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1xdevneton Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands

Ok. I didn't make the claim and I'm not arguing this with you. You asked for sources and I assumed good faith. I was mistaken.

1xdevneton Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/fbi-best-buy-geek-...

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/the-fbi-paid-geek-squad-employe...

https://www.eff.org/cases/fbi-geek-squad-informants-foia-sui...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/if-a-best...

1xdevneton I do not remember my life and it's fine

Presumably for interviews - specifically STAR[0] format. And no, "just living and thinking" isn't preparing for this. Not everyone thinks in that manner.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation,_task,_action,_resul...

1xdevneton Firefox starts testing "Link Previews"

So I would have to hover over a link, press a key combo that might conflict with my OS, wait for a full page load in the background, then see what a small-scale LLM decides the link is about along with a thumbnail? Who asked for this, and how does it keep me "organized" and "focused" vs just clicking on the link?

"the AI that generates the key points may miss context from the webpage and make mistakes" You don't say...

1xdevneton About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States

The game is published by Nuverse, which is a ByteDance subsidiary.

1xdevneton Traceroute Isn't Real

I appreciate this, especially for Richard Steenbergen's traceroute presentation which I need to dig into. There's a 2020 version of the presentation if anyone is interested, since the Scribd/Slideshare version in the article is from 2014-ish.

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0RUI5kHzEQ

slides: https://storage.googleapis.com/site-media-prod/meetings/NANO...

Edit: yes, I fully agree that traceroute is flawed, it's only ever going to give you an incomplete or even misleading piece of the picture and you shouldn't take what you see as gospel. That said, it has its uses especially for networks that you control and to let you know where to maybe start digging - which is all that any tool does.

1xdevneton Traceroute Isn't Real

As long as you're the only one doing the troubleshooting, sure. FTA:

  > The example given is that a handful of users running MTR (do not get me started on this bastard program) can actually hit this rate limit. This is an outstanding example because I have seen something similar in practice.

  > Consider what that would look like, and how common it would be: If you have a NOC full of people who think they know what they're doing, but don't, that only enhances the probability that everyone is trying to troubleshoot on their own instead of doing a screenshare and coordinating their efforts - thus, you have six guys running MTR to the same IP.

1xdevneton 5G from AT&T and Verizon turns out to be Europe-level bad

I've had Verizon's "Home Internet" service for a year or so in middle America. The 4G and 5G signal strength roughly match and aside from a few initial reboot issues - resolved by firmware updates - it's had rock solid speed. I just ran a few tests from librespeed.org:

  ╔═════════════╦════════════════╦══════════╦════════╦════════╦══════════╦═════════╗
  ║  Location   ║    Provider    ║ Protocol ║  Ping  ║ Jitter ║   Down   ║    Up   ║
  ╠═════════════╬════════════════╬══════════╬════════╬════════╬══════════╬═════════╣
  ║ Chicago     ║ Sharktech      ║ IPv4     ║  60 ms ║  15 ms ║ 408 Mbps ║ 23 Mbps ║
  ║ Atlanta     ║ Cloudiver      ║ IPv6     ║  67 ms ║   8 ms ║ 311 Mbps ║ 23 Mbps ║
  ║ Amsterdam   ║ "Rust backend" ║ IPv4     ║ 169 ms ║ 260 ms ║  68 Mbps ║ 20 Mbps ║
  ║ Nuremberg   ║ Hetzner        ║ IPv6     ║ 155 ms ║ 125 ms ║ 132 Mbps ║ 20 Mbps ║
  ║ Los Angeles ║ Sharktech      ║ IPv4     ║  86 ms ║  15 ms ║ 373 Mbps ║ 21 Mbps ║
  ║ Serbia      ║ SOX            ║ IPv6     ║ 188 ms ║  29 ms ║ 173 Mbps ║ 17 Mbps ║
  ║ Tokyo       ║ A573           ║ IPv4     ║ 183 ms ║  72 ms ║ 156 Mbps ║ 22 Mbps ║
  ╚═════════════╩════════════════╩══════════╩════════╩════════╩══════════╩═════════╝

I wouldn't say it's "decrepit", but maybe I'm just lucky.

1xdevneton Story points are pointless, measure queues

I like this, I'd advocate for a fruit-based task system - although I suppose the exact fruit ranking would depend on the team.

- easy peasy: lemon

- easy but needs careful handling: kiwi

- regular but boring: red delicious

- regular, who wouldn't want to take one of these?: mango

- large task, risk of splash damage if mishandled: watermelon

- tough to crack, needs time or a hammer: coconut

- technically we'll do this, but not really our job: tomato

Edit: I am sad that emojis aren't allowed in comments, though it's understandable.

1xdevneton Systemd by Example (2021)

A casualty of acquisitions, I think. Linux Academy got bought by A Cloud Guru, who then got bought by Vista Equity along with Pluralsight. I think the material lives there now [0].

Packt does have "Linux Service Management Made Easy with systemd" as of Feb 2022, but I've not yet read it.

[0] https://www.pluralsight.com/cloud-guru/courses/mastering-sys...

[1] https://www.packtpub.com/product/linux-service-management-ma...

1xdevneton Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay

"If the given search has not been performed recently, it's pulled fresh from the eBay API. Otherwise, records are cached for 2 hours."

1xdevneton Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay

Edit: Filtering appears to be fully broken for me, with "Error: Could not retrieve items. Please contact support." (Originally thought it was just filtering on sockets with a '/').

1xdevneton Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default

Curious whether you've tried with the new (non-PPA) repo directly from Mozilla as of v122 [1]. I think the old PPA was also Mozilla, so I don't know what may have changed aside from being more publicly acknowledged. Might be worth a try?

I don't have an Ubuntu VM at-hand but on Debian bookworm it installed fine, and (after tweaking one line in profiles.ini to point to my old ESR profile) it loaded and played Widevine-protected videos without any issues.

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w...

1xdevneton Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI

Fairly certain it is Dijkstra, in his own handwriting in 1984.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898... https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd08xx/EWD898.PDF

1xdevneton The myth of the myth of the 10x programmer (2020)

There are instances in other articles, including the latest one from December. It's a WordPress site and the links are baked into the HTML so yes, it's likely running a compromised plugin.

1xdevneton How the gut differentiates artificial sweeteners from sugars in mice

I don't find that weird - if I'm going to be drinking a coke (of whatever flavor), caffeine-free Diet Coke is my preference over regular/Zero. It is a different formula, even if it only comes down to the blend of sweeteners. Obviously I don't know the actual formulas, but each has a different blend of sweeteners based on the labels, and now I've added "The Real Thing" to my reading list. Different people prefer different blends, like the other commenters who prefer monkfruit, erythritol or stevia.

1xdevneton How the gut differentiates artificial sweeteners from sugars in mice

I do not mean to invalidate your experience, but generally speaking it seems like both no and yes to sugar rush/sugar crash.

"Double-blind trials have shown no difference in behavior between children given sugar-full or sugar-free diets, even in studies specifically looking at children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or those considered sensitive to sugar. A 2019 meta-analysis found no positive effect of sugar consumption on mood but did find an association with lower alertness and increased fatigue within an hour of consumption, known as a sugar crash." [0] [1] (emphasis mine)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions#... (yes, I know.) [1] http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/115618/1/WRAP-Sugar-rush-crash-met...

1xdevneton OneNDA – We've Standardised the NDA

I prefer iagree@reallymymail.com, much more convincing - Mailinator alias domain, for those cases where you get "Thanks! We've sent the details to your email." If they block the submission for it, I know that we can't ever do business.

1xdevneton How the gut differentiates artificial sweeteners from sugars in mice

My understanding was more that Coke Zero was originally targeted at men, who apparently viewed "diet" sodas as being for women. [0]

"We're positioning Coke Zero as a defender and celebrator of guy enjoyment."

It doesn't hurt that it's a chance to reformulate without people complaining about the change like "New Coke" (which was allegedly based on the Diet Coke of the time[1]) and so the Zero branding has likely expanded across the Coca-Cola lineup and other brands to expand that reach and introduce changes - and incidentally give them a chance to mess with their agreements with bottlers the same way as when they switched to high-fructose corn syrup [2] [3].

[0] https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/should-mens-products-fear-a-woman...

[1] https://casetext.com/case/coca-cola-bottling-co-v-coca-cola-...

[2] https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Real_Thing/jfGzHxGn...

[3] https://www.pressreader.com/usa/houston-chronicle-sunday/201...

1xdevneton I tried 30 mustards this summer

It existed at one point[0], but I can only see it listed in Canadian shops [1]. UPC 7182800350

[0] https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00O8NG1J4/

[1] https://www.shopmsv.ca/shop/product/88326/Beaver_Hot_Olde_En...

1xdevneton FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website

As of last year[0] it looks like they were trying to make sure the app assets had clear licenses first.

[0] https://github.com/language-transfer/lt-app/issues/24