Hacker News: thepangolino

New comment by thepangolino in "HMD Global Starts Manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made in Hungary’ Nokia XR21"

thepangolino — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 11:34:06 +0000

I loved my Nokia N9 made in Finland. Great hardware and the UI was a gem!

New comment by thepangolino in "AI weights are not open “source”"

thepangolino — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:30:43 +0000

I've always seen weights as akin to configuration files.

New comment by thepangolino in "Show HN: Endless – An attempt to unify the social media experience"

thepangolino — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 20:09:13 +0000

Probably the social aspect allowing for comments and upvotes/downvotes

New comment by thepangolino in "Port forwarding"

thepangolino — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:55:11 +0000

What happens to Mullvad?

New comment by thepangolino in "Do Foundation Model Providers Comply with the EU AI Act?"

thepangolino — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 08:26:20 +0000

"Acts" don't exist in EU law. You either have Regulations (which become law after being approved) and Directives (which member states are bound to implement in their own legislation). "EU Acts" are just the new BS PR way to add yet another level of abstraction to European politics.

New comment by thepangolino in "Silvio Berlusconi, a Showman Who Upended Italian Politics and Culture Dies at 86"

thepangolino — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 10:12:18 +0000

One of the last giants, signing the end of an era. While not perfect, like anyone, he marked both Italian and European politics of his singular approach and proverbial ball. Politics now are becoming much more dull and suffering of a lack of vision.

New comment by thepangolino in "Run and create custom ChatGPT-like bots with OpenChat"

thepangolino — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 11:08:01 +0000

Glad to see this pop up. Local models are vital for privacy!

New comment by thepangolino in "Deploying key transparency at WhatsApp"

thepangolino — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:56:01 +0000

GPG key management should have been built into vCard and CardDAV! It's such a missed opportunity!

New comment by thepangolino in "AI Propaganda Will Be Effective and Easily Accessible"

thepangolino — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 20:23:07 +0000

Hopefully non AI propaganda will be squashed too through efforts to fight it.

New comment by thepangolino in "Why a European mobile operating system can’t challenge Android and iOS"

thepangolino — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:54:59 +0000

Most alternative linux based operating systems such as Sailfish OS(0.) or PureOS(1.) are perfectly able to run Android apps. It is purely a licensing issue.

0. https://tuxphones.com/purism-librem-5-run-android-apps-anbox... 1. https://docs.sailfishos.org/Support/Help_Articles/Android_Ap...

New comment by thepangolino in "SETI@home is in hibernation"

thepangolino — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 08:54:12 +0000

They should have awarded tokens for each block computed. Turned it into a blockchain of sort, would have been a hit!

New comment by thepangolino in "SVB lobbied the government to relax some Dodd-Frank provisions"

thepangolino — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 10:59:49 +0000

One thing I don’t get is why do banks need to buy treasuries and not just keep it all in cash?

New comment by thepangolino in "Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone"

thepangolino — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 01:57:41 +0000

That’s why he said paid for.

New comment by thepangolino in "Covid drug drives viral mutations – and now some want to halt its use"

thepangolino — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 08:33:13 +0000

What really bothers me with Ivermectin is that it used to be one of the cheapest and most available drugs yet it instantly became taboo to even talk about for in the context of covid.

Why a known, safe, cheap and readily available drug couldn’t be used off label in the context of an unprecedented (at least in terms of social restrictions measures) global pandemic will always remain a mystery.

New comment by thepangolino in "WHO updates critical medicines list for radiological and nuclear emergencies"

thepangolino — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 10:56:39 +0000

In Belgium Iodine tablets are freely and for free available in all pharmacies. All you need is show up with an ID (this is to prevent hoarding) They will give you a box with enough doses for 2 adults and 3 children for free.

Now if only this system existed for all WHO essential medicines... The covid pandemic would have played out differently...

New comment by thepangolino in "Andromeda Invaders: A retro-style game written in HTML5, Canvas, and Web Audio"

thepangolino — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 08:56:53 +0000

Fun little game. Level 3 took me from 0 to 100 with no warning.

New comment by thepangolino in "The number of banks willing to do business with the crypto industry is shrinking"

thepangolino — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:27:31 +0000

Providing banking services to people who are unbanked for political reasons is one of the main advantages of crypto imho. This is something you can get hit by in so called democratic countries as Canada demonstrated last year. https://www.businessinsider.com/trudeau-canada-freeze-bank-a...

New comment by thepangolino in "Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address"

thepangolino — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 08:42:07 +0000

The thing with a domain registration is that you know if you pay for ten years in advance, you WILL have it for ten years. With most SaaS, you have absolutely no guarantee this is going to be the case.

New comment by thepangolino in "European parliament VP taken into custody"

thepangolino — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 13:44:32 +0000

Anything more devious doesn't make the news. Had she had a partner start a startup and fill in all the propriate tax forms after recieving millions of Euros you'd at most have heard about "possible conflicts of interests", not blatant corruption like here.

New comment by thepangolino in "Nearly six in 10 US young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up"

thepangolino — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 20:18:54 +0000

That's a pretty common statistics all around the world. People connect to their the place they grew up in and people they grew up with.