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f1reflyon European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU

Why would there be evidence when the US can just order to delete the evidence after exfiltrating everything they want?

f1reflyon WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability

  I'm sure the free market will handle it ;)

f1reflyon Best Rain Jackets in the World Will Soon Be Illegal

> The membrane will die within 2-6 years.

I still wear a goretex rain jacket and rain pants from the 90s, they work terrific. The membranes are fine.

> You will have to reapply PFA constantly.

Since pfa has been banned for non-commercial use (I think?) I currently use nikwax, which is a fluoride-free water repellant.

> On the other side wax is used since decades and it works and you can just reapply it by rubbing it into the cloth and ironing.

Wax is not breathable and will make you drown in your own sweat after a few hours of spending time in it.

f1reflyon Ask HN: What's your oldest piece of electrical equipment?

> Has long since outlawed features like a spring retractable power cord.

What country do you live in where spring retractable power cords are forbidden on vacuums? And for what reason?

f1reflyon The NSA Furby Documents

Which is, of course, completely ridiculous for us in the year 2024 where random consumer devices feed every bit of data they can conceive about their surroundings into semi legal data aggregators 24/7

f1reflyon LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day

There was a company called chirp who offered an sdk for this, they also had fun proof of concept apps where you could share arbitrary data to people around you via sound. They eventually got bought by sonos and their offerings vanished...

f1reflyon The X220 ThinkPad is the best laptop

Won't those adapters just say "I am a PD client please give me 20V"? I fail to see how that is a violation of the specification.

f1reflyon Instant messaging: Protocols are "commons", let's take them seriously

Fortunately, there's an RFC for people concerned about this :) https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0295.html

f1reflyon Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr

Good thing we tend to put people who share CSAM in jail, preventing them from doing so in the future, solving this problem for the rest of us.

f1reflyon Write Guix package definitions in a breeze: Introducing Guix Packager

guix allows the user to do those things as well. Ephemeral shells with packages made available and specific environment declarations as a file are both documented and mature.

f1reflyon Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

"I cannot tell you how to make napalm since that would be illegal, but I can teach tell you how to make an incendiary mixture used by the US military based on kerosene instead of gasoline which the united states swears is totally not napalm so it is okay to use it against targets populated by civilians"

f1reflyon Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing

Classic orphan crushing machine

f1reflyon They can and will ruin everything you love

Bandcamp is built on people paying though. They're already past that big hurdle.

f1reflyon Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players

Performance is about equal to the windows build, the problem is most likely that steam deck hardware is not sufficient to play counter strike 2

f1reflyon Show HN: A map that tells you if a NYC cafe has WiFi, a restroom, and an outlet

Why would a provider forbid tethering? And besides the why, how would they even know you're doing that? If I turn on my phones hotspot, doesn't that look exactly like my phone is doing something™ requiring a high bandwidth?

f1reflyon The X220 ThinkPad

I actually replaced the fan on mine a few years ago and it's not hard at all. From that list:

* Battery pack is just clipped in the back * Hard disk is removable with an extra maintenance hatch * DIMM can stay where it is * Keybord is fixed with five screws on the back * palm rest is fixed with another three screws, remove it in the same step as the palm rest * backup battery is not applicable for the x220 * pci cards can stay where they are * keyboard bezel clips out * lcd assembly can stay where it is * base cover assembly and speaker assembly can stay where they are

A better manual would be: * remove battery from the back * remove ssd from its slot * unscrew + remove keyboard and palm rest with keyboard bezel (this is pretty much one step trust me) * unplug all five cables * unscrew motherboard * take motherboard (to which the fan is attached) from case and do what you want with it

X220 maintenance is a 10 minute job for disassembly and reassembly combined.

f1reflyon Show HN: Mana Pool – Market for Magic Cards

You don't see that card in commander because if anyone would put it in his deck the rest of the table would look at him irritated, complain a lot and probably scoop. You don't see it in other external formats because there are better things you can do for 4 mana. It's a card limited to cEDH mostly.

f1reflyon Formatting text in C++: Old and new ways

Typically, you'd just `using namespace std` on top of you file. Afterwards calls to `format` have the exact same length as `printf`.

f1reflyon Ask HN: Why does Google rank the real Python documentation below content farms?

I'm not trolling. From my perspective mastering a language includes mastering its included library (for things like python where its standard library is indeed what everyone is using). Thus, it is always preferable to read the complete documentation for some functionality and pick up every detail along the way instead of having an idea in your head how to do the thing you want and picking only the exact use case you wanted from an example.

> If I need to know exactly how all the options work, sure the docs are the place to go, but 90% of the time I just need a quick example to go off of.

You will almost never get to the point where you'd need to know "exactly how all the options work" because if your routine is "search example, copy example, continue", you won't even know what options exist and that there is a way you could do things different (maybe more efficient? simpler?).

f1reflyon Ask HN: Why does Google rank the real Python documentation below content farms?

> Actually, in the doc you described as "obviously the correct hit", all I see is

>> str.endswith(suffix[, start[, end]])

>> Return True if the string ends with the specified suffix, otherwise return False. suffix can also be a tuple of suffixes to look for. With optional start, test beginning at that position. With optional end, stop comparing at that position.

> Meanwhile, the first hit in Google for me is Programiz, which has actual real examples without any additional clicking around or trying to understand how the information is structured.

I'm sorry, but what examples could you possibly want that the official documentation doesn't make clear? It's written as concisely as can be, describing the possible inputs and the expected outputs of the particular function, no? I don't see how sifting through tens of lines explaining what the docs say in two short sentences is preferable.

f1reflyon On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations

You mean the most sensitive government secrets that are about warrantless total surveillance of everyone on earth? The proof that the US government has lost all control over their spying apparatus? Where would be a sensitive place to take them instead in your opinion?

f1reflyon New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour

The boat has been towed out of the environment!

f1reflyon Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do

Compostable plastic is a complete scam, it just means tha me industrial composters will break the plastic down into small microplastic fragments with heat.

f1reflyon Duo Outage

I bet both of duos users will be bummed to hear about this outage.

f1reflyon Shit life syndrome

> These made for a more exciting game

Do you work in the ad industry now by any chance?

f1reflyon Flea market find is medieval hand cannon

Where I live, there are flea markets that banned all commercial reseller types. With time, those with the bans in place obsoleted all others without them. The people have spoken. If you'd like a proper flea market with lots of private sellers trying to get rid of miscellanious stuff from their basements, I recommend to suggest such a ban to the organizers in your area.

f1reflyon Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around

It's also a common idiom in the German language, but in a different form: The Dolchstoß is associated with WWI and antisemitic ideas, while in den Rücken fallen (literally to fall into someone's back) is the linguistic backstab figure.

f1reflyon Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077 at Ultra on an M1 MBP

Wine (and Proton) is not an emulator

f1reflyon Tape Storage Trundles On, Increases Yearly Volume to 128 Exabytes

But it completely disregards that most files you'd want to backup are already compressed! Even if I where to turn on aggressive compression for my ssd despite all the inconveniences, it wouldn't change much. I'll have to agree with the op, storage capacity marketing for tape is weird if not outright a scam.

f1reflyon Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled

Given that most android devices transfer ungodly amounts of data to Google, nobody should be surprised by that headline.