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shlip··on French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack
Well "a" (aka 1) freezer malfunctionning will let a few items spoil. Hundreds of connected appliances nation wide, that's a different story.

They had been able to manage just fine for several decades before internet of shits happened.

Fear not for them though, they'll go whine under the government's noze and get a refund. So much for the liberalism they praise when everything is fine for them.

shlip··on Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages
Here is how I did it :

Get a list of installed packages originating from AUR using 'yay' :

  yay -Qam > packages_aur.last
Get list from https://md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA# :

  curl https://md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA/download > compromised.txt
then :

  grep -wFf compromised.txt packages_aur.last
should spit out the packages that are in both files, hence were compromised at some point, I guess.
shlip··on Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows
Does this mean that each software you run is now the size of a windows install + sw or is it a single container that runs all your softwares ?
shlip··on Alibaba has made 470k AI chips, admits they're inferior and may always be
Well yes, finally, optimizing instead of throwing silicon, water and electricity at it until it works. Thats the way.
shlip··on Have a fucking website
"lleu.site" might not be the clearest in regards to what the service offers. It reads too nerd. Something like "easyweb.site" or "yourown.site" might better describe it.
shlip··on My Dinner with AI
Spot on :

> Someone once said that “AI feels amazing when it’s talking about a subject you know nothing about, but is laughably wrong when you do”.

> Someone else also said “I want AI to do my laundry so I can make Art, not make my Art so I can do laundry”.

shlip··on Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work with" Series in RSS
I know articles from Derek Lowe's series pop up on here every now and then. Here is a RSS feed you can pu in your RSS reader, and have all 33 articles available to (re) read. Enjoy !

(Alternatively, you can find all these articles in HTML here : https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...)

shlip··on Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android
Well of course a DSLR will be better than a phone camera for most things, since you can control more features. That's also the point of OpenCamera; get as much controls as you can back, compared to the stock app that might be lacking. It wont do miracles if your phone camera is not good to begin with.

I've found OpenCam to be useful because of the various optional features ( onionskin, levelmeter, locking settings ). You can also set the bitrate/size/duration of videos, etc. Lots of useful stuff.

shlip··on This Page Is Anonymous
Took me far too long to realize this is 13 yo.

Looks like the service is still up.

EDIT: They also offer a service to ssh into various vintage systems, which is cool : https://sdf.org/?ssh

shlip··on Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent's mistake
That's what reverse-centaurs are for; being an accountability sink.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/vulgar-thatcherism/

shlip··on France Is Building Its Own Google Workspace – With Django
Well I still think it's something to worry about before you end in front of a "Your account has been suspended" notice. How can you be sure someone has the whole dataset locally backed up ? Plus, you still have to reconfigure the workflows and stuff like that. Not to mention that sometime, project's websites are also hosted on github, so that's something else you have to rebuild.

And also, this means devs/contributors have to give their data to MS.

Since the whole point of the project is sovereignty, it should have started with setting up their own gitea/gitlab/etc. instances and domains.

shlip··on France Is Building Its Own Google Workspace – With Django
And yet, the project is hosted on MS github... So much for sovereignty :facepalm

So what happens to the 500,000+ users when Trump tells MS to nuke the repo/infra ?

shlip··on France Hits the Demographic Point of No Return [video]
More predictions by the guy who announced China would collapse in 2020...
shlip··on Show HN: GLinksWWW – A lightweight browser with 9 independent clipboards
IMHO I think you should write a post/readme/gist describing/demonstrating your browser's key features, with screencap if possible, maybe upload it to gitlab/github/other. It will fare better than asking strangers to download random files from a google drive link. (Although I saw your * is not a virus disclaimer, I still don't thin it's the optimal way to share a work you invested a lot of time on.)
shlip··on Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)
> It's the design mock up from the final presentation to Motorola for the iRadio (name later changed to Envoy).

> The head of frogdesign, Hartmut Esslinger met Spielberg on a plane and showed him this mockup. Steven asked if it could be used as a prop in the film, and Hartmut gave it to him.

shlip··on I Will No Longer Contribute to PostmarketOS
Related : https://ixit.cz/blog/2025-11-20-postmarketOS-BAN

Before that, author was banned for 1 month by the PMos team :

  After a short introduction I was told that the reason for the call was:
  1.I used the wrong pronouns.  
  2.The COVID thing.
  3.I promoted AI within the postmarketOS channels.
shlip··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
What tax revenue ? Aren't they all declaring their profits in Ireland (a tax haven) ?
shlip··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
> Because that means we may as well quasi-nationalize [...]

I'm not quite sure how you get from IP law abrogation to 'quasi-nationalization', care to explain your reasoning here ?

shlip··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
Well he's been impeached twice (then acquitted) already, so this one will not really mean the end for him.
shlip··on PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
popularized, not pioneered.
shlip··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
We will soon discover if the EU actually as a spine or is just a bendover for the US...(My money is on the latter, and I'm from EU)
shlip··on Trump to impose tariffs on European nations over Greenland
Didn't they already have tariffs ? Also, why should we care, what do the US have that's made domestically ?
shlip··on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis

    First they came for the Communists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Communist

    Then they came for the Socialists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Socialist

    Then they came for the trade unionists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a trade unionist

    Then they came for the Jews
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Jew

    Then they came for me
    And there was no one left
    To speak out for me
-- Martin Niemöller
shlip··on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
Then it's useless and should be abroged.
shlip··on French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition
> Specifically, the VPNs argued that their “no-log” policy means they do not track user IP addresses or geolocate their users. Therefore, a court order to block access only for French users would violate their contractual obligations. > For now, however, the targeted VPN providers have to find a way to implement the blocking order.

I'm curious about this point. What solution do they have if they want geolocalisation without giving up on privacy ?

shlip··on French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition
In this specific case, it's not culture though, it's the sports diffusion rights mafia (LFP, beIN, Canal+).
shlip··on Ask HN: Why did ICE deport my coworker?
Have you been hibernating since january 2025 ? You're living in a dictatorship now, that's why.
shlip··on Hacker Dressed as the Pink Ranger Takes Down White Supremacist Websites Onstage
> Root had been toying with the 8,000 or so members who signed up for the site by tricking them into conversations with AI chatbots.

> Root set up a website, okstupid.lol, to host a map showing the location of each user, as well as the biography that they used on the dating site and any photos and other details they uploaded.

shlip··on EU upgrades deep-sea links to deep-sea WiFi
> Der Postillon is a German website, [...]featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news in newspaper and TV format.
shlip··on Xteink X4: Ultra-Thin Magnetic Back EReader
Finally an ereader that doesnt cost 600$+...but sold out :/
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