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New comment by severino in "Our position on open-weights models"

severino — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:24:42 +0000

> China has interfered with US elections

Wow. I bet we'll soon be reading on HN that Biden stole the elections back in 2020.

New comment by severino in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

severino — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:49:16 +0000

There's not just one war on, there are many. Should Kagi exclude all the results from American companies because of the actions of the US government in Iran?

New comment by severino in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

severino — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:13:12 +0000

Then one should ask for Kagi to move to a country that doesn't use taxes to invade other countries, and stop supporting them, instead of just asking to "stop paying money to Russia". Because fixing two wrongs is better than just fixing one, right? And I want to believe that living in the US doesn't make you agree with your country's foreign policy (which doesn't seem to change significantly even with your democratic ability to try to alter it) specially if you're worried about Russia.

New comment by severino in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

severino — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:46:23 +0000

What's the point in stopping paying money to Russia if Kagi is incorporated in Palo Alto, so it's paying money and will continue to do so to a country causing no less troubles than Russia?

New comment by severino in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

severino — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:39:46 +0000

Who told you Ukraine had the ability to launch the nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union that happened to be deployed to its territory?

New comment by severino in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

severino — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:06:10 +0000

Were they theirs? Germany has nukes too but they're not theirs, they're from the US. Germany can't say "fuck off" to the ~50k Americans stationed in the country, leave NATO and get to keep the nukes.

New comment by severino in "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"

severino — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:10:32 +0000

Do you know if it's possible to cap expenses on Scaleway so you don't end up with unexpected charges (due to bandwidth or whatever)? I mean, having your services stopped until the next cycle begins or you decide to pay more. I knew this wasn't possible for Hetzner, for example, but I'm not sure about this one.

New comment by severino in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

severino — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:01:51 +0000

The EU is only making these statements until the US has a new president (with the same ideas of Trump, as has always been the case, but saying nice things in public).

Also, in the mean time, their announced "sovereign solutions for the European citizen" look ridiculous: now you'll be free from Visa and Mastercard for your payments but at the same time you'll need a phone approved by either Apple or Google.

New comment by severino in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

severino — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:23:37 +0000

I'd also be a classical liberal if I were getting 1 out of 4 euros of the EU taxpayers.

New comment by severino in "The Orange Pi 6 Plus"

severino — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:44:17 +0000

I thought N100 equivalent SBC computers like Radxa's, etc., were largely out of stock for quite some time now.

New comment by severino in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

severino — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:19:51 +0000

Well, that depends on which reality you're referring to, of course.

New comment by severino in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

severino — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:09:36 +0000

Not sure if you're talking about Iran or the US now

New comment by severino in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

severino — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:10:31 +0000

Are they still counting now? Because they may be mistaking them for the victims of the US and Israel, which are killing civilians by the thousands too.

New comment by severino in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

severino — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:39:05 +0000

How can I know? I don't trust either side.

But talking about 20k killed, next week 30k, now 45k... doesn't seem serious at all.

New comment by severino in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

severino — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:25:12 +0000

It looks like this figure is growing by the hour. By the time I finished writing this comment they may already be 100.000

New comment by severino in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

severino — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:03:18 +0000

Windows itself is a bunch of hacks, too, so if you think Wine is the same, then it surely looks like a very accurate emulation.

New comment by severino in "Migrating to the EU"

severino — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:03:03 +0000

Is it that different? Being Australia in alliances like "Five Eyes" I don't think you can keep your stuff away from the US at least when using Fastmail.

If you want both US & EU away from your data, I suppose you will have to consider things like Yandex Mail, which comes with its own set of problems too, of course :)

New comment by severino in "Migrating to the EU"

severino — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:50:27 +0000

> First, I tried mailbox.org, which I can generally recommend without reservation. Unfortunately, you can’t send emails from any address on your own domain without a workaround, so the search continued.

I had read about other problems about this mailbox.org service, but not this one. Anyone knows what's the catch when trying to send emails from your own domain?

New comment by severino in "Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools"

severino — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:34:12 +0000

Same here. I remember some kernel module or video driver named tdfx, and then, struggling to make X11 work with this DRI (Direct rendering infrastructure or something like that) setting on. It was very rewarding to see it enabled on glxinfo's output after days compiling half of your system and trying to figure out what was wrong, specially when the access to the internet was limited, and then being able to launch GLtron with hardware acceleration. Also remember playing Quake 3 and America's Army games around that time.

Fun times, now everything is straightforward on Linux but I somehow miss that era when you actually had to do everything by yourself.

New comment by severino in "Animation 10k Starlink Satellites"

severino — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:04:23 +0000

True. And what will happen when another company wants their 10k satellites on orbit too? And companies from another countries, as well.