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New comment by clcaev in "Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million"

clcaev — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:35:45 +0000

This is interesting — it put immigration limits directly up for a popular vote.

For those voting to strictly limit citizenship, I wonder if they are supporting: a permanent underclass without full rights? or that basic needs to be more expensive? or that widespread automation will soon meet basic labor needs?

addendum: thank you kgwgk

New comment by clcaev in "Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024)"

clcaev — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:30:17 +0000

By failing to provide adequate treatment early in a disease course, further exacerbations and comorbidities can appear, and these can become their own chronic conditions requiring further ongoing treatment.

New comment by clcaev in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

clcaev — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:54:46 +0000

Perhaps more people are using AI as part of an editorial process that is largely driven by what they wish to convey but where they have stopped fighting the AI on its preferred style. It’s supremely annoying when AI updates your prose with its own formulation despite plenty of instructions otherwise. Too often AIs mangle meaning which can be especially worrisome as it’s not easy to catch subtle word/grammar changes that dramatically shift meaning. Overall though, defects aside, for me, and only very recently, it’s been more helpful than not. I think AIs will continue to improve in this regard and be better editorial partners. For competent writings, it won’t replace human authorship or expert review.

Specifically, I’ve recently used ChatGPT for legal/administrative writing where the AI seems to be trained on a large corpus and seems to know the conventions and vocabulary well; a lawyer who reviewed the work had important corrections. Before AI, I would have sought model filings and have had less success at emulating the genre. So it’s lowered time/cost somewhat but it takes lots of diligence. By default, current AI outputs seems intelligible but are still really far off the mark. I’ve found a structured interview is a good way to start rather than jumping into draft generation.

New comment by clcaev in "AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice"

clcaev — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:15:35 +0000

Attribution requirements in a free software setting should be viewed as a symmetric property: however you treat incorporated contributions should be a guide (upper bound) for how your own attribution is handled. Symmetry among contributors is a founding principle of Debian licensing requirements, and with respect to legal notices, also seen in the Apache 2.0 (via NOTICE clause) license.

The Free Software Foundation sometimes went further than the Apache Foundation with their About dialog or textual notices for end users, so they would learn about their affirmative rights. The purpose of this "prominent but reasonable" preservation requirement is to retain this end user advocacy. Specifically, the GPL copyright contains a prologue which the FSF wished to broadly distribute. This badgeware stuff is a decade old abuse of this end user advocacy strategy.

An otherwise permissive license with a prominent but symmetric end user notification might be a helpful addition to OSI license options, but care is needed so it is compatible with GPLv3, reasonable to textual or embedded environments, and precludes stupid badgeware nonsense. Standard approaches and bill of materials could improve the state of the art.

New comment by clcaev in "Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system"

clcaev — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:27:36 +0000

How does this compare to fossil (https://www.fossil-scm.org/)? Integrated tickets and forum seems important.

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper journalism

clcaev — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:56:53 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/news-industry-buyouts-ap-newspapers-dd790effc6a385514b3323560161ea4f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663533

Points: 5

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New comment by clcaev in "The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't"

clcaev — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:59:06 +0000

This factoring of a market to enable competition by centralizing minimal infrastructure seems the bedrock of best governmental practice. Are there other examples to lean on? How do we turn this into common knowledge?

New comment by clcaev in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

clcaev — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:19:30 +0000

Why do these open source foundations (like Mozilla) have direct products anyway? Why not a certification? Who should the users be and why? Who are the collaborators and competitors? These are hard questions.

At least with free software licenses we can separate the copyrights from the trademarks, and exercise the right to fork if a trademark owner is captured and misbehaves.

New comment by clcaev in "Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND"

clcaev — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:10:49 +0000

For IL residents the policy requires collection and retention of your biomarkers. Presumably there is a law enforcement exclusion implicitly or explicitly, eg search via administrative warrant.

New comment by clcaev in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

clcaev — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:53:08 +0000

There is still much to be worked out, but some smart people are working on it. See also https://e2c.how/

New comment by clcaev in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

clcaev — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:13:51 +0000

I liked that you picked a service that has a relatively low barrier to entry. The real asset are local operators and referrals. Making them more efficient without being controlled by a big company would be a boon for everyone involved.

Consider being a platform coop with regional operators as members. See https://platform.coop/

New comment by clcaev in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

clcaev — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:09:49 +0000

The software for businesses like this is tightly intertwined with operations. Hence, it's less of a SaaS and could be more like a franchise model.

New comment by clcaev in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

clcaev — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:19:22 +0000

It'd be great if open firmware could be commercially viable. Finding a business model is hard.

The OpenWRT One [1] sponsored by the Software Conservancy [2] and manufactured by Banana Pi [3] works lovely.

[1] https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one

[2] https://sfconservancy.org/activities/openwrt-one.html

[3] https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/OpenWRT-One/BananaPi_OpenWRT-O...

New comment by clcaev in "America tells private firms to “hack back”"

clcaev — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:51:19 +0000

The referenced policy says "We will unleash the private sector by creating incentives to identify and disrupt adversary networks and scale our national capabilities."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Presid...

I don't see where the policy instructs the private sector to "hack back", a quoted term in the article.

New comment by clcaev in "Remove your ring camera with a claw hammer"

clcaev — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:04:21 +0000

They would be uncommon for single family homes or duplexes unless built in last decade or so.

Audio intercom with shared entry door buzzer are common with older apartment complexes. Newer buildings and retrofits have video.

New comment by clcaev in "Push events into a running session with channels"

clcaev — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:53:43 +0000

I'd like Claude on IOS to pull/commit from a private git repository for Markdown and ideally drawio diagram editing.

Jeff Bezos in Talks to Raise $100B for AI Manufacturing Fund

clcaev — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:19:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/jeff-bezos-aims-to-raise-100-billion-to-buy-revamp-manufacturing-firms-with-ai-618a3cfe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47447823

Points: 3

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New comment by clcaev in "Remove your ring camera with a claw hammer"

clcaev — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:08:41 +0000

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I ended up hiring a contractor to run PoE but that was not cheap. Setting up the VLan was time consuming and I failed to do it right the first time. The intercom feature is invaluable but an entry buzzer would be even better. I don’t need the camera and it made some guests uncomfortable … electric tape worked.

New comment by clcaev in "Remove your ring camera with a claw hammer"

clcaev — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:24:12 +0000

We shouldn’t have to surrender our privacy for simple conveniences. Is there a market here?

Can someone make an open source, privacy-focused doorbell? Perhaps like the Software Conversancy’s OpenWRT One wifi router. With an open specification, addons like a flashing light or entry buzzer could be integrated. A simple iPhone/Android intercom app usable only on my LAN would be lovely. Yes, one can get a ReoLink and muck with VLan settings but that is not consumer accessible, moreover you have to use their central service or forgo remote answering

New comment by clcaev in "A data center opened next door. Then came the high-pitched whine"

clcaev — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:21:28 +0000

There are all kinds of externalities that we fail to accommodate in our market pricing.