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New comment by j0057 in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

j0057 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:18:35 +0000

US Cloud soon illegal? Trump punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal - https://noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illegal-trump-punches-first... (2025-01)

EU-US Data Transfers: First Reaction on "Latombe" Case - https://noyb.eu/en/eu-us-data-transfers-first-reaction-latom... (2025-09)

EU-US Data Transfers: Time to prepare for more trouble to come - https://noyb.eu/en/eu-us-data-transfers-time-prepare-more-tr... (2025-12)

US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers - https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-tra... (2026-06)

New comment by j0057 in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

j0057 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:23:27 +0000

In the Apple ecosystem, passkeys are stored in your iCloud, and access to the passkeys is device bound. So if I generate a passkey on a MacBook, I can then use it from my iPhone as well, because it's encrypted to all my hardware devices.

New comment by j0057 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

j0057 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:29:43 +0000

It takes very little money to rent massive botnet capacity to perform crippling DDOS attacks. Unfortunately there are only very few CDNs capable of absorbing that kind of attack.

New comment by j0057 in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

j0057 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:22:55 +0000

No, lack of maintainers and maintenance on Xorg would have made Linux desktop unviable altogether. High DPI and fractional scaling are very badly supported on Xorg, and architecturally impossible to build.

Wayland is where development happens, so for better or worse, that is what you'll have to use. If you don't like it, go maintain Xorg, if you can't, you're in no position to complain.

I sense a lot of conservative "they took away our X11 freedom" and I have no understanding for it.

New comment by j0057 in "Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations"

j0057 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:18:25 +0000

Odd that there's no link to the retracted article.

Thread on Arstechnica forum: https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/editor%E2%80%99s-note-...

The retracted article: https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechni...

New comment by j0057 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

j0057 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:21:06 +0000

I used https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat on a family member's new Win11 install and it actually works reasonably snappy. I wouldn't be want to caught dead with it, but I couldn't convince this one to go for macOS.

New comment by j0057 in "Eat Real Food"

j0057 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:19:39 +0000

I haven't particularly kept up with RFKs brand of MAGA craziness, but all European countries have different childhood vaccination schedules, with some overlap, see here: https://vaccination-info.europa.eu/en/about-vaccines/when-va...

New comment by j0057 in "Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring"

j0057 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:56:40 +0000

I'm not saying that Kubernetes isn't complex, I'm saying it's a fallacy to claim that the Hashicorp stack in any way manages to be less complex in practice. All of these moving parts are unavoidable if you want to run software at scale, Kubernetes is just way better engineered than the Hashicorp stack, if only for not depending on dockerd.

New comment by j0057 in "Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring"

j0057 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:10:02 +0000

Docker is not for production. Nomad at scale in practice needs a lot of load-bearing Bash scripts around it: for managing certs, for external DNS, you need Consul for service discovery, Vault for secrets.

At that point, is Nomad still simple? If you're going to take on all of the essential complexity of deploying software at scale, just do it right and use Kubernetes.

Source: running thousands of containers in production.

New comment by j0057 in "Multiple Security Issues in Rust-sudo-rs"

j0057 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:39:42 +0000

> A partially typed password would be output to standard input if a timeout occurred when Defaults pwfeedback was not enabled (GHSA-q428-6v73-fc4q).

> Timestamp files did not take into account the setting of the Defaults targetpw and Defaults rootpw (GHSA-c978-wq47-pvvw)

New comment by j0057 in "EU age verification app not planning desktop support"

j0057 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:16:25 +0000

> Also this will completely disable any new phone OS' being developed. Why would anyone bother when you can't verify your wallet to do anything online.

This already the case today, you can't run your bank's app or government eID apps on anything but Google or Apple devices.

New comment by j0057 in "Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day"

j0057 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:18:05 +0000

In the Netherlands we have 'focus cameras' now that specifically detect smartphone use while driving, with hefty fines of €430. These cameras are mobile as well, so they get placed on different spots over time.

New comment by j0057 in ""Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec""

j0057 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:26:53 +0000

It's not like the browsers can just switch to some better maintained XSLT library. There aren't any. There are about 1.5 closed-source XSLT 3 implementations, Altova and Saxonica. I don't want to sound ageist, but the latter is developed by the XSLT spec's main author, who is nearing retirement age. This library is developed behind closed doors, and from time to time zip files with code get uploaded to GitHub. Make of that what you will in terms of the XSLT community. For all of its elegance, XSLT doesn't seem very relevant if nobody is implementing it. I'm all for the open web, but XSLT should just be left in peace to slide into the good night.

New comment by j0057 in "A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs"

j0057 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:40:49 +0000

A submarine is a boat and boats sail.

New comment by j0057 in "Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why"

j0057 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:03:38 +0000

"Would Europe ever hand over control of its national power grids to foreign companies bound by non-European law? Would we trust a foreign supplier’s guarantee for 99.999% uptime (which is the standard uptime SLA agreement of cloud providers) while at the same time a foreign power could force them anytime to cut Europe’s power? Of course not."

EU already does this:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-p...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41292018

New comment by j0057 in "Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)"

j0057 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 04:27:23 +0000

macOS does ask you if you want to allow a program to access your files in $HOME. Not sure if it's a perfect solution, but still, it's something.

As a more additive approach than just giving up and running everything as root, I think in Linux you could do the same with (a fair amount of effort and) SELinux or AppArmor.

New comment by j0057 in "Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?"

j0057 — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 10:19:11 +0000

I agree that sooner or later your SSH port will end up on Shodan anyway. Putting SSH behind a Wireguard VPN solves this completely.

New comment by j0057 in "Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost"

j0057 — Mon, 19 May 2025 22:00:39 +0000

This distinction is a technicality, given the The Hague Invasion Act signed into law by G.W. Bush. Or to use your example, would a hypothetical attack on the UN building in New York not also be a violation of American sovereignty?

New comment by j0057 in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

j0057 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:56:42 +0000

'Data stays in EU' is not true: the US CLOUD act means that American law enforcement and intelligence agencies can and do access data stored in data centers operated by American companies, whether or not they are on American soil.

New comment by j0057 in "Rust vs. Go: Battle for the Back End"

j0057 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 09:53:09 +0000

The rest of the article was probably generated by Claude too, given the wishy-washy both-sideist utterly uncontroversial non-conclusion.