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New comment by Matumio in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

Matumio — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:29:52 +0000

If it can go online, I'd prefer to use an android work (or user) profile with only auth apps in it, and nothing else.

As a separate device, it should be offline always IMO, and perhaps the size of a passkey. Or one of those banking devices with a display that show an authenticated text saying what you are confirming.

New comment by Matumio in "iNaturalist"

Matumio — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:47:08 +0000

I don't know if it will work, but Pl@ntNet Identify (which I use often) seems to have an API: https://docs.plantnet.org/en/reference/api-plantnet/

New comment by Matumio in "Cursor 3"

Matumio — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:32:49 +0000

Saying how many lines of code you can write this way is also a bit like bragging that you are building world's heaviest airplane.

New comment by Matumio in "15 Years of Forking"

Matumio — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:24:56 +0000

Say you have an ad-blocker and you don't allow it to touch your forms. Five years later, the ads have moved all into form fields.

Never mind the technical challenge to allow doing anything with the DOM but disallow reading the forms. Like, prevent the forms leaking its text when you do funny things like testing character width via line breaking or font changes.

New comment by Matumio in "Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage"

Matumio — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:25:20 +0000

AGENT SMITH: And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is DRAM if you are unable to boot?

The question unnerves Neo and suddenly he feels his phone vibrate as it unexpectedly reboots. The standing Agents snicker.

New comment by Matumio in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

Matumio — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:37:48 +0000

In Switzerland, on some trains there are trilingual announcements: German, Italian, French.

New comment by Matumio in "The peaceful transfer of power in open source projects"

Matumio — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:59:09 +0000

Disagree, Linux is too big to fail. Too many people depend on it. It may get chaotic, but worst-case distributions will start collecting patches, as they already do for many unmaintained projects. Eventually one or two of them will emerge as the new upstream.

New comment by Matumio in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

Matumio — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:51:37 +0000

Remember the venomous, desperate BEEP! when the keystroke buffer was full. (Or was it when pressing too many keys at once?) Like a tortured waveform generator constantly interrupted by some higher-priority IRQ. Good times.

New comment by Matumio in "Why Self-Host?"

Matumio — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:09:48 +0000

I've had password login enabled for decades on my home server, not even fail2ban. But I do have an "AllowUsers" list with three non-cryptic user names. (None of them are my domain name, but nice try.)

Last month I had 250k failed password attempts. If I had a "weak" password of 6 random letters (I don't), and all 250k had guessed a valid username (only 23 managed that), that would give... uh, one expected success every 70 years?

That sounds risky actually. So don't expose a "root" user with a 6-letter password. Add two more letters and it is 40k years. Or use a strong password and forget about those random attempts.

New comment by Matumio in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

Matumio — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:08:08 +0000

I once had weird results with searching specifically in the Switzerland region, it didn't find an obviously Swiss site. IIRC it was solved it by switching back to international search. I'm using Kagi exclusively, and I don't remember having such trouble recently. Maybe they fixed it.

I just did a quick test: local search for a specific law term. Kagi, Google and DDG all found the roughly same relevant sites in the top five. Each has a different top result. Google's and DDG's are a private law company. Kagi's first is an official government site. (With a suspicious non-government domain, so I had to check, but yes it's prominently linked from the main government site.)

New comment by Matumio in "Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of 'Game of Life'"

Matumio — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:54:02 +0000

You may also like this how this mostly hand-designed CA rule can produce plausible mutations when disturbed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwJNeq-WABU ("From One Cell to a Multicellular Organism", Part 2, 25min, Simulife Hub)

New comment by Matumio in "AI is different"

Matumio — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:20:17 +0000

Those displaced workers need an income first, job second. What they were producing is still getting done. This means we have gained freedom to choose what else is worth doing. The immediate problem is the lack of income. There is no lack of useful work to do, it's just that most of it doesn't pay well.

New comment by Matumio in "I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me"

Matumio — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:18:59 +0000

Uh, a company not paying money for something they can legally use for free? There are so many MIT-licensed software libraries that everyone is using in a critical place, for profit, with zero money flowing back into the ecosystem that created them. It should surprise nobody, it has been like this for over a decade now.

New comment by Matumio in "AI Market Clarity"

Matumio — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:45:45 +0000

I don't think pointing out something that goes wrong under the current flavour of capitalism is the same as being against capitalism. Similarly, reporting a bad police officer doesn't really mean I'm against having a police, it can also mean that I want them to do a better job.

New comment by Matumio in "The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality"

Matumio — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:37:47 +0000

That, and the cognitive load. You need to buy the right amount, remember where you stored the $5 replacements, or else spend $100 worth of your time to figure out where you ordered from five years ago. And if they are no longer available you need time to figure out which of the replacements isn't total crap.

Brine Rejection

Matumio — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:15:26 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brine_rejection

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463479

Points: 5

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New comment by Matumio in "Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean"

Matumio — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:12:15 +0000

Only one way to find out... float some ice cubes in a glass of water and observe.

(Edit: I'm back to report the results. There was either no change in the water level, or a change below my measurement tolerance ;)

(Edit2: Here is a more serious take of that experiment: https://skepticalscience.com/Sea-level-rise-due-to-floating-...)

New comment by Matumio in "Interstellar Flight: Perspectives and Patience"

Matumio — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:45:12 +0000

Given those time frames, maybe don't send primates. Send a computer babysitting a diverse zoo of bacteria and algae, with a variety of landing devices and instructions in what order to deploy them under which circumstances.

Same problem: the best-case outcome is that we never hear anything interesting from that rocket ever again. But it should be a lot cheaper.

New comment by Matumio in "Random Walk: A Modern Introduction (2010) [pdf]"

Matumio — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:48:30 +0000

If you prefer short video lectures, Complexity Explorer also has a Random Walks tutorial: https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/46-random-walks

It's a bit more visual, but still gets quite math-y enough for my taste.

New comment by Matumio in "Precision Clock Mk IV"

Matumio — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:10:33 +0000

NTP will typically have about 10ms error which would be visible on this display. So for more authentic giggles PTP is recommended. With compatible switches to compensate for queuing delays and cable length. And if your provider doesn't give you a good time, put your own GPS-backed network clock on the roof. For science.