Hacker News: liotier

New comment by liotier in "We Have Learned Nothing"

liotier — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:17:56 +0000

> Reproducing an ASML machine is a piece of cake. Okay, not a piece of cake but definitely doable. The problem is that you cannot sell your reproduction in rich countries because the US government will threaten you with sanctions and US companies will screech "patents!".

... An argument that may not convince China and Russia, who have a track record of ignoring it - I doubt it is a significant reason why they have not achieved semiconductor manufacture tooling parity.

New comment by liotier in "OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas"

liotier — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:06:43 +0000

Competitors on the same market segment - France vs. Germany.

Stanag 5516M-STD-6016 TADIL-J J-Series schema reconstruction from public docs

liotier — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:21:13 +0000

Article URL: https://liotier.github.io/Ersatz-MIL-STD-6016/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362921

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by liotier in "What Is a PC Compatible?"

liotier — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:25:18 +0000

It is mjg59 - he posted it on January 4th. https://bsky.app/profile/mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip/post/3mbm...

New comment by liotier in "Xfce is great"

liotier — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:21:31 +0000

I used to love Xfce, when KDE felt clunky to me and Gnome went in directions I found insane. Since then Gnome remains Gnome, but KDE has matured to a stage where most of the defaults feel like they were designed for me - and any that doesn't can be easily changed. After a period of using more and more K* applications, I realized I might as well switch desktop... Xfce is now a fond memory, and the times have moved on.

New comment by liotier in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

liotier — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:16:31 +0000

The European Union can't fight everyone at once - we need partners, hence trying to mend fences with MERCOSUR, toning down the struggle for human rights in China and tolerating India's authoritarian drift. For now the utmost priorities are defeating Russia and achieving actual strategic autonomy by decoupling from the traitorous USA. So yes, better BYD than Tesla.

New comment by liotier in "Kitchen optimizations"

liotier — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:16:59 +0000

The stable state of our dishwasher is dirty: clean only lasts the fleeting instant a person spots it and immediately empties it.

New comment by liotier in "Dogalog: A realtime Prolog-based livecoding music environment"

liotier — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:16:57 +0000

Both have a music domain specific language, but they differ in essential ways:

- Strudel, TidalCycles and FoxDot are temporal-first, designed for live performance, with code rewritten on the fly.

- Dogalog is a constraints-solving composition system, for offline use.

New comment by liotier in "Map of all the buildings in the world"

liotier — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:48:29 +0000

InfoReseaux remarked that this data is suspicious, to say the least: CC BY-NC 4.0 but contains ODbL licensed data coming from Openstreetmap - but also from Microsoft.

Thread on the Openstreetmap forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/is-globalbuildingatlas...

Christian Quest sent the following message to the authors:

"I’m writing to you because I’m surprised by the choice of data license you’ve set on the GlobalBuildingAtlas dataset.

As mentioned and explained in your paper, at least two data sources you’ve been using to create this dataset are under the Open Database License (ODbL): OpenStreetMap and Microsoft building datasets.

I’ve downloaded the extract of data you’re proposing to have a look at the final dataset, and it confirms that building polygons from OSM (and Microsoft) are present in the resulting dataset in a substantial portion.

In such case, your dataset must be published under the ODbL licence (see 4.2), because it is a derivative database (see 1.0 of ODbL license for definition).

A copy of this message has also been sent to the Legal Working Group of the OSM Foundation.

Thanks in advance to fix quickly the license of the dataset you published. This will also allow OpenStreetMap contributors to use it to improve OpenStreetMap, which is not possible with the CC-BY-NC you choose."

New comment by liotier in "A graph explorer of the Epstein emails"

liotier — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:07:32 +0000

"Brad Edwards" and "Bradley Edwards" might be the same individual.

New comment by liotier in "Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks"

liotier — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:12:27 +0000

The European Union is an emerging country - it is my country. For now, many don't yet understand how common necessity binds us, and some remain under the illusion that they can make it alone against China and the USA, but ever closer union is real and whoever has been on Erasmus student exchange knows we are one people. On my French passport, "Union Européenne" is written above "République Française" - that is the hierarchy. A nation is people who will to live together, and the European Union is that... The rest is a couple treaties and a few decades away !

New comment by liotier in "Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks"

liotier — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:06:21 +0000

Yes, "Américains" is much more common - and that is the windmill I'm tilting at.

New comment by liotier in "Time to start de-Appling"

liotier — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:41:49 +0000

You mean verbing a noun ?

New comment by liotier in "Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks"

liotier — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:28:30 +0000

> estadounidenses

And in French the inhabitants of "les Etats-Unis" are "Etats-uniens". I've taken the habit of referring to them as USAians, which often gets negative reactionsand remains rare - but I find it is the most accurate demonym and I'll keep pushing it.

I look forward to the world inventing demonyms for the citizens of the European Union, because at least it will mean that our emerging national body is getting mindshare !

New comment by liotier in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"

liotier — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:38:44 +0000

[This post to prevent ulterior posting of "yo mama" jokes]

New comment by liotier in "Why the open social web matters now"

liotier — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 09:11:23 +0000

> Contrast this to the “medias” like Threads, Bluesky, etc - moderation becomes impossible just because of the sheer scale of it all.

Wut ? Moderation at Bluesky is fantastic: users build their block lists and share them for others to subscribe to - moderation à la carte... Power to the users !

New comment by liotier in "I switched from Htmx to Datastar"

liotier — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:12:57 +0000

> think you need any of the PRO features

Pro features ? Now I see - it is open core, with a $299 license. I'll pass.

PipeWire/PulseAudio RTP network audio in 2025: a guide to the remote (time) sink

liotier — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:12:49 +0000

Article URL: https://liotier.medium.com/pipewire-pulseaudio-rtp-network-audio-in-october-2025-a-configuration-guide-to-the-remote-time-e8dc0e20e3b0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45404466

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by liotier in "Some interesting stuff I found on IX LANs"

liotier — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:32:04 +0000

I wish everyone used LLDP everywhere: it is harmless and immensely helps in finding the correct spaghetti in the plate.

New comment by liotier in "Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News"

liotier — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:31:46 +0000

I imagine the author of the parent comment despairing of being upvoted.