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sschueller··on GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
Is this the best move for the customer or the investor?
sschueller··on GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
As soon as they support groups/folders I will switch. But I can't as my gitlab is all setup in many folders and sub projects.

Having to rewrite all my CI will suck but will be worth it.

sschueller··on HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker
Where is the case that was reported all over in Switzerland?
sschueller··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
The Swiss nation bank and other central banks should also do something similar. They are loosing control to private foreign corporations which decide what you can and can not purchase. Not based on laws but on risk.

One of the jobs of the SNB is to enable payments. But because most people are using digital payments now they are loosing this ability and control.

If you get sanctioned by the US you loose access to all digital payment systems. In Switzerland where access to a bank account is a right written in the law you can only use one bank (Postfinance) and this bank has to limit you to basically a useless account (No wires, no credit cards etc.) because even the internal digital payment system (Twint) touches some US system.

sschueller··on Appearing productive in the workplace
Human mistakes in code usually have reasoning behind it. You can understand how the engineer made the mistake.

AI mistakes aren't like this, mistakes look like someone was lobotomized mid coding.

sschueller··on StarFighter 16-Inch
Nice but Switzerland and the EU by law require a minimum of a 2 year warranty. You can't sell a device with less.
sschueller··on Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold
I guess I should have been more specific. I was talking about Zürich.
sschueller··on Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold
Just put your head phones in, no one will bother you.
sschueller··on Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold
Last time I was in a US theater the tickets where not numbered and you could sit anywhere. There was no point in pre purchasing a ticket because if you wanted a good seat you needed to show up early either way.

In Switzerland the seats have always been numbered and even if the cinema is empty people wouldn't dare move into another seat. People do show up right before the film starts and try to avoid the ads. Some also hang in the lobby until the film actually starts.

sschueller··on Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
Why does the Pentalobe exist in the first place?
sschueller··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
Are there still large shorts on GameStop? If this goes through I assume it will wipe those out?
sschueller··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
But if it all goes sour nobody will be held accountable and two not one company are ruined.

I don't see how such leveraged acquisitions should be legal.

sschueller··on Show HN: I built a tool that helps predict HN front page success
Let's see if this work. I just posted something that got a score of 83/100.

I doubt it will. From everything I have posted, it's quite random what sparks peoples interest. It really depends on many factors such as what the topics where in the last weeks and on current events.

sschueller··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
https://xcancel.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168
sschueller··on The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all
This will make testing more expensive and hence some will no longer bother to FCC test excluding the US from receiving their product. Especially small companies and startups.

I did not FCC certify my product because the primary focus is for the European market but now I would also have to consider costs.

sschueller··on Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
Biggest blocker with forgejo is that currently it isn't possible to create "projects" or "subfolders" like in gitlab.
sschueller··on Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
Gitlab has become quite hostile and I would not be surprise if they stop supporting their open source version. Even if you want to pay, the starting price is quite high and there is only one price now and for everything else you need to make a "deal" with them.
sschueller··on Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good
Tim cook did his job well. He increase stock value over and over again for the delight of the shareholders. He also increased the moat as large as possible.

If you want a better product you will not get it from a publicly traded company.

Sure you may claim that a bad product is bad for a company in the long term and it is. However short term stock increases are far more desirable than long term stability and growth.

sschueller··on Flipdiscs
Yes, even the ones that have an LED behind each disk which are on in the dark. This display [1] is the same but in the dark [2] you see the LEDs instead.

[2] https://www.urban-transport-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/...

[1] https://cdn.unitycms.io/images/2padXosoqh99o13dcrN3co.jpg

sschueller··on New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
A Framework SFP+ or SFP28 expansion would be sweet.
sschueller··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
Whatsapp was much much more at that point. It also had a huge userbase at a time when getting such a number of people was incredibly difficult. Many were also paying the $1 per year fee. Switching from Cursor to Kilo etc. takes nothing. There are no "friends" you need to convince to switch.
sschueller··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Exactly, this isn't something new. It was removed for no reason other than aesthetics and possibly to force users to buy a new device every few years.

May I remind you that the fist few iPhones were not water proof, yet the battery was not removable.

Laptops are not waterproof but those batteries are also no longer removable.

sschueller··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
Where do I find that? https://www.ipv6.he.net/ has an invalid certificate and is the first result on Google.
sschueller··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
Just found this little site. https://isgithubipv6.web.app/

Maybe we shouldn't even measure percentage adoption and instead just if github has finally adopted..

sschueller··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
My next project, IPv6 in my homelab. It will be a challenge but it is time. My ISP gives me a static /48, I should use it.
sschueller··on Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)
I though the whole concept in IPv6 of remembering addresses is that you don't. That is IPv4 thinking...
sschueller··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
Just wait until a bank moves their 2FA to CF...

Netblock do not work and will never work.

sschueller··on Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)
Off topic but Milla Jovovich just released an AI memory called mempalace:

https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace

sschueller··on The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign
I would be interested to know how these are made on a technical level. Is it a combination of several tools and are they local or some service (I would think LEGO minifigs would trigger some copyright issue)? I also assume you need to do certain things to keep the consistency and somehow sync the music with the video?
sschueller··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
Yet somehow the US did manage to get power to most places...

The thing with fiber is that it can go so much longer than copper without any active components. It is also very future proof, you won't be pulling it out of the ground/off the pole for at least 50 years if not longer.

If size is such an issue, how did you get power?

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