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I remember Covid and the supply chain crisis that unfolded in Europe and the west. Most of the companies you’ve mentioned weren’t cranking out anything during that time as all of them realised that "low cost electronics" are not always readily available and that we forgot how to make them or don’t have the capacity to produce them in significant numbers anymore ourselves. A lot of basic electronic components were not available during that time and we still haven’t fully grasped the complexities of our supply chains and where they begin.

I also remember, that EE for a while stopped using the term "jellybean parts". Turns out that most jellybeans are produced in Asia.

Isn’t apple actually an early investor and co-owner of ARM?

I recently used this https://makerworld.com/de/models/1765102-10-inch-mini-rack-g... to generate various mounts for my home lab mini rack. The idea is that everything needs to fit into the same width of rack, but every device is slightly different so custom creating these becomes annoying quickly. This generator was a godsend

The unkind world we live in would see this role being abused quickly and a person not lasting long in this role. For one, in the wrong team, it might lead to devs just doing 80% of the work and leaving the rest to the janitor. And the janitor might get fed up with having to fix the buggy code of their colleagues.

I wonder if the janitor role could be rotated weekly or so? Then everyone could also reap the benefits of this role too, I can imagine this being a good thing for anyone in terms of motivation. Fixing stuff triggers a different positive response than building stuff

I‘d also like a dark mode.

And: on iOS you can reduce the white point quite a bit which makes the display appear very dark indeed. You can even tie it to a shortcut which is quite handy

Oh wow, thanks for linking evolu! To bad it's typescript only... I'm looking for an e2ee sqlite sync for kotlin. Are you aware of any solutions?

Sounds like you really need to have a look at loco.rs! Given the right constraints, I’m fairly productive with CC

I‘m sorry, but you’re comparing apples to bedrooms. Israel vs. Iran is a war/conflict between two proper countries‘ militaries - which means that both belligerents stick to certain agreed upon rules and military traditions, such as trying to separate the civilian from the military world/infrastructure. In lack of another word (haven’t slept, please forgive me for the choice of word), there’s “honor“ and a notion of equality and respect (somewhat) between the foes, even if Iran has declared it wants to wipe Israel off the map.

All of this does not apply to the conflict with Hamas. With them muddling the lines, it’s extremely hard to fight a “clean“ war. You’re between a rock and a hard place - either you lose but with your head held high and your moral compass intact, or you stoop to their level thereby slowly losing your values but win in the end. If that win is worth it or not, is heavily debated in the rest of the world, but only debated in the fringes of Israeli society. But no military expert is able to suggest a real alternative of fighting Hamas without inflicting heavy losses on one’s own army.

I find the committed war crimes abhorrent and wish they’d be heavily prosecuted at least.

While I understand where you’re coming from, it’s important to mention that the German military buys googles software and hardware to self host an air gapped google cloud. I know that to some it’s a distinction without a difference, but if you want to have a modern(-ish) private cloud _now_, there’s not a lot of non-American competition out there, plus there’s the entire topic of support and consulting services. It would be great if Europe could get its head(s) out its behind and build a competitor (which is not easy, just look at how not great gcp is compared to aws) but they need a solution _now_.

And having worked together with the German government on IT projects, I’ll say that the _only_ way an OSS project would be even considered is if there’s a company backing the project that has extreme amounts of passion, patience and passibility. In the end, they need some _entity_ that is _legally responsible_ - and it’s always better if that entity is not them ;)

Haha, opening a window automatically was my initial idea, but like you I quickly converged on the latter! In addition, I just keep the bedroom door open as well, which helps a little bit too

Not the OP, but my airgradients are part of my home assistant setup. They measure the temperature and humidity, and the values are used for controlling the radiators and the humidifiers. Whenever the co2 or ppm count is too high, I flash some leds red to remind whoever is in the room to open a window - which is extremely important because a lot of people don’t have a natural reflex for getting fresh air. This is especially important when we have guests over, in our small living room, the air goes bad fast.

I was able to improve my sleep because I found out that my waking up in the night was correlated with high co2 values. Same thing with performance in my home office. It’s a small room and the reminder to open a window while I’m in the flow is just amazing.

But: my airgradient devices were anything but “rock solid“. Constant reboots, hung ESPs, I had to swap out the senseair sensors because apparently they go bad, etc.

If you want to go even a step up in the trvial to use ladder, there's the Portapack H4m project. It builds on the HackRF One and adds a screen, custom firmware (open source, extensible) into an handheld factor and lets you do a bunch of... _stuff_ without needing a computer :) Also not _that_ expensive, I got mine for about 400€ from lab401.

The fact that you can’t even specify the branch or search across branches is anything but excellent

Valid points you’re making. Let me make a counter point: as a German, I’ve seen tanks on 5/6 occasions in my life, never using their own engines. But at the same time, I’ve seen hundreds of cars every day and breathed their emissions. It’s totally fine if tanks continue using diesel, but cars, trucks etc. not using diesel (or gas) engines anymore will have a measurable effect on my health

Same here, passed on it because of scim

There are dozens of ways how browser devs could make it default, without making it default - by way of malicious compliance. Example: The first time the browser is opened, display a big fat page asking "DO YOU WANT TO BE TRACKED & SURVEILLED ON THE INTERNET??? NO (highlight in nice colour) / YES (add dark pattern here) / learn more (in tiny font)". Pretty sure most people would click "NO". Every couple of weeks it could pop up again with a similarly phrased question "ARE YOU SURE YOU STILL DON'T WANT TO BE TRACKED?" but this time with a nice UI element where the user can specify that the answer to this rhetorical question will stay the same for the next n days/months/years/decades/centuries/millenia.

Never knew they had this, signed up immediately :) Exercism is worthy of 120$ a year and worth its weight in gold. It has helped me learn Rust, Swift and Kotlin and I'll be forever greatful!

That is not the main reason. Not even close. Here’s a list of main reasons, in no particular order:

- 8 different currencies across EU member states - 24 languages - 27 sovereign countries with wildly different economic, social, foreign, military … policies - laws and regulations are only slowly harmonised across the board - deep seating historic prejudices (which lead to major wars in the past) - unfriendly and downright hostile neighbours - a smaller amount of natural resources to exploit - etc etc

I don’t consider this being a bug. The big issue is: while they get the praise, they reject or pass on the blame to the employees.

I used to work for an EDR vendor and this post glosses over two major and important things. 1. There’s no need for eBPF on windows, it has the ETW framework (event tracing) which is much more powerful and provides applications subscribing to a class of events almost too detailed insights. the issue most AV vendors have with it though is speed. Leading to … 2. eBPF lets you watch. Congrats. It’s something, but it’s not the reason why these tools are deployed. Orgs deploy these tools to prevent or stop potentially bad stuff from executing. The only place this can be done in our operating systems is usually the kernel - for that you need kernel level drivers or various other filter drivers.

Crowdstrike screwed the pooch here, yes. But after a couple of days I feel like I haven’t read enough blog posts and articles that crap on Microsoft. It’s their job to build a secure operating system, instead they deliver Windows and because they themselves cannot secure windows, they ship defender… and we use tools like falcon like a bandaid for Microsofts bad security practices

Wire. Open source, self hostable

Sometimes it’s hard for us to fight ourselves. My wife has the same issue and we found a solution that works well for her: screen time. She asked me for help and we set up limits for instagram and all the other shitty apps but here’s the important part: she doesn’t know the code to disable it. And she wanted it that way. Reduced her screen time from about 7h per day to 4h.

Inkplate used to have exactly what you're looking for. Basically took the eink screens from old kindles, combined with an esp32. I have 3 of them hanging around my house showing various graphs, dashboards, pictures or other items of interest :)

Edit: actually still available! https://soldered.com/product/soldered-inkplate-6-6-e-paper-b...

Just use Wire (wire.com). True end to end encrypted multi device messenger, open source, federated and based on MLS. All you need is an email address, no phone number required. And based in Europe. They allow building your own clients (with some stipulations) and seem to solve everyone’s issues with signal here

I'd say easily, especially outside the US. Check out Germany for example: - Bertelsmann Foundation, owns or is the majority shareholder of Bertelsmann - Robert Bosch Foundation, owns or is the majority shareholder of Bosch - Alfred Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation, owns or is the majority shareholder of Krupp - Else Kröner Fresenius Foundation, owns or is the majority shareholder of Fresenius - Zeppelin Foundation (yes, those Zeppelins...) owns or is the majority shareholder of ZF Friedrichshafen - Carl Zeiss Foundation, owns or is the majority shareholder of Carl Zeiss and Schott - Diehl Foundation, owns or is the majority shareholder of Diehl Aerospace

And a bunch more. A lot of you will never have heard of them, but all of them are multi billion dollar behemoths with thousands of subsidiaries, employees, significant research and investment arms. And they love the fact that barely anyone knows them outside Germany.

There's actually something cloudflare has built along those lines: https://blog.cloudflare.com/roughtime/

Most of them will. Some will still try to find a way around them or look for loop holes. But yes, the fact that most of them will respect them is a major win

Many women still hold on to the idea of finding a partner that is wealthier and more educated. This is due to the past (over)reliance of their partners for stability. But this is no longer true.

I'm not sure this is absolutely true - at least for Germany. Here the figures show, that women and men, ceteris paribus, earn pretty much the same (+-3%). Until... children come into the mix. The lack of child care and societies view on parental leave (for men at least) means, that generally speaking the woman stays home to take care of the child and later on moves on to a part time position thus earning less and having to rely on the partners income again.

In all of this I'm wondering: why not apply the Wikipedia model to reddit? Create a foundation that employs a couple of people, that host and develop the site. Keep the volunteer mods, but lay down some guidelines for moderation. Fund it like Wikipedia is funded, like lots of submissions on HN have shown in the past, Wikipedia is swimming in money. Not everything needs to be for profit... Decentralized funding combined with centralized non profit operation would seem like a non perfect but very workable solution to this problem

The biggest pain points I have cannot be solved by Software. They can only be solved by a culture change, which I'm convinced is never going to happen. I want decision makers in my company to listen to me when I tell them to implement something _now_ be it update windows at once, restart the server, get rid of windows XP, patch your vulnerable dependency now, implement this security control. Rarely is any of this sane advice followed because it is considered to be disruptive, expensive or blocks the delivery of "real features" (meaning security is not a feature).

Hard to fix