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New comment by lnsru in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

lnsru — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:30:17 +0000

The kids will reach one day the age to be legit participants in LAN party. Just saying…

New comment by lnsru in "ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage"

lnsru — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:33:20 +0000

I saw them today in the app and yeah… first idea - enshitification. Ads were cringe. But google works the same way - cringe ads. I use google in 3-4 different languages and it’s completely lost.

New comment by lnsru in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

lnsru — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:34:50 +0000

Käuferschutz! Safety for the buyer is amazing. I love PayPal, some incident and I have my money in no time back. No endless back and forth with stupid bank clerk. PayPal costs money, I would ditch it for a discount sized as Paypal fee though.

New comment by lnsru in "Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV"

lnsru — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:44:13 +0000

Doing good work leads you nowhere. You need to be in the game of power. Be visible, know every 3 levels of managers by name. Otherwise you’re only number in payroll’s sheet. Modern tech companies are not different from world war 2 era factories imho. Account xyz@bigcompany pushing lines of code to endless repo. No face, no name. Boring. Boring reasonable and reliable. That’s not what hiring people are looking for. You must be a rockstar, conference speaker and leader of few open source projects now. Skills, experience and good work ethic is not enough.

New comment by lnsru in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

lnsru — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:35:07 +0000

A self employed person can deduct many things used personally from the taxes in Germany as a business expense. An employed person pays shit ton of taxes and the value added tax. So from pre-tax salary you get only 30% for spending. Lol. It’s slavery.

New comment by lnsru in "New EU-wide product repair rules come into force"

lnsru — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:33:52 +0000

How good is your employer prepared for Cyber Resilience Act?

New comment by lnsru in "New EU-wide product repair rules come into force"

lnsru — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:42:52 +0000

Good luck to hardware startups in Europe! For every developer now a company needs one technical writer or compliance specialist. That basically means that all small everyday electronics products will come from overseas. Either because it’s cheaper or it’s cheaper and nobody cares about certification.

New comment by lnsru in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

lnsru — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:16:30 +0000

I am pretty sure my phone is listening. The ads I see this week are about topics I discussed last week. Week for week. Stupid thing is that I need the phone to have near by as self-employed electrician. Clients want to communicate after regular office hours. Since the phone is rigged why computer shouldn’t?

New comment by lnsru in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

lnsru — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:25:56 +0000

The thing is that recent products are crappy. I got so many decades old secondhand things. They looked like regular old furniture and it was fine. Then I continued buying same things, but new. While the old furniture didn’t change at all the new pieces became yellow/brown after couple tears. We don’t smoke!!! It was a nightmare and I don’t buy IKEA products anymore.

New comment by lnsru in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

lnsru — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:00:20 +0000

During my years at big corp we did tons of work just to go around the law department. While for core business it made absolute sense to have lawyers involved in daily business we were satellite office decoupled from core business. Local management failed to communicate that and we were stalked by lawyers from main office. Pretty sure others do the same with compliance, law, ethics departments. Just work around to get things done instead of stuck for weeks in stupid meetings.

New comment by lnsru in "The USSR in 100 Photographs"

lnsru — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:56:31 +0000

Look, you had PRL back then and some basic freedom. It’s quite different status than the countries under direct control from Moscow. People had kids, but didn’t talk either. Why? Because you didn’t want to be reported to KGB by your friendly neighbor. Who accidentally visited you during Xmas Eve and didn’t leave before midnight. Maybe for you the collapse of USSR is not that big thing. But for your northern neighbors it is!

New comment by lnsru in "The USSR in 100 Photographs"

lnsru — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:47:58 +0000

This topic is very interesting. People from former Soviet states learned what and when to say. Sometimes in brutal inhumane way. Saying that dad brought some sausage or construction material from work was a thing kids learned not to say in public very early. There were many things no to say. Like Xmas or Easter celebrations were topic for family members only. Burial with a priest was tabu. Grandfather fighting Soviet occupation was a big secret kids never knew about. Knowing that having and reading some books were a way to have big troubles. You needed to get mature quickly to live normal life under Soviet occupation. It was really shocking when I arrived in West Germany that guys in their 30s were behaving like Soviet teens.

New comment by lnsru in "The USSR in 100 Photographs"

lnsru — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:37:41 +0000

Picture 9 with 12 string electric guitar. Extremely rare instrument. Normal 6 string electric guitars were very average quality. Rock music was anyway not desired. Coming from the wrong place. Every piece of popular musicians was reviewed by state organs. Endless censorship everywhere.

New comment by lnsru in "Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029"

lnsru — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:25:12 +0000

That’s very idealistic opinion. The reality is that for example German government does everything for retirees and their votes. Young people as a minority are successfully ignored.

New comment by lnsru in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

lnsru — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:45:55 +0000

Still waiting for self driving car to bring me one robotic plumber to my construction site.

New comment by lnsru in "French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time"

lnsru — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:14:25 +0000

The AGI’s conclusion will be simpler: humanity extinction. I am renovating my home and digging out the perimeter. Despite pavements being decades old I still find thrash buried around the house. Other houses in the neighborhood has the same problem. Relatives bought a villa near Bordeaux. Guess what, previous owners buries many cubic meters of asbestos under the entrance. AGI will not save few ones picking their litter for the majority of environmental pigs.

New comment by lnsru in "German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications"

lnsru — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:59:14 +0000

Americans turned the tide with Marshall plan second time. There will be no third time. Germany gutted itself with: a) very inefficient federal administration system; b) insanely inefficient social system and c) uncontrolled immigration and d) writing laws accordingly car lobby group requirements. Car makers are dead. Well paid jobs gone. e) tragic demographics.

New comment by lnsru in "German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications"

lnsru — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:53:59 +0000

Let me rephrase you: “many could…“. Because if you don’t manufacture continuously you loose knowledge. It’s more than buying machinery and hiring labor. Manufacturing is continuous improvement process. Improving raw materials, manufacturing parameters, testing technology. When one stops it it’s game over.

New comment by lnsru in "EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps"

lnsru — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:17:15 +0000

The thing is not that the product will be somehow secure. It will have properly filled compliance papers. That’s the same story with functional safety. For example car electronic components break all the time, but they have well done paperwork.

New comment by lnsru in "EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps"

lnsru — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:44:14 +0000

So basically you need 3 persons writing compliance documentation and taking care of cybersecurity. Basically another 200000€ personal cost year in low cost area. 250000€ or more in bigger cities. You have a microprocessor in your product and it’s done deal.

No big deal for corporations though. Buddy’s workplace hired new compliance department for this topic with 30 persons. That’s competition european way.