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New comment by sveme in "New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater"

sveme — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:44:20 +0000

I think the seawater bit is really relevant here. Only understood the importance of this when I saw the seawater part.

New comment by sveme in "First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed"

sveme — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:17:56 +0000

"Immersed". The channel tunnel was bored below the sea floor.

Content credentials – hardware signing of photo and video cameras

sveme — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:46:09 +0000

Article URL: https://contentcredentials.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891838

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sveme in "South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf"

sveme — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:44:15 +0000

Why is the Content Credentials Standard [1] not more supported? It's basically hardware-signing of images, which would make it fairly straightforward to identify AI-generated content.

Needs to be supported by smartphones, of course.

[1] https://contentcredentials.org/

New comment by sveme in "AI chatbots could be making you stupider"

sveme — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:03:39 +0000

Don‘t take it personally, you might be right in your extreme position, but this feels like a horrible take on what it means to be human.

New comment by sveme in "France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk"

sveme — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:30:29 +0000

Multipolar doesn't mean replacement of hegemon.

It's also two different things, you might be right that China, Russia or the EU would be worse as a hegemon, but that doesn't imply that it wouldn't happen.

Being a realist would imply that you would understand that a fundamentally worse hegemon could still replace an existing hegemon.

New comment by sveme in "France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk"

sveme — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:59:37 +0000

Do you really think the American empire is never to be challenged? Everything and everyone goes down after a while. Whether it‘s now is unclear, though the active resentment against the US is unprecedented.

Sadly, your comment lacks any substance to argue with, all there is are unsubstantiated ad hominems. Sad.

New comment by sveme in "France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk"

sveme — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:28:40 +0000

Interestingly, China is succeeding because it isolated itself partially from US big tech. That enabled them to build their domestic companies. If you give free reign to US companies, they‘re going to swoop up any competition early on.

The US relies on being attractive for smart people. There are still smart people going to the US, but the general mood seems to be that it‘s increasingly less attractive. Mid term, little will change, long term the cultural hegemony of the US will be replaced by multipolar influences.

New comment by sveme in "France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk"

sveme — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:25:41 +0000

Trump is all that‘s needed for that. The Greenland saga alone was sufficient. And then he attacked Iran.

New comment by sveme in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

sveme — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:43:53 +0000

Are you implying that this is Germany getting ready to invade Poland?

New comment by sveme in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

sveme — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:42:16 +0000

It was already a thing back when I was doing compulsory service (end of the nineties), but no one cared and no one was ever asked for it.

New comment by sveme in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

sveme — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:19:16 +0000

Sorry, irrelevant to what you‘re saying, but Germany has 85 mio inhabitants. You might mistake it for Poland.

New comment by sveme in "End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance"

sveme — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:41:21 +0000

There's a fairly non-invasive way to do age verification: ID cards that connect to a smartphone app that only provide a boolean age verification to the requesting service. Requesting service can be anonymous to the ID app and the requesting service can only receive a bool.

That most implementation will try to collect far more data is the real concern.

New comment by sveme in "End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance"

sveme — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:16:20 +0000

The commission is checked by the parliament is checked by the council is checked by the commission. Most other national organizations only have one check - Germany, for example, only has the Bundesrat as a check of the Bundestag.

New comment by sveme in "End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance"

sveme — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:13:40 +0000

So in summary: because the law was avoided today, the EU needs to be abolished? Weird take.

You can see it the other way around, without the EU, Denmark and others would have already implemented ChatControl in their country. This is driven by member states (Denmark), not the parliament, after all.

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

sveme — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:10:46 +0000

The strait was navigable until three weeks ago. There are very few conceivable paths towards reestablishing this. This is absolutely not the same effective result.

New comment by sveme in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

sveme — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:32:23 +0000

Don't understand this - you can go spec -> test -> implementation and establish the test loop. Bit like the v model of old, actually.

New comment by sveme in "Elevated errors on login with Claude Code"

sveme — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:59:06 +0000

Anthropic's domain usage (there's claude.com, claude.ai, console.anthropic.com, platform.claude.com, claudecode.io forwarding to codeagents.app which errors) and authentication approach have been lacking a lot; hope this isn't a verdict on their use of agentic coding.

Example: I had two orgs with similar names, one I set up myself and another my employer set up. Logged in via SSO. Once I deleted the one I created myself, I could not log in anymore with the notice that the org was scheduled for deletion. Could also not contact support as that required a login. Only when the org was deleted after a week and my employer deleted me and reinvited me I could access it again.

Quite the shitshow for a company worth a couple hundred billion.

New comment by sveme in "Levels of Agentic Engineering"

sveme — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:08:58 +0000

One example: I let the agent culminate the essence of all previous discussions into a spec.md file, check it for completeness, and remove all previous context before continuing.

New comment by sveme in "UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s"

sveme — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:06:50 +0000

Out of curiosity, do you expect that freedom.gov will contain socialist, communist, extreme left-wing or islamist point of views?