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DarthGhandi··on Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?
I'd put quora in there too, why is all this walled content at the top of google constantly? It's not even high quality.
DarthGhandi··on How to properly manage SSH keys for server access
%USERPROFILE%\.ssh\
DarthGhandi··on How Iranian diaspora is using old-school tech to fight internet shutdown at home
Satellite phones are illegal to own, yet work perfectly fine right now in China and have done so for decades, no one is shooting them down.
DarthGhandi··on How Iranian diaspora is using old-school tech to fight internet shutdown at home
That's fairly absurd, such an action would essentially be declaring war. I don't see it happening, Starlink simply won't sell the devices in China and that's it.
DarthGhandi··on 179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown
Any real reason you can't google it other than being worried about the big G knowing what you looked up?

https://www.wired.com/2016/02/corrupt-silk-road-investigator...

DarthGhandi··on Google Services Experiencing Disruptions
Offtopic, but it blows my mind seeing <1 min old StackOverflow comments indexed by Google search, the sheer amount of work going on behind the scenes to make that happen.
DarthGhandi··on Google Services Experiencing Disruptions
It's a status page, doesn't seem to be a dark pattern intended to keep you engaged and garner clicks, more likely just badly written.

If anything they'd probably want you not visiting it more.

DarthGhandi··on Assange Hearing Day 16
I certainly hope anyone with that insight would contact him directly first rather than post it on hn for fake internet points so that the hundreds of Facebook and Twitter employees here don't see it instead to intervene first for their own benefit.
DarthGhandi··on Jio’s phone will run Android and cost about $54
> the alternatives suck outside the urban cores of India's biggest cities

Any advice for someone wanting to start an ISP in India? How difficult is such an endeavor?

DarthGhandi··on Mars Problems vs. Venus Problems
More than 28 hours of work was done on the deepest saturation dive ever made, it was beyond your 500m mark:

https://divingalmanac.com/deepest-saturation-dive-open-sea/

DarthGhandi··on Mars Problems vs. Venus Problems
From your link mate:

> These only seven dives to more than 300 m do not include the dives of professional saturation divers using a divers bell at constant pressure for the transfer from surface to ground and back. These seven dives are done with decompression in the water not using a divers bell and saturation diving.

The selected answer is talking about huge pressurisation changes in a short amount of time, that's a very different situation and nothing like what commercial deepdivers do.

Saturation diving involves weeks of adjustment in a bell.

Much of the science suggests we haven't even come close to pushing the physical limits but no one is willing to risk it, the world record was set 30 years ago.

DarthGhandi··on How to Drive on Sand Without Getting Stuck (2017)
This doesn't feel like sarcasm for some reason.
DarthGhandi··on NSA Technical Report on UEFI Secure Boot Customization [pdf]
Would you extend that to bioweapons and depleted uranium munitions that are well documentated to have caused tens of thousands of birth defects in innocent children?

X terrorist does it, so why can't the US right? Is this line in the sand really drawn at cyber? And does cyber not kill people in meatspace? Last I looked you drone strike weddings based on metadata.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/horrors-of-war-us-uk-munitions...

DarthGhandi··on Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server
This is true and it's the unstoppable nature of complex systems and the myriad of people responsible for them.

That said, this line from the article is pretty damning, it took them 3 days to lock down that insecure server. For a company that size with all those security employees it looks both lazy and negligent.

> The infosec firm reported the problem to Microsoft on 13 September, and the database was vanished from public view by the Windows giant's security response centre on 16 September.

DarthGhandi··on China has built 380 internment camps in Xinjiang, study finds
A reminder of where the independent Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) gets all their funding:

Australian Department of Defense

US Department of State

Raytheon

Northrop Grumman

Thales

Lockheed Martin

BAE Systems

A reasonable person might enquire why so many global weapons manufacturers have such an interest in the work they produce.

DarthGhandi··on Mars Problems vs. Venus Problems
> 44 atm

Note that humans can and do work at higher pressures than this.

DarthGhandi··on Qantas offers a seven-hour flight to nowhere
> We really don't have significant manafacturing

We once did, but Dutch disease set in like many predicted at the start of the commodities boom. It's popular to blame wages but manufacturing powerhouses like Germany have equivalent wages and compete easily.

People subtlety associate fossil fuels with a healthy economy and govts are unwilling to try change popular perceptions as it's contentious enough to have taken down a few PM's. Meanwhile Norway is now powered by 100% renewables and still shipping huge amounts of oil elsewhere.

Australians are the 2nd biggest greenhouse emitters per capita after Qatar. It's shameful.

DarthGhandi··on Qantas offers a seven-hour flight to nowhere
Yeah they did and it looked great. All the destinations here are probably more suited to getting out and exploring at ground level.
DarthGhandi··on A discretization attack [pdf]
For perhaps some background behind this paperthere's some lively official discussion here [0] by many participants after the round 3 candidates were announced.

[0] https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/forum/m/#!forum/pq...

DarthGhandi··on Commerce Department Prohibits WeChat and TikTok Transactions
That's "cleary" not what the grandparent comment was alluding to nor did they once mention tech.

Regardless of the ever shifting goalposts of those who constantly make this patently false statement about US companies inability to do business on the mainland, let's just restrict it to tech then:

I already mentioned Microsoft, how about Apple? Intel? IBM, Dell, HP? They all make huge dollars in China as well as benefit from their supply chains to sell elsewhere.

I really can't understand why people mentally cling so hard to this notion that US companies can't sell their wares to the Chinese.

DarthGhandi··on Actix Web 3.0
Just going off what I remember from when async started to stabilise, see the top comment on this reddit thread. It may be be fixed by now or simply just allocated memory instead but many were commenting on it at the time.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/cych6a/async_performa...

DarthGhandi··on Commerce Department Prohibits WeChat and TikTok Transactions
> American companies can’t freely operate in China

McDonald's, Nike, Boeing, Microsoft, P&G, General Electric (to name just a few) all hold dominant market share in China. I have no idea why people constantly repeat this claim so easily debunked. US companies are everywhere in the country and making billions.

DarthGhandi··on Actix Web 3.0
> how little RAM a Rust app/container uses for the number of users hitting it

I thought that's only for syncronous libraries/frameworks? With async it blows out quite a bit. Everyone except rocket has got async functionality now too.

DarthGhandi··on Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning
I'd be quite surprised if it was illegal anywhere. Dashcams are perfectly legal and even mandatory in some situations. Getting data from that footage is legal.

I guess the uploading of images done here might be murky, but again there's millions of dashcam vids and youtube and other video sites.

DarthGhandi··on Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Lab Modification
Have you maybe considered that your link is basically claiming a massive conspiracy? That's it's virtually the same stuff that Alex Jones and Infowars are pushing?

> We are an anonymous group of researchers. We are not affiliated with any company, nation state, or organization. We are not receiving funding from any sources, public or private.

So I'm going to straight up say that this site is politically motivated without a doubt. Here's some actual researchers from the West writing an open letter to the Lancet willing to put their actual names to their research saying it's natural in origin.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

I can find you similar sites with psuedoscientific analyses of 5G research papers too. Should I share them here?

DarthGhandi··on ByteDance won't sell TikTok U.S. operations to Oracle or Microsoft: CGTN
> can't remember when the US built concentration camps

2001 Afghanistan and 2003 Iraq war, hundreds of thousands of Muslim men were imprisoned without trial. And they were proper prisons not dormitories.

Can you find me some photos of these "concentration camps"? Because I can go searching for US detention centers from that time and it's not pretty.

DarthGhandi··on What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
For anything long term and high volume it's far cheaper to use open source solutions and hire a manual review team in the developing world where English is a common second language. Unless you are comfortable with the high rate of errors there's still a need for review.

For small one-off tasks the cloud solutions do fine.

DarthGhandi··on Dr. Fauci says he takes Vitamin D and C to “lessen susceptibility to infections”
A mask has far more effectiveness than vitamins and has none of the side effects associated with anti-malarial drugs
DarthGhandi··on PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
There's probably a better word but it resonates with some people.

The desire to preserve other planets for the remote chance that there's life there and we can study it before turning up anyway and ruining things is misguided. We are the only known life in the universe, it's incredibly irresponsible to not propagate such things (just in case)

DarthGhandi··on Youtube-dlc – Download videos from YouTube or other video platforms
> What are you nitpicking about?

Verbatim from my comment: "the youtube.com undocumented api"

Thanks for reading.

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