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DarkStar851··on Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed
Newfoundland has no shortage of stinky fishing villages, but I've been to this one and my god man. I've talked to fishermen from the area who are put off by it. It's been sitting a LOOOONG time and there's a LOT of it. When the wind blows the right (wrong?) direction the stench covers part of the town.

As for the disposal, yeah probably over the top, this stuff will kill marine life as is, but not if it's diluted enough / released slowly over enough time. We've certainly dumped worse stuff into the ocean here.

DarkStar851··on Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed
Newfoundlander here checking in! Nope. She just sounds like that. Another comment mentioned it seems to be a CBC/traditional news thing. A bunch of them sound that way.

The "accent" here is starting to fade out of the younger generations but it sounds Irish to a naive ear.

DarkStar851··on ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification
Paperclip has worked fine in my experience. I've got a bunch of these and the stock antenna really is just awful.
DarkStar851··on KOReader
For some people it's less eye straining if they're reading at night, doesn't help for me personally, but it's a popular feature
DarkStar851··on Amazon in talks to buy MGM for $9bn
GDPR compliance, if you remove "uk" from the URL they just don't ask first :)
DarkStar851··on Blender website under maintenance due to hacking attempt
Yep, seeing a lot of these pop up lately. Probably an attempted supply chain attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain_attack

edit: To be clear, if it was this, it wasn't successful. Blender team checked out the downloads and everything's fine. But that's a likely motive I'd say.

DarkStar851··on We are starting to operate our CNC machines remotely
Looks like that video was a demonstration from a company that sells these machines. The hole was just cut out for doing videos like this I'd assume, not a modification for regular use.
DarkStar851··on Severe brain injury and paralysis temporarily reversed with a sleeping pill
One of the major side effects of Ambien is anterograde amnesia, some people are less sensitive to it, but generally anything you do in "black out" phase will be a complete blur the next day. I used to take it an hour before bed and try to get some work done, I'd usually wake up the next day to several pages of code with absolutely no recollection of writing it.
DarkStar851··on BigBlueButton: An open source web conferencing system
Taking a quick look, this should be able to run without issue on any distribution. They're using Docker to run all the components. No Ubuntu-specific dependencies.
DarkStar851··on [dead]
Jeez, all of their posts are ads for this nsoft crap. Is this allowed on HN? Not sure how to alert a moderator.
DarkStar851··on Advanced Attack Toolkit, Fully Undetectable Rat / Botnet, and More
Certainly not FUD or "advanced". No encryption/obfuscation used to communicate with C2 at all, common patterns in the c++ binary that drops on clients, no polymorphism, drops itself on the disk. Might be a fun toy project for the author but this wouldn't be useful in any actual security testing deployments.
DarkStar851··on Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused
The word you're looking for is "entertainment center", but yeah, weird there aren't more products available for that niche! There are lots of home AV receivers that might fit the bill but they tend to be pretty large units.
DarkStar851··on Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
Big +1 for Gitea/Gogs, that thing will run on a toaster. Super low memory footprint and great for small shops.
DarkStar851··on Stripe Corporate Card
My personal card pulls the same shit constantly. Last raise request I made was for $300 to put a bill on it, was declined, a month later I get an automatic offer for a $1000 credit raise. They'll be losing my business pretty soon.
DarkStar851··on Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
This stuff is basically Goo Gone without the plant goodies and some aircraft paint thinner. It will remove most paint and clear coats so be careful!

edit: I misread xylene as toluene, whoops! It still isn't the most paint-friendly if you don't have a durable surface though.

DarkStar851··on Canonical Ltd source code repositories have been compromised
Launchpad is public, think GitHub but for packages. The Canonical Launchpad repositories weren't tampered. Presumably a lot fewer people have commit access to LP since it's used for package distribution.
DarkStar851··on A Government Guide to Keeping Insulin Unaffordable
Yes, the old drug patent will expire, and when this happens the company typically pulls an "oh our old version is now magically unsafe!" to wrestle away competition.

Plus developing a product from the old patent still requires extensive FDA approval. Very expensive stuff.

DarkStar851··on The Day “/Proc” Died
Heh. I've yet to witness a system yet that survived no disk space. Lucky the whole thing didn't lock up, had a remote mail server die like that and required an on-site intervention.
DarkStar851··on HTML is the Web
Haha I've known for years and I still use <br />. Usually the linter will nag me, but otherwise I just don't care enough to fix it.
DarkStar851··on Ask HN: Why is .NET not popular with startups?
.NET itself has always been "free" (as in beer), it's just VS they made people pay for. They've had a community edition since VS2012 at least, possibly earlier but that's as far back as my brain goes.

The Community edition is pretty full-featured, it's only missing some TFS integration stuff, some test suite stuff and advanced profiling. I'd compare it to IntelliJ's free/pro model.

DarkStar851··on Google Calendar Is Down
I swapped out Horde for Roundcube as my default for customers (who didn't want/need groupware, those are M$ and Zimbra), much easier on the eyes. Just as functional IMO.
DarkStar851··on WireGuard for Windows Pre-Alpha Is Available
This is a third-party extension, but it looks like the owner is still actively maintaining it, and pretty active on GH in general.
DarkStar851··on It's Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser
iOS browser apps are required to use WebKit, but you can pretty heavily modify things. There is a Tor browser app available, it runs Privoxy internally and proxies all traffic from that WebKit instance. Just one since I'm guessing nobody else could be bothered?

Edit: you also can't control tracking to the same extent the forked Firefox that Tor uses can.

DarkStar851··on Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience
For expand/collapse, one of the very few things I've liked about "new" Reddit is being able to click the indent bar alongside comments to show/collapse. Something like that in this for HN would be helpful.
DarkStar851··on What’s New in Apple Filesystems [pdf]
For anyone else wondering about WWDC19, all of these PDFs are accompanied by a video. I guess they were separate in-person workshops.
DarkStar851··on Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee
Sure it's required and they should have to comply, but this is a secured LoC, so there's no interest to gather in the first place. Unless I'm grossly misunderstanding this? That's a stupid high APR, but you should effectively have a bill of $0.
DarkStar851··on CanvasKit – A WASM Version of Skia's Canvas API
I'm not sure about other applications, but headless Canvas with Node is pretty nice. There are some other libs that do the same thing (that one goal at least) but this one looks tidier to use.
DarkStar851··on Ask HN: Why Doesn't Microsoft Fix Skype?
This is right. They're finally killing Lync.
DarkStar851··on Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set
Misrepresentation of the images is something Microsoft has no more power over than Google Image Search. At the very least their dataset here wasn't including names/locations/etc. I don't really see how this is any different from Google using their own data in projects like DeepMind. At least Microsoft admitted the project didn't go as planned and they're shuttering it, and cleaning up their data.
DarkStar851··on Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set
I don't personally see the ethics issue if they were using publicly available pictures. That would be like someone scraping public FB profiles.

That person posted the image/information willingly knowing they lose all control over how it is used and who it is seen by.

Could definitely cause some potential bias though if your input set isn't filtered for some kind of diversity.

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