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New comment by nedt in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

nedt — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:45:44 +0000

Funny. We have beavers in the Lobau in Vienna. But it's still dry. And yet we want to build a highway tunnel through it. Guess we just need more beavers. It's famous for it's naturism anyway.

New comment by nedt in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

nedt — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:42:29 +0000

Too much about nuclear safety was based on trust and if that fails the consequences are huge. In Europe we learned the hard way what it means if a plant is not safely build and how bad the communication is when there is an accident.

And then you are also going to trust the same people when they are saying the waste issue is solved.

If your arguments are luddites and fearmongering you have not improved trust in any way.

New comment by nedt in "Hacking IKEA Furniture"

nedt — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:53:17 +0000

Moved a pax twice and my kitchen once. You can disassemble them easily. Just reverse the instructions.

New comment by nedt in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

nedt — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:07:39 +0000

Google wasn't great for a very long time. Switched to Duckduckgo years ago. I just love the bangs, because I tend to go to sources I trust anyway.

Doesn't mean I'm not also using duck.ai. It makes searching faster and more targeted. But then it's still giving me links to verify and is actually more limited, which means less hallucination and more directly going to the sources. Also it avoids having to open five pages first which all either sell your data or want you to pay.

I don't see the web or the internet dying yet. Just a lot of people not using the right tools and having a harder time accessing what's useful. But that hasn't started with AI.

New comment by nedt in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

nedt — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:25:21 +0000

Well disrespecting someone because of their cravings is indeed not contributing to the conversation. It's fine to ingest garbage once in a while. If you can make it less that's still better.

New comment by nedt in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

nedt — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:07:32 +0000

I'm just looking at the rocker engine piece. The belt is running backwards. That's the first thing I'd expect it to get right or flag if it doesn't. Human in the loop is also the quality control. If that fails the rest might have similar issues.

New comment by nedt in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

nedt — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:43:16 +0000

> Kubernetes did not win simply because its repository was public.

And here I am still using docker with compose because it's easier and works. Always saying I might be looking at swarm when needed, but then never really need it.

Just because you are using it doesn't mean everyone is and doesn't mean it has won. On the other hand yeah I want open models and I want them local as well.

New comment by nedt in "Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode"

nedt — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:28:12 +0000

They keys are stored in the secure enclave. You can't get them out. You can only let the secure enclave make calculations with it. And it needs your fingerprint to unlock.

Akamai akr should be able to do something similar, but would store the private key on your phone. It's the successor of krypton, which was bought by Akamai, and I liked that even more as you really need a second device.

New comment by nedt in "Never Give Them Your Face"

nedt — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:25:47 +0000

It's an open and documented standard. There are open source implementation.

New comment by nedt in "Never Give Them Your Face"

nedt — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:54:56 +0000

I can already generate a QR code that proofs my age anonymously. It's signed by the goverment. There are libraries to check the QR code. No extra device needed.

New comment by nedt in "Identity verification on Claude"

nedt — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:04:11 +0000

At the very least I would expect them to support eID for everyone who can and doesn't want their 3rd party. Also much better than take a video of plastic card.

New comment by nedt in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

nedt — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:37:30 +0000

Exactly this. I can only upvote you once, but this is one article that should answer all the questions. Not just the simple origin case, but also how a preflight works.

New comment by nedt in "The AirPods Effect"

nedt — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:56:08 +0000

Cars are only safer in a crash if you are inside the car. They are a big problem for anyone they crash into. That's why it's so very important that you see and hear everything happening around you. Why should the once with more mass and speed have the luxury of listening to music?

New comment by nedt in "The AirPods Effect"

nedt — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:51:36 +0000

If that's illegal than cars with closed windows would be illegal too. Even more so if they have the radio on. As a cyclist I keep having issues with car drivers not hearing anything happening outside of their vehicle (not a bell, not yelling, not a bicycle hooter). That's like wearing headphones or earplugs and still is considered normal. I'd love if everyone would be required to drive a cabrio.

New comment by nedt in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

nedt — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:58:43 +0000

Just tried it out. The data download option in your account settings gives you the full resolution. You need no plan whatsoever.

New comment by nedt in "AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less"

nedt — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:48:41 +0000

It's all about YAGNI. Programmers try to be smart covering cases no one thought about, reviewer is happy that corner cases have been implemented, artificial tests report all good. But it's just more to read when you have to change the code.

New comment by nedt in "AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less"

nedt — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:45:27 +0000

That's still going to make it hard to read. I'd have one big comment above talking about the different cases and then one line of code. Even with the slightly higher risk of getting code and comment out of sync. But that context switch between code and comments you need when you read this one return are pretty awful.

New comment by nedt in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

nedt — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:49:19 +0000

I actually have a couple of Dockerfiles that are using exactly this in the HEALTHCHECK. Less packages to install.

New comment by nedt in "Every Frame Perfect"

nedt — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:01:28 +0000

I still remember that you could slow down animations in OS X - I think with the shift key. Steve Jobs even did it in presentations because they looked so gorgeous in slowmo. If we‘d still have that I‘m sure they would care more about that every frame.

New comment by nedt in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

nedt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:55:59 +0000

AI is able to read input from AI. Humans are able to read input from humans. Also AI is pretty good in reading input from humans. So we don't really need AI -> AI. Just output for humans and you are fine. You can still attach details and this is true for both AI and humans. So human output should be the goal for everyone and everything.