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pastageon Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

eIDAS is federated login between countries in EU. What is wrong with that?

pastageon How to buy a good car for $1000

> Good bike infrastructure

Is also really cheap to build.

pastageon Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads

First time I read Ceph and "pretty smooth" in the same sentence, it is really that easy now days? I have always thought it was pretty heavy on operational knowledge.

pastageon Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland

My point is that some issues, especially meat, makes people blame tone really fast. This is my view after experimenting with it for many years. I obviously care about your view otherwise I would not have commented, you see an attack/denial where there is not ment to be one.

pastageon Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland

The key is "maybe try doing something", does not mean to destroy our culture. My child choose to be vegetarian but I just can not be bothered. I am too lazy. That does not mean I do not try to adapt. You can find the things that are wonderful with other ways of life.

pastageon Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland

Vegetarian options are easier, cheaper and better to produce per gram of protein. Especially if you want to live in an society and not on the steppe.

pastageon Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland

It's probably not the tone. You only choose to hear that tone and close up. (From my experience)

I hold some fringe ideas, e.g. helmets are bad. So I have lots of experience with handling discussion where people close up for any rational argument. Because I am just wrong by definition. That really lets you explore how people react to ideas they do not support.

pastageon Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland

I am not vegan, will never be, but I have known vegans for more than two decades and they are doing fine. We need to make it easy to make the right choice about food, and one way to do that is to stop making meat meat meat the ONLY cool thing. I am fine with vegans serving me tasty food, they make alternatives easier. If you do not want to be a full time vegan just switch to 3 out 7 days of the week or something like that.

pastageon Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network

Last time I saw this an obscure single letter root password was still "secure", now days seems like almost all non-alphanumeric chars works. % is my new root password it still has not been brute forced.

pastageon Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

Do you not think there are ways to organize tabs that should be applications specific?

pastageon After the AI Crash

They still need the protection and enablement of free trade.

pastageon After the AI Crash

I think the Hormuz saga and how China just quietly stopped importing oil are signs that we are nearing the end of the "free trade as a service" from the US. There are so many aspects of that I do not understand yet: how much oil trade will be done in yuan in the future is one that leads to other question about the current wars and what will happen when those end.

pastageon More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

> I care about

Feels like you have my problem: "I can not be bother to switch from another app".

When every one wants their e-reader with custom setup you get that long list of options. Since the beginning of computing I have always wanted a custom UI on apps, i.e. add an icon here that does these three things in the app, or "add this view to that window". Even browsers plugins have a hard time getting it right.

pastageon User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

> [a ripper written to look for sources] in memory after the computer had crashed

I used this to reboot my machine faster, keep info in RAM and just continue were you left off after reboot. I think there even were ram drives that could persist crashes/reboots, someone did really fast reboots with it.

pastageon Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol

delete

EDIT 2: I think they are non-toxic and inert. But I tried to find my source for this and I am failing badly. so deleting this comment

EDIT: I agree they are very waste full since they do not live that long. I have owned three non-stick pans, my cast iron pans have outlived all of them by decades.

pastageon It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history

Make it joyful

Read books yourself

Make book an important part of your life

Read to the kids

Teach them to read early

Little to no phone use early on

pastageon Why migrants come to Germany for work and then leave again

Using "Race" like this is really bad in Germany and Sweden. As is pointed out in this thread [1] how we use words differs. TIL race has a different meaning in English and Swedish. I use it in both but I've never thought about the difference in how I use it in different languages.

Categories are not fixed between cultures, even colours and numbers are hard to get right. So when you hear a word you can not be clear it is used in your broad meaning, or the narrow meaning.

This was actually my favourite way of nerd sniping back when I was young.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816222

pastageon Historical memory prices 1960-2026

So total system cost per unit of memory is going up.. 2GB costs in 1985 was $2 million (from the graph), a cray-2 was $16 million (from wikipedia). A GPU server with 8xB200 today can be had for ~$500k (estimate), 1.5TB memory is $25k (from the graph).

pastageon TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

> It probably isn't a very important problem

The amount of languages are decreasing on the earth, I would also say that dialects and accents are decreasing as well. I think this is a problem.

pastageon TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

Interesting. I have never heard kernel modules being regarded as non-linux, not in 30 years of LKM. Further compiling a monolithic Kernel is rather straight forward, in this day it is even possible to find wifi devices that do not require a an on device firmware blob uploaded from the kernel.

pastageon Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

You are right that there are many of us who prefer the package manager, there are so many reasons why a package manager makes your life wonderful. Debian has always been a proponent of dynamic linking. When you create a Linux distribution that is a big plus.

For me install size matters and statically linked stuff are too big sometimes. Of course a 100MB go statically compiled binary has huge advantages now days.

pastageon India's surprise baby bust

> heavily pushing subsidies has not been shown to work

Subsidies only come into affect after you have children. They can not work alone society has a much greater affect. They work wonders at making parenting possible while being part of the work force. You only get the subsidies when you have children, the question is how you are supposed to feel secure enough to have children.

pastageon I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC

A quick search say that this is a standard feature you cache the prefill and load it at PCIe bandwidth so it should be about 0.2s

pastageon Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

That is a good question. The existing data center map above is commercial so creating a free version with a clear goal seems to align with why OSM was started. The social aspect of OpenStreetMap was more important than the technical part.

pastageon Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training

> proprietary data

It is just copyrighted data, that is harder to get a hold of. All the copies are available to anyone to use if they just read it. Copyright makes other uses complicated. I wonder if the whole Creative commons debate was a mistake, you can never fix copyright in a digital world.

pastageon I moved my digital stack to Europe

You answer your own post, almost everyone saw the US as an ally. That is the reason for trusting you, and why these posts are worrying. If we break economic and military ties, the alliance grows weaker.

You are right that there have always been a hostility against these kind of actions, but now you are doing it against allies. So you are breaking the trust.

pastageon I moved my digital stack to Europe

I do not think you understand, you have to start repairing things. You can not only be against something you have to stand up for something that is better. Your number of 90% support for Denmark and Greenland does not show in anyway.

pastageon I moved my digital stack to Europe

The complete disinterest in international allies from the American public is troublesome. I recently was in a discussion about what kind of responsibility we can put on the residents of the US for this situation. A US lawyer answered "well the 25th amendment ties our hands, and we do a lot of protesting so no blame on us". The judgement on US citizens was pretty harsh.

You guys have to work a lot harder to fix your issues.

pastageon Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise

Physical attestations are hard to solve, I think it would be nice if all TPMs in laptops had this. Then the problem becomes how do you automate stuff that needs to be done.

pastageon Bugs Rust won't catch

> it is easier and works better

For me NFS is easy and works better, edit two files, enable NFS and update firewall. I had NFS running before SMB, and if I am at hobby level I prefer http if it is good enough. There are technical reasons to use SMB, HTTP, NFS or Ceph. The easy to use options is just a function of how much you know, what you have run into and what you NEED to do.