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micw··on IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
More reason to frame it correctly, like "IBM debuts another 5 nanometer chip technology, selling it as sub nanometer chip technology"
micw··on IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
So the title should be corrected. The did not debut sub nm chips at all.
micw··on Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected)
Not to all, only to those who are in line with the president...
micw··on Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected)
Talking about Venezuela, US or both?
micw··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
It misses a "I don't know" button. So it has a 20% false positive by guessing bias built in, right?
micw··on Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
For a second I thought github has updated to a clean and usable user interface. Then I realized that it's codeberg / forgejo ^^
micw··on Debian must ship reproducible packages
I wonder why this is a thing nowadays. I use yocto for embedded devices and it was almost a no-brainer to implement reproducible builds. I can also easily enable Debian package management, so everything is already available.
micw··on Share.google delivers wrong TLS certificate in some regions, breaking shortlinks
My fist submission was rejected, probably because it was not reproducible. Now I figured out that the issue is location dependent, at least in germany, share.google is broken since the CERT does not contain the domain anymore.
micw··on [dead]
Google’s Android app uses share.google as a link shortener for shared URLs. That was already controversial; now the links appear to be broken in regular browsers because share.google currently serves a TLS certificate for a different hostname.
micw··on Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS
I wish there was something like this or talos or coreos but more generic: - immutable - a/b boot - declarative (like talos) But with choice of workload, like docker, k8s, qemu
micw··on Enforcing new limits and retiring Opus 4.6 Fast from Copilot Pro+
The new rate limit system is completely broken. See https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/180092 for a lot of affected users.

Some report wait times of 50 or 100 hours. I had the issue that it shows "wait 20 seconds" but (on retry) it counts down one second every 10-20 seconds.

And all this for a service where you pay per use.

micw··on Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)
No, coal and oil is not. Since we have micro organisms that can consume wood, coal and oil will never be produced again.

> During the Carboniferous period, massive amounts of plant matter accumulated to form coal because microorganisms and fungi had not yet evolved the ability to break down lignin, a tough, aromatic polymer in woody plants.

micw··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
Who exactly is blocking and on what legal base? If it's Spanish ISPs and they are massively over blocking, why are there no legal actions against them? (E.g. for not fulfilling their contracts)
micw··on Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
Hey great. Need the same for amazon ^^
micw··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
> SSH is forwarded via socket

Maybe I misunderstood this point. But the ssh socket also gives access to your private keys, so I see no security gain in that point. Better to have a password protected key.

micw··on Antimatter has been transported for the first time
You can throw matter on it. But this needs to be confined carefully...
micw··on Antimatter has been transported for the first time
You can easily put it into an antimatter tank ;-)
micw··on You can run a DNS server (2025)
I'd like to run my personal DNS server for privacy reasons on a cheap VPS. But how can I make it available to me only? There's no auth on DNS, right?
micw··on Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning
No, the next generation queens grow in that swarm and learn it there. All swarm members learn it. To the queen (or the first few workers) you teach it. The rest learns from the others. But the workers are short living (few weeks). The queens live for about a year and can take knowledge in the next year.
micw··on Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI
For labels I use Phomomo. Quite cheap. I wrote some python code to drive it.
micw··on Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning
I built such bumblebee houses a few years ago with the kids. The flap is essential against a kind of flies that lay their eggs in the bumblebee nest and their caterpillars eats the nest. Either the Queen or the others learn the usage quite fast. Sometimes next generation queens remember it in the next year
micw··on Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font
Can I turn a real font into my handwriting?
micw··on Beagle, a source code management system that stores AST trees
An AST based conflict resolver could eliminate the same kind of merge conflicts on a text based RCS
micw··on A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines
Full system access? Do people run npm install as root?
micw··on RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello
If the load balancer can force a downgrade, an attacker can do it as well.
micw··on A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
Linux runs everywhere
micw··on If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?
I try to use AI incremental and verify each result. If it goes mad, I just revert and start over. It's a bit slower but ensures consistency and correctness and it's still a huge improvement over doing everything manually.
micw··on If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?
IMO it depends a bit, but in most cases: No!

If you do proper software development (planing, spec, task breakdown, test case spec, implementation, unit test, acceptance test, ...) implementation is just a single step and the generated artifact is the source code. And that's what needs to be checked in. All the other artifacts are usually stored elsewhere.

If you do spec and planing with AI, you should also commit the outcome and maybe also the prompt and session (like a meeting note on a spec meeting). But it's a different artifact then.

But if you skip all the steps and put your idea directly to an coding agent in the hope that the result is a final, tested and production ready software, you should absolutely commit the whole chat session (or at least make the AI create a summary of it).

micw··on Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
I'm deeply impressed, especially with the "replace window by mirror". It did not only do the window thing right, it also changed the illumination of the whole room while keeping all the other details unchanged.
micw··on Museum of Plugs and Sockets
Amazing, that's a thing I want to import.
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