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LarsKrimi

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LarsKrimi··on Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data
When you change your address you can click a checkbox saying you want a protected name/address. This means that companies that have you as customers/clients won't be able to get the new address, mail won't be redirected, etc

I did it accidentally during my last move and it was a pain in the behind

And it expires after a year by default so it feels rather pointless

LarsKrimi··on Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data
Altman at it again?
LarsKrimi··on Ukraine Can't Stop Russia's Jet-Powered Shahed Drone
More moving parts would mean a much more complex system which would heighten maintenance cost and likely lower successful interceptions per working system significantly.

I'm sure the Ukrainians can draw two curves and see where they intercept

LarsKrimi··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Opposite for me. Late 30s but I drink more or the same.

But I don't drink my go-to Zinfandel anymore as it has a big ass flag printed on the box. It's embarrassing feeling the cashier's judgemental gaze. They know I'm a drunk of course but I don't want them thinking I support the US

Tell the wine makers to stop putting that flag on there and maybe exports may pick up again

LarsKrimi··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
I guess it's the only con that will take money to have DHH give a keynote about some sycophantic BS
LarsKrimi··on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
I'm curious what you think that may be.

The situation you're imagining is one of a global all encompassing depression caused by a single government.

Not unthinkable, but the Americans would feel that deeply. Do you think they want to?

LarsKrimi··on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
We agree that China won't care long term. They cannot lose in the current setup

In my view the worst that can happen for China is that Trump gets limited by anything. He's hurting US relations more than he's hurting China short or long-term. Relations take longer to build than trade

"Don't interrupt your opponent when they're making a mistake"

LarsKrimi··on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
Stability and sanity is not happening whether the conflicts stop in Yemen+Hormuz or not. At that point it's just going to go back to tarriff wars and new terror campaigns that the US admin will start somewhere else
LarsKrimi··on Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
It uses Direct2D which most of the post is about.

They added the support by slopping a Direct2D emulation layer together.

LarsKrimi··on Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane
Neat idea in its core but its still tailscale underneath

The only thing that convinces me that tailscale isn't a CIA op is how badly it works for real uses

LarsKrimi··on Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
I don't think many will.

But I think they should. Not only for the practical reason, but because it leads to better software in my opinion

Limitations foster creativity. Abundance kills innovation.

In my company: - All computers are refurbished and at least 10 years old. - Cloud deployments use Hetzner or self hosted machines. - All hardware in general is a bit dodgy. Our main CI/CD setup is on a very unreliable network with varying availability and bandwidth

It can be annoying once in a while but it reflects our customers reality. And it catches a lot of usability and performance bugs that we wouldn't otherwise catch

I can only recommend it

LarsKrimi··on Pentagon used Elon Musk's Grok AI to fire 2k missiles at Iran, official says
Great thing the US regime can just make a computer their scapegoat. It wasn't the navy or the air force who just fired the weapons, or the commander in chief who ordered it.

It was actually Grok who mistakenly included the girls school

Not concerning at all

LarsKrimi··on Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading
Congratulations to the US. I'm sure it must be nice to have a trillionaire

I wish my country had a trillionaire. That would give my day to day life meaning

LarsKrimi··on Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
It seems very good at understanding human language clues even in a 4-bit (Q4_K_S) model, similar in feel to E4B but a great incremental improvement.

Interesting for my 8GB VRAM system, but the system RAM requirement seems to balloon quickly, and it starts misspelling words. Also token/s drops off quickly it seems

LarsKrimi··on NSA using Anthropic's Mythos for cyber attacks
This feels like a stupid idea, but it's not my tax money being wasted on it (yet).

An AI being used for offensive purposes would be so easy to counter due to Brandolini's Law. A much simpler AI could probably easily create dumb honey pot systems that looked like real systems with holes in them to lead more advanced and expensive systems on a wild goose chase.

Suddenly an AI creating security vulnerabilities is a core part of a future cyber defence strategy. Surely someone must be doing that already

LarsKrimi··on Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition
It's not about the US vs Iran.

It's Iran turning the strait into a wedge between US and the rest of their previous partners. The US has enough oil for themselves, but the hurt is felt everywhere else. And the cause of that hurt points in one direction (the US)

LarsKrimi··on Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
Elon is a true genius, up there with Euler and Feynman. So when things don't go perfectly with his initial idea surely it must be a conspiracy to get him down
LarsKrimi··on France moves to break encrypted messaging
Maybe just search for it and pick a source you trust. Take the search term "kill people based on metadata" and no noise comes up, just tons of articles about General Hayden's interview and related
LarsKrimi··on The Onion to Take over InfoWars
What would instead have been a reasonable punishment?

Either he truly believed that the kids at Sandy Hook were actors, or he was using it as part of his grift and making money of it.

As far as I can tell he has not reversed his stance on it

LarsKrimi··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
That's the funny thing of course. I don't understand who this show really is for
LarsKrimi··on Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure
I'm a resident of a country regularly mentioned by the commander in chief who has recently bombed a head-of-state and his family with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, and captured the head of state of a neighbouring state by military means.

All without congressional approval. And apparently without the US population knowing about it.

Why risk using US tech?

It costs more, and the people running it likely may not be my friends

LarsKrimi··on Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure
I can tell you why. It's not the cost (even though it certainly helps)

For my company it's about the "pulling the plug" usecase. We create a SaaS product for semi-critical infrastructure - we don't need 99% uptime but more than a few hours and it's problematic.

Sure, most cloud/VPS providers have sites in the US as well, but worst case only those places would be affected if the US decided to do a Special Military Operation on Greenland for example.

LarsKrimi··on Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?
It's impossible to know right now. Some are saying Pakistan messed up by not specifying properly to both sides what would constitute a cease fire. And US (Israel's proxy) is probably a bit unreliable in how their military command and political leadership separately interpreted the agreements as well

/S trying to highlight how stupid it sounds when you try to retrofit sense into this conflict

LarsKrimi··on Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon
This project seems to have a serdes block which seems to wrap whatever is in the PDK. Didn't look too far down but from a cursory glance it looked like it was built for an internal clock of 50 MHz (clock default to 20 ns) with an oversampling of 8: 400 MHz

If those numbers are at all right it puts it in useful territory. Very much so for a first spin

For a first spin it looks overall pretty useful. The only nitpick I have would be that `operation` on the DSP tile should be from fabric instead of config (hardcoded in bitstream) otherwise I don't see a convenient way of resetting the accumulator(?)

LarsKrimi··on Pharmaceuticals face 100% tariffs in US – unless firms strike a deal
I believe you are correct that the list pricing from manufacturers is higher in the US.

But my understanding is that this is due to the PBMs punishing manufacturers for lowering the list price. Lower list price means less profit for the PBMs for the discount they negotiate

LarsKrimi··on Pharmaceuticals face 100% tariffs in US – unless firms strike a deal
What happened to letting the free market work it's magic? Has America changed to communism recently without telling anyone?

Jk ofc. But the ones scamming Americans are American middlemen - the PBMs.

With this change the regime is just proving that it will not fix problems caused by their rich friends but rather pass the bill onto the manufacturers

LarsKrimi··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Why not link to the AP then? https://apnews.com/live/live-updates-israel-iran-february-28...

Reddit is a shithole, even more so after it went public a year ago..

Anyway, I don't think the AP pictures are too convincing. Sure it might look like smoke in there, but it looks more like the entire right side of the image was carpetbombed - not just the building complex in the middle

LarsKrimi··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
So in your mind a picture post from a 6 day old Reddit account is a reliable news source?
LarsKrimi··on Sanders and Newsom become adversaries over push to tax California billionaires
What's wrong with that?

Why are US politicians and billionaires meddling in European politics?

LarsKrimi··on Carney constructs a mega anti-Trump trade alliance
Exciting stuff, let's see what comes of it.

As someone from Europe I think Carney has been quite impressive in the big picture

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