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New comment by sveme in "Planet Labs' open satellite feed"

sveme — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:23:46 +0000

Really busy, from satellite constellation tasking to planet and co basemaps to the sentinel family to aerial imagery to helicopters, drones and even blimps.

They all have their unique combination of cost, resolution, area coverage, revisit rate and spectral modes. Quite difficult sometimes to find a good fit for the underlying problem. What‘s clear is that resolution and revisit rate correlate with cost. Shit‘s expensive.

New comment by sveme in "European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy"

sveme — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:54:09 +0000

It’s more likely that the rise of the populist right (or left, like Melenchon) will lead to the destruction of the EU. They do not want reform, they want to go back to the fifties.

New comment by sveme in "More German than many Germans"

sveme — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:48:08 +0000

Doubtful, honestly, though from what you described with Berlin, this feels like more of a problem of Berlin being a very transient city. A lot of people never fully settling there, especially so called expats, despite living there for decades. A lot of people being part of the cosmopolity, moving from one hype city, one startup, to the other. That’s okay, but it doesn’t work for everyone.

New comment by sveme in "More German than many Germans"

sveme — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:40:20 +0000

What do you mean with „Germans“? In my friends group, in my son‘s football club, in school, most kids have a so called migration background, but the parents are mostly second generation and mostly assimilated. So what?

New comment by sveme in "More German than many Germans"

sveme — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:22:07 +0000

That's a very Berlin-centric observation. Berlin is special; it's hard to extrapolate to the rest of the country.

New comment by sveme in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

sveme — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:54:19 +0000

Well, the No vote triggered some adjustments, so this is indeed relatively democratic. What would be the alternative?

New comment by sveme in "Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine"

sveme — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:06:39 +0000

Which is when we'd enter economic warfare between the EU and US, something which no one wants to experience. If that were realistically threatened, and we've seen motions in that direction, it's about political and economical survival and we'd see a massive loss of market for US tech.

New comment by sveme in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

sveme — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:52:33 +0000

It's obviously a loosing battle. You're thinking of elaborate attackers, I'm thinking of your common policeman or scammer. Not great security, but might be able to solve the easyness problem introduced by GenAI.

Out of curiosity, what would be your proposal for identifying GenAI images and videos? Any suggestions?

New comment by sveme in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

sveme — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:48:57 +0000

Really good points, thank you for pointing this out. What I'm mostly thinking of is the usage in e.g., social media. There will be efforts to do what you suggest, but for your typical facebook user and scammers, this might help with the more common situations where people use GenAI.

New comment by sveme in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

sveme — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:10:44 +0000

Why police (and media) cameras aren‘t forced to use camera hardware signing, aka content credentials, is beyond me.

New comment by sveme in "Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May"

sveme — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:03:24 +0000

What's your suggested alternative? Would you say that American democracy is broken or democracy in general?

New comment by sveme in "Cleve Moler has died"

sveme — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:03:30 +0000

Worked there ten years ago. Good company, well run, privately owned, employees getting a share of the success. Jack Little has steered that ship well.

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

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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.