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New comment by sam_lowry_ in "How to earn a billion dollars"

sam_lowry_ — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:24:00 +0000

> DataDog,

It's just grepping logs on steroids

> Sentry

Hooks on error handlers in JavaScript

> Snowflake

Anyone can just use parquet or DuckDB

>Okta

No digital sovereignty for those who can't manage users' passwords

> MongoDB

JSONB fields in Postgres, anyone?

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Did Anthropic ask for this?"

sam_lowry_ — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:53:27 +0000

Everyone looks bad in this story:

Anthropic for lying too much and for too long about their capabilities

US Government for taking these marketing stunts for ground truth

EU for freaking out about its Digital Sovereignty over US companies, as if it had it before.

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

sam_lowry_ — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:42:12 +0000

What is npm?

I installed dwm from AUR once, then Prusa slicer.

Dwm PKGBUILD lists patches, so it's kind of obvious one needs to check them to choose what patches they want.

Prusa slices is downoaded from the official website.

I think you live in a different world ;-)

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

sam_lowry_ — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:14:32 +0000

Stupid or rather low-friction on purpose?

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

sam_lowry_ — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:09:38 +0000

As someone already explained in a sibling comment, Arch Linux AUR packages are simple shell scripts that download source code from upstream, apply patches and install.

I review them every time I have to install from AUR.

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

sam_lowry_ — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:02:36 +0000

The tender was about R&D, the press release is about replacing the federal cloud, if you read between the words.

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

sam_lowry_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:31:32 +0000

Hah, you wish. See how maintainers of a reference implementation resist removing Google dependency here: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-app-andro...

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Our politicians fear engineers so much that they risk high treason charges"

sam_lowry_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:54:21 +0000

Ignorantia juris non excusat

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

sam_lowry_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:33:42 +0000

Progress advances one death at a time. As new, younger judges are sworn it, the situation will change in the coming years.

Our politicians fear engineers so much that they risk high treason charges

sam_lowry_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:21:35 +0000

Article URL: http://mikhailian.mova.org/node/325

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503215

Points: 3

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New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

sam_lowry_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:19:32 +0000

Not yet )

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

sam_lowry_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:09:53 +0000

Because politicians hate depending on their engineers so much that they are willing to risk high treason charges instead?

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

sam_lowry_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:36:41 +0000

In the meantime Belgian public sector will use Google Cloud, it seems: https://ittech-pulse.com/news/smals-partners-with-google-clo...

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance"

sam_lowry_ — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:24:45 +0000

Well then they have to hurry up or loose the war ;-)

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "πFS"

sam_lowry_ — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:12:27 +0000

Also this article by Ted Chiang as a literary explanation of the connection between intelligence and compression: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

sam_lowry_ — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:42:32 +0000

Boris who?

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"

sam_lowry_ — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:53:53 +0000

Because I love sci-fi.

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

sam_lowry_ — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:44:12 +0000

I replaced the router supplied by my ISP with a MiniPC running Arch Linux and an Alfa AWUS036AXML.

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

sam_lowry_ — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:41:25 +0000

mutt?

New comment by sam_lowry_ in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

sam_lowry_ — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:35:05 +0000

Most of the time, you can control where XDG puts its litter, cf. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories

Just note that XDG_DESKTOP_DIR and XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR can not point to the same directory or chromium will disregard your config.

P.S. Reader, if you can commit to chromium without much hassle, check this and fix: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Talk:XDG_user_directories