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waihtis··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
"russia controlling the us" is such a 2015 narrative, you ought to update your positioning..
waihtis··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Putin said it himself, there are over 2 million russians in Israel - they will not participate
waihtis··on European Tech Alternatives
Peak EU mindset thinking all we need is a nifty little map application to find alternatives.

Meanwhile, tech companies are continuing to bail into the US the moment they reach significant revenue due to crushing tax and labour costs (see e.g. Oura announcing their departure from Finland yesterday)

Unfortunately the EU and many local governments have chosen to double down on crippling socialism (presumedly to "own Trump") so this continue at an accelerating pace.

waihtis··on Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
Ivanti may be a US company but the webshells very likely aren’t.

Anyway, the image is just the end result of plugging the title into nano banana. You ought to address your complaints to Google :)

waihtis··on Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
Well, next week there will be a similar vulnerability Fortinet and everyone will momentarily forget about Ivanti again :-)
waihtis··on CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider
So complain to your government about their spending. Probably at least 30% of government spend is used on completely worthless or fraudulent things.

It's good that someone is funding this stuff.

waihtis··on I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
MSFT is absolutely screwed, they have ruined every single product they have (OS, Azure, M365) through a combination of hiring subpar cheap devs and AI code slop, and their big strategic money squeeze bet on AI is about to be severely undercut by the market. There is very little of actual value left in the company, they're only held in place by the OS monopoly.

Whatever nostalgic love there has been for the company from the olden days has completely evaporated by now. It will take a decade for the OS competitor to emerge but once that happens, MSFT will hopefully die in the fiery blaze of death it completely deserves at this point.

This opinion comes fresh off of having to had to engage with their partner center "experience", where basic UI functions are broken beyond repair and simple form submissions have to go through three layers of subcontracted customer "support" which is best described as a broken telephone where you have to explain the problem repeatedly to an endless stack of support staff.

Not to mention Windows 11 BSODing every week and failing to make basic functions like bluetooth work on it.

This may seem dramatic but its an 100% true and accurate representation of how everything works with them these days.

waihtis··on Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation
I'm willing to bet both metal and combat sports share some same primitive release mechanism that helps curb bad emotions.
waihtis··on Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';
One would think the finger pointing should go towards the shitty governments causing trouble and pain for their own citizens, but somehow you've managed to find an angle to blame the West.

It is truly an unthankful job being the saviour of the entire world.

waihtis··on FFmpeg 8.0
Hahah

I rarely take enjoyment from online battles but that one was a very pleasing putdown

waihtis··on FFmpeg 8.0
T3.gg in shambles
waihtis··on Show HN: Strix - Open-source AI hackers for your apps
yeah i think XBOW is fairly transparent about it, doesn't stop the online influencers from claiming "an AI is now the #1 hacker on Hackerone"
waihtis··on Show HN: Strix - Open-source AI hackers for your apps
The joke is that Xbow only works because they have close to 100 employees operating the software
waihtis··on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
You really think Microsoft has been ”cool” for the past decade or so?

First the rampant spyware, then they gradually wreck every single piece of software into unusable buggy AI-slop-mess just to play the trashy MBA valuation games.

I still hold nostalgic value for the old OSes (say up to XP/7) but everything after has been nothing but maximal profit extraction.

Dont get me started on Azure

waihtis··on Interview with the Creator of Deluxe Ski Jump
So many fond memories of these games in my childhood, afterwards it's been interesting to see how widespread their adoption was outside of Finland. Some other notable games like Mine Bombers, Liero etc. come to mind. As a kid you always thought they were just a local phenomenom.
waihtis··on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Meanwhile author makes zero comment on UK encryption nonsense, or the mad EU drive towards absolute information control.

Its just another case of rocket + orange man bad

waihtis··on List of 200 UK companies that moved to 4-day working week
Gee, are you saying wages are somehow tied to output? Why didn't anyone think of this before suggesting a 4 day workweek?
waihtis··on I do not want AI to "polish" me
The obsessive need for AI developers to make everything into the most banal, inoffensive version of said thing will probably end up being the biggest roadblock for AI taking over human jobs.
waihtis··on Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds
You should avoid NY at all costs
waihtis··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
They have both occured and not occured every year for the past 10 years
waihtis··on The Phones of the New NATO Secretary General
Cisco gear, including this specific IP phone model, is riddled with high severity vulns frequently. If they wanted, the main nation state actors could pretty fluidly infiltrate the NATO IT infrastructure if they deemed it useful (which they probably would.)
waihtis··on Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
a bunch of frontend developers are about to tell you you're wrong and Musk is actually an idiot
waihtis··on Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
> This is the salient point

No it's not lol. you just decided to ignore the criteria for membership and invent your own, like a phD being requisite (it is not.)

Also, to call Musk a "businessman" is reductive as hell. I know a lot of people have pressure to hate him because of political reasons, but be real for once.

waihtis··on Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
Membership to the royal society is judged via candidates having made 'a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science'.
waihtis··on Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
It's a valid viewpoint, however membership to the royal society is judged via candidates having made 'a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science'. I would argue Elon is fully within scope, outside of the fact that I think Elon is not the slightest fit to the general ethos of that specific organization.
waihtis··on How Japanese black companies oppress workers (2014)
I'm not following the least bit. I said it's more accurate to say Abe was assassinated than simply "was shooted at", you say no and then proceed to use three sources which promptly talk about how Abe was assassinated. I presume we are talking of different things at this point.
waihtis··on How Japanese black companies oppress workers (2014)
This may be the most absurd thing ive read on HN. To be clear, are you really suggesting someone breaking gun laws was more significant than the murder of the head of state?
waihtis··on Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted
Btw last time they damaged the finnish cables it was a chinese merchant vessel. Not just russians doing sabotage at the baltic sea
waihtis··on How Japanese black companies oppress workers (2014)
Shot is much more inaccurate of a description than assassinated, unless you want to ignore/downplay a sitting political leader getting murdered for political purposes.
waihtis··on How Japanese black companies oppress workers (2014)
Shot is much more inaccurate of a description than assassinated, unless you want to ignore/downplay a sitting political leader getting murdered for political purposes.
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