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RaiausderDoseon Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

Dominus Automa is an idle mmorpg too - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3795810/Dominus_Automa/

Same style?

RaiausderDoseon Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

I played the demo, it was very cool. Looking forward to playing it. I see it's on Game Pass, too.

How does such a deal work? Do they contact you? Or are there places where you can promote your game to get it on Game Pass?

RaiausderDoseon Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

it downloaded the model again...

RaiausderDoseon Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

yeah, should work. Will try readonly on windows too.

Now I can't see it anymore, but shouldn't the model be under chrome://on-device-internals/ -> model-status?

Maybe you can uninstall there too.

RaiausderDoseon Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

I'm on Chrome 147 too and disabled:

"optimization-guide-on-device-model"

- Enables optimization guide on device

"prompt-api-for-gemini-nano"

- Prompt API for Gemini Nano

- Prompt API for Gemini Nano with Multimodal Input

and deleted weights.bin and the 2025.x folder in "OptGuideOnDeviceModel"

Will report if Chrome 148 downloads the model again.

RaiausderDoseon Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors

Thanks, didn't know that one.

No, that is horrible, I get less punishment for youth etc. But they know what they did and did it multiple times, and it was nearly systematic (I read about 80 witnesses? wtf is going on?)

Even if you are 15, you know what you are doing is horrible. I hope this dudes suffer in the future, horrendous human beings and the judge should be ashamed.

In such cases, I understand that people take the law into their own hands. Imagine this being your daughter.

RaiausderDoseon Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors

Please tell me which legal case you mean? Sounds very much like a bubble-YouTube story about ‘Muslims can rape everybody in Germany without getting punishment.’

Acquittals happen when there are contradictions in the evidence or victims testimonies, but when it's clear that a rape occurred and the perpetrator only gets a stern talking to - don't really know such stuff happening.

RaiausderDoseon Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors

I hope the classification for these drugs is not so wide that "normal" drug users are now weapon holders while using their stuff recreational without harming anybody.

Edit: I got more infos:

- Germany's national authorities will classify GBL and 1,4-Butanediol as weapons under German criminal law, treating administration as weapon deployment to strengthen prosecution.

- Under previous German criminal law, administering date-rape drugs was often charged as bodily harm without weapon classification, while survivor groups noted victims face memory loss complicating evidence.

- The reform permits courts to apply strengthened sentencing, allowing German prosecutors and courts to impose longer prison terms and mandatory minimums since administering drugs counts as weapon use, aiding prosecution.

- Survivors of drug-facilitated assault stand to gain a stronger legal foundation and clearer accountability, while the symbolic framing signals a cultural shift in German society prioritizing survivor protection.

- Legal experts warn that judicial training, forensic improvements and survivor-centered reporting systems are vital, while critics caution offenders may exploit loopholes or switch substances without such measures.

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Seems reasonable, complicated topic

RaiausderDoseon US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

Thank you for posting this, the misinformation is clear as day. But lying is without consequences if people are dumb or lethargic enough, it seems.

This will get very interesting.

RaiausderDoseon Is XYplorer really written in VB6?

Seems cool, I'm using free commander and need 2 vertical panels, because of the ease of coping files.

I guess I skipped this app before because on the screenshot it looks like it just has one panel. But after trying it out, it has "dual pane" mode, so I will give this a shoot.

RaiausderDoseon OnlyFangs has made 'World of Warcraft' into Twitch's best soap opera

My gut feeling watching PirateSoftware says to me that something is wrong with this dude. Of course, he was a hacker for the government, worked at Blizzard hat made all the smart decisions, source is him.

Every time he's saying something obvious (basic computer science concepts) and people are pretending he's the ubergod of knowledge.

The dumb person's genius, I feel like. Something says to me there is much pretending involved.

RaiausderDoseon I am rich and have no idea what to do

100s meetings on Signal with the 'smartest people I have ever met' is a big red flag for me.

I know I'm an asshole, but I've never had good experiences with people who call themselves super smart.

And of course, they were identifying all problems with the government on signal in very short, super effective meetings... yeah sure, dude.

RaiausderDoseon Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete

Yeah, I know Linux can do gaming, dev and is stable and good. But there is always something which needs a hack / fix, different lib or something.

"Normal" people just take the convenience of a working system out of the box than having a privacy respecting OS.

Personal anecdote, installed Linux Mint on an old Laptop of a friend. First thing, we open Firefox and go to YouTube, hard freeze of the whole OS. Not a single key worked anymore.

Not the best advertisement for the stable and better OS Linux I was showing him.

RaiausderDoseon Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete

Bleachbit is very good (with community cleaup file even more) to get rip of trash remains of installs, temp files, game saves, Steam Cache etc.

RaiausderDoseon Starliner Spacecraft Noise [audio]

Sept. 2 Update: NASA issued the following explanation on Monday for the strange noises: "A pulsing sound from a speaker in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft heard by NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore aboard the International Space Station has stopped. The feedback from the speaker was the result of an audio configuration between the space station and Starliner. The space station audio system is complex, allowing multiple spacecraft and modules to be interconnected, and it is common to experience noise and feedback."

RaiausderDoseon Starliner Spacecraft Noise [audio]

haha

RaiausderDoseon SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem

numbers are from 2017, update would be cool

RaiausderDoseon Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony

I guess you are talking about mobile. There a several ytshorts blocker extensions for desktop browsers.

RaiausderDoseon How to do the thing you've been avoiding

mr fake laugh is genuine. ok, maybe he's different irl.

RaiausderDoseon Why don’t software development methodologies work? (2014)

Point 3 is very true.

In my company at the time, they had a million rules and processes, but everybody had to drop everything because the son of an influential client could not get toy cars (!) into the new enterprise retail procurement system because of some incorrect logistical data. Normally you would get a ticket, analyze etc.

But he was the loudest/most influential, so everything else was unimportant. No Jira, nothing, just one angry email. Fix it for him alone, NOW! Billion-dollar company, thousands of clients but a dude with 20 toy cars won.

The issue was resolved (we removed the validation rules that were implemented before because "this is the filter for incorrect data, and we want to clear our data by restricting them") and everything went back to normal. Jiras, process and so on.

RaiausderDoseon ‘Dark ships’ emerge from the shadows of the Nord Stream mystery

http://www.hisutton.com/Belgorod-Class-Submarine.html

The guy makes these cutaway of the subs with MS Paint

http://www.hisutton.com/Spy%20Sub%20-%20Project%2010831%20Lo...

http://www.hisutton.com/Russian-Intervention-Underwater-Dron...

Video about seabed-warfare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H_tFKT9EXU

these are Russian subs / AUVs , very cool stuff.

RaiausderDoseon White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by reflecting back sunlight

They are far from an abundant source of water, like you said.

Taking 400W *24/7 is quite a lot of energy, and I'm not really believing the 4-8L output.

At 17° Celsius and 38% humidity, you get 0.008g of water out of 1L of air. There are physical limits to this, of course.

The dude in the video does the calculations, and it's far from "no problem to make water out of air". It would be better to use the energy for something else.

If it was so easy to do, there would be no problems with water shortages around the globe (and soon maybe "water wars") just take it out of the air with solar.

RaiausderDoseon White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by reflecting back sunlight

These dehumidifiers produce half a liter a day and need around 72 watt

which is maybe 1€ per liter drinking water for my area

The tech is cool but not really new or a solution to all water problems, the energy cost is relatively high.

More about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGTRX6pZSns

RaiausderDoseon Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/send-code-snippet...

RaiausderDoseon Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds

thx, this interview seems great. Jim is a cool dude.

RaiausderDoseon Did I just lose half a million dollars?

every online interface would check the IBAN checksum, this seems like a bad bank or a bad story aka lie.

RaiausderDoseon Did I just lose half a million dollars?

I would not really call a "one way only exchange contract" magical knowledge.

RaiausderDoseon How my genius roommate changed my perspective

after the bed part I wanted to quit reading, it was so simple and the bed looked modern not like "we were poor as dirt!"

workbench was cool though

RaiausderDoseon Anatomy of a Catastrophic Boiler Accident (1997)

37 Pings : Death Throes of the USS Thresher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV5FGTxIU4Q

video is about:

The Navy released the ninth and tenth set of documents from a previously classified investigation into the April 10, 1963 loss of USS Thresher and its crew of 129 sailors off the coast of New England.

https://news.usni.org/2021/07/09/navy-releases-latest-round-...

maybe interesting

RaiausderDoseon The James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review

Ariane 5 rockets have accumulated 109 launches since 1996, 104 of which were successful, yielding a 95.4% success rate. Between April 2003 and December 2017, Ariane 5 flew 82 consecutive missions without failure, but the rocket suffered a partial failure in January 2018

from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5