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The project was geo-blocked in Germany for a long time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024039

One author remains blocked in Germany (but only for a couple more years)...

very glad this has been resolved (I'm from Germany myself)

Project Gesperrtberg

No, the described dichotomy doesn't exist (at least for me). There is more options to failing than a) not working hard or b) being stupid (to use the example from the article). There is c) my mood, d) the circumstances, e) luck , ... and all combinations of them. I don't need the option of "I did not work hard" to preserve self worth. I avoid working hard because it's ... hard, not to justify failure later.

I just want to let this Atari ST classic here: Ballerburg (1987) is massive fun.

The reason someone has to risk his life to get to the US could be because the US is the greatest country, at the same time you could also consider the influence that the US in its history has had on other countries so that the life of the people are miserable there.

(e.g. backing and installing dictatorships[1], contributing massively to climate change, ...)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship_of_Chile


A study commissioned by Microsoft: "the total value comparison favors Windows decisively" by including "12 months of Game Pass Ultimate" and "12 months of Microsoft 365 Premium".

So this is a marketing piece where they were paid to make a case for why Microsoft might still be relevant in the face of a really cheap and really capable Mac laptop.

Yes, it is. Interesting are the ways they try to spin it: e.g. they compare the performance to older Intel machines ("Today’s Windows PCs vs. a Five-Year-Old System") and not to the MacBook Neo - of course you get a performance boost in that comparison.

(the linked pdf whitepaper covers the methodology)


[OpenAI] also emphasized that the ChatGPT model implicated is no longer available and suggested that current models are safer and "The safeguards in ChatGPT today are designed to [...] safely handle harmful requests

These sentences are certainly meant as a defense, but to some they may also sound like an admission.


"Although we do not believe Gemini was used"

I don't get the "although": Are they happy that Gemini was not used in cybercrime oder are they bothered because somebody used a (probably better) alternative?


No that's not the case:

  However, several officials and energy experts have rejected the idea that renewables are to blame. EU energy commissioner, Dan Jørgensen, stated that there was "nothing unusual" about the electricity mix at the time of the blackout, and that the outage was not due to a "specific source energy". [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...

So "right to repair" is "duty to repair" now? /s

I was offered to return it or try to fix it myself. In the end the fix was even easier than initially thought and it's working great since. No idea if that's because I am in the EU market and not US. They did take their time to respond but otherwise service was ok.

Same here. When I needed them they were on the ball. Though I haven't had a difficult or complex problem yet.

BSA rebranded itself “Scouting America.” The new name initializes to “SA,” common shorthand for sexual assault.

Well, as a german and history conscious person I think the acronym could also be taken in a completely different way.


More important context are current BSA youth and incoming generations of BSA Scout parents.

To them, SA = sexual assault.


Obviously they should have called it Scouting States.

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