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CompuHackeron Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

Just wondering, small thing; did you mean to type "disposition" instead of "dislocation"?

CompuHackeron Emotional headlines have an impact regardless of the credibility of the source

Have attempted to do this with recommendations for 30-120s clips with 500,000 to 2,000,000 views from old TV shows, cartoons, and movies. It's not working.

I'd rather read a spreadsheet with a list of public YouTube video IDs/metadata than experience the silence in the downtime between worthwhile videos.

CompuHackeron Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?

Except that the word "pinterest", like pinterest.* results, appears in all the nooks and crannies of the rest of the Web. Excluding the domain like that succeeds in narrowing the scope of the search without excluding content unduly.

CompuHackeron Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects

We'll make it scratch and sniff.

CompuHackeron Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads

One could still make .. how do you say, "telephone" calls?

Phones still have a lot of compute and sensor hardware that standalone apps can make use of. Heck, my Galaxy S3 can be a desktop replacement with MHL-out and USB or Bluetooth interfaces. And a lot of patience.

CompuHackeron About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store

It'll take you a lot longer to violate intellectual property law with the stock calculator.

CompuHackeron RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites

How could it be made to work better?

CompuHackeron FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals

It is my experience that hospital(s) do not have the budget for Windows 10 across their entire network.

CompuHackeron Hacked billboards make Teslas see phantom objects causing them to swerve or stop

I'd like to point out that with just this story in mind, you're describing an "ad-free road".

CompuHackeron Chrome 86 hides full URL in address bar

Still on Firefox 55.0.3 (64-bit) because of the way both Google and Mozilla are handling user interface changes. Considering switch to IceCat or WaterFox.

CompuHackeron Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content

There exists a manual extension called Resurrect Pages for Firefox 57+, with Google Cache, archive.is, Wayback Machine, and WebCite.

CompuHackeron $13 ZeroPi is a tiny headless computer with Gigabit Ethernet (2019)

Should be possible now with a less capable (microcontroller-ish) chip. Delivering power may not be feasible without custom PoE hardware on one end.

CompuHackeron Head of Danish intelligence suspended after whistleblowers hand over information

"Cryptonomicon", a Neal Stephenson novel, delves into the idea that you can mask your intelligence gathering by failing to act on it within some statistical margin. Numerous other ideas are explored.

CompuHackeron Three Reasons not to upgrade to the new Firefox for Android browser

Mozilla has some obsession with making their most popular and extensible browser less popular and less extensible.

CompuHackeron A $350 “anti-5G” device is just a 128MB USB stick, teardown finds

It costs that much to find new 128MB flash drives anyway. That's the real crime here.

CompuHackeron The company that sells lost airplane luggage

I regularly shopped at UBC in person pre-pandemic. Prices for electronics are decided by a group called "Operations" that presumably operates out of an adjacent building. Unmarked items are either withheld from sale for the day, matched to a similar item on shelves, or checked on the spot with a VoIP call to Operations or by a manager, usually by searching eBay. I think the online store was created in response to the pandemic.

The amount of care taken to price each item depends on whether it can be identified by brand or model. Items without either usually fall into a generic category based on the shape, weight, and ports.

It could be considered "worth it" to dig through every shelf, bin, and table in Electronics for some seriously capable but nondescript tech if there wasn't a pandemic on. The online selection is limited to popular, identifiable items at high prices.

CompuHackeron Snow Crash: HBO Max adaptation of Neal Stephenson's 1992 cyberpunk novel

Both are direct quotes from Snow Crash, illustrating the prose comment.

CompuHackeron On Emulation

The randomness in games currently available boils down to picking from a set of very large numbers and executing a limited number of code paths. That is to say, there are no non-deterministic video games, because all outcomes must be programmed.

A problem that can crop up with emulators is a lack of random seed values between runs, leading to, for example, a dungeon crawler with the same loot every time.

CompuHackeron AMD's first octa-core APUs could be arriving soon

AM4 versions would be nice.

CompuHackeron Ring has given 400+ police departments access to doorbell cameras

In a suburban environment.

CompuHackeron Google Chrome Hides WWW and HTTPS:// In the Address Bar Again

I had strong objections to this behavior the last three times Mozilla and Google did it.

CompuHackeron Mozilla offers research grant for a way to embed Tor inside Firefox

Embed the most suspicious possible tool in an application that can be automatically updated and remotely controlled.

Great.

CompuHackeron All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

Well, it should be, but that's an entirely different discussion.

CompuHackeron In the Latest Version of macOS, Macs Sold in China Cannot Display Taiwanese Flag

Noted.

CompuHackeron In the Latest Version of macOS, Macs Sold in China Cannot Display Taiwanese Flag

Selectively break Unicode without warning because... politics?

People with out of date versions of OSX may now be subjected to more scrutiny. Apple may have made an undocumented decision (or introduced a bug) that could cause death.

CompuHackeron Kidfluencers' Rampant YouTube Marketing Creates Minefield for Google

It is uncommon for people to download YouTube content. A home server is also right out.

CompuHackeron New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion

What is the cause?

CompuHackeron Evaluation of five password managers

I have no criticism of the service or WhoisGuard, just the idea of that kind of site using it.

CompuHackeron Evaluation of five password managers

WHOIS Privacy on the website wasn't a consideration on the table the company used. Maybe it's not important in 2018, or is enabled by default, or an oversight, or they're using the spam filtering. But:

It’s at the bottom of the page.

So why the discrepancy?

CompuHackeron Evaluation of five password managers

we decided that Bitwarden is the best choice for our company, and we’ve begun the process of migrating from LastPass to Bitwarden.

  whois lastpass.com
  LogMeIn, Inc.
  whois bitwarden.com
  WhoisGuard, Inc.