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felixg3··on How to save a life without knowing CPR
It’s essentially 112 (at least as a secondary number) almost all around the world thanks to ITU
felixg3··on The future of independence is interdependence
Thank you for your contribution, you made me engage with your thoughts. As a German born married to an Indian, I can relate with the points
felixg3··on Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague
Pretty much confirmed by western intelligence including the German BND
felixg3··on CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3
C3 is not a public event. Neither are night clubs which decide to ban photography entirely. Taking photos is a right in the public sphere, a privilege in the private sphere.
felixg3··on Felix and I
Reading this thread is really funny if your first name is Felix.
felixg3··on Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
I think their reasoning on not being an identify provider but acting solely downstream is very clever.
felixg3··on New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
Besides that, PrEP has enabled the return of non-HIV STIs in major cities like Berlin where a lot of the community has returned to raw-dogging since the AIDS-Scare has become a historical artifact.
felixg3··on CarPlay Is Additive
It works with Apple Maps and Google Maps, Waze doesn’t pass this information to the car.
felixg3··on European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status
Like they didn’t make Apple pay /s

The final closure came in 2025: Ireland confirmed it received nearly €14.25 billion (about $15.5 billion) from the account’s final closure https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/07/15/apple-and-ireland...

felixg3··on Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub
Ahh, another interesting post… and it’s Dewey again.
felixg3··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
LLMs are a mirror of the user‘s input capabilities, like every other computer programme.
felixg3··on Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
The morale boost of freshly brewed coffee for scientists would be immeasurable by even monetary instruments.
felixg3··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
Within a short time, especially since the EU accession, the development of Poland is just remarkable. I have personally spent a lot of time there and I think the quality of life, safety, access to healthcare, is excellent. Sure, it’s not perfect, but - I know, capital city bias, but I can’t think of a better place. Macro data, as imperfect as they are, reveal a dramatic trajectory in Life expectancy, HDI, while the gini-coefficient remained relatively stable.
felixg3··on Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga
Government means precisely just the executive branch in international English across most polities with institutions.
felixg3··on AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice
Remember that this is also happening - rightfully so - for political reasons. OnlyOffice‘s UBOs are in Russia and the local variant (same code, same dev) R7 office actively recommended by the Regime in Moscow. The company supports the war against Ukraine.
felixg3··on Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
Probably referring to crew rest hours (esp. a problem in the late 2010s, near-misses at DXB etc. Not having had passenger fatalities is a bad indicator for safety records in the 21st century.

The ek521 report is a good example documenting systemic failures at EK

felixg3··on Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
Half-ing every 5.2-or-so-years?
felixg3··on The Document Foundation ejects its core developers
It’s also a Russian company in Russia.
felixg3··on Migrating to the EU
They have EU datacenters and an actually staffed legal entity in Germany .
felixg3··on The Waymo World Model
Docs was just an acquisition of Writely, an early „Web 2.0“ document editor service, so „first done by google“ is a bit imprecise
felixg3··on I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone
Russian troll accounts are spilling into HN. Comment history checks out.
felixg3··on Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees
There’s a name for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
felixg3··on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
There is also Security Copilot, which I accidentally enabled and got a 3000€ invoice by azure. Thanks, M$!
felixg3··on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
Is it easy to get in as a former what cd power user rank? I found my old rippy stickers from what.cd and missed that community so much. Ptp is great and alive though.
felixg3··on Show HN: I built an international calling platform for the past 6 months
Nice! Do you plan integrations with teams and other apps?
felixg3··on Show HN: Netrinos – A keep it simple Mesh VPN for small teams
You again under the posts that tickle my fancy…
felixg3··on Show HN: Netrinos – A keep it simple Mesh VPN for small teams
I really like your fair differentiation and feature comparison vs Tailscale, netbird etc.

Love to see the ecosystem of wireguard based services growing into different business segments, i.e. you targeting SMBs/small teams.

Not for me, but legitimate use case and product :)

felixg3··on Backing up Spotify
„Shared delusion“ - just another term for „social contract“?
felixg3··on Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
Is it really an svg if it’s just embedded base64 of a jpg
felixg3··on Removing Guix from Debian
I feel like that brew, or better yet, nix are great options for userspace applications in Linux and macOS
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