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KindOneon Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America

Oh I'm blind. I didn't see that, thanks.

KindOneon Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

Become a goat farmer. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4l7kjd/found_a_te...

KindOneon Python 1.0.0 is out (1994)

Do a 'bt full'?

KindOneon Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America

What is the range on that?

KindOneon Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO

Can you explain the "pull a Kodak"? I'm a bit lost with that.

KindOneon Modern Linux in an ancient PC

Compiled the browser a few minutes ago, rather interesting browser. It crashes on ssl/tls pages for me (I'll report / try to debug it more later), gdb is showing something about curl_multi_perform() / fetch_curl_poll.

KindOneon Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system

When can we expect the security updates for the Alto?

KindOneon Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

Some people think it was due to the tax code changes.

KindOneon VLC media player 3.0.0 'WeatherWax' Release Candidate 3

Playback -> Jump to Specific Time

What about that?

KindOneon Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse

Entered the next line into Google and it was the first result:

site:reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport printer stopped working skylight

KindOneon Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse

This? https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/2kfaz...

KindOneon Firefox is on a slippery slope

I'm a fan of Mr. Robot and this add-on went well over my head.

KindOneon Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market

Only took me a few seconds to figure out how to abuse the mileage tax for combustion engines. Physically roll back the odometer if the vehicle is old enough, do it electronically, disconnect the odometer, and/or other ways. I think people that travel around the country a lot would abuse. FYI, messing with the odometer is a felony so don't do it.

My state does not have yearly inspections, so nobody is going to read my odometer.

KindOneon Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market

I disagree on ditching the current fuel tax for combustion engines. What about keeping the current system for combustion engines and creating the "distance traveled tax" only for electric vehicles. Although the separate systems would be a bit confusing for hybrids.

Only took me a few seconds to figure out how to abuse the distance traveled tax for combustion engines. Physically roll back the odometer if the vehicle is old enough, do it electronically, disconnect the odometer, and/or other ways. I think people that travel around the country a lot would abuse. FYI, messing with the odometer is a felony so don't do it.

My state does not have yearly inspections, so nobody is going to read my odometer.

KindOneon SNES Code Injection – Flappy Bird in Super Mario World (2016) [video]

Reddit discussion from 2016:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4caow0/yesterd...

KindOneon Advice for new Ph.D. students (2013)

>Advice I received but ignored but is probably true: Doing a PhD actually decreases your chance of getting a job (especially in Computer Science)

Can you explain the Computer Science part?

Only reasons I can think of are "overqualified" and "X years in college with 0 real world experience".

KindOneon The PhD pioneers

"Wenzhao Wei and Dan Rederth are the first to earn physics PhDs within the state of South Dakota."

KindOneon GNU nano 2.9.0

All the time.

I could use vi/vim, but I'm just too lazy to teach myself or use "vimtutor" to actually learn how to use it. I know just enough to open/modify/save/exit, which I think is just good enough for a quick edits.

KindOneon The Most Officialest SkiFree Home Page (2010)

https://xkcd.com/1053/

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ski.ihoc.net

In my opinion, I don't see it being a "repost" epidemic.

> But really, while a nice diversion, this page just doesn't feel like it deserves to be on the front page of HN anymore.

So hide it?

This is the first time I've ever seen it.

KindOneon Samsung TV buyers furious after software update leaves sets unusable

Could you set your TV's date too 2025?

KindOneon California teaches inmates code; some states ban them from teaching themselves

Can easily be fixed with air-gapped machines.

KindOneon “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”

MS Paint is still going to be around.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-pa...

Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14845225

KindOneon Windows 7, not XP, was the reason WCry spread so widely

What about using WSUS Offline? http://www.wsusoffline.net/

KindOneon PIA and Freenode joining forces

>Freenode has consistently sabotaged the Tor service

No. Some idiots decided to brute force passwords via tor. They finally fixed it after a few years or so.

KindOneon Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge says yes

I was kind of wrong on the details, was in 2002 and they asked Microsoft.

"Instead, agents simply tapped into the wealth of information that Microsoft Corp. and other Internet companies keep on people who visit their Web sites and use their services."

http://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/travis-maury.htm

KindOneon Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge says yes

I remember seeing something like this online. I think it was murderpedia.org ?

Details are a bit fuzzy and might be wrong. In the 90's someone murdered a person or two. Somehow the cops asked the local ISP for anyone making constant searches of the case. They traced it back to the murderer.

KindOneon ASUS Launches Raspberry Pi-Esque 'Tinker Board' with 4K Support

Maybe this? http://up-shop.org/4-up-boards