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

wasmitnetzen — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:13:10 +0000

The tricky part will be the the train tunnel on the other end of Fehmarn, the current best guess for the finishing date is 2032[1]. They haven't started building yet[2], so I wouldn't put a lot of trust in that number.

[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarnsundtunnel [2]: https://www.anbindung-fbq.de/streckenabschnitte/sundquerung....

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

wasmitnetzen — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:55:13 +0000

DB has been finicky for me from abroad as well, using a VPN to Germany usually helped. Still sucks though.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

wasmitnetzen — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:14:09 +0000

I don't think the mobile phone market produces variety, somehow its market forces make it strive for uniformity. All phones are basically of the same from factor (with the two foldable ones being niches), roughly the same size, same battery, same connectors, one of two OS, etc.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

wasmitnetzen — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:29:07 +0000

Lidl famously blew 500M on a failed SAP project, so they're understandably a bit into running things themselves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541092

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

wasmitnetzen — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:32:17 +0000

The problem with making a low-tech car is that a lot of high tech stuff is mandatory for the car to be road legal.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

wasmitnetzen — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:12:49 +0000

The EU already requires 5 years of patches since last year. Motorola thinks they have found a loophole, so there are still some, ahem, patches needed to the law.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

wasmitnetzen — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:32:47 +0000

Take this as an argument to rethink your engineering decision to base your workflows entirely on the availability of an external dependency.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware"

wasmitnetzen — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:12:05 +0000

There's a paginated list on the front page for me. Maybe already fixed?

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "SSH has no Host header"

wasmitnetzen — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:45:28 +0000

I would say it's best practice to use a key agent backed by a password manager.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

wasmitnetzen — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:05:40 +0000

You should really try to write abbreviations in full the first time they're used. I have no idea what CEE, FDI and GCC mean.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

wasmitnetzen — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:28:33 +0000

Swedish news has some quotes from authorities that nothing of value has been leaked, and a quote from the service CGI that it only concerns test servers.[1][2]

[1]: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/uppgift-statlig-it-inform...

[2]: https://www.cgi.com/se/sv/news/cybersakerhet/cgi-informerar-...

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

wasmitnetzen — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:20:08 +0000

Luckly, something with the English language makes it that especially native speakers quite often have atrocious grammar: They're - their - there mistakes, who/m, the list goes on.

Funnily enough, I've noticed myself getting worse with they're/their the more is use English (which is my third language).

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

wasmitnetzen — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:10:53 +0000

We will just have to fucking swear all the time. The corporate-speak LLM won't do that.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "This time is different"

wasmitnetzen — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:32:01 +0000

Well, yeah, "keeping alive" sounds like caring to me. Not to a great standard, that's how we got numerous revolutions, and feudalism did end eventually. People stopped believing it, and some kings lost their heads.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

wasmitnetzen — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:20:58 +0000

There is technically a second provider, Freja, but that is basically only supported by government agencies, and even that is spotty.

There are talks about a state-provided one coming soon, because of EU E-ID laws.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "This time is different"

wasmitnetzen — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:12:08 +0000

Life, uuuuh, finds a way.

This ignores that the forces of capitalism, the labor market, value, etc are all made up. They work because people (are made to) believe in them. As soon as people stop believing in them, everything will fall apart. The whole point of an economy is to care for people. It will adapt to continue doing that. Yes, the changeover period might be extremely painful for a lot of people.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout"

wasmitnetzen — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:24:26 +0000

I'm not arguing that your body burns that much energy, that follows from the first law of thermodynamics.

But whether that means that your body will have a calorie deficit of that same amount, that is much harder to prove.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout"

wasmitnetzen — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:11:48 +0000

How can you know this "as a matter of fact"? Because your not-a-healthcare-device sportswatch tells you so?

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown"

wasmitnetzen — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:45:15 +0000

I've blown fairly competent colleagues' minds multiple times by showing them the existence of certificate transparency logs. They were very much under the impression that hostnames can be kept secret as a protection against external infrastructure mapping.

New comment by wasmitnetzen in "FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap"

wasmitnetzen — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:06:10 +0000

Your reading of "politics" seems quite narrow. Creating a place free of social status, hierarchies and with equal opportunity? That's 100% politics.