luz666's comments

On: Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure

[luz666]

In Switzerland, it is only done in few cantons and only up to 30% of the population.[1] I have no idea how it is intended, but I personally interpret it like this: - It is mostly an experiment so far. - If it fails (thinking about exploitation), Switzerland does not lose a lot and just goes back to 100% paper-voting. - It is a free service to other countries to show what e-voting can be in best-case. - It does not show what could happen in worst-case. - The riskiest part of this experiment is the interpretation.

[1] https://www.news.admin.ch/en/newnsb/ZLw6w1GV_UdJKDocuT0sX

On: You Just Reveived

[luz666]

xkcd 10000 :)

On: Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective

[luz666]

what if they removed only 33% of the stops? so per 3 stops, one is removed and the remaining were rearranged. it might even happen that the new bus stop is closer to your house. i agree, for the average person, the distance to the stop increases though.

On: Keep Android Open

[luz666]

I am seriously unaware of the risks and also flashing brand new phones :)

On: LibrePCB 2.0 with new slint.rs based UI

[luz666]

LibrePCB is absolutely awesome, I made quite a few PCBs during the last years with it. Imo this tool flies under the radar of many folks.

On: From Nevada to Kansas by Glider

[luz666]

Interesting. Do they also use condom catheter?

On: Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification

[luz666]

The machine smells correctly, when the same numbers (or similar when using some norm, e.g. the L2) appear for the same smell (reproducibility) and therefore a mapping (numbers -> smell) can be created. When this starts to exist (practically usable), there can be a database to store the mappings, allowing classification. E.g., the machine says "this tastes like banana". The machines/algorithms/products could itself be rated for precision.

I dont say such machines don't exist, but for my taste (pun intended) the solutions all lack something, either long term stability or having a second source supplier or being able to classify a reasonable amount of tastes or being able to distinguish between two tastes (or lacking all those things together).

On: Show HN: An easy way of broadcasting radio around you (looking for feedback)

[luz666]

Beside the already mentioned and imo highly valid concerns, no concern regarding the curl some url and pipe to sudo?

[douxx → luz666]

Well, you can open the url in your browser, and inspect the code that is also on the github repo ;)

[hulitu → luz666]

> no concern regarding the curl some url and pipe to sudo?

We live in the time of Cargo, pip and npm. So no. /s

On: 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results

[luz666]

Maybe just reduce production amount an increase prices? Profit probably continues, but on a lower level, I guess.

On: Using Python for Scripting

[luz666]

Or install direnv and put your dependencies into a shell.nix, setup the bash hook according the manual, create the .envrc with the content "use nix". Then type "direnv allow".

Then you can do e.g. use other persons python scripts without modifying their shebang.