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New comment by jabiko in "I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32"

jabiko — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:05:52 +0000

You can also have a Webhook be delivered when you take a new measurement. I wrote a small script that syncs my weight to Garmin using python-garminconnect.

The experience integrating with Withings was really good. Garmin on the other hand seems to be actively hostile if you (as an end user) want to programmatically interact with their ecosystem.

New comment by jabiko in "Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields"

jabiko — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:24:56 +0000

Starting at page 20, the report looks like someone let AI create a HTML page and then just converted it to PDF. There are misplaced "Calendar", "Money Bag" and "Globe" emojis floating above the title of each startup analysis.

I suspect that nobody, including the authors, ever read this 391 page report.

New comment by jabiko in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

jabiko — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:30:52 +0000

I recently bought something from fahrrad.de and was surprised to see Wero as an payment option. I don't know what I expected, but scanning the QR code and acknowledging the payment in my banking app worked without any issues. The whole process had a very "snappy" feeling without waiting for any of the usual spinners and redirects. So... thumbs up, I guess?

New comment by jabiko in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

jabiko — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:31:46 +0000

So accidentally hacking a company is now a thing. The blog post seems to imply that the agent didn't have access to the source code of the caching proxy, which makes this even more impressive.

New comment by jabiko in "Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act"

jabiko — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:10:36 +0000

Yes, it is costing the taxpayer. However, I think there needs to be some cap, because otherwise the government can weaponize that and be extra inefficient when processing requests for things they don't want to become publicly available.

The current cap of 500€ is a good compromise IMHO: It deters people from issuing unnecessary FoI requests while at the same time keeping it in reach for the average person if they really want that information.

New comment by jabiko in "Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act"

jabiko — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:25:05 +0000

Under the current law you already have to pay up to 500€ for a request. That would be a very costly DoS attack.

New comment by jabiko in "Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act"

jabiko — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:19:56 +0000

Also with the planned changes, you have to prove that you have an legitimate interest in the information. Which makes the whole thing very vague. So the government can just say that they don't think you have a legitimate interest in the information and deny your request. You would then have to sue.

Also also want to invoice you for all costs that your request causes. Previously it was capped at 500€. So your request could cost you thousands of euros. You are at the mercy of the government how many people are working on your request and how efficient they process it.

New comment by jabiko in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

jabiko — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:39:59 +0000

I'm a bit salty due to what they've done to the Komoot team. Komoot was (and still is) a great app for planing your outdoor activities.

After acquiring Komoot, they fired everybody. Watching their goodbye video is a bit heartbreaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLJkK4Wn1HI

New comment by jabiko in "AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on"

jabiko — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:15:24 +0000

Also you have to remember the basics of statuspage messages: Its always just elevated error rates. Even when the error rate is elevated to 100%.

"We are observing elevated error rates when accessing objects stored in the affected region. Impacted customers may experience increased latency or intermittent failures while retrieving debris adjacent data." /s

New comment by jabiko in "Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage"

jabiko — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:28:31 +0000

Ah, okay. I did a Google search for that phrase before posting my comment, but couldn't find any result. Probably its not indexed yet. Thanks for the clarification.

Still I think it would have been better for OP to link to the source to avoid exactly this confusion.

New comment by jabiko in "Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage"

jabiko — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:21:49 +0000

That's not what's written on the webpage. If your post is meant as a critique that they’re not offering those services, you should make that clear to avoid spreading misinformation.

New comment by jabiko in "Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption"

jabiko — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:24:30 +0000

Its impressive that even though registry-1.docker.io returned 503 errors they where able to keep a the metric "Docker Registry Uptime" at 100%.

New comment by jabiko in "Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]"

jabiko — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:50:11 +0000

When driving by Bad Aibling I always wondered why the BND (intelligence agency) invests so heavily in satellite communication eavesdropping. I naively assumed that this kind of communication would be encrypted.

Also a fun fact: For a long time it was only semi-officially known that the BND owned and operated the site. Officially it was called "Long distance telecommunications station of the Bundeswehr" and operated by the "Federal Office for Telecommunications Statistics"

New comment by jabiko in "QUIC and the end of TCP sockets"

jabiko — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:10:44 +0000

That's the point he is making. QUIC has to be based on UDP because the networking stack is ossified enough to not allow the addition of any new Layer 4 protocol. It's not a huge drawback though.

New comment by jabiko in "Window Activation"

jabiko — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 11:27:32 +0000

I don't think there should be a "correct" way to steal focus. When I'm editing a document, I don't want _any_ application to steal focus. I don't want a window to show up and steal focus when something needs reauthentication. Maybe the developer of an application thought that his use case is of the very utmost urgency and requires immediate action. I don't agree. Just notify me over the standard way that the system provides and I will deal with it when I want to.

For the debugger use case: If the IDE has already focus, it can pass an activation token to the debugger and the debugger can use this to focus itself. If the IDE is not focused, I don't want the debugger to steal focus.

New comment by jabiko in "When we get Komooted"

jabiko — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 09:40:20 +0000

Here is a bittersweet video of the self organized goodbye meeting of the ex Komoot team: https://youtu.be/qLJkK4Wn1HI

New comment by jabiko in "BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia"

jabiko — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 05:28:28 +0000

Even though there is some overlap of the European continent and Russia's territory, I don't think that Russia qualifies as an example for the average European country.

Also, why are you mentioning the look of people in a discussion about cars and manufacturing?

New comment by jabiko in "Java is still worth learning"

jabiko — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 07:42:45 +0000

> Java garbage collection is both great, and terrible. Sometimes objects are instantiated in a method, and should be marked for GC when you leave the method but aren't.

In the last decade of writing Java software I didn't ever come across a genuine GC bug where a unreferenced object wasn't collected. I'm not disputing that they exist, but if you regularly hit such "bugs" I'm wondering if your understanding of Java GC might be flawed.

Do you expect objects to be immediately collected when they are not reachable anymore?

New comment by jabiko in "A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up"

jabiko — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:46:45 +0000

To be fair, I don't think there is anything wrong with clickable links instead of embedded images.

New comment by jabiko in "ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry"

jabiko — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:05:55 +0000

I'm not sure whether Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT use different system prompts or if there's something else behind it, but Copilot tends to have this overly cautious, sterile tone. It always seems to err on the side of safety, whereas ChatGPT generally just does what you ask as long as it's reasonable.

So it often comes down to this choice: Open https://copilot.cloud.microsoft/, go through the Microsoft 365 login process, dig your phone out for two-factor authentication, approve it via Microsoft Authenticator, finally type your request only to get a response that feels strangely lobotomized.

Or… just go to https://chatgpt.com/, type your prompt, and actually get an answer you can work with.

It feels like every part of Microsoft wants to do the right thing, but in the end they come out with an inferior product.