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New comment by adsche in "Arpchat – Text your friends on the same network using just ARP"

adsche — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:06:45 +0000

If you use SELinux, you might want to check /var/log/audit/audit.log

New comment by adsche in "0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years"

adsche — Sat, 27 May 2023 03:31:01 +0000

Is the "M1" build not native? It shows up as "Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64" for me and is fast.

https://play0ad.com/download/mac/

Mitzi the Cat (2021)

adsche — Thu, 18 May 2023 13:53:48 +0000

Article URL: https://plasmabeamgames.wordpress.com/2021/10/08/mitzi-the-cat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35987949

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Apple asks suppliers in Taiwan to label products as made in China

adsche — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 18:41:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/07/apple-asks-suppliers-in-taiwan-to-label-products-as-made-in-china-report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32378650

Points: 12

# Comments: 1

New comment by adsche in "Will the next German parliament have a gigantic size? A law and coding challenge"

adsche — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:52:35 +0000

> the relative majority with fptp is always with the CSU.

I feel like this is part of the reason. CDU/CSU currently seem to profit most from this system and they have been governing for 16 years. Before that, SPD got the most direct mandates and was governing.

Even if the governing parties wanted a change, it would probably be hard to convince their MPs to vote for a law that would endanger their own re-election.

New comment by adsche in "Will the next German parliament have a gigantic size? A law and coding challenge"

adsche — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:44:50 +0000

I don't know either, therefore I considered it a pretty tangential point. It feels like the choice is a bit more diverse here because there are six(+1*) parties all but guaranteed to enter parliament, so you wouldn't waste a vote if you voted for any of them.

*) seven actually, one party (CSU) only standing in Bavaria instead of the conservative party CDU.

New comment by adsche in "Will the next German parliament have a gigantic size? A law and coding challenge"

adsche — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:41:37 +0000

They were defined by law. They are supposed to have roughly equal populations and must be re-assigned if the difference in population exceeds 25% (I don't know what that means in practice, e.g., what the reference is.)

Here's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bundestag_constituenci...

New comment by adsche in "Will the next German parliament have a gigantic size? A law and coding challenge"

adsche — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:31:27 +0000

Tangential point but Germany's parliament has a 5% public vote threshold for parties to enter parliament (some exceptions apply).

According to current polls, that means between of 6%-9% of votes (for minor parties) will end up without parliamentary representation (5% at the last federal election).

NB: The number of not represented people is of course much higher, even discounting non-voters and underage citizens, since most(all?) foreign residents don't have the right to vote in federal elections.

New comment by adsche in "Will the next German parliament have a gigantic size? A law and coding challenge"

adsche — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:25:19 +0000

Actually, I should add that even in the unlikely extreme scenario, the upper bound would be the number of candidates on the parties' lists (Landeslisten). Even if a party would have a right to more seats, they cannot fill more than they have approved candidates on their lists. One could determine this actual upper bound by looking at each state's lists, which are public of course, but I haven't quickly found them compiled in one place, so I won't bother.

(Berlin's pirate party once won a surprisingly high share in the state parliament but wasn't able to fill all seats, because they were polling way lower when compiling their list.)

New comment by adsche in "Will the next German parliament have a gigantic size? A law and coding challenge"

adsche — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:43:28 +0000

Hm, as I understand it, if one party won all 299 direct mandates at 0% 2nd vote share, the other parties' seats would have to be increased until 299 == 0%. Depending on how you round, that would be at least 30,000 seats (there's some tolerance allowed that I did not consider here but that's the ballpark for that unlikely scenario).

The linked site lists a (more realistic) scenario already, where the number of seats comes out to more than 900. How did you end up at your 897 seat upper bound?

New comment by adsche in "60x speed-up of Linux “perf”"

adsche — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 15:56:02 +0000

Curious, what license(s) prevented you from using a library?

Or maybe rather, what does "use" mean here?

New comment by adsche in "Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address"

adsche — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 07:03:50 +0000

Is that so? I thought, if one violates the TOS, the other side may terminate the service. I did not know they then had the automatic right to then log data suitable for tracking and identification.

New comment by adsche in "Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel"

adsche — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 10:16:26 +0000

> Because nearly everyone in Germany is in some sort of union.

This is not true. DGB (comprising most unions and all major ones) reported less than 6M members last year [1] out of ~45M working population total or ~34M of dependently employed people [2].

A lot of people might end up benefiting from a union due to them often negotiating contracts for whole occupational groups, but they are not members.

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/5837/umfrage/...

[2] https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Arbeit/Arbeitsmarkt/Erwerb...

New comment by adsche in "The Unsolved Mystery of the D-Day Puzzles"

adsche — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:41:08 +0000

Juno (as the name of a Roman goddess) is a common crossword answer, as also noted in the article.

New comment by adsche in "Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?"

adsche — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:56:09 +0000

It still shows up for me, still with the wrong person's photo. I have reported it as well.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=andrea+vassell

New comment by adsche in "Berlin, a divided city. The events of 60 years ago"

adsche — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 16:31:31 +0000

Is the real estate market (esp. for renting out) actually dominated by private investors and their savings? Here in German cities, it feels like it's dominated by faceless investors and corporations but I have no data to back that up.

New comment by adsche in "Crossing an entire country in a straight line"

adsche — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:48:54 +0000

Data point: I don't get that on FF 90.0.1 (macOS).

New comment by adsche in "Google parts with Cloud VP over his manifesto renouncing his antisemitism"

adsche — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 10:21:04 +0000

No, and it never was. The term 'anti-semitic' always meant prejudiced against jews. This is not changed by the different meaning of 'semitic' in e.g. 'semitic languages'.

New comment by adsche in "Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status"

adsche — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 18:17:58 +0000

Hm, but they also offer a DNS without the malware filter. Does that imply that they would not have to block "pirate" sites on the unfiltered resolver?

New comment by adsche in "Google Keeps Stopping"

adsche — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:41:37 +0000

Not affected since that app was the first to go from my phone but:

uninstalling updates from Android System WebView seems to be bad advice - that'll likely reintroduce some security issues in the browser widget that most apps use.