I sorely miss Panoramio, especially all the Soviet nuclear launch sites mapped there with exceptional precision. All the barracks and the submarine bases, 3-block 5-story houses and the occasional coal plant next to the school.
Browsing on Panoramio over Росляково or Liinakhamari was a stunning experience that none of the current mapping apps deliver yet.
I once saw an organization that migrated from Weblogic to Kubernetes, keeping the rule to have a least two instances of each app but forgetting that that their Weblogic had distributed transactions and without implementing something similar in Kubernetes.
They happily serve users, helped by low traffic and low expectations. Occasional data corruption and race conditions give work to the support maintenance teams.
Heh... I actually did support a rather large userbase pretty much on my own for 20 years, until I lost that business to Facebook. This can be traced in my HN history even.
Anyway, the evil is in the details, and the details matter. But it's a topic for a blogpost, not a HN comment.
Belgian here with some knowledge of the EU-centric media operating out of Brussels.
They are legit but have a tiny audience, this accident made them instantaneously recognizable.
Good for them, we are all fed up with Politico (Axel Springer) + Euractiv (Mediahuis) duopoly.
P.S. This is just IMO, but De Wever should not have gone to the event, he lost a lot of political capital there. He should have given the ground to Theo Francken and Vansina to do their clown thing and instead he should have traveled 100km to the Florennes airbase to assist at BAFS-2026 that happened at the same time.
A few years ago as I was working for a local government, a similar discussion started, but quickly finished after the project owner valiantly displayed her dumbphone.
Only months later did I learn that her husband was investigated for misappropriation of funds, so keeping a minimal digital footprint was important for her.
EU should have mandated a user-facing authentication scheme using a random string as the only authentication factor for everything. Pretty much like the API tokens for contemporary enterprise software, except that they would be used by ordinary people and not by application developers.
And complement it with hardware tokens for highly sensitive applications.
Passkeys could have been that, but they were quickly subverted by the industry.
But I know for a fact that these ratings are pure crap. I asked them to fix the entry for Belgium once, and they replied that they trust the officials providing the info even though I sent the references to the legislation.
https://t.me/samlowryid