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New comment by niklasrde in ".de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?"

niklasrde — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:46:45 +0000

And in English: https://x.com/denic_de/status/2051779740080521646

New comment by niklasrde in ".de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?"

niklasrde — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:41:48 +0000

It says "Server Not Found" now

New comment by niklasrde in "I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978"

niklasrde — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:51:47 +0000

You mean what Vista introduced?

New comment by niklasrde in "Unifi Travel Router"

niklasrde — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:23:54 +0000

I installed another app on my S10 to enable this. It's called "Wi-Fi Hotspot" and it works pretty well

New comment by niklasrde in "Unifi Travel Router"

niklasrde — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:22:04 +0000

Why? Because Starlink. Starlink requires airlines to offer it for free (apparently, for now), and the airlines that have started offering it are making a big deal out of it because it's actually usable compared to a lot of the LEO- or ground-based offerings before.

United was looking to have its regional fleet done by end of this week, Qatar has finished their 777s; Hawaiian's entire fleet is done, so is airBaltic's. WestJet are also close.

British Airways is starting the rollout now, so are SAS, Air France and a few others.

New comment by niklasrde in "Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]"

niklasrde — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:26:00 +0000

If you solve the boom component, can you just keep going West? London, NYC, LA, Tokyo, Singapore, Dubai, London?

New comment by niklasrde in "We're accelerating the Android XR platform with a new agreement with HTC"

niklasrde — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 09:46:44 +0000

What, in your mind, is the "product" here? The one that's been discontinued?

New comment by niklasrde in "What I've learned about writing AI apps so far"

niklasrde — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:30:09 +0000

OP acknowledges that it can "create". It can create "endless waffle, drivel, pointless rambling, and hallucinations". So if you're in the business of that, AI can replace you ;)

New comment by niklasrde in "Dropbox Engineering Career Framework"

niklasrde — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 10:50:55 +0000

Do you think that's a bad thing?

writing code != building things.

In my org, seniors spend a lot less time building things: writing components, etc. They do spend a lot of time navigating office politics. But they are engineering specific office politics: how does system A interact with system B? What are the architectural implications? Ownership of long term data and technical and business strategies?

The "art" of negotiation can be ass-kissing but quite often genuinely with the goal to advance the projects they own and the enablement of the "people who actually build things", which at some point also involves the seniors. You need to build raport and relationships to negotiate seriously.

New comment by niklasrde in "Bypassing airport security via SQL injection"

niklasrde — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:59:06 +0000

Part of the reason why Crowdstrike have access, why MS wasn't allowed to shut them out with Vista was a regulatory decision, one where they argued that somebody needs to do the job of keeping Windows secure in a way that biased Microsoft can't.

So, I guess you could have some sort of escrow third party that isn't Crowdstrike or MS to do this "audit"?

Or see this for a much better write up: https://stratechery.com/2024/crashes-and-competition/

New comment by niklasrde in "HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools, but it recently stopped working"

niklasrde — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:18:57 +0000

So updating the rules is not the same as updating the software? Who says this is different here? How do you define the difference between a "tax rule" and business logic?

The changes go beyond tax band thresholds and percentages across NIC & IT. Eg the (now-scrapped) Health & Social Care Levy would've been a completely new tax - you need a complex schema to encode that and even then the Treasury will come up with something you haven't thought of next.

New comment by niklasrde in "Why is it so hard to build an airport?"

niklasrde — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:45:50 +0000

Arlanda feels like another good example of a "far out" (23 mi) airport that works pretty damn well. 18 minutes on the train.

New comment by niklasrde in "Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law"

niklasrde — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:21:05 +0000

That's not true. "strictly necessary cookies" are allowed without consent (but information on their use must be available).

Examples for what that means given by the EU itself [1] include "cookies that allow web shops to hold your items in your cart while you are shopping".

And on the policing - there are a lot of laws that cannot be "policed". It requires trust, goodwill, collaboration and savy users to report violations to the webmaster or relevant ICO.

[1]: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

New comment by niklasrde in "Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation"

niklasrde — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:43:30 +0000

Airbnb's Lottie has a Web Player now I think? Make your animation in AE or Figma, export to "Lottie JSON" with players in JS, Swift, Kotlin & React Native.

New comment by niklasrde in "BT Tower is to be turned into a hotel"

niklasrde — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:21:23 +0000

There's general public access to somewhere in the BT Tower? Do you have more info on that?

New comment by niklasrde in "Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models"

niklasrde — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:01 +0000

"the population of the country would be quick to disapprove" - now you've got me curious. Who would be disapproving? I doubt US population would care much for a Boeing Swapout, or Europe for an Airbus one. Embraer is from Brazil, but I don't think LATAM even has any. Does the Eastern world care more?

Or is it a model thing? Noise/pollution thing? Are you flying to some small island nation with special planes?

New comment by niklasrde in "What's that touchscreen in my room?"

niklasrde — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 11:54:44 +0000

Without internet access?

New comment by niklasrde in "Decimal Time"

niklasrde — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:00:48 +0000

How does the time system relate to the clock-in expectation? Otherwise you would have 60 seconds to do it in, which feels like not much more time?

New comment by niklasrde in "Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions"

niklasrde — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:26:04 +0000

For Nest Protect (the smoke alarm), if you try logging in with a workspace account it just won't let you. Had to resurrect a very old, unused Gmail account just for that.

New comment by niklasrde in "AI and satellite imagery used to create clearest map of human activity at sea"

niklasrde — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:23:43 +0000

We're not talking about putting the pictures into ChatGPT here.

Anyway, from their tests using standard CNN practices: "Our best model achieved on the test set an F1 score of 0.97 (accuracy = 97.5%) for the classification task and a R2 score of 0.84 (RMSE = 21.9 m, or about 1 image pixel) for the length-estimation task."