Hacker News: awiesenhofer

Adata Premier Extreme SD 8.0 Express card delivers up to 1600MB/s read speed

awiesenhofer — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 22:04:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/22/512gb-adata-premier-extreme-sd-8-0-express-memory-card-delivers-up-to-1600mb-s-read-speed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766746

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by awiesenhofer in "Europe's GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within 'weeks'"

awiesenhofer — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:41:45 +0000

> I'm not nefariously collecting their social security number.

In which case, the GDPR doesnt even apply to you! Only if you collect/store PII the GDPR starts to apply!

> Thanks to the GDPR I cannot do this without the stupid cookie warning popup.

Again, the GDPR has nothing in it about cookie banners.

> the GDPR is clumsy lawmaking

It isnt, people are just complaining about it without ever actually reading it or doing much research.

New comment by awiesenhofer in "Europe's GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within 'weeks'"

awiesenhofer — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:33:09 +0000

No need for any "big conspiracy" when nobody is reading the actual law and instead everyone just copies everyone else.

New comment by awiesenhofer in "Europe's GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within 'weeks'"

awiesenhofer — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:27:24 +0000

No, you dont! Only if you use third party services to do that or collect data thats not essential to your business. Its just coloquially called a "Cookie Banner", but the laws DONT require you to put up one as soon as you set one cookie!

New comment by awiesenhofer in "Europe's GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within 'weeks'"

awiesenhofer — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:18:10 +0000

> do away with the worthless cookie banners requirement

They wont, since they were never "required" nor are they part of the GDPR

> cut some generous but reasonable slack to small organizations

They will, thats the whole reason they are changing it!

New comment by awiesenhofer in "Charging electric vehicles 5x faster in subfreezing temps"

awiesenhofer — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:19:47 +0000

How often are you charging your phone in sub-freezing temperatures?

New comment by awiesenhofer in "Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC"

awiesenhofer — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 23:42:34 +0000

> low-price alternative to mac mini

This starts at 1099$ per the article, so the mac mini is the low-price alternative here.

New comment by awiesenhofer in "Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows"

awiesenhofer — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:10:50 +0000

Sorry, but a Chrome developer complaining about 1.4MB being too "massive" is just the funniest thing ever! xD

New comment by awiesenhofer in "Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries"

awiesenhofer — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:08:40 +0000

They didn't self censor, they had to change the name because most tourists behaved like assholes. Stealing the road signs, parking anywhere, walking into peoples gardens, etc.

Also the road safety sign, while a funny combination, is pretty standard and can be found all over Austria.

New comment by awiesenhofer in "Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?"

awiesenhofer — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:14:09 +0000

> The gov't hasn't allocated enough for maintenance for several decades, and we're paying the price now.

Ah yes, the german approach.

New comment by awiesenhofer in "Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that"

awiesenhofer — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:44:37 +0000

> and that other Charleton Heston movie with zombies that I can’t remember

The Omega Man probably. The first adaptation of Mathesons "I am Legend". Though some people might disagree about the "Zombie" part.

38C3: Back to ISDN

awiesenhofer — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:19:31 +0000

Article URL: https://events.ccc.de/en/2024/12/22/38c3-poc-isdn-version/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42530525

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Meta's new Quest update has faster hand tracking and at-a-glance PC connections

awiesenhofer — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:04:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/9/24317237/meta-quest-v72-update-pc-pairing-hand-tracking-keyboard-look

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42399195

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by awiesenhofer in "Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance"

awiesenhofer — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 23:22:36 +0000

> This keeps being postponed.

> there’s no “this phone is a PC“ offering that is really viable.

> I wish there were serious efforts.

You should really google "Samsung Dex".

New comment by awiesenhofer in "65% of Employees Bypass Cybersecurity Measures, New Study Finds"

awiesenhofer — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 08:05:32 +0000

> The best middle ground is some kind of solution that allows the security team to "manage" personal devices in some way.

Oh that is the "best" "middle" ground, is it? Are you sure?

Why should anyone bring their personal device just because the company is to cheap to buy a few phones and then have them basically owned by their IT anyways? Do you realize how crazy that is?

You might want to think about that one again.

Every SMB can afford a few cheap phones for its employees, MFA apps dont need flagship hardware. If a company can't, maybe it shouldn't be in business anyway.