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New comment by lwkl in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

lwkl — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:42:11 +0000

What you should be thinking: Oh an unpredictable driver I should probably increase the distance between us.

New comment by lwkl in "Windows native app development is a mess"

lwkl — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:39:50 +0000

It is not. I have some issues with my eyesight and dark mode makes it easier to use a computer in some lighting conditions. So for me dark mode is an accessibility feature. And yes you could use the ugly recolor feature windows has but dark mode does the same thing and looks better most of the time cause a UI designer actually looked at it.

New comment by lwkl in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

lwkl — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:05:36 +0000

It's Fedora 43 and I ran into the exact same issue. The other issue I have is that I don't have any display output as soon as I install my graphics card drivers. So using Linux on my desktop is put on hold for now.

New comment by lwkl in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

lwkl — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:22:05 +0000

A minuscule amount of nerds being slightly annoyed is definitely worth when it hinders scammers from ruining a persons live.

New comment by lwkl in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

lwkl — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:46:47 +0000

> Try calling a cop a “pig” to their face.

At least where I live in Europe you aren't allowed to insult people and you can get fined for it. Be it a police officer or a any other person.

New comment by lwkl in "Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials"

lwkl — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:31:09 +0000

In Switzerland a digital identity like this will launch this summer and the underlying infrastructure and app is open source. And the issuer of the ID and the registry that holds and verifies credentials are separated. The protocol also isn't novel and is already used in other countries (Germany(?)).

For more information check the out technology behind it: https://www.eid.admin.ch/en/technology

New comment by lwkl in "Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse"

lwkl — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:54:49 +0000

The work on Proton ends up in wine which is available for macOS and is part of Apples game porting toolkit. So part of the work Valve is doing to make games run on Linux helps games run better on macOS.

New comment by lwkl in "Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse"

lwkl — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:50:57 +0000

While Apple probably makes most of their gaming revenue from gacha they fund a surprising number of non gambling games for their Apple Arcade subscription.

New comment by lwkl in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

lwkl — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:37:46 +0000

The digital ID in Switzerland [1] is literally the best case scenario from a privacy standpoint. It is basically an ID that is stored on your phone that can send a signed copy of your data to someone verifying it. But instead of sharing all your data everytime it can also only share part of your data or only verify that you are above a certain age.

I personally prefer this to sending a copy of your ID and a video with my face to someone verifying service provider that verifies my identity for a bank or some website.

[1] https://www.eid.admin.ch/en/technology

New comment by lwkl in "The Anatomy of a macOS App"

lwkl — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:05:12 +0000

At least you can use your ID. If you want to get a code signing certificate for Microsoft at least in Switzerland all the CAs I tried using required me to be incorporated. I'm not sure how it is now but at least a few years ago I couldn't get a code signing certificate as an individual.

New comment by lwkl in "The Anatomy of a macOS App"

lwkl — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:57:29 +0000

That's not easier and cheaper than before. That's how it's always been only now you can buy the cert through Azure.

For an individual the Apple code signing process is a lot easier and more accessible since I couldn't buy a code signing certificate for Windows without being registered as a business.

New comment by lwkl in "Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond"

lwkl — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:20:41 +0000

Also if you get flashbanged by SDR content on Windows 11 there is a slider in HDR settings that lets you turn down the brightness of SDR content. I didn't know about this at first and had HDR disable because of this for a long time.

New comment by lwkl in "UniFi 5G"

lwkl — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:30:35 +0000

Because Unifi is more focused on the needs of businesses and enthusiasts. AVM and Netgear Orbi are products for the consumer market. So they miss a the advanced features Unifi supports.

Unifi is used by the tech-savvy homeowner that needs PoE for their security cameras and wants to control and configure their network without needing a network engineer.

New comment by lwkl in "Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps (2020)"

lwkl — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:48:19 +0000

> They're also fiercly opposed to not having an open border, both for people and goods, with their EU neighbours.

Switzerland is part of schengen and has open borders. The same goes for a lot of goods but even between EU members there are some tariffs for certain goods.

New comment by lwkl in "Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps (2020)"

lwkl — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:44:11 +0000

Most of them were only in the lower scale maps and one of them is still there. Swisstopo even wrote an article [1] about them and gives some background and names the cartographers that added them. So our bureaucratic machine seems to have a sense of humor.

[1] https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/hidden-images-20161221

New comment by lwkl in "A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland"

lwkl — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 09:28:07 +0000

I'm thirty and my sisters and my partner are in their twenties and we will probably all pass on books to our children if we have them.

Kids still interact with physical books. School libraries are a part of education here and the school kids visit them with their teacher at least once a month to borrow physical books.

New comment by lwkl in "$96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch"

lwkl — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:27:57 +0000

Yes you are right this was for Australis I.

New comment by lwkl in "$96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch"

lwkl — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:57:37 +0000

The current supercomputer was AUD 50m [1] and HP seems to have won a few expansion and other contracts for another AUD 50 - 70 million for the next few years. Which are all reasonable.

But it seems like the budget for the software was anything else than reasonable and has crazy budget overruns...

[1] https://www.tenders.gov.au/Cn/Show/?Id=3fd94307-e8eb-1220-4a...

New comment by lwkl in "$96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch"

lwkl — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:26:29 +0000

Wow thank you. That's really expensive if it's just for the website displaying the processed data.

I just looked up the cost of the recent redesign of the weather service in my small country of Switzerland. And I don't think more than 10 times the cost can be explained by the size of the country.

The redesign of the website of the website of the weather service in my small country cost about $6-7 million and the project planning was $600'000. It seems like they hired the same company that did the previous website which makes sense since they spent the previous 10 years keeping it running.

New comment by lwkl in "$96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch"

lwkl — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:53:13 +0000

So according to this article [1] the hundred million is for the renewal of the whole infrastructure including the supercomputer calculating the weather model. If this is true the supercomputer alone costs at least $10 - 20 million. This would make the cost a whole lot more reasonable.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-24/bom-website-approved-...