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New comment by nwellnhof in "UAE to leave OPEC"

nwellnhof — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:27:34 +0000

> ~1.8Mbpd (million barrels per day)

Mbpd = thousand barrels per day, MMbpd = million barrels per day

New comment by nwellnhof in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

nwellnhof — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:25:11 +0000

In my experience, everyone got their act together except Google. I also used to receive massive amounts of spam from Azure and Sendgrid but this eventually stopped. Now 80% of the spam I receive is from the Google network, mainly Google Cloud.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Adult German men must request permission to leave Germany for more than 3 months"

nwellnhof — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:01:36 +0000

The law says all men aged 17 and older, not military-aged.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/wehrpflg/__3.html

New comment by nwellnhof in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

nwellnhof — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:25:58 +0000

I think a revolution caused by this war is more likely in countries like Egypt. The Arab Spring was triggered by a rise in food prices after all.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Why I forked httpx"

nwellnhof — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:16:30 +0000

In this case, the name is already so generic that you might even be denied a trademark in the first place.

New comment by nwellnhof in "They’re vibe-coding spam now"

nwellnhof — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:26:30 +0000

On top of that, all these spam and phishing emails are sent through Google servers. About two thirds of spam I receive originates from Google, 12x more than AWS and 20x more than Microsoft. This is completely insane.

Musl 1.2.6 Released

nwellnhof — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:59:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2026/03/20/1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457382

Points: 6

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New comment by nwellnhof in "Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP"

nwellnhof — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:39:45 +0000

Stable Diffusion was developed at LMU München. There's also lots of interesting stuff coming out of RWTH Aachen.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up"

nwellnhof — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:03:29 +0000

You can do amazing things with only a single SID channel. One of the most impressive examples is the in-game music of Hawkeye [1] which allows to use the remaining two channels for sound effects.

[1] https://youtu.be/es-rWnVSJ1c

New comment by nwellnhof in "Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben"

nwellnhof — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:00:03 +0000

The majority of Germans is completely biased towards Zionism because of their history, so it's more of a cultural than a personal thing.

New comment by nwellnhof in "European Economies Are Not Stagnating"

nwellnhof — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:35:20 +0000

First of all, you have to realize that it's impossible to measure inflation and purchasing power objectively. It always depends on a highly subjective (and gameable) basket of goods. But inflation and purchasing power are a thing, so it's a bad idea to ignore them. You just have to keep in mind that all these economic time series are a lot less accurate than they seem.

But if you want to account for purchasing power, it doesn't make sense to ignore inflation. So the "GDP, PPP (current international $)" data which the article refers to seems mostly useless to me. You really have to adjust for inflation as well (constant $) and the picture will become quite clear:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.KD?locat...

New comment by nwellnhof in "How to Found a Company in Germany: 16 "Easy" Steps and Lots of Pain"

nwellnhof — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:57:46 +0000

Just start with "Step 13a: Finding a Tax Advisor" and they will help you with the rest.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Data has weight but only on SSDs"

nwellnhof — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:36:31 +0000

Reminds me of an old April Fools' prank in German c't magazine. They offered a defragmentation-like tool for HDDs that claimed to distribute 0s and 1s more evenly on the drive to make it run more smoothly and extend its lifespan.

New comment by nwellnhof in "AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review"

nwellnhof — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:21:59 +0000

Depends on the jurisdiction. In Germany, practically every photo is copyrightable.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Felix "fx" Lindner has died"

nwellnhof — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:00:03 +0000

The dietlibc author is a different person but with a very similar name.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Show HN: Xmloxide – an agent-made Rust replacement for libxml2"

nwellnhof — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:58:49 +0000

About a day after I resigned as maintainer, SUSE stepped in and is now maintaining the project. As announced here [1], I'm currently trying a different funding model and started a GPL-licensed fork with many security and performance improvements [2].

It should also be noted that the remaining security issues in the core parser have to do with algorithmic complexity, not memory safety. Many other parts of libxml2 aren't security-critical at all.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/976

[2] https://codeberg.org/nwellnhof/libxml2-ee

New comment by nwellnhof in "Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers"

nwellnhof — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:16:25 +0000

As soon as you start paying individual maintainers, it stops being nonprofit OSS they work on. If you direct your funds to other charities, you're only shifting the tax issue to them. If you want to give money to maintainers with no strings attached, it's basically impossible to avoid double taxation.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers"

nwellnhof — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:09:23 +0000

Concrete examples: GNU software, musl C library, everything from x.org and freedesktop.org. Just have a look at the top 1,000 projects from the Debian popularity contest and you'll find many projects outside the Github bubble. Why not use the Debian package name in your nomination form instead of a Github URL? Any project important enough to matter will have a Debian package, right?

If you're trying to come up with something like the "criticality score" based on repo metadata like the OpenSSF, you're likely to fail just like they did. Starting with Debian's popcon data makes a lot more sense, in my opinion.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers"

nwellnhof — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:37:35 +0000

> any project important enough to matter will have at least a GitHub mirror

That might be true, but many of the mirrors are unofficial.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers"

nwellnhof — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:31:20 +0000

Do I get this right that you can only nominate projects on Github? It should be known by now that a centralized platform like Github is the complete antithesis to open source.