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veeti

4,657 karma · joined March 15, 2010

Just trolling.

Send hate mail: veeti.paananen@rojekti.fi

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veeti··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
Mistral now has a 15 euro/month subscription for GLM 5.3. Pretty cool
veeti··on IFPI Wants Open Source YouTube Downloader yt-dlp on EU Piracy Watch List
> Musi is an unlicensed music streaming app, based in Canada, which is currently unavailable through any mainstream app store following its removal from Apple’s App Store. However, the app remains accessible on Apple devices where users had previously installed it. Users who previously acquired Musi through their Apple account may also be able to reinstall or sideload the application onto an Apple device despite its removal from the App Store.

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> A further concern is Cloudflare’s implementation of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH). ECH is a privacy-enhancing TLS extension that encrypts the Server Name Indication, meaning that intermediaries may see that a user is connecting to Cloudflare but not which Cloudflare-hosted website is being accessed. IFPI’s technical analysis found that, in Cloudflare’s implementation, the visible SNI may show a public-facing Cloudflare hostname rather than the actual target website. Cloudflare now enables ECH by default on Free zones, increasing its relevance to copyright enforcement.

Horrifying thoughts.

veeti··on I switched to Brave
You mean the guy whose concerts went on as planned, and the online slacktivists screaming literal baby murderer at him have already moved on to the next $thing?
veeti··on On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
Way back in junior high school our teacher showed us Adolf Hitler's speeches. Do you think she was actually a secret nazi preying on impressionable youths?
veeti··on If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
The Stack Overflow generation pulled up the ladder a decade ago, and now that they have already "made it" they can spend all day writing romanticized takes about how great their little club really was.

Meanwhile, the rest of us still have work to do and can't spend all day arguing with strangers on the internet. Not all even speak English at all.

veeti··on International observers to investigate Swedish election fraud
> Are Sweden Finns who vote for Sweden Finnish candidates “clan voters”?

Did we read the same news story? If a bunch of confused Finnish drunks dragged from the nearest watering hole showed up at the polling station, and took orders from a priest of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland on who to vote for, there should be a huge outcry and for good reason. It would be front page news on every paper in Finland.

On the other hand, if said Finnish-Swedes came to cast a vote out of their own free will and personal political conclusions, that is entirely different. What they write on the ballot [1] in the privacy of the voting booth is their business only. Are we really supposed to pretend these two scenarios are the same?

[1] Excluding the fact Sweden takes "transparency" to such crazy extremes that everyone can see the party you are voting for: https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/we-all-think-this-is-st...

veeti··on KDE and AI, and You, and Me
When KDE blew up the beautiful KDE 3 desktop, a bunch of people put on their big adult pants and forked Trinity Desktop. Today's slacktivists can only impose endless demands of purity on online boards, before moving on to the next target of outrage.
veeti··on U.S. Small Biz Can't Ship to the EU Anymore
These fees were sucessfully lobbied in the media as a "Temu tax", and even reputable state broadcasters continue to refer to it as a "junk fee". However, it applies indiscriminately to everything from a decades old vintage book purchased from the UK, or spare parts to restore electronics ordered from Japan.
veeti··on Thoughts on the Future of Web Browsers
Removing on device translations makes it harder for users to discover the independent web in languages outside their understanding. What a "user hostile" decision.
veeti··on OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others
If you can get root and a terminal emulator on the device, you could try something like "adb shell settings put global adb_wifi_enabled 1".
veeti··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
The internet is a dangerous place and some people will be dicks even if you aren't making any money. Most hosts will show you the door the someone puts their crosshairs on you. Some small businesses like gaming are disproportionately effected.
veeti··on Germany's far-right AfD projected to win
East Germany.
veeti··on The function of LLM-based math "proofs"
Goalposts: moved.
veeti··on 1Password Replied to My Disappointment
Finnish Roma live in the same houses, their children go to the same schools (including those I attended), they speak the same language and they poop in the same toilets as everyone else. They also have every right to a safe city center without foreigners causing a nuisance.

Regarding terminology, many call themself "mustalainen" (literally "blackie", basically same as "gypsy" I guess) themselves. Although it can be considered offensive in some context, it's not exactly the same as dropping the n-word.

veeti··on 1Password Replied to My Disappointment
This seems like a common misconception, but it actually isn't an indivisible human right to settle in another EU country if you don't have the means to support yourself [1]. If you have ever been engaged by them, it's obvious the sort of "gypsies" panhandling and pooping on Copenhagen or Helsinki streets clearly do not meet the criteria and are not citizens.

Left, right, north or south on the political compass, all parties are in agreement about this, and thousands of people are deported from Denmark every year without Alligator Alcatraz concentration camps or other platitudes about nazism.

[1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/residence-ri...

veeti··on Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model
It's the perfect analogy, they are just the European middleman repackaging the AI model from Temu.
veeti··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
It may be a violent attempt to overthrow the government to you, but just another season of The Apprentice to us.
veeti··on Fastpotify
The vast support for Tidal in these discussions is pretty baffling. The whole thing is just an abandoned Jack Dorsey side hustle. Basic things like gapless playback don't work. Playback on dodgy connections is spotty. I have my own fair share complaints of Spotify UX but it actually works as a music player anywhere and everywhere.
veeti··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
LACK is a good inflation indicator, it costs 7.99€ now.
veeti··on Norway Shrugged (2024)
Europe is a retirement home rigged to favor old people and old money. The thought that you could save on your own and enjoy compound interest is forbidden.
veeti··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
We had people salivating over a spinning Compiz 3D cube 20 years ago, and some still don't understand the ricing factor.
veeti··on Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry
How do you think Iceland would have fared in 2008 under the ECB's iron whip or within euro? Legitimately curious.
veeti··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
Funny because there is a 101 level Qubes RCE on front page right now.
veeti··on You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
There is nothing specific to Bild about it, these practices are codified by pretty much the entire media industry through IAB TCF.
veeti··on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
Have you considered how many data centers used the Linux kernel before anybody knew what a Chat GPT is? Does the project get a free pass on such activities?
veeti··on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
You mean the most effective way to enact social and political change is not to stand next to someone at the urinal and tell them you are a vegan?
veeti··on PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry
It is evident you don't understand how the business landscape or risk management in EU works, you have not done even one bit of research to back up your claims, so why are you even commenting? Maybe if you see such a opportunity in dismissing the rules you ought to start your own.
veeti··on You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
It did nothing for ad tech crap yet, but it gives you many easily exercised rights to access and erase your data. An American company "OpenAI" has released a very useful human-EU bureaucrat-translation tool for drafting such requests.
veeti··on You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
I think GDPR is more good than bad, but the author's example of surveillance capitalism is easily repeated on most EU news sites. Visit bild.de and watch the network inspector light up like a christmas tree. Do you really feel your privacy is being respected?

The 996 partners banner is just the piss take that supposedly makes this legal.

veeti··on PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry
Like I said, you are focusing on irrelevant semantics. The single market is already dead, you just didn't realize it yet.
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