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New comment by jabl in "Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas"

jabl — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:34:51 +0000

But thanks to the magic of the Interwebs, most of those jobs don't have to be in the city, region, or even the same country as the one where the DC is located. So for a local politician, most of those jobs won't get them reelected.

New comment by jabl in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

jabl — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:01:26 +0000

If the owner of the stack (Logio or whatever it was called, see upthread) doesn't understand it, the consultants will run wild and soon it will require a hectare-sized datacenter running a zillion containers, and another DC for HA of course.

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

jabl — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:17:03 +0000

Which in turn relies on a stack largely written in, shock and horror, C, such as the Linux kernel, libc, openssl, nginx, etc. etc.

Even if you believe language X to be the bees knees, are you going to stop using it until everything below it in the computing stack has been rewritten in X? Of course not.

New comment by jabl in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

jabl — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:10:04 +0000

Good news for FOSS FPGA toolchains, I suppose. Eg https://f4pga.org/ for some kind of umbrella project.

New comment by jabl in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"

jabl — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:02:04 +0000

The inevitable drama between Kent and Theo would melt the internet, for sure. Bring the popcorn.

New comment by jabl in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"

jabl — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:50:20 +0000

The question is whether the current situation is a short burst of action, and once those most critical bugs get fixed the hype around AI vulnerability scanning will die down, or whether the current crop of system/infra software written in vulnerable languages like C are beyond redemption and they will provide an endless source of critical bugs for AI to find until we fix them by rewriting them in Rust/Go/whatever.

New comment by jabl in "Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation"

jabl — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:46:55 +0000

AFAIU EuroOffice is a fork of OnlyOffice, which is a project with a codebase completely separate from LibreOffice.

Multipath Reliable Connection spec published

jabl — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:03:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.opencompute.org/documents/ocp-mrc-1-0-pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041024

Points: 3

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New comment by jabl in "Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)"

jabl — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:04:08 +0000

Can you name a specific example of a trade secret revealed in the article?

New comment by jabl in "Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming"

jabl — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:06:43 +0000

Unfortunate naming. I thought this was about https://libxc.gitlab.io/ but there's an extra '0' in the name here.

New comment by jabl in "GCC 16 has been released"

jabl — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:18:29 +0000

The Linux kernel is another example. The 2.5 development cycle (which led to the stable 2.6 series) was brutally long, and distros resorted to back-porting new features into their own kernels based on the stable 2.4 series that they provided to their users, creating all kinds of excitement. After 2.6.0 was released, Linus basically went nope, not gonna do that again.

New comment by jabl in "AISLE Discovers 38 CVEs in OpenEMR Healthcare Software"

jabl — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:06:42 +0000

$50M? Pfft. The regional health service provider over here has spent close to a billion € migrating to Epic over the past decade. The feedback has been so devastating they're apparently now considering starting over from scratch. Love seeing the consultants lighting my tax money on fire like that.

New comment by jabl in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

jabl — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:02:50 +0000

Perhaps they should use OpenAI models to figure out how to rollout IPv6.

New comment by jabl in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

jabl — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:25:05 +0000

For comparison, latest commercial turbofans approach 6000h (they don't have a strict TBO limit AFAIU, overhauls are decided based on various inspections and measurements). At a typical airliner speed that's something like 3,000,000 miles.

New comment by jabl in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

jabl — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:35:55 +0000

> IMHO, electric is going to revolutionize farming. Diesel is expensive (a lot more lately). And farmers burn a lot of it. Electric motors are small, reliable, quiet, etc. They have loads of torque. And if you are a farmer, you have plenty of space to harvest your own electricity with solar panels and maybe a wind mill and some batteries. There is a growing amount of high end stuff available in this space but also very affordable low end stuff. And this technology can be very simple and tinker friendly. Buy some old EV batteries wire them up and you can make anything with wheels move. Including really old tractors, pickup trucks, etc. Anything from the largest mining trucks to the smallest lawn mower can already be powered by batteries. And everything in between. With battery cost dropping, there are very few obstacles that prevent adoption left. Mostly import tariffs in the US.

Yes. But maybe not a 1:1 of current petroleum-powered equipment with an equivalent electric one? Say, crop dusting aircraft are not being replaced by electric powered crop dusting aircraft, but by (electric powered) crop dusting drones.

Could something similar happen for, say, tractors? A tractor is of course an extremely versatile tool, and as long as there's a human driving it there's a tendency towards ever bigger tractors in order to minimize labor/ha. But big tractors are already a bit too big and expensive for many not-huge farms, ground compaction is a problem with large weight etc. Could we see these replaced by a fleet of electrical drones (drones as in autonomous, not necessarily flying) rather than "just" an electrical tractor? Of course, there's a certain minimum power required to pull a plow etc., so maybe not? Of course, autonomous fleets etc. goes a bit against the idea of DIY-fixable. Or does it? A different skill-set than wrenching on an old tractor, sure.

New comment by jabl in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

jabl — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:44:46 +0000

I'm intrigued by this, but waiting for the MNT Reform Next.. https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

New comment by jabl in "IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first"

jabl — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:24:16 +0000

See also Kingsmill Bond's slidedeck at https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-electrotech-rev...

New comment by jabl in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

jabl — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:44:15 +0000

Unfortunately my ISP here in Europe is not one of those offering IPv6.

New comment by jabl in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

jabl — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:24:07 +0000

Are any ISP's or corp intranets doing IPv6-mostly style networks yet: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-link-v6ops-6mops-00.ht...

That seems to be a promising approach.

New comment by jabl in "The secrets of the Shinkansen"

jabl — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:52:07 +0000

My understanding the rail share of freight is relatively low in Japan compared to many other developed countries. Most freight moves by truck or coastal shipping. Looking at a map of Japan, most of the cities are by the coast, so I guess coastal shipping makes a lot of sense.