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FinnKuhnon US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

I guess this depends on the scale you are planning. For big multinational cooperations that calculation could look different.

FinnKuhnon Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly

The "free" version of outlook that replaced Mail is so bad that it made me finally switch to Thunderbird and I don't see myself going back anytime soon.

The only thing I'm missing sometimes is the Copilot integration, but copy and paste with Thunderbird is still faster than using Copilot in Outlook...

FinnKuhnon Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

It's for when you are not in the car. E.g. notifying you the car has finished charging or to start heating in winter.

FinnKuhnon Claude Corps

Them being a public benefit cooperation means that Anthropic is legally required to consider both shareholder interests and the broader public good. At least that is how they explain it: https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-long-term-benefit-trust

There is also a separate legal entity (Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust) that owns some shares and has special powers, but shareholders can change that so I wouldn't trust the trust too much.

FinnKuhnon Your ePub Is fine

Looks like this info was added to the post as an update.

FinnKuhnon Apple Foundation Models

Maybe they plan to have the providers pay for being the default model? So basically, what Google is doing right now for search engines. The difference however is that Google is making money with additional search requests while AIs are (as of now) losing money with additional requests. I don't see the business case for them yet though.

FinnKuhnon Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails

Facebook made a Twitter (now X) clone (Threads) and has reportedly more users than X now [1]. They have also started a Reddit clone as well now (Forum)[2]. Not sure if that one will be a success as well though, as Reddit isn't loosing users like X is.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-dai... [2] https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/meta-quietly-launches-a-ne...

FinnKuhnon Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails

Yes, "Euro-Office" was launched this week. It is a European fork of "OPENOFFICE".

It is open source and supported by Nextcloud, IONOS, Proton, Tuta and more.[1]

I haven't tried it out, bu you can find the documentation on how to host it yourself here: https://euro-office.github.io/documentation/

A more mature alternative would is Nextcloud as it offers a lot more, but setup is reportedly more involved. It does appear to be available for enterprise customers as hosted version as well though: https://nextcloud.com/office/

[1] https://github.com/Euro-Office

FinnKuhnon AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere

I saw a prediction a while ago that the biggest "danger" from AI comes from agents being very convincing. In this case convincing the maintainer to merge the changes. Basically supercharged social engineering.

FinnKuhnon PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you

That's fair as the Kaggle dataset[1] is from 2017. Even assuming orders scaled with revenue (which grew to $1.5B in 2020[2]), you'd only reach a few hundred orders/minute at the pandemic peak (which lines up with the calculation above via a different method).

So I still assume the original comment isn't referring to actual orders placed.

[1] https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/psparks/instacart-market-bas... [2] https://fortune.com/2022/05/18/what-to-know-instacart-ipo/

FinnKuhnon PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you

Instacard have released a public dataset[1] on their orders, so it should be even easier to verify this claim. From what I could find in some analysis[2] of this dataset around 100k orders per day and not per minute seems accurate.

I assume they are referring to how many database requests they have due to customers orders or a similar metric and just worded it poorly.

[1] https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/psparks/instacart-market-bas... [2] https://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/284199_5c498037...

FinnKuhnon Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses

I just tried this with Claude Opus 4.8 and I think it don't see any of those issues:

The first sentence is that there is no single regex that perfectly validates every technically valid email address. I think that is a good start.

It then recommends the regex used for <input type="email"> and explains that this would cover the majority of email addresses used by actual people. It also shows an improved regex that handles dot-atom local parts, quoted strings, domain names, and IPv4 domain literals, but doesn't cover things such as comments, full IPv6 literals, or internationalized addresses.

It ends with the only correct advice (in my optionion): Send a confirmation email.

FinnKuhnon Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses

When I was a child I sent a postcard to my grandparents. I forgot to put the house number and addressed the letter to "Oma und Opa" (Grandma and Grandpa). Logically it should not have been delivered successfully.

Thankfully though, the postal worker knew my grandparents had grandchildren and therefore just asked the potential recipients for the name of their grandchildren to determine, which grandparents the postcard was addressed to. To me it's still a miracle that it got delivered at all.

FinnKuhnon Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

If Apple had e.g. required competitors to undergo similar independent audits that would probably be allowed as it is quite similar to how Apple solved the third party app store issue.

FinnKuhnon Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

Them making the only phones anyone uses makes them the gatekeepers on what people do on their phones -> Apple and Google are gatekeepers under the DMA.

It doesn't matter how they became gatekeepers.

FinnKuhnon Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

> There are phones running alternative versions of Android with no google dependency, and there are phones running linux.

Those make up 0% of the market [1], which classifies Apple and Google as gatekeepers.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe/

FinnKuhnon Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

The DMA is not a privacy law.

FinnKuhnon Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

Apple is using Cloud compute as well to enable Siri AI.

If you want to you could still use Apple or another provider you decide to trust - or even one that does everything locally. The competition would still have to follow GDPR after all.

FinnKuhnon Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

> We already have choice - people can buy many different types of phones.

Do you really? The only two types of operating systems for phones that you could reasonably use are iOS and Android. So it's either Apple or Google.

Imagine a world, in which you could only consume Apple or Google services on those phones. No more Netflix or Disney+ on iPhones - only Apple TV Plus because the streaming video API is not available to third party apps. I think there are plenty of other examples to demonstrate the point.

A free market doesn't work if you have a duopoly. A free market requires the freedom to choose between different services, which Apple is trying to limit by only allowing Siri AI to access specific OS interfaces.

Not sure why some people on hackernews support more locked down operating system.

FinnKuhnon Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

Because this is not related to the GDPR at all, but the Digital Markets Act (DMA). It's purpose is to enable competition and not allow big tech to abuse their market dominance (e.g. in this case Apple not wanting to grant any competition the same access to MacOS so that they don't have to face competition for Siri AI).

FinnKuhnon Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

This doesn't have anything to do with privacy.

The DMA mandates that Apple allows for competition, which (if you believe in capitalism) is good for the market overall. It's essential to stop big tech from abusing their market dominance. However Apple would prefer to not allow competition for their digital products on any of their hardware.

FinnKuhnon Job: Head of Stonehenge

And this is for a 36 hour work week.

FinnKuhnon watchOS 27 drops support for Apple Watch Series 6/7/8/9 and Ultra 1

As someone with an Apple Watch Series 8 I feel like this was a really bad deal for me.

Pretty much the only reason to buy the 8 over the 7 was that it is one year newer and therefore expected to receive updates one year longer (like Apple has usually done before).

FinnKuhnon Stop the Apple Music app from launching

Because it's not the music player I choose to use. I would be ok with it, if I could change the default to e.g. VLC or Spotify.

FinnKuhnon The EU Open Source Strategy

The DMA is a great initiative for more market competition.

FinnKuhnon Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

And the secret ingridient to building those faster than others is... crime.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk...

FinnKuhnon Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit

3. They are going to start focusing on B2B implementation and deployment.

See what happened to Aleph Alpha...

FinnKuhnon Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You

Substack is such a big platform that they should have resources to make sure their product works fine on common device/browser combinations.

FinnKuhnon I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)

Custom keyboards are really popular - especially a few years ago. Most cases/boards are wired only. I think his product enables those to be wireless too