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New comment by rtsil in "Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology"

rtsil — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:05:20 +0000

The EU couldn't agree amongst themselves because the US (and its biggest vassal, the UK when it was in the EU) did everything to prevent such agreement.

We'll see what the States that were the most against any form of common European defense will do now that the US has proven unreliable. And if they are still under the delusion that the current US policies will go away, then it's time for Two-Speed Europe.

New comment by rtsil in "Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder 'MrICQ' in U.S. Custody"

rtsil — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:33:38 +0000

> For the marshals, arresting fugitives while away from home was significantly safer as they are often caught unarmed and off-guard.

New comment by rtsil in "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025"

rtsil — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:47:08 +0000

Neither are litterature and peace.

New comment by rtsil in "Show HN: Built an email marketing platform after paying $230/month"

rtsil — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:22:50 +0000

The main reason people pay expensive ESPs is deliverability, which is practically impossible when self-hosting when it comes to marketing, non-transactional emails, and in any case much more expensive than any ESP subscription.

How does Fertit position itself in relation to that?

New comment by rtsil in "The daily life of a medieval king"

rtsil — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:47:43 +0000

Assuming it's translated literally from French, and the meaning of the French verb "couper" hasn't changed since the Middle Ages, it means mixing with water, and is a widely used expression in French.

New comment by rtsil in "The Daily Life of a Medieval King"

rtsil — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:45:11 +0000

The article says the depiction may reflect idealization, and is also a deliberate inspirational portrayal.

New comment by rtsil in "The daily life of a medieval king"

rtsil — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:42:54 +0000

And malnutrition isn't only about lack of food, it's also about mediocre quality of food:

> Similarly, new estimates of adult obesity show a steady increase over the last decade, from 12.1 percent (2012) to 15.8 percent (2022). Projections indicate that by 2030, the world will have more than 1.2 billion obese adults. The double burden of malnutrition – the co-existence of undernutrition together with overweight and obesity – has also surged globally across all age groups.

Obesity will soon, if not already, become a major public health disaster in poor countries.

New comment by rtsil in "YouTube No Translation"

rtsil — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:52:36 +0000

I'm in France, but my Google, browsers and devices languages are English. So Youtube randomly auto-dubs (and auto-translates the title of) some French videos into English, and some English videos into French. But they're never the same videos depending on the devices or the browsers. However, the automatic subtitles during the preview remain in the original langage.

New comment by rtsil in "Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System"

rtsil — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 23:13:29 +0000

> long periods of boredom

Not if it's at the speed of light, the journey will be instantaneous for the (massless) traveller.

New comment by rtsil in "EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud"

rtsil — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:36:24 +0000

Which made the zero downtime even more impressive!

New comment by rtsil in "YouTube No Translation"

rtsil — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:32:32 +0000

If only it was that easy. I'm French living in France. My account settings are in English, my browsers and apps (phone, TV) are in English but my Youtube region is France. So Youtube serves me:

- French videos auto-dubbed with AI and with the titles auto-translated in English.

- English videos auto-dubbed with AI and with the titles auto-translated in French.

- French videos not dubbed, but with the titles auto-translated in English.

- English videos not dubbed, but with the titles auto-translated in French.

- French videos kept as is.

- English videos kept as is.

Also, Youtube keeps suggesting me French accents videos, even though I never watched a similar video (but watched videos on American accents and Spanish accents years ago)

New comment by rtsil in "EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud"

rtsil — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:07:43 +0000

I had a cheap VPS (kimsufi) with them for over 10 years and I don't remember a single downtime notification. Before that, I had another for 5 or so years and I received two notifications, but each time it was to tell me the problem has been fixed.

New comment by rtsil in "Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs"

rtsil — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:27:19 +0000

I used to think the same thing, and I still want a login/password alternative for me. But after seeing normies use online accounts and the trouble they have with password managers, I realized one of my friends had the most secure process: she would create extremely high-entropy passwords everywhere, but not remember them. Once she's logged out of her sessions after a couple of months, she uses the password forgotten link to generate another password, and so on. So her passwords are never stored anywhere, she's immune to many login stealing phishing attempts through genuine-looking fake websites as she can't enter the password, she doesn't have to deal with syncing the passwords between all her devices, and she doesn't have passwords on a post-it on her workstation. And she also doesn't get those annoying emails saying "your password is 6-months old, please change it or else!".

The email auth flow is a simplified and more efficient way to achieve the same outcome.

New comment by rtsil in "The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer"

rtsil — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:47:39 +0000

It's a bad, very literal machine translation. ChatGPT would do a better job.

A billion in French is 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) so I doubt they truly served "billions de requêtes".

New comment by rtsil in "AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms"

rtsil — Wed, 14 May 2025 17:08:11 +0000

Maybe the actual solution to the interpretability/blackbox problem is to not ask the llm to execute a given task, but rather to write deterministic programs that can execute the task.

New comment by rtsil in "Critical CSS"

rtsil — Tue, 06 May 2025 17:52:39 +0000

The critical css should cover everything above the fold to avoid that visible reflow.

New comment by rtsil in "JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant"

rtsil — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:32:08 +0000

I just spent half a day troubleshooting why PHPStorm suddenly took 15 minutes to become responsive. The cultprit was the built-in markdown plugin, probably after an update. I don't have time for that.

Another annoying thing is they also removed the modal commit window in favor of a VS code style commit. It was removed without notification, and I had to install a plug-in to restore it.

IDE UI is the most important thing for me, I've built muscle memory to use it without think. When they tinker with it, it forces me to think about the IDE instead of about what I'm working on, and that's really annoying. Not enough to lead me to change, for now.

New comment by rtsil in "Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left"

rtsil — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:51:28 +0000

Unpredictability. If you restock and the tariffs are eliminated or significantly reduced a couple of weeks/month later, that's a disaster. So the best attitude is to wait and see.

New comment by rtsil in "OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal"

rtsil — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:01:42 +0000

Aider regularly asks me the authorization to access files that I didn't explicitly add.

New comment by rtsil in "Bored of It"

rtsil — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:54:04 +0000

That's what happens when the entire education system is optimized for grades instead of the use and acquisition of knowledge. In this case, LLMs are just laying bare our failings as a society.