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luto··on Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail
It started with 9€, is 49€ now, and will be 58€ starting 2025.

You can buy for a single month when booking through the right company. "mo.pal" is a good one, for example. However, I agree that it is a bit predatory.

luto··on FreeBSD: How Can We Make It More Attractive to New Users?
For me, integrate an init system that allows for proper dependency management between services. Also, one that keeps track of all processes spawned by a service, allowing me to shut down a service, even if it isn't a well-behaved one with a single daemon process.

That's more or less the only thing stopping me from using FreeBSD (on servers).

luto··on 2.6M Piracy Reports Against French Users Resulted in 234 Financial Penalties
In Germany they also go after small fish. The process is highly automated, so there is very little cost to the copyright holder.
luto··on Show HN: Hypersplit – Like Infinite Craft but in reverse
It just has a giant database of concepts and their splits built-in. Most of the time it's pretty unnecessary to run an LLM (directly).

https://lantto.github.io/hypersplit/assets/index-DhIQc66H.js

luto··on Ask HN: Anyone left software to study non-STEM subjects?
I did not leave SE (yet), but I'm currently studying sustainability / waste management / etc. It's going great so far, I can recommend going a different or additional route, if you are able to.
luto··on US Government makes $42M bet on open cell networks: Open RAN dream stays alive
National roaming, this is a solved problem and just how it works in some parts of Europe.
luto··on Apertus – Open-Source Camera
Professional cameras often do not have auto focus, compare to some RED camera models. You either prepare your focus points ahead of time or you work in teams, where your camera assistants act as the "auto" focus.
luto··on Pg_later: Asynchronous Queries for Postgres
I don't quite understand why blog writers care to include a random AI at the top of their posts. Just give me the content, I don't want to scroll past a random elephant first.
luto··on Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023
Burning lots of coal does that.
luto··on UK retail electricity prices hit -19p/kWh today
yes, plants that are too expensive or too slow to shut down temporarily (have to) produce for negative prices.
luto··on Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod
Unlikely, since the replacement part is the same for both models. From the link:

> Quite a few people speculated in my Original thread that the more expensive HD595 headphones must also be using a more expensive driver. However, Head-fi member MCC posted the smoking gun; a picture of the original Sennheiser replacement driver labelled “HD 555 / HD 595”.

luto··on YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship
youtube-dl isn't fighting anything here. Their hoster uberspace.de is defendant in this suit for hosting a business card website pointing ytdl-users to github.
luto··on KiCad 7.0
Try FreeCAD.
luto··on Show HN: 1Kb Webspace
haha, funny to use a 3rd-party hoster to provide web space to others! How did you end up using uberspace for this?
luto··on Just use Postgres for everything
It makes the dev setup trivial, since there is no database server around.
luto··on CRDT: Fractional Indexing
> Fractional positions should be represented using arbitrary-precision decimals so that they don't run out of precision. Floating-point numbers are insufficient.
luto··on Castopod – Open-source podcast hosting platform
I'd recommend Podlove instead, which is paid for by the European/German podcasting community instead of an advertising company: https://podlove.org/
luto··on The Visual Studio Code Server
they did already: https://github.com/coder/code-server

works great, even on small server machines!

edit: as pointed out by others, this is not actually by MS, but works just fine anyway. TIL!

luto··on Brave Browser Hardening
I think they are referring to cryptocurrency, not cryptography in general.
luto··on Study suggests mechanism through which psychedelics may alleviate depression
These days many studies use existing medicines as a placebo as opposed to just nothing in the form of sugar.

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#In_research_trials

luto··on An unexpected Redis sandbox escape affecting Debian-based distros
redis-server is just a plain executable. Unless you're putting it in a sandbox yourself - for example, using a VM or systemd features - redis has no sandbox. There is nothing to escape from.

The Lua interpreter _within_ redis acts as a sandbox, which got a bit mangled here. Most features are not implemented in Lua, though. So this is only used for things like the EVAL command.

luto··on Going IPv6 Only
GitHub accepts any sub domain, because that used to be the place for GitHub pages to go, try https://takeda.github.com/ ;)
luto··on CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife
afaik those are user IDs of Chinese(?) messengers. Devs or others there like to use those as usernames because the are (of course) mostly unique and also enable others to easily contact them.
luto··on Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
apparently they went ahead and implemented a bunch of them in Go: https://github.com/wader/fq/tree/master/format
luto··on FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit (2020)
(FreeBSD) jails are amazing. I just wish there were easier ways to use them more "cattle"-like, so I can augment or replace Docker/Podman. At the moment tooling and many of the real-world setups remind me a lot of "pet" LXC containers or even VMs in the Linux world.

The tooling is slowly moving in a direction I like, though :)

luto··on How SQLite Is Tested
It can't. Most of that test code is proprietary to the SQLite team and not available to others.
luto··on Landlords are less likely to reply to applicants with Black and Latino names
I am sorry to see that, actually.
luto··on Landlords are less likely to reply to applicants with Black and Latino names
Anything that receives a relevant number of votes is relevant to HN. There aren't any editors or curators here. Also:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

luto··on 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0
I'm not a RoR developer, but still: which framework would you use for a new web project in 2021?
luto··on Mozilla rolls out DoH to Canadian users of Firefox
> Are things like DNS sinkholes and domain blacklisting still possible with DoH?

they aren't, which is part of the reason DoH is implemented in the first place.

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