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New comment by farbklang in "US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private"

farbklang — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:48:23 +0000

but that is a pin and can be rate limited / denied, not a cryptograhpic key that can be used to brute force and compare hash generations (?)

New comment by farbklang in "The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022)"

farbklang — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:19:35 +0000

The ultimate way of installing windows least bloated is chosing Region "English (World)" - as usually the bloatware is country specific. Avoid US, UK, etc. That's where the Candy Crush comes with.

New comment by farbklang in "North Korean infiltrator caught at Amazon due to 110ms keystroke lag"

farbklang — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:37:32 +0000

I fail to understand how you can measure keystroke latency coming from a KVM. Everything behind the KVM is invisible to you, assuming that it is spoofing a legitimate logitech dongle and emulating a legitimate screen edid.

The KVM uses buffering and queues the keystrokes. So the net time between them is the same as if I would type them locally.

What you could measure is the fingerprint of USB initialization and enumeration of keyboard, mouse etc when connecting and starting up.

New comment by farbklang in "Ask HN: Finding Remote Enterprise SW Consulting Leads: Non-US Resident Edition"

farbklang — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:08:19 +0000

PLM, which OP has expertise in, is usually tied to the IT infrastructure in the digital engineering in the manufacturing industry. That's not going away anywhere soon. We are still far away from a full automation / digitalization in these areas.

New comment by farbklang in "Ask HN: Finding Remote Enterprise SW Consulting Leads: Non-US Resident Edition"

farbklang — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:01:02 +0000

I run a small consulting shop in Germany, also specialising on PLM (and IoT) - I never landed a gig in the US. The problem with PLM is that more often than not you operate in high tech / defense and because of export control regulations you need residency.

For getting projects in Europe, what worked for me is cold outreach on linkedin. However not directly for the end client (that really never worked) - but there are a lot of companies in between - medium size consulting shops / service integrators. Also digital strategy consulting shops sometimes realize in the middle of a project that they should better own the implementation themselves(because some other partner has been identified as unreliable or too expensive) A big aspect is being consistent and send a few messages per day.

What also worked was applying to jobs, and after making the first contact breaking it to them that I actually run my own company but that I could solve the issue that they were trying to fix by hiring me.

At last but not least - send me your CV to daniel a teide d tech - if you have experience with PTC's Windchill PLM there is a chance that I have work for you in the future. But also if not, it's always good to extend the network. I have worked in the past with freelancers from India, usually setting up legal/contractual aspects through deel.com

Good luck!

New comment by farbklang in "Is Ketamine Neurotoxic?"

farbklang — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:17:21 +0000

It should be noted that in this example we are comparing insufflation vs injection, which has a very different bioavailability and effect on the body.

I think for therapy with humans it is also given as a nasal spray.

New comment by farbklang in "Show HN: Credit reports about German companies"

farbklang — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:18:43 +0000

That doesn't matter. Impressumspflicht means it's your pflicht to have an Impressum. You can also get an Abmahnung as an individual.

New comment by farbklang in "Finland and Lithuania Report Severed Undersea Data Cables"

farbklang — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:03:37 +0000

first result: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-pipeline-gas-patrushev-putin...

New comment by farbklang in "How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain"

farbklang — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 03:44:31 +0000

A lot of companies do not want to deal with GbR / freelancers anymore as it quickly gets them on the hook for evading social security taxes (Scheinselbstständigkeit) - in my experience having a limited is helpful for landing projects with big corps

New comment by farbklang in "How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain"

farbklang — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 03:29:23 +0000

This is wrong. The UG offers the same protection as the GmbH. It's probably less trusted.

Funfact: you should always use the full title, Companyname UG (haftungsbeschränkt) on all communications and contracts. Emitting the 'haftungsbeschränkt' or shortening it 'haftungsb.' may make you as a CEO personally liable for damages occured.

New comment by farbklang in "Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook"

farbklang — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 12:06:37 +0000

I lost 450$ on amazon.com for a product that never arrived. Apparently I complained too late and they 'have no shipping info' - might do an ask HN about it and try my best at a writeup.

New comment by farbklang in "Ask HN: As a first-time solopreneur how would you go about hiring the first team"

farbklang — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 12:24:53 +0000

I started recently (2 years ago) and running a small consultancy, and using part of the revenue to build my own product.

What worked for me was starting to give out small tasks via , often giving the same tasks to multiple individuals and then decide with whom I am going to stick.

Has been pretty successful for finding talent, not sure how much my anecdote weighs in though.

Working together with friends is something I probably won't do again, it's just too easy to cross damage professional or personal part of the relationship when there are issues arising.

So if you can afford it and have the time, I would recommend starting on freelancer platforms. It also allows you to make mistakes as these relationships do not require commitment from any side. Down side of course is, that you might lose good talent as they are also not comitted to you.