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ce4··on Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
Or they know what they're doing, hate it but decide for it anyway due to some sort of FOMO (the competition does it also!) Maybe it's comparable to the glossy laptop screen fad some years ago.
ce4··on One dead and nine wounded after accident with self-driving car
Those stickers don't prove anything, especially if BMW themselves deny it. You can find those stickers on support-vehicles without any autonomous features as well. There will be more press coverage anyway and we'll find out soon.
ce4··on One dead and nine wounded after accident with self-driving car
BMW has denied that it was an autonomous / self-driving test-car [1].

The article is from Reutlinger Generalanzeiger, a regional newspaper, and they probably have better sources than Der Spiegel.

The B28 is a very scenic drive, the region is also not a densely populated area. I used to live close by.

[1]: https://www.gea.de/blaulicht_artikel,-schwerer-crashnahe-zai...

ce4··on Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer
Yes, but butter is not possible here (severe casein allergy)
ce4··on Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer
I switched to enamel non-stick pans and iron pans, and for me eggs work best when cooked with lard instead of vegetable oil. Lard went somewhat out of favor but i find it better for pan cooking than oil: probably due to the higher viscosity it creates a stabler lubrication film that doesn't break down as easily as that of cooking oil. Works even with stainless steel pans. Downside: different "lard" taste and the grease is harder to wash off your hands.
ce4··on Router Security
I Dont know if Tomato publishes CVEs. But you could check the release notes for OpenWrt for CVEs over the last couple of years.

I would trust OpenWrt more, especially their continued support for old devices, one accesspoint of mine is 11 years old, supported in the 2022 release and still going strong (128MB RAM, 32MB flash)

ce4··on Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom to introduce persistent user tracking
I disagree - VPNs are not a solution for this whole issue, but legislation is. The whole VPN business looks shady to me, maybe Mullvad is an outlier and a good citizen, but for how long?

Make data collection transparent, force companies to have opt-in for it and fine non-conforming companies.

Dt. Telekom and Vodafone recently lost their zero rating business (StreamOn or what it was called), they're in constant search for new sources of revenue.

ce4··on Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving (2016)
LZO has been around for 25 years if that helps.

I've also used it especially when resources are constrained (low performance CPU, ram, or when executable size really matters)

ce4··on Our search for the best OCR tool (2019)
I went with this instead of OCRmyPDF:

https://gitlab.com/kebekus/scantools/

ce4··on Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition
True, now that i looked again after reading your comment... the protonmail address is clearly readable. What a sloppy censoring job.
ce4··on Robertson vs. Torx screw drives (2021)
Torx are readily available everywhere here. Even discounter chains like Aldi have seasonal offerings (toolset containing Torx screwdrivers). I think you mean Apple's special pentalobe design for the iPhone (maybe also macbooks now)
ce4··on 700M users and Premium
I guess the downvotes happened because the message just gives an outsider's view - the reason for that spam is easy, just like with Email spam: it's cheap and works - Telegram is easyier to integrate than their competitors. Thats the downside of its developers friendliness (APIs and open source Clients), feature richness and finally their sizable userbase. It's actually a cat & mouse game between spam creators and the Telegram developers implementing countermeasures (on the proprietary backend) - you could see the evolution in spambot behaviour over time just like what happened with email: from simple text + links to misspellings, then screenshotted text ads and now to "plz dm me" comments outside of Telegram or join group xyz (i.e. joins/chats initiated by victims to circumvent reporting cold call chat invites)

Edit: better wording, typos fixed. Also: Telegram is not exactly new with an age of 8 or 9 years.

ce4··on 700M users and Premium
And there's a veteran (as in age) SciHub bot. Works great and is more hassle free than constantly dealing with DNS blocks/ new domain names.
ce4··on Bitcoin slumps below key $20k threshold
It's below the peak before the 2017/2018 crash happened?
ce4··on Telegram has released user data to German Feds in multiple cases
Thanks for correcting!
ce4··on Telegram has released user data to German Feds in multiple cases
They also have the user's phone number and in most cases their phone's adress book.

It's not really about breaking e2e encryption but rather "reveal the identities of following users please". That could be due to all sorts of illegal activities (eg. hate speech, sale of banned substances, terrorism, child abuse, etc.)

ce4··on Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
Not a game, but hosting. here i got ports/patches for open core/open source games, especially for Loki games like 1.5 decades ago:

http://icculus.org/

Amongst them one my favorites: Alien vs. Predator (Sierra Game Studio). Proprietary game content though, unsure about the code licence.

Edit: typos fixed

ce4··on Faecal transplants reverse hallmarks of ageing
It may not kill everything, eg. this one is known to be highly tolerant to irradiation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans

ce4··on Set up your own VPN at home with Raspberry Pi – Wolfang's Blog
Can the title be corrected to either include the missing g in "Wolfgang's Blog" or just remove those two words? Wolfgang is a german name.
ce4··on The Cultural Meaning of Shitposting
> out of the box

Shouldn't that read "outside the box"?

ce4··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
It's inferred data only. Elons jet is required to publish ADS-B location beacons for air traffic control etc. Crowdsourced platforms like ads-b exchange collect and publish these public/unencrypted airplane gps beacons worldwide. You just need to know the jet's registration to look it up.
ce4··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
Thats information that is publicly available anyway - it's just that the presentation is nicer. ElonsJet can be replicated by anyone.
ce4··on Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years
Ha, havent heard from that app in years! DriveDroid's file-backed USB-thumbdrive emulation is marvellous. Pick your .iso or whatever image, insert & boot your machines from it. No more searching for and fiddling with usb drives needed. It needs usb-gadget+mass storage module support in the Android kernel though. Miss it.
ce4··on Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread
Yes, I guess so. It looks very niche and more like an excuse to build something though :) Nothing wrong with that, however I'd just cut it at home and freeze the rest for later consumption.
ce4··on Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread
Yep, i also don't quite understand what needs to be solved here.

I just ask the cashier in the bakery for a half or quarter loaf. Or grab a pre-cut half/quarter one in the supermarket. There are plenty of options (types of bread, sourdough or not, based on different grains, etc) over here in germany.

ce4··on Weightless cats – Do space cats land on their feet? (2011) [video]
Probably the same reason as discussed here recently: A naked skydive inspired a way to keep pilots oriented in flight (military.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30959126

Edit: Probably that submission led to this one.

ce4··on Germany has seized control of Gazprom Germania
Apparently the company was sold or ownership restructured in march without prior notification of the regulatory body. The new owner is Gazprom Export LLC, of which ownership is unclear - it is suspected that Gazprom tries/tried to evade regulatory control over critical german infrastructure, thats why Minister Habeck has transferred control over to the Bundesnetzagentur as a trustee.

Edit: Source (paywalled, german) https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/gazprom-germania-hat-berei...

ce4··on Stackit: Cloud and Colocation
Failed is not the correct description, more like top management began to realize the longterm effects such a big SAP-integration would have on their processes, changed their mind against it and reversed their direction. Don't blame them for acting and axing such a huge project
ce4··on Using a tiny HC32L110 ARM chip
Well, Jeroen works (or has worked) for Espressif (manufacturer of ESP32/ESP8266), so apparently he knows that stuff well enough to make comments like this.
ce4··on BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTorrent client
There's also an Android app:

BiglyBT, Torrent-Downloader (ad free, open source torrenting for phones, tablets, Chromebooks & Android TV) - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.biglybt.android.client

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