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New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "German government plans PRISM-like internet collection"

chaoskanzlerin — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:22:10 +0000

Archive link (SZ): https://archive.ph/bQ8E4 // Tagesschau link: https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr-wdr/bnd-gesetz-be... // Machine translation: https://www-tagesschau-de.translate.goog/investigativ/ndr-wd...

German government plans PRISM-like internet collection

chaoskanzlerin — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:21:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/innere-sicherheit-hacking-bnd-geheimdienst-bnd-gesetz-vorratsdatenspeicherung-li.3364665?reduced=true

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545233

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source"

chaoskanzlerin — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:10:31 +0000

There's a history of German public administrations using Linux and other open-source software. In particular, the City of Munich has pioneered this with their 2006-2019 LiMux [0] project, which was ultimately cancelled in exchange for Microsoft moving their German offices to Munich proper.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux / Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15661372

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "Helium Browser"

chaoskanzlerin — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:23:56 +0000

I'd like to caution the reader that Lunduke is a notoriously biased source, having drifted off into right-wing (and particularly anti-trans) activism in recent years.

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs"

chaoskanzlerin — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:57:09 +0000

>stellarwind

That sure is a choice of name for your project!

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "Queer in the country: Why some LGBTQ Americans prefer rural life to urban"

chaoskanzlerin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:41:05 +0000

I've had the very same experience in Bavaria, even with Munich having a reputation as "million-sized village". (otoh said problem was even worse in Berlin and the Ruhr valley, when I visited)

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "Fantasy Betting Apps are ruining rural India. It is heartbreaking."

chaoskanzlerin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:04:10 +0000

Over 180 million users in fantasy betting. Regular gambling has up to 370 million users during major tournaments. Truly harrowing numbers, considering India has about 1.1 billion adults...

Here in mainland Europe, it's hard to find a street in a city that doesn't have (fantasy) sports gambling establishments. The demographics here are mostly working-class immigrants, some unemployed people too. Pacifying the masses, I suppose.

A few articles for further reading:

https://restofworld.org/2022/fantasy-sports-apps-are-driving... https://www.dw.com/en/india-addicted-to-online-betting-and-f... https://restofworld.org/2024/philippines-gcash-online-gambli...

How Starlink took over Nigeria's internet market

chaoskanzlerin — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 12:27:08 +0000

Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2025/starlink-nigeria-internet-elon-musk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743366

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "Germany's 'Deutschlandticket' helps environment – study"

chaoskanzlerin — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 20:57:52 +0000

Might not be what you meant, but German uses the same word for "state (federal subdivision)" and "country", known as "Land". In contrast, "Staat" refers chiefly to the administrative apparatus (implicitly of some country).

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "Palma 2"

chaoskanzlerin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:32:30 +0000

Having had a regular Hibreak since last August, I would like to caution about the build quality: in those 8 months, the display adhesive is progressively getting off and I'm not sure how much longer this'll live...

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "Former Philippine president Duterte flown to the ICC, crimes against humanity"

chaoskanzlerin — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:04:29 +0000

The plane carrying him happens to be on Flightradar24: https://www.flightradar24.com/RPC5219/396fca46

Former Philippine president Duterte flown to the ICC, crimes against humanity

chaoskanzlerin — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:59:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9ykn85401o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43333776

Points: 14

# Comments: 1

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "Making an Intersection Unsafe for Pedestrians to Save Seconds for Drivers"

chaoskanzlerin — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:33:17 +0000

Austria does that: 4 seconds of the green light flashing in order to announce the yellow light.

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it"

chaoskanzlerin — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:06:31 +0000

a quick internet search reveals this refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "Apple acquires Pixelmator"

chaoskanzlerin — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 20:13:56 +0000

For what it's worth: a friend of mine has extracted the Fuji LUTs from the "official raw converter" and has been using them in darktable happily ever after ;)

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "Affinity six-month free trial"

chaoskanzlerin — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:10:31 +0000

Note that Canva has acquired Affinity's developers about 3.5 months ago. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39824191

International Reply Coupon

chaoskanzlerin — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 14:52:57 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40898118

Points: 57

# Comments: 13

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "Ask HN: Who Wants a Penpal?"

chaoskanzlerin — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:24:00 +0000

Reading these short self-descriptions makes me weirdly disappointed in my own life. You know, undergrad while living with parents while being a repressing queer while having crippling ADHD.

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "Ask HN: Zurich or Munich for long term living?"

chaoskanzlerin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:09:40 +0000

Having lived in Munich my entire life, I feel comfortable characterizing it as somewhere inbetween Zurich and Vienna. Transit is amazing in all three cities, the Alps are nearby in all three cities, although Vienna is rather "liberal" while Zurich is rather "conservative". Likewise, cost-of-living is Vienna < Munich < Zurich.

If you like weekend / multi-day hikes, I really strongly recommend checking out the Alpenvereinshütten. No such thing as camping on longer hikes when there's a (very affordable) mountain cabin with warm food on your way.

New comment by chaoskanzlerin in "Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs"

chaoskanzlerin — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:05:59 +0000

The main upside Isabelle has over other proof assistants is the existence of Sledgehammer: invoke it, and your current proof state gets handed off to a SMT solver like cvc4, veriT, z3, vampire, etc. If the SMT solver finds a solution, Isabelle then reconstructs the proof.

It's essentially a brute-force button that no other proof assistant (aside from Coq) has.