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Netzbremse – Deutsche Telekom is throttling the Internet

CrLf — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:49:26 +0000

Article URL: https://netzbremse.de/en/speed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899006

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Cloudflare Radar: Certificate Transparency

CrLf — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:34:58 +0000

Article URL: https://radar.cloudflare.com/certificate-transparency

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44815851

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by CrLf in "What's Happening to Students?"

CrLf — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 09:33:28 +0000

Nothing to worry about. They don't need to learn anything anyway. Anything they would do in the future will be done by agentic AI, and generative AI will produce all the content they could possibly consume. They will be free to spend all day on their phones.

New comment by CrLf in "38th Chaos Communication Congress"

CrLf — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 12:19:50 +0000

You may want to look into the ideologies of European political parties that have "socialist" in their names, instead of relying on definitions from the Soviet revolution.

Socialism in Europe is social democracy. The only difference between "socialist" and "social democratic" parties in Europe is how fractionally close to the right or left side of the center line they are.

New comment by CrLf in "38th Chaos Communication Congress"

CrLf — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 11:22:21 +0000

Perhaps it's important to point out that socialism != communism.

I think this is something the US really doesn't understand about Europe.

Socialism is about putting people first and making sure no one is left behind by society, which is the opposite of communism (and capitalism).

In fact, US capitalism is much closer to communism regarding societal outcomes (social injustice, power concentration) than European socialism. It is very much possible to be anti-capitalist and anti-communist at the same time .

New comment by CrLf in "Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?"

CrLf — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 09:29:00 +0000

Maybe submitting PRs with code that wasn't even run is the problem, not IDE features?

New comment by CrLf in "Battlestar Galactica: Technical Manual (2005)"

CrLf — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 14:17:57 +0000

I was enjoying The Expanse until the Marco Inaros arc started. From that point onwards the show felt rushed, mostly repeating the formula of so many other shows, and sidestepped all the alien bits that could have been interesting.

I much preferred BSG, even though it had plenty of boring "west wing in space" episodes.

New comment by CrLf in "Battlestar Galactica: Technical Manual (2005)"

CrLf — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 14:11:57 +0000

Because in Europe religion is either less prevalent (in some countries) or something people don't usually talk about (other countries).

Being overt about religion is uncommon, and most religious people are non-practicing.

New comment by CrLf in "The Insecurity of Debian"

CrLf — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:06:26 +0000

It's true that there is a lack of simplified documentation. But that lack is also the result of the folks that would otherwise contribute to such documentation not even giving SELinux a chance.

Many years ago I decided to face the Bogeyman and went from knowing very little about SELinux to writing a policy from scratch in about a month. The policy is simple enough (but realistic) that it might help in the absence of a guide:

https://github.com/carlosefr/kyoto/tree/master/selinux

I used it as an example in a couple of talks, whose slides might also provide additional context:

https://github.com/carlosefr/public-talks/blob/master/presen...

New comment by CrLf in "The Insecurity of Debian"

CrLf — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:30:50 +0000

SELinux suffers from a reputation problem. It gained that reputation early on, while default policies were still very immature and overly restrictive.

One crucial change for the better was leaving third-party software in a permissive state. From that point onwards, disabling SELinux is cargo-cult sysadmin'ing.

SELinux is not hard if you understand its basic principles. But no one bothers, because SELinux is the bogeyman.

Yes, writing policies means getting knee-deep in macros, and it's hard because many services try to access anything and everything. But almost no one needs to write a policy.

At most you need to tell SELinux that some non-default directory should have some label. That's not hard.

CalcGPT

CrLf — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 11:08:51 +0000

Article URL: https://calcgpt.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41092460

Points: 164

# Comments: 49

New comment by CrLf in "Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight"

CrLf — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:26:10 +0000

I think you fail to understand the concept of sovereignty.

New comment by CrLf in "The Internet in Greece"

CrLf — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 08:06:38 +0000

It's a shameless plug, but on topic, so I'll go for it... :)

Cloudflare Radar has a section on Internet quality that can show graphs per country and also at the ASN level. Here's what it shows for Greece:

https://radar.cloudflare.com/quality/gr

New comment by CrLf in "POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)"

CrLf — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:33:39 +0000

My personal record was 50 hours for a single 640x480 scene on my Pentium 100 MHz. Memories...

New comment by CrLf in "APNIC: Big Tech’s use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation"

CrLf — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:06:08 +0000

The issue with looking at IPv6 adoption from that point of view is that it only shows half of the picture. It shows the percentage of IPv6-enabled clients, which has been growing steadily.

On the other side there are still major services that are IPv4-only, and growth is not uniform.

This means the combined situation is not as cheerful. It's hard to arrive at definitive conclusions, but IPv6 traffic(1) may be as low as 15% when considering this mismatch.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ipv6-from-dns-pov/

Without stronger incentives, IPv6 may be an eternal runner up. At least it looks like it will take quite a few decades more to make IPv4 obsolete.

(1) By connections or requests. By bytes transferred, IPv6 might have already overtaken IPv4 for all we know (I'm not aware of a broad enough study on this, so I'm open to this possibility). The largest streaming providers are IPv6 enabled.

New comment by CrLf in "AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License"

CrLf — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:02:12 +0000

Art is primarily a means for one human to convey emotions to another human, but for something to be art, the artist must also have invested some skill/effort into the artwork(1).

AI-generated art may have a bit of the former (assuming the human had enough control over the details of the final output), but has practically none of the latter.

Hence, AI-generated output is not art. But art can be produced using AI tools somewhere in the process.

(1) When I look at art produced by one of those "artists" that commission the actual work to someone else, it's similar (I don't recognize the "artist" as the human I'm connecting to, ideas are a dime a dozen). However, it's still art because I can connect with the anonymous human which actually implemented it.

New comment by CrLf in "AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License"

CrLf — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:17:13 +0000

That's a poignant question, but with an easy answer: If I didn't know, I'd probably enjoy it up to its imperfections. But I'd feel defrauded once I discovered.

Like so many people felt defrauded when they discovered that the Milli Vanilli leads didn't actually sing, and that wasn't even AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli

Edit: I might add that I already suspect any illustration that even superficially looks it might have been generated by AI. This has ruined the enjoyment of so many people's artwork whose style has been co-opted by AI.

New comment by CrLf in "AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License"

CrLf — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:18:26 +0000

If this was an actual person performing, I would have smiled all the way to the end. Since this is AI-generated, I feel no emotion towards this, and just listened for a few seconds. It's technically interesting.

New comment by CrLf in "Spinner-mouse: Arduino-based USB rotary controller for Arkanoid, Tempest, etc."

CrLf — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 09:22:11 +0000

And Arkanoid had 486, which made me fear this project wouldn't have enough resolution for decent gameplay, yet it works perfectly (for my standards, at least).

I'm not sure why Arkanoid's spinner had so many steps. It can be to allow for pixel-by-pixel movement on its 336 pixel horizontal resolution, but it can also be because the way they were polling the encoder might miss some quadrature steps and they needed the extra resolution to ensure smooth control. Perhaps a combination of the two.

New comment by CrLf in "Spinner-mouse: Arduino-based USB rotary controller for Arkanoid, Tempest, etc."

CrLf — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 09:10:59 +0000

I built one of those many years ago as well. :)

  * https://github.com/carlosefr/DisKnobUI
  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvpPVjJnbao

It thought about using that (the spindle motor from a hard-disk) for this project. The issue is that it's not very precise at very low speeds. It sort of works, but it falls out of sequence too often.