Meanwhile in Germany I see, quite literally, 12 traffic signs on a 100m stretch of road. I'm pretty sure that looking at all those signs adds up to a few seconds at least.
jcarrano··on Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID
In dbus, it seems the feature is intended for two processes to know they can access the same shmem and other system resources. I'm struggling to understand in which circumstances would that be useful.
jcarrano··on Full Writeup of the Windows GDID
Aside from the writeup, how stupid must one be to commit cybercrimes from a Windows 11 computer full of spyware?
jcarrano··on Thomann takes legal action against Fender
If signals were based on low impedance current loops as opposed to voltage-based like they are today, interference could be much reduced. This would break phantom power, so power to preamps would have to be send through another set of conductors, which would make the design of the electronics easier as well as safer.

Of course, none of this will ever happen.

jcarrano··on Notepad++ Zero-Click RCE via Path Traversal (CVE-2026-52884)
Steps to reproduce:

1. Get pwned

2. Open Notepad++

3. Get pwned again (?)

jcarrano··on Notepad++ Zero-Click RCE via Path Traversal (CVE-2026-52884)
We are living through CVE-inflation (or CVEflation?) where anyone who discovers a bug using LLMs will instantly claim it is huge security hole.
jcarrano··on Notepad++ Zero-Click RCE via Path Traversal (CVE-2026-52884)
How is this supposed to be zero-click? All attack scenarios require either the attacker to modify configuration files, or the user to click on a malicious shortcut.
jcarrano··on The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About [video]
Optically, it looks very nice, but it kills my CPU.
jcarrano··on All the bugs they found
I found, in my rather recent experience with Go, that using anything other than zero for invalid, default or "sentinel" values is a source of potential problems due to the lack of real constructors.
jcarrano··on The weird, wild story of humanity's obsession with gold
It is also relatively easy to work, since ancient times. Iridium is the rarest metal, so rare and hard to work that it is not practical.
jcarrano··on Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism
At one point I used to have two mice plugged in and would use either one depending on which hand was free.
jcarrano··on Appearing productive in the workplace
That's honestly a fear of mine, that I might lose the taste for simplicity.
jcarrano··on Gap between national food production and food-based dietary guidance (2025)
How much of the fish self-sufficiency of China is due to them plundering the seas across the globe?
jcarrano··on Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
Thinking how a secure setup for uploading packages from a CI would look like: the package must be signed by the devs, and for that they must build it independently on their machines (this requires a reproducible build).
jcarrano··on Afroman found not liable in defamation case
100% of those cases would be favorable to cops. Defamation laws are quite restrictive in Europe, much more so when it involves public officials (take a look at the Strafgesetzbuch)
jcarrano··on Afroman found not liable in defamation case
Exactly what I meant. For example, in Germany one would have a hard time for much less.
jcarrano··on Honda is killing its EVs
"Download more HP" is the new "download more RAM".
jcarrano··on Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability
My colleague's Thinkpad had its fan fail. He ordered a replacement which arrived next day. He swapped it himself and kept on working.
jcarrano··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
100% agree. I used to watch the sun rise over the river from the train during my commute. It was worth having to wake up when it was still dark.
jcarrano··on Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)
> This control board uses the same microcontroller GPIO pin to both drive segment A of the LED display and sense the door switch.

Is it necessary to be so skimpy with a safety feature?

jcarrano··on Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
"If you need subsidies in order to live off art, you don't live off art but live off the state".

As part time artist I see many problems with these schemes:

- Decoupled from people's actual appreciation of the art being done: I feel better when I know people voluntarily gave up their hard-earned money for what I do. - Monopoly-style "winner takes all". The people who benefit from this are the ones already in a position to ask for the benefit. - No one bites the hand that feeds then. That will form a body of "artists" subservient to the state.

The human problem is that no artist is willing to acknowledge that the public is not willing to spend money on their product.

jcarrano··on Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
> Society has not disintegrated.

Has art improved in any measure?

jcarrano··on Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support
That is one of my problems with systemd: it has way to much "magic" built in. SysVinit/OpenRC and related are easy to understand and debug: they only do what's in the scripts.
jcarrano··on Vibe coding kills open source
The 3d-printer of software: get a custom part quickly and cheaply, even if not suitable for mass production.
jcarrano··on Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL
They "conveyed" the software, according to GPL wording. They violation is towards the original software's authors.
jcarrano··on Basalt Woven Textile
"Long asbestos fibers have been shown to interfere physically with the mitotic spindle and cause chromosomal damage"

[1] https://archive.cdc.gov/www_atsdr_cdc_gov/csem/asbestos/how_...

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