Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | alphager's commentslogin

Covid does long-term brain damage.

I do think there's oddly disproportionate silence on covid infection as a potential factor in the overall life-enshittification lately.

That's just not true. I'm in Europe and all of my routers allow me to disable unattended updates and most don't enable it by default.

might be too old, my asus router updated and I could no longer disable updates and you could just look up the relevant law here: EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) 2024.

While it doesn't make it mandatory, it does require patching devices in a timely fasion which in other terms: requires forced updates - pushing updated firmware is not enough if you read between the lines.

Even stronger requirements come into effect at the end of 2027.


Name a few.


Only two of these were actual malicious commits. Two others were malware inserted into the repositories (if Twitter could be thought of as a meta-repo), which is bad but not on the same scale.

I wonder why nowhere talked about who Jia Tan was. In my understanding, a few people already talked to that person. Now, does Jia Tan really vanish?

Cancers have had extremely effective new treatments developed for in the last ten years.

Depending on the type of cancer, we now have cures or treatments that stave off death for years.

My wife has a rare type of cancer with not much research thrown at it, and even her type of cancer went from a median time of survival measured in months to several years.


> I ordered an extra server today from Hetzner. It was available 90 seconds afterwards.

Back when AWS was starting, this would have taken 1-3 days.


That's not how the EU works. As an example take the Mercosur treaty: it has 4 parts. The first post is straight up trade rules, an area that the Eau member states delegated to the EU. This part was directly valid once signed.

The other three parts all concern areas not delegated to the EU. To become law, all three parts have to be approved by the EU parliament and the EU council (which consists of the heads of the executives of the member states) and the local parliaments of the member states. Depending on local law, even regional parliaments have to approve it (Belgium is such a state). The final implementation of Mercosur is not expected before 2028.


Why do you think public cloud is worse for the environment than a private dc? I'd expect the larger dcs to be more energy efficient.


To offer immediate turn around, a cloud vendor has to over buy and have more machines in the rack than are necessary. Often, those machines have to be powered on, and they have to be rather powerful machines. Just think of S3 and think how many machines must be available and how many HDDs/SSDs have to be installed in every machine. This is an insane amount of power and material.


1) he literally wrote a blog post complaining that London sucks because there are too many non-white people there. We're not talking about someone who is a bit conservative; we're talking about an explicitly racist person.


Hardware gets faster but efficiency is stalling if not getting worse.


Those areas are producing educated techies. Those record them move to better areas.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: