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New comment by nani8ot in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

nani8ot — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:00:21 +0000

It was the conservative CDU with the economic liberal FDP which decided in 2011 to stop using nuclear power in Germany.

At the time when the Greens were in power a decade later, it was already way to late to build out nuclear infrastructure again (not to mention the lack of fuel).

So yes, you've metioned a conspiracy theory without any substance.

The Greens continually pushed for renewables, which the (conservative) government largely ignored in favour of building gas pipelines to Russia.

New comment by nani8ot in "Backing up Spotify"

nani8ot — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:52:34 +0000

Yes, as long as they have enough to survive, people generally have some free time. I know someone who's living paycheck to paycheck and they make music as a hobby. Obviously, if you have to work 16 hours a day to survive they wouldn't do it – or at least they wouldn't have the capacity to share it.

New comment by nani8ot in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

nani8ot — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:51:55 +0000

It has everything to do with it. Mozilla explicitly talked about AI in the context of their relatively new translation feature a year or two back. Live captions also uses "AI". The term AI includes machine learning in marketing speech.

New comment by nani8ot in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

nani8ot — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:37:04 +0000

A better Linux desktop experience means it's more viable as a daily driver, which makes it more likely to be used for gaming instead of Windows.

Valve wants independence from Microsoft Windows, a better Linux desktop is part of that.

New comment by nani8ot in "Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z"

nani8ot — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:53:55 +0000

If someone complained to them that they still need a.out they might've reconsidered. At least that's what's happened before with old architectures.

New comment by nani8ot in "GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France"

nani8ot — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:01:51 +0000

Sadly UK have been passing similar laws as the EU when it comes to encryption, so they aren't any better.

New comment by nani8ot in "You can't cURL a Border"

nani8ot — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:07:10 +0000

Yes, immigration is the primary outward goal of the european far right. But the european far right has the common goal of stopping the EU from growing closer. I'd argue the far right is working together in the EU to destabilise it, similar to how other authoritarian countries are working together to destabilise the rest of the world to their advantage. The saying "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" comes to mind.

New comment by nani8ot in "You can't cURL a Border"

nani8ot — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:44:56 +0000

I think people who are against immigration usually also are against guest workers. They've negative sentiment towards seeing people not looking like them, without knowing whether they are permanent residents or only here for six months. It's a gut feeling based on stereotypes and prejudices not facts.

New comment by nani8ot in "AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025"

nani8ot — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 13:33:31 +0000

Sadly many shows aren't released on BluRay anymore, so even piracy won't deliver better quality.

New comment by nani8ot in "Amazon Vega OS and Vega Developer Tools"

nani8ot — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:03:18 +0000

There's currently a exploit which allows for system user access. This allows disabling core FireOS features like forced updates (which intentionally break custom launchers) and also allows setting a custom launcher. It's simple and can be done with just an Android phone (or ADB).

I've set Projectivy as my launcher and now it starts directly instead of the ad-ridden Amazon launcher.

https://xdaforums.com/t/system-user-fireos7-os8-all-fire-cub...

New comment by nani8ot in "Linux phones are more important now than ever"

nani8ot — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:19:14 +0000

Because Apple didn't want to open their ecosystem, they invested a bunch of money (and time) into "exploring what's the bare minimum required to comply with EU regulations". Now Google is locking their ecosystem down the same way because they know they are legally allowed to do so.

This is why it's an "unintended side effect" of EU regulations, as the regulations prompted Apple to find out how much user hostile behaviour they can get away with.

New comment by nani8ot in "Linux phones are more important now than ever"

nani8ot — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:10:11 +0000

There's already a better way to check whether an Android phone is secure enough and it is independent of any proprietary OS certification: basicIntegrity [1].

Most banking apps in Germany use this API and thus work on GrapheneOS and other non-Google controlled ROMs with a locked bootloader.

PlayIntegrity is unnecessary and mostly offers vendor lock in to Google's ecosystem.

[1] https://grapheneos.org/usage#banking-apps

New comment by nani8ot in "Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25"

nani8ot — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:56:06 +0000

And if they still work mechanically after a decade, they shouldn't stop working because the company wants you to do another purchase. My Pi 3 is 9 years old and there's no reason it shouldn't continue to work until it mechanically doesn't.

New comment by nani8ot in "Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for"

nani8ot — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 10:57:52 +0000

> Seems like the majority of people would've wanted option 2 for some strange reason?

People want to know this is what happens. If a slow down is not communicated, the average person doesn't go "Oh, I need a new battery.". They are going to buy a new phone because their old one is slow.

New comment by nani8ot in "A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website"

nani8ot — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:27:01 +0000

The video wasn't taken down over commercial interests. They were taken down because some old law prohibited insults at representatives of other nations, with whom Germany has diplomatic relationships.

https://archive.is/wWvwM

New comment by nani8ot in "A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website"

nani8ot — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:52:31 +0000

In 2021, Andreas Grote, the minister of interior of the Germany city-state Hamburg was called a dick in a tweet. (Andy, you are such a dick). This led to a police search of the home of the Twitter account owner [1].

This sparked a discussion about how to handle hate spech, as for regular people being called a dick does not result in a 06:00 am. police raid with six officers.

In the aftermath, a mural in a left wing culture center has been painted over multiple times with the tweet and a call for his resignation [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g...

[1] https://archive.is/hETjp

[2] https://images.welt.de/67dd7b08559c903aae8287ac/12efd9779a84...

New comment by nani8ot in "Why does my ripped CD have messed up track names? And why is one track missing?"

nani8ot — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:57:52 +0000

iPod Nano 7th gen. does support AAC (AIFF & WAV too).

New comment by nani8ot in "Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?"

nani8ot — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:07:44 +0000

SoundCloud pays a similar amount per stream to the creator as e.g. Spotify. The requirement is paying for Artist (Pro) which costs 3-7€.

New comment by nani8ot in "AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence"

nani8ot — Sat, 03 May 2025 00:20:15 +0000

> Bonus points for them being considered somewhat "close" to the French RN (which the latter have denied – don't know what that's worth).

Rassemblement National denied being close to the AfD because of how right-extremist the AfD is. The AfD was thrown out of the far-right group in the EU parliament because other EU far-right parties didn't want to get associated with this right-extremist party.

New comment by nani8ot in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

nani8ot — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:39:44 +0000

That's something I've wondered for a long time. Especially know when real time bank transfers aren't allowed to cost more than regular bank transfers (usually free), there's really no point in creating a seperate system.

But it seems to me like banks don't really want to make bank transfers more comfortable for small transactions.