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stop50··on Google: The Court of Justice upholds fine of €4'100'000'000 [pdf]
Next sanctions: European courts
stop50··on Show HN: C++, Java and C# Light-Weight-Logger
Wrong repo
stop50··on Ask HN: Have the founders of Palentir and Anduril ever read Tolkien?
my gues would be a+b+c
stop50··on Why Germany's Deutsche Bahn will face delays for many years
Spain runs on multiple gauges, with newers on normal gauge and not broad gauge. Spain has around 12.000km of network and Germany over 30.000 kilomtres of network. Spain had 2019 a bit over 30k Passenger kilometre while the Deutsch Bahn had nearly 98000 Passenger kilometre. I had to use 2019 because its the latest information that was in wikipedia for renfe.
stop50··on Set up your own DoH (DNS over HTTPS) service
Firefox has it builtin, some sub resolvers too, Android has it under Private internet since android 9, that tries DoT and DoH.
stop50··on Ask HN: Two specific Postgres encrypt questions
When an column is encrypted you can't index the cleartext since it undermine the encryption and if you encrypt it in the application then postgres never had the cleartext. Pgcrypto encrypts at an higher level than the indexer operates, so it sees only the encrypted data.
stop50··on Why Germany's Deutsche Bahn will face delays for many years
Partly. Germany runs an mixed type railway with freight and passengers on the same tracks. In the 80-90s there was an horrific privatization that destroyed a major parts of the rail network. Personel was also gutted and investing came to an all time low. This means that trains can't be rerouted anymore and one sickwave can block the whole network. Some parts are also at 100% Capacity and in decades nothing was done from the conservatives who were in power the whole time. For example Frankfurt: its an terminal station that is central to the whole network and and it is centrally located in Frankurt, but it can't be extended much. One major extension is the extension of the railway to Friedberg from 2 to 4 Lines which will reduce the pressure on that part of the network a lot, but was delayed a lot because trains had an low priority compared to highways in Bavaria.
stop50··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
what you probably mean is an OHG, an Offene Handelsgesellschaft It is one of the simplest form a group of people can found. All members are liable with their personal assets if the OHG files for bankruptcy or is unable to meet its obligations.
stop50··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
For information: GmbH & Co. KG is one of the most complicated forms an company can be founded, the same goes if the inner company is an UG. Many things have to be done twice. The only good thing is that an investor or an owner are not liable with their private money.
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Why misognistic ***.
stop50··on Ask HN: Two specific Postgres encrypt questions
You are missunderstanding the transport encryption(everything related to authentication and pg_hba.conf) and the encrytion of the data at rest.

You want the encryption at rest. For that you have 3 Options:

1. Encryption in the application.

2. Use of pgcrypto as documented.

3. Encryption of the partition where postgres stores the data via LUKS or similar.

For 1. and 2. it means that indices for encrypted columns become useless and are only a waste of cpu time.

2. has the problem of transitting the key at the start of the connection, so it needs to be encrypted(tls encryption).

Its a bit of an fault with the documentation since it mixes the two types of encryption up.

stop50··on Claude Code scans your whole drive, admits it when caught
Why not? Claude is not local. That is the textbook example of sharing something with someone
stop50··on Study: Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals
It depends. Things like MMS(chlorine dioxide) can kill someone fast, but no vaccination depends on the environment and past vaccinations.
stop50··on Facing reality, Apple or EU, is a core requirement for good management (2024)
The sockets are split between Type E(two holes for power and one pin in the socket for earth) and Type F(Schuko, two holes for power and two protective contacts ), but the cables have been standartising themself to CEE 7/7, an mix between the two.
stop50··on DNS over Avian Carriers (DoAC)
lets hope it gets approved 01.04.2027
stop50··on US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds
Probably 3 of them just working to prevent you from going.
stop50··on Ask HN: Where to begin in removing "safety" features from new cars?
Try the can bus. It is often used for tge communication between components and for last resort access.
stop50··on Declining America
1. If you don't and they find out, then you committed an felony. It is the same as the "Are you an terrorist?" questions. Once they want you for more serious stuff like blasphemy against king donald, then they can pull out the convicted felon card and increase the sentence.

2. + 4. It depends

3. If you plan to go to the us while Trump and his chronies are in an position of power, then the best way to scrub them is not to post it.

5. See 1. if you don't disclose all, they can pull the lie on a form card

stop50··on Ask HN: Is there a backup / mirror URL for github.com?
I would look into the public ip used for connecting to github. If you are on an heavily used v4 NATed address, then all that github sees is an address where a ron of requests come from.
stop50··on Wayland Compositor in Minecraft [video]
so we can play doom in minecraft without redstone
stop50··on Ask HN: Why do hotels etc. WiFi networks all use captive portals?
yes. Either legal liabilities or users who complain because one person hogs the bandwidth to torrent the newest <insert some francise here>.
stop50··on Plasma secrets: Windows position for naughty apps
The method of setting properties for windows exists also in plasma, including the layer it is displayed.
stop50··on House Republicans Vote to Dilute Gas as Prices Rise Above $4.50
That was killed when trump killed the epa
stop50··on Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar
Consumer protection is not relevant here. These are B2B relationships, so those are under an different framework of rule. Things that are forbidden to be used against an Customer can be used against an company.
stop50··on A Field Manual for Three Years on Deutsche Bahn
About the Zugbindung: You can board any DB train only if you had an IC/ICE Ticket. If you had only one for the RE, then you can only board the RE.
stop50··on Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?
There are some static sites that provide simple searches, but they require javascript.
stop50··on I won't buy Framework laptop only because of the touchscreen
Buy the parts and assemble it yourself. Should be around the same price if i remeber correctly
stop50··on Csvtocsv – any CSV to any CSV, fixes the stuff that breaks imports
Did i read correctly that the user pays for converting csv in their own browser?
stop50··on Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks
the government ids should be enough. Germany has an quite interesting system. Federal issued ids that contain an nfc powered chip that provides only information if the user has the credentials that allow access. The minimum is a datum stored/generated (name, age, fullfills age requirement, service pseudonym, ...) and the maximum is full access without pin requirement. After over an decade i haven't heard of hacks that broke the system. Effectivly it is possible to use it in an offline system that allows access to an venue for someone at least 16 years and all that the system sees is that the owner of the id is at least 16 years old
stop50··on Why North Korea Will Never Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons
The "Ukranian" nukes were sowjet. It was part of the deal that the sowjets get them back and Ukraine gets its independence. A lot of countries made that deal. And its a good one. Ukraine had never the full blueprints and capabilities to maintain them, so after a few years they would have gotten relative useless and a liability.
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