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This was submitted 2 weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947548 Seems more entertaining than suitable for real analysis. At least I did not see any collected data. You…

Interesting thread. However, for over a year, the "secure email provider" did not reply more than that the consultants are too overloaded to reply... The message you obviously refe…

Copilot CLI (we get that at work) often uses slightly low-level and cryptic git commands. Never noticed that it would use --end-of-options though. Should check what it does with br…

Like the von Neumann architecture. Your data can be misused as code. Don't see that we get rid of either command lines in text or von Neumann any time soon.

Unless it has changed recently Germany has no general database of biometric data. Of course law enforcement has for the cases they work on, but for the average passport holder the …

Land of the free oligarchs.

I was figthing a bit recently to make my 9210 Communicator charge again after well over 20 years in the drawer. But it eventually worked. The first phone with a color screen and a …

Isn't this anti-news? I vaguely remember they have stopped introducing leap seconds until further notice because they cause too much trouble with today's computing systems. On my p…

Recent headlines in Finland say that about 10% of the population are basically excluded from society with no access to important services.

I have a German bank sccount that can be used with a standalone code generator, that uses the chip on your bank card. I have a Finnish bank account that use a completely standalone…

In Finland many news outlets had the same headline, but needed to correct it. It's the last big operator who closed their network. There are still a couple of smaller local operato…

A terball does not contain git history.

It won't backfire because there is no relevant competition. A couple of complains on social media, but no drop in sales.

I am happy to download it. I just want to install it offline.

It does not fit on a CD.

Yeah, 2010 CDs were still pretty visible. Not sure how many people still ordered them, but at least they were always distributed at events. Don't remember when it started to no lon…

Well written. But does not change the fact that Microsoft acts as an ugly monopolist in a user-hostile and developer-hostile way in their market space. And delivers at most mediocr…

This text repeats things that I have read many times before, maybe because it's heavily AI assisted as other have suspected. But it fails to answer my questions I have had unanswer…

Is this Chrome only or something the other browsers are working on, too? A quick web search does not seem to produce any relevant hits.

Maybe he doesn't. And I know that I don't (at least not in depth). And that's the frightening thing here. Using a protocol that many don't understand for access to valuable resourc…

Your 5 year old iPhone has how many cores, how many GBs of RAM? I would need to search the specs, but a N95 has 1 core and well below 1GB. A factor of dozens in the specs, but stil…

Finnish https://bittimittari.fi/en/measurement

Nice. But unfortunately these addresses are hard to remember and "nobody" recognizes them when reading examples. One of those "standards" that have been a great idea, but lack prac…

We used Clearcase around year 2000 on HP-UX. I found it nice and powerful, but 90% of the developers did not understand it. Well, probably a similar statement holds for git.

Yes, Cloudflare. It says: Your browser is not supported. Use another browser or upgrade. I would upgrade if the vendor of this weaker embedded device provided something... I know C…