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sva_··on TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access
If you don't care to invest half an hour into learning some basics of how computer networking and in particular CIDR notation and subnet masks work, maybe it is not for you.
sva_··on I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
I am pretty sure you have to enable cloudflare to manage your robots.txt, it shouldn't be doing that by itself. Maybe they did it by accident, it is just 1 click.
sva_··on European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
I'm not sure what that has to do with age verification or such things, and even if you don't want to use the platform directly you can use mirrors like xcancel.com or nitter.net as drop-in replacements (which I use.) I dont think that site has any age verification measures implemented that are mandated by law as of now. But I'd just stop using it if they did or if the mirrors stopped working.

All in all, I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the original topic of EU being about to enforce 'age verification'.

sva_··on European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
I am also European, not sure why that matters though.

This type of argument always sounds to me like someone was abused by their ex-partner, but now prefers their new partner who abuses them a little less.

This is a common negotiation practice in business as well as politics. You make some absolutely outrageous demand, and people protest, but then you give them the -originally planned- light version of it, and they will accept it; in light of the worse option.

There is no reason to endure this BS, hence I referenced manufacturing consent.

I sometimes can not believe how easily people allow themselves to be manipulated.

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And you can vote out "Big Tech" - by refusing to use their products. Giving up your rights to play some videogame, as GP outlined, is an absolutely sad thing to witness. There are people who fought and died for the rights we have, and we allow them to be eroded for some silly consumerism.

sva_··on European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
I guess that is one way to manufacture consent.
sva_··on Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act
> I think Germany is also economically growing?

Barely, and it was in a recession 2023-2024.

sva_··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
> First, things are bad

As a German, it sounds like you integrated well.

sva_··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
> Most countries will grant PR without requiring a language

This statement is clearly false, off the top of my head only USA and Spain come to mind. There are some countries like Japan where there it isn't a hard requirement, but you'd need a very good reason to justify why

sva_··on Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries
> like all the smartphone brands

But there is at least some argument that smartphones nowadays have some pretty crazy waterproofness that I'm not sure is physically possible with a replaceable battery?

sva_··on Immich 3.0
Sync was already fixed in the last major version, at least for us (android and iphone)
sva_··on Immich 3.0
If you want a cheaper alternative, maybe look into ServaRica. That's where I run my Immich instance for my wife and me. 4TB for $11 per month. The servers (cpus) are not super fast, but fast enough for me.
sva_··on Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
all usage has been reset. lez go!
sva_··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
I propose that humans use Unicode U+2E3B three em dash ⸻ it is an impressively long character.
sva_··on How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
> reasonably sized prime number

I feel like you're alluding to something but won't say to what? Maybe something like the 'fine-tuned universe' hypothesis?

sva_··on Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He had worms
> The finding surprised the doctors since tapeworms aren’t endemic to Spain and he said he hadn’t traveled. However, the man may have been exposed during his work. Until 10-years prior, when he retired, he had worked in construction, often working alongside people who had migrated from regions where pork tapeworms (Taenia solium) are endemic. The parasitic worms can spread through the fecal-oral route. His doctors speculated his infection might have been a rare case of cryptic transmission from sharing meals and bathrooms with his coworkers, one of whom apparently had a tapeworm infection.

yikes

sva_··on The annotated PyTorch training loop
I mean partial derivatives aren't that complicated if you know normal derivatives, which most people do. And backpropagation isn't too difficult either.

The value of PyTorch lies more in utilizing accelerators like GPUs while offering a nice abstraction. But you can build your own (inefficient) tensor library without too much effort as e.g. Andrej Karpathy has shown in his "NN zero to hero" youtube series.

sva_··on Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
Interesting. I have the Google AI Pro plan and use Gemini several times each day and I don't remember the last time I got a refusal. I wonder what criteria go into that, like maybe how they rate your Google account?
sva_··on Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem
@dang please update if you see this

And merge with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651613

sva_··on All train services in Germany halted after train radio communications disruption
It is the only English source I could find.

Apparently, all train services in Germany are currently disrupted.

German source:

https://www1.wdr.de/nrw/verkehr/zugverkehr-in-nrw-komplett-e...

Not much is known currently, except that the German railway has issues with radio communication - which I found curious enough to post.

sva_··on I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry
RAM prices are crazy now, but they always tended to go up and down in waves over the years.
sva_··on I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry
My university offers locations such as India for the semester abroad, but most people rather go somewhere else.
sva_··on Show HN: Neural Particle Automata
From the original research - self-organizing textures: https://distill.pub/selforg/2021/textures/
sva_··on Nvidia Halos
> Safety transistors safety assessed
sva_··on AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
So it seems that the Ryzen PRO in my HP EliteBook is not affected.
sva_··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
> all-stock deal

It's not like they could easily cash out all of those $60B. I always find it troublesome that we generally conflate cash with stonks, market caps, and such.

sva_··on Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin
I don't really see it, those things fit perfectly together? 5g dry mushrooms -> heroic dose.
sva_··on Iroh 1.0
The doc still doesn't show what such a 'key' looks like? Why can't there be a simple infographic that goes like

    127.0.0.1 -> 'key'
sva_··on Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin
> n=1

> pay to publish journal

> no clear Alzheimers diagnosis ("[...] were considered clinically most compatible with advanced Alzheimer’s disease")

> administration of a heroic dose of street-quality drugs vs. a controlled sample

> no university or hospital affiliation?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, hence I remain skeptical

sva_··on Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech
I wonder what percentage of total graduates walked out? The video shows maybe around 50 people at all. The title makes it seem like everyone graduating walked out.
sva_··on Oracle is changing free tier limits. Update by the 15th to avoid charges
Fwiw, I've had this server for free for about 5 years with no issues.
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