eqvinox

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by eqvinox 1y ago
It's just market pressure to make/keep things cheap (= "optimising" support), and also with becoming larger it's harder to reach the 'tech nerds' as normal customer if you don't have another social co
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by eqvinox 1y ago
> 255 IPv4 addresses is the smallest chunk you can route 256, both the zero and all-ones addresses are perfectly usable, and that matters in 2025 IPv4 exhaustion times.
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by eqvinox 1y ago
Note an IX does not give you default/full internet connectivity. You'll only be able to reach the other participants' and their affiliates' networks.
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by eqvinox 1y ago
Uh, Switzerland is one of the best locations to do this in, due to the government fibre build-out mandate. However, you have to start a little larger than "minimum" ISP size in other countries to be able to take advantage of it.
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by eqvinox 1y ago
> Annual LIR fees at RIPE are around 2000€ This is a recent 2025 change; we (minimum size ISP) started around 1k, it went to 1.5k in 2023 and 1.8k in 2025. > and includes trainings and tickets to meetings. Only one or two (don't
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by eqvinox 1y ago
I need to point out a subtlety that is might or might not be intended in that comic: it's bystanders, or consumers of the 14 standards, trying to fix it. Unicode was invented by Xerox and Apple employees. USB-C was developed "by I
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by eqvinox 1y ago
I was about to make that joke-not-joke, but you beat me to it.
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by eqvinox 1y ago
You categorised it as an X11 issue. I showed you another desktop session ("KDE:") has a specific setting for this. Therefore, it is clearly not an unsolvable X11 problem, and likely an i3 problem. You said "mechanism seems wo
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by eqvinox 1y ago
They'd have to charge people for using those, which people won't be eager to. The point of coffee shops in this regard is that the use as free coworking space is "parasitic" on the space being financed by the café busi
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by eqvinox 1y ago
Why repeat JavaScript's mistake of having all numbers be floats, with no integer type? I thought that one's well known by now :(
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by eqvinox 1y ago
Can you please specify the exact type of these cells. A friend found a 68.8mm cell that fits; the Keystone holder caps out at 68.88mm. Most protected cells are 69.2mm…69.8mm.
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by eqvinox 1y ago
Meta employs a number of engineers working on the Btrfs file-system Maybe not tens of millions, but kernel fs engineers aren't exactly cheap either.
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by eqvinox 1y ago
> because it assumes it's "ff" not "fff" Funnily enough—and possibly related—this was correct before the German orthography reform of 1996 [ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_
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by eqvinox 1y ago
To be fair I haven't had reason to care about shipping for Windows yet (though I believe it's reasonably simple), only MacOS and Linux, and no mobile.
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by eqvinox 1y ago
Python & Gtk (& sometimes Glade)
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by eqvinox 1y ago
Desktop Environment
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by eqvinox 1y ago
KDE has KWin settings controlling this. I have no idea if this is some kind of a fixup after the fact or whether the window manager always controls this, but at least it does on a KDE X11 session.
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by eqvinox 1y ago
KDE: Settings → Window Management → Window Behavior → Focus → Focus stealing prevention Even on "Low" (the options are None, Low, Medium, High, Extreme) I'm not seeing this behavior. Might be an i3 problem.
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by eqvinox 1y ago
> Well, you probably know by now that Wayland, unlike X, doesn’t let one application force its idiot wishes on everyone else. …I thought {not allowing,managing} this on X11 is the window manager's job? (kwin certainly doesn't a
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by eqvinox 1y ago
If you move back to Germany within 7 years, you actually don't have to pay the tax, so this would be a pretty poor use of their time :P
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by eqvinox 1y ago
That wasn't what I meant, I'm confused why you're associating the Gestapo with Eastern Europe. They were active in all of German controlled Europe with a pretty bad reputation almost everywhere. The nazi mass murders also h
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by eqvinox 1y ago
You might've mixed up your analogy there, Gestapo was a German 3rd Reich thing… NKVD would be the Soviet one.
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by eqvinox 1y ago
> Bullion traders had expected gold bars of one kilogram or 100 ounces to be exempt Reads to me as all gold bars getting tariff'd.
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by eqvinox 1y ago
Can't laser cut them anyway, you'd lose the assay stamp. Melting & reforming is the way to do this.
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by eqvinox 1y ago
That's what I was trying to say ("What is being taxed is the shares you're holding, as if you're selling them,") … did I word that poorly/confusingly?
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by eqvinox 1y ago
> - First off, your assumption is wrong that only the increase in value gets taxed. No, the entire value of your holding gets taxed, see § 6 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Außensteuergesetz (AStG) [1]. You're misreading that law. It says moving awa
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by eqvinox 1y ago
> And then your exit tax is calculated by taking the average of the past 3 years of earnings of that company, multiplied by 13.75 (which is crazy), and then taking 60% of that which is taxed at your personal income tax rate (likely 42%;
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by eqvinox 1y ago
> The concern was that someone wanted to use our services and we had made that so frustrating that they were writing blog posts about how it had gone wrong. I'm concerned that you're being very unspecific talking about "ou
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by eqvinox 1y ago
> "people in positions of leadership, such as my boss, are aware of your blog post and I’ve been tasked with finding out what I can" Translation: "someone noticed it trending on HN, decided it was bad publicity, and that t
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by eqvinox 1y ago
> Are you really saying that patents are preventing people from writing the next great video codec? If it were that simple, it would’ve already happened. You wouldn't know if it had already happened, since such a codec would have li

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