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New comment by weinzierl in "German Dog Commands"

weinzierl — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:28:09 +0000

The most important one is missing:

Fass!

You better know what it means when a dog owner points at you and says "Fass!".

There is a hilarious episode by German comedian Gerhard Polt about this word where he plays the owner of a Kampfhund (the genuine grandson of the great-uncle of the dog of Adolf Hitler) who goofs around alternating between "Fass!" and "Nicht Fass!" not realizing that the dog is not capable of distinguishing between the two.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=I5sFagE-zqw

(In German, obviously - the Bavarian kind)

New comment by weinzierl in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

weinzierl — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:33:14 +0000

There is no "strong case" in this article. Yeah the guy linked to it has a slavic name and likely speaks Russian. Guess what? That's true for most of eastern Europe you will find plenty of people matching these criteria all over the rest of Europe.

New comment by weinzierl in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

weinzierl — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:41:23 +0000

They are all not Anna's Archive and one is not like the other. Z-library, LibGen maybe, Archive.is might be eastern Europe but almost certainly not Russia. Just because it's advantageous in some cases to appear Russian or Chinese doesn't mean it is true. Some are better in their camouflage others like https://migflash.com/ not so much.

New comment by weinzierl in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

weinzierl — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:58:24 +0000

That’s a big if. My bet is that they are in Central or Northern Europe, just like the Pirate Bay people. Unlikely anyone in Russia or China would care to offer a service primarily to the benefit of the western world. I bet there are similar sites in the Runet or behind the Great Firewall we don't even know about and that simply don't bother catering to us.

New comment by weinzierl in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

weinzierl — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:20:11 +0000

"If you failed it is only evidence that you were not doing enough." is the core principle the whole self-help, self-improvement and large parts of weight loss and health industries always have been based on.

New comment by weinzierl in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

weinzierl — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:50:59 +0000

Maybe it's not about the money primarily. There are enough parties out there that want the people behind Anna's archive behind bars and I'm afraid this will end the same way as for the Pirate Bay guys in the best case and like it ended for Aaron Schwartz in the worst.

New comment by weinzierl in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

weinzierl — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:50:21 +0000

"Consumers of dependencies aren't necessarily - or, I would argue, even typically - eyeballing them."

No, but they are the reason software supply chain companies look into the releases. Cool downs very well shift the priorities and therefore hurt the ones not doing them, or doing shorter periods.

New comment by weinzierl in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

weinzierl — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:45:21 +0000

"This plan works by letting software supply chain companies find security issues in new releases."

If it was that easy we'd simply find all vulnerabilities before the release. If the supply chain companies can run the scanners you can (and should) run them too. Even if we assume there is more to it, it would make sense to let those companies do the work before GA.

But it is not that easy. The true value comes from many eye balls and then we are back at cooldowns being some eye balls grifting others.

New comment by weinzierl in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety"

weinzierl — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:14:45 +0000

The norm is competition and cooperation is the tool we invented to compete more effectively.

Cooperation is only competition’s favorite strategy.

New comment by weinzierl in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety"

weinzierl — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:45:26 +0000

Oh boy, that’s a very generous view of human nature.

The cynic in me agrees with the article’s premise, but not because I believe "alignment is a joke", but because I doubt that humans are "biologically predisposed to acquire prosocial behavior."

New comment by weinzierl in "US plans to automatically register young men for military draft"

weinzierl — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:20:26 +0000

Not sure about US but since another comment linked to an article about Germany, there you cannot avoid conscription by changing gender.

New comment by weinzierl in "RAM Has a Design Flaw from 1966. I Bypassed It [video]"

weinzierl — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:12:49 +0000

"This is the sort of thing which was done before in a world where there was NUMA"

You sound like NUMA was dead, is this a bit of hyperbole or would really say there is no NUMA anymore. Honest question because I am out if touch.

New comment by weinzierl in "Am I German or Autistic?"

weinzierl — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:37:04 +0000

Ha, ha, true, I struggled with which verb to use for "love" but thinking about it what you wrote would not be completely wrong for Germany as well.

New comment by weinzierl in "Am I German or Autistic?"

weinzierl — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:23:28 +0000

I guess the Brazilian take on this would be:

"Being on time is rude because you may be disturbing your host before they’ve made all the preparations they need before your arrival. Being early would be an outrageous offense."

It always amazes me how Brazilians and Germans can be so different when it comes to punctuality and yet so similar when it comes to their love of bureaucracy (and devotion to soccer, for that matter).

New comment by weinzierl in "Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard?"

weinzierl — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:25:01 +0000

I think every OS should ask you to press a freshly generated sequence of keys when connecting a keyboard to prevent BadUSB attacks. Does any system do this?

New comment by weinzierl in "Nobody is coming to save your career"

weinzierl — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:42:19 +0000

I'm all for personal responsibility but when it comes to employer/employee relationship there is a certain duty of care (beyond paying you) from the employer side. In many countries this is even coded in law but even if not it makes sense.

If there is no protection for the employee no one would get into a dependent employment relationship in the first place, especially when the pay is universally worse than being self-employed.

1-day RCE vulnerability in vim

weinzierl — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:31:19 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-2gmj-rpqf-pxvh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583915

Points: 7

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New comment by weinzierl in "The curious case of retro demo scene graphics"

weinzierl — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:38:23 +0000

To me all the faces look messed but I believe it is mostly because the image seems to be distorted, it is stretched in the vertical direction. I suspect it was created on hardware with non-square pixels and is just displayed wrongly.

New comment by weinzierl in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

weinzierl — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:52:19 +0000

Is this a hard sandbox (enforced outside the LLM)?

New comment by weinzierl in "Should QA exist?"

weinzierl — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:01:18 +0000

The testing pyramid comes from a time of desktop apps with no API and when UI tests were extremely expensive. I made 100% sense in that context, it never did in other contexts. Despite its omnipresence it had not made any sense for the vast majority of us in the past 25 years.