Hacker News: cc81

New comment by cc81 in "Russia 'intercepts Europe's key satellites'"

cc81 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:03:36 +0000

Venezuela does not have the capacity to extract that much oil and it is also quite expensive.

New comment by cc81 in "European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island's security"

cc81 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:14:47 +0000

Why would it be embarrassing for Europe? It is a symbolic/tripwire force to show that Denmark does not stand alone.

New comment by cc81 in "European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island's security"

cc81 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:11:49 +0000

That is a tripwire deployment.

If there is a need to redesign the defense of Greenland I assume that would take more time.

New comment by cc81 in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

cc81 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:37:34 +0000

You don't need to connect it to the Internet or use the built in OS for anything else than just navigate to your box. I just use my NVIDIA Shield for everything.

New comment by cc81 in "Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"

cc81 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 08:22:07 +0000

What is it that is bad about it these days?

New comment by cc81 in "Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"

cc81 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 08:19:33 +0000

When it was introduced Teams was pretty bad but these days it works just fine. I don't see that it being a decider really more than just historical preference.

New comment by cc81 in "Pixnapping Attack"

cc81 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:00:29 +0000

Maybe Linus has a point

>"It looks like the IT security world has hit a new low," Torvalds begins. "If you work in security, and think you have some morals, I think you might want to add the tag-line: "No, really, I'm not a whore. Pinky promise" to your business card. Because I thought the whole industry was corrupt before, but it's getting ridiculous," he continues. "At what point will security people admit they have an attention-whoring problem?"

https://www.techpowerup.com/242340/linus-torvalds-slams-secu...

New comment by cc81 in "How Europe crushes innovation"

cc81 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:35:17 +0000

Sweden is relatively good at creating innovative companies but is pretty friendly towards small companies especially.

Europe does lag behind though for many different reasons. One big is that the single market of EU is on paper large but in practice it is a lot of different countries with very different cultures and languages.

New comment by cc81 in "Gemini figured out my nephew’s name"

cc81 — Fri, 23 May 2025 07:33:14 +0000

Could absolutely be that. Or it is so smart that it realizes that the author believes they have given enough information and that it should not have to land on a low chance guess. So that pattern is the only one that make sense in that case.

Maybe unlikely that is that smart though

New comment by cc81 in "Gemini figured out my nephew’s name"

cc81 — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:59:37 +0000

I think that is the accomplishment. It progressed from not being able to give an answer because it did not have the direct knowledge to being able to make a guess based on a pattern of naming of others in the family and a clue.

New comment by cc81 in "Fungus breaks down ocean plastic"

cc81 — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:14:51 +0000

Plastic straws come because the replacements tend to be bad (even if I assume they have gotten better over time).

New comment by cc81 in "Microsoft's Nadella is building an AI empire"

cc81 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 07:32:39 +0000

The sales pitch Microsoft has with Office (including Teams and SharePoint), EntraID (formerly Azure AD) and Azure is pretty strong for companies.

New comment by cc81 in "Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'"

cc81 — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:24:41 +0000

Europe was happily buying more and more gas from Russia and wanted to increase trading until the directional change from Putin.

New comment by cc81 in "Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners"

cc81 — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:37:41 +0000

It is the worlds most powerful economy and not military that has its benefits. The US can dictate global rules because the cost of being shut out of the US economy is too large and not because the US would invade Switzerland if they don't play ball.

New comment by cc81 in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

cc81 — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 13:56:47 +0000

I support them in their fight against how you guys pronounce certain things compared to how it is spelled. I'm not from the US though but Worcestershire sauce....come on.

New comment by cc81 in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

cc81 — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 13:47:45 +0000

That is the US only though

New comment by cc81 in "Netflix prepares to send its final red envelope"

cc81 — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:19:34 +0000

Yeah, and it can be still be profitable right now but have continuously falling margins that they don't see that they can reverse.

New comment by cc81 in "Japan has changed in important and visible ways"

cc81 — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:50:15 +0000

As you age and require more and more services from the state of those countries do you think that country should provide you with an interpreter? You might encounter government employees, healthcare professionals or elderly care that does not speak English.

New comment by cc81 in "NYSE Tuesday opening mayhem traced to a staffer who left a backup system running"

cc81 — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:11:55 +0000

They only take responsibility for the profit margins. Over hiring affects those but often not significant enough and can be corrected with layoffs.

New comment by cc81 in "The Casio employee behind the “Sleng Teng” riddim that revolutionized reggae"

cc81 — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 11:41:56 +0000

I agree but it is also worth how/if the majority reacts to those kind of fringe ideas.