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New comment by lnauta in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

lnauta — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 08:00:38 +0000

This is exactly what has been playing out in the Netherlands the past couple of months: the weather institute (KNMI) released their own weather app that is functionally the same (in some cases superior) as the commercial apps that want your consent to track and serve ads.

The commercial parties sued KNMI, even though they use the public data provided by KNMI. Luckily they lost: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/02/knmi-weathers-legal-app-sto...

And as a bonus, there was some Streisand Effect when this was in the news, and people have been moving to the KNMI app in droves.

New comment by lnauta in "CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep"

lnauta — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:02:54 +0000

Even if something is well known, its important to measure it and set statistical limits. While the 4 sigma in the article is not enough to claim an observation, it opens the points towards some exciting new Beyond the Shearing Model physics.

New comment by lnauta in "Apple Loses Top Court Fight Over German Antitrust Crackdown"

lnauta — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:25:54 +0000

AFAIK the EU law has to be implemented on a local level, and the countries' agencies can uphold in their respective country. Once a single country has a precedent, this can be used by other member states.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

New comment by lnauta in "Reverse engineering OpenAI code execution to make it run C and JavaScript"

lnauta — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:35:03 +0000

Interesting idea to increase the scope until the LLM gives suggestions on how to 'hack' itself. Good read!

New comment by lnauta in "NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon"

lnauta — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:30:51 +0000

Super cool! This only works on the side facing the GNSS constellation, right? There is no signal to use on the other side.

New comment by lnauta in "Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code"

lnauta — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:05:13 +0000

I'm still not quite sure how to take this, does this mean that:

We can not fix problematic netcode (this is a running joke in the TF2 comminity)

We can fix game balance issues (that could also be fixed through configs)?

New comment by lnauta in "Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected"

lnauta — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:32:32 +0000

The muon traverses a few hundred meters of detection volume very close to the speed of light, so in the order of one microsecond.

New comment by lnauta in "Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected"

lnauta — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:22:42 +0000

Ha, that made me laugh, thanks for the correction!

New comment by lnauta in "Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected"

lnauta — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:29:49 +0000

One of the lead researchers in KM3NeT mentioned that the particle was emitting 2 horse power in light during detector transit. A typical body builder expends about 1 horse power while performing, so its 2 body builders in a single particle.

Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected

lnauta — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:52:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00444-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43027150

Points: 229

# Comments: 128

New comment by lnauta in "Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe"

lnauta — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:35:18 +0000

I've been using mistral for most of January at the same rate as chatgpt before. I decided to pay for it as its per token (in and out) and the bill came yesterday... A whopping 1 cent. Thats probably rounded up.

New comment by lnauta in "LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting"

lnauta — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:08:46 +0000

I've been using it for about a year now and for personal stuff its fine. Just some sheets and the occasional document and there haven't been any issues with formatting and such that tend to pop up when moving between MS and others. It runs with a single window too, where all docs and sheets are open, I like that.

New comment by lnauta in "Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update"

lnauta — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:05:09 +0000

My pixel 4a lasted about 3 hours before the update, now its about an hour. Even with the discount in the store, it was cheaper to get the pixel 8a and some cash from a local vendor. The ticket to get the reimbursement went surprisingly fast, still waiting on money though.

Yesterday I got my new 8a, installed grapheneos and it works very well! So far no massive issues. When I tried this on the 4a some years ago, netflix complained about general certificate stuff and casting was broken, microG et al was barely holding on. Now, no problems at all!

New comment by lnauta in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

lnauta — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:45:20 +0000

I play one game at a time for about a month and then move to the next. When I first played Mario Odyssey on my switch I was over the moon with how much pure fun it was compared to all the good looking and serious RPGs I played in the decade before. I had forgotten games can be this enjoyable. Nowadays I try to do these super fun games in between my souls-like sessions.

New comment by lnauta in "Why is Ashburn the data center capital of the world?"

lnauta — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:18:33 +0000

I just have to point out - looking out an office window to the the data center we use here in Amsterdam - that Amsterdam is a city and not a country.

But it was a very funny mistake to me, and I assume the best.

New comment by lnauta in "HAM radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope"

lnauta — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 07:29:06 +0000

Indeed, it has been decommissioned for some 20 odd years now. But it's kept up and running by volunteers and became a national monument.

New comment by lnauta in "Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope"

lnauta — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 07:24:18 +0000

You may be correct. In my head anything shot into space and still flying must be a satellite but that's a lazy shortcut.

New comment by lnauta in "Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope"

lnauta — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:09:30 +0000

I got to visit the telescope earlier this year, its pretty cool. In a forest outside some small towns. For how well connected the Netherlands is, its pretty hard to reach.

We looked at the sun and some planets in radio frequencies (its all radio astronomy with LOFAR nearby).

That they can listen to Voyager with such an old instrument is incredible. It must help that the satellite is aimed at us.

New comment by lnauta in "Dumb TVs deserve a comeback"

lnauta — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:17:55 +0000

I bought a dumb tv some 2 years ago. 4k, 50ish inch and it has a chromecast v2 attached. Works great.

The funny part is when younger family members come over, they get frustrated there's no netflix button on the remote! Last time that lead to a drawing sessions instead of some paw patrol nonsense.

New comment by lnauta in "OpenWrt Community question: What do you want to see in OpenWrt?"

lnauta — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:23:45 +0000

About a month ago I would've said the automatic upgrades. But a few weeks ago I tried to upgrade, my custom setup couldnt be resolved by the image builder (probably old software installed). I decided to backup, export the uci commands too and do a clean install. Setting up was super easy from the uci commands and it turns out the rest of my setup was not essential.

Then I had to join a vlan for my new ISP. That was a tough one! Evenings of reading threads and going through documentation and there was no clear answer. In the end I asked an LLM and the instructions were so easy, it made me wonder how I missed it.

So I would join some other calls in here for common setups.