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4rt··on Here’s Why I Decided to Buy 'InfoWars' [The Onion, but real news]
i've heard of her, she's been on mainstream tv for a long time doing a sort of morning tv job on one of the top few channels.

edit: i looked her up, its "The One Show" a sort of after-work magazine style show on BBC1. i've not had a TV license for 4-5 years so i can only remember the programme format (and her strong welsh accent).

4rt··on HTML Form Validation is underused
this is just react though. it's not HTML validation.
4rt··on Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage
Bold would be accusing them of not allowing you to install shit quality kernel drivers in ring0, and then accusing them of negligence when you hose your machine by doing it.
4rt··on Shelley Duvall has died
RedLetterMedia did a re:view of Popeye quite recently.

https://youtu.be/pygCruE-EJs

4rt··on US and Germany foiled Russian plot to assassinate CEO of arms manufacturer
Dawn Sturgess was a british civilian killed by russian nerve agent on british soil in a botched attempt to kill Sergei Skripal a russian/british dual national (spy/double agent).

Alexander Litvinenko was a russian/british citiizen and killed with polonium poisoning on british soil (journalist).

4rt··on Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe
The security model on modern OSes is vastly different to the win95 days.
4rt··on Apple iPhone sales fall in nearly all countries
I've been looking for android phones to replace my 12 mini.

I'm not interested in carrying around a huge phone, even if it means a few weeks of getting used to android again.

I was secretly hoping they might announce minis on every alternate model, or release an SE that was smaller but it doesn't seem so.

4rt··on PowerShell: The object-oriented shell you didn't know you needed
I'm a huge fan of powershell, especially for build scripts and other things that get complicated sometimes. Parsing XML and JSON, calling web APIs and dealing with their responses are all about as easy as they can be.

The article covers all the main (minor) bugbears.

4rt··on Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe
Sandbaggers is still up there as one of the best, I rewatched it last week.
4rt··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
Porsche has a reasonably priced upgrade path for their head units even in quite old cars which add Carplay. The value is obvious to them - it maintains a high resale value on older vehicles which maintains their higher current sale value.

Something I found interesting when I was hacking my VW to add Carplay (without paying £300) was that a ton of manufacturers in the ~2016 era use the exact same head unit and OS but with a different front fascia, different button layout and a relatively advanced UI skinning system. If you can be bothered you can add e.g. Audi track G-sensors to your VW or use a different skin.

4rt··on Could the cosmos, in fact, be conscious?
I always thought self-awareness would only evolve relative to how social the beings are.
4rt··on BBC chooses AI over human voiceover artist
Your RF knowledge is no-doubt sound, the people saying TV detector vans are impossible have no idea what they're talking about.

But, ultimately the tax isn't on TVs. The tax is applied to people watching broadcast live television and it's used to fund the BBC, ITV, Channel4 and also used to pay OFCOM which regulates all other media.

4rt··on Misunderstanding about the details of how Apply Pay works
I thought apple/google only verified payments up to a limit (ever increasing) of e.g. £500/£1000 based on the biometrics? Is that right?
4rt··on BBC chooses AI over human voiceover artist
I'll bite, who's forcing you to "pay for the BBC a fee for a service" you don't use?
4rt··on Parachute saves plane occupants in Northern California crash
Hopefully one of them was a pilot
4rt··on HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought by AMD
As far as I can see there's no need to re-encrypt the signal - just leave it as a non-HDCP stream?

There are HDMI splitters which silently strip HDCP to output to two screens at once - they don't advertise this feature but they do it anyway in order to function. In order to achieve the overlay you'd just need one of these and then a non-HDCP-aware overlay apparatus before the display.

https://www.reddit.com/r/VIDEOENGINEERING/comments/xme482/hd...

4rt··on UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea interconnector
That made me laugh
4rt··on A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system
And also that militaries are training far fewer pilots with the advent/expectation of future wars being primary fought with drones and missiles rather than fighters.
4rt··on Prince Harry wins phone hacking case against British tabloid
That was the main way.

Another was some networks had a voicemail number you could dial into from abroad and then enter the phone number and pin of the voicemail box you wanted to access. Before this scandal nobody has ever changed that pin, or known about it, in the entire history of british telephony.

4rt··on Study: Water spritz before grinding coffee yields less waste, tastier espresso
Assuming that retained grounds in the grinder operate like a FIFO it's just that they go stale quickly so ruin each next day's coffee. That's what Hoffman implies anyway.
4rt··on Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone
It looks to be launched from the 'nest' by spring/air using the sabot because it leaves so quickly. No way a jet could accelerate it that quickly on its own.

That doesn't mean it's incapable of taking off on its own vertically though.

4rt··on Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit from a Sexual Abuse Survivor
I'm not from the USA but it seems like "survivor" traditionally implies having survived a situation where the normal expectation is poor odds of survivability. Nobody's a stubbed toe survivor or an upset about the bus survivor.
4rt··on 23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack
Couldn't you just do it but with a fake name?
4rt··on ASP.NET Core Blazor
This one seems ok https://www.mudblazor.com/components/dropzone#basic-usage
4rt··on ASP.NET Core Blazor
You're talking specifically about Blazor client-side framework which is designed for e.g. games or drawing apps where 6mb of downloads isn't particularly onerous.

The far more common use-case is Blazor server-side which doesn't have this huge download overhead and works like server-side rendering in e.g. React, the download is approximately 150kb.

4rt··on ASP.NET Core Blazor
That looks to be some individual dev's dragdrop example made 4 years ago. Just because it's hosted on azure doesn't mean its a microsoft demo.
4rt··on Most UI applications are broken real-time applications
Exactly this, doing it right is possible but vastly more complicated and requires tons more UI work.

It's not impossible - tape drives jukeboxes with 5 minute delays aren't a new invention.

4rt··on The male loneliness epidemic and how it affects fathers
I read this just a minute ago:

> A Yorkshire horse fair nearly a century old may not be able to go ahead this year as it runs out of options for places to hold it.

> Lee Gap Horse Fair has been taking place in some form in West Ardsley since 1136, making it 887 years old. Since 1995 the horse trading fair has taken place on Baghill Green fields off Heybeck Lane.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/historic-hors...

4rt··on Mohamed Al-Fayed began life as a porter in Alexandria and died as a billionaire
He seemed like a great guy on Ali-G.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bYjGHRX9dE

4rt··on The Rival to the Panama Canal That Was Never Built
The last time this idea was re-floated in the 2010s was in reponse to Panama increasing their transit fees. The fees decreased, making the project financially infeasible again.

It's interesting that its an unnamed Chinese company who seem so keen to keep this concept alive and possibly influence the transit fees still.

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