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stop50··on GRU Space is building humanity's first hotel on the Moon
Really? GRU, the name of an disney villain and of the russian military secret service.
stop50··on Ask HN: What's your preferred digital payment method?
SEPA

- costs next to nothing - i have an standartised api for end users via FINTS and businesses via EBICS

stop50··on Why do many cultures associate "white" with good and "dark" with bad?
its easy for wild animals/thiefs/... to get near you when its dark.
stop50··on Why is the Excel save button a vending machine with a drink can at the bottom
From an country that needed floppys on a daily base until recently.
stop50··on Ask HN: How to Disable Copilot in Office365?
Cancel the subscription and take the offer for the cheaper, but copilot free msoffice.
stop50··on Ask HN: How does Boardy achieve such low latency?
They throw money at the problem and hope that competitors fall out of the race
stop50··on Ask HN: Can you patent prompts?
its just an brand like you can register yourself one.
stop50··on Ask HN: Why do QR codes need so much visual real estate?
If some encoders are a bit inefficent, sometimes the wrong form of encoding an url is chosen and very rarely the data can't be encoded more efficiently because of the data.

https://example.com : 152 bits of raw data

HTTPS://EXAMPLE.COM : 105 bits of raw data

stop50··on Ask HN: What open-source side projects are you working on in 2025?
No donations, i have a full time job.
stop50··on Ask HN: What open-source side projects are you working on in 2025?
I have an ntsync wrapper for rust i made for fun. Everything else are toys that don't work half right.
stop50··on Is HTML-like markup a bad idea for programmatic video generation?
There is already a standard you might want to look at: SMIL(Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language)
stop50··on Mercury Personal Banking
My bank has for nearly 3 decades an implementation of an standartised api banking API called FINTS. There are quite a few clients for that use the api, including the app of my bank on my phone.
stop50··on Parakeets make their home in German trees
Since a few years parrots are living in Wiesbaden. This is nothing new
stop50··on Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands
At least for my state in germany we have an crisis of housing in big cities. In small vilages and cities it is pretty cheap to buy a house.
stop50··on It Is Possible to Import PST Contacts into My Android Phone
why not an format more commonly used like vcard?
stop50··on Tesla Model Y named worst car for reliability in Germany's major TÜV report
for your information: this class is for 2-3 year olds, because the first check is after 3 years because there are usually no parts that break or wear that early, after the first check the car owner has to go to TÜV every two years. When a car has been deemed to less safe, they have to remove the plaquette from the registration plate and the owner is forbidden to make longer travels with the vehicle than the next repairshop and home, both must not exceed 50 km. The insurance is also not required to cover shpuld there be an accident and the unsafety has an role in it. In the worst case it can also beend deemed unsafe and then any usage is forbidden. an tow truck brings the car to an repair shop or it is destroyed.
stop50··on Users brutually reject Microsoft's "Copilot for work" in Edge and Windows 11
I am so happy that my current employer is farther on its way to deploy Linux on the desktop than deploying windows 11.
stop50··on Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?
Linux Debian OpenBSD Lineageos Mastodon + the fediverse
stop50··on [dead]
Since there is permanent running inflation, it just needs time and 1 or 2 more financial crisis.
stop50··on UK considers scrapping jury trials for all but the most serious cases
And regular people can circumvent it? An judge usually has to explain his/her reasons for an verdict, an jury doesn't have to. The costs of inviting candidates, screening them and getting both sides to agree to the jury also has costs attached to it.
stop50··on Ask HN: If Unix gets more popular would you use it instead of Linux?
docker uses linux specific namespace api. Freebsd has since 1999 an more powerful docker alterntive: jails.
stop50··on Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors
It is already. This offense is ususlly dropped since other crimes overshadow it and mostly the biggest crime matters in the german criminal court.
stop50··on Microsoft has built a new Postgres-compatible database: Horizondb
I don't think horizon is a good name for a database since 2019
stop50··on What happens when even college students can't do math anymore?
The odd ones was deported by ICE, because they knew too much.
stop50··on Ask HN: What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt?
Ai for anything but translations
stop50··on Show HN: Internet Object – a lean, schema-first JSON alternative
It looks like a mix of graphql and toon.
stop50··on Call Me Maybe: Eavesdropping encrypted LTE calls with ReVoLTE (2020)
(2019)
stop50··on Ask HN: How Do Developers Stay Up to Date Without Being on Twitter All Day?
Some trusted IT related newssites and a few youtubechannels(subscribed via rss).
stop50··on Ask HN: Anyone else hate the GitHub Android app
How to disable the url hijack:

1. Open the appinfo of the app 2. Klick the submenu for open by default 3. Disable the setting that opens the app by default.

stop50··on Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong?
That is the problem of the common law: you need to sue and win/lose to get something done.
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