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Technetium

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Technetium··on David Mackenzie – A Personal History with Linux and BSD Unix [video]
I appreciate the attempted correction, but I do mean organic. I don't know about you, but I definitely do not have many people in my daily life that would ever link or post about such a thing. Not only that, but I've had a YouTube feed that is 30% non-technical garbage for a couple of years despite my best efforts, thereby making an organic discovery even more unlikely. If I had been searching systematically, there's a good chance I could have found it, however I haven't really tried to hunt down many personal channels for such people.
Technetium··on ScreenPlay Is an Open Source Live-Wallpaper App for Windows and OS X
X11 & Wayland, but KDE only: https://github.com/catsout/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin

Wayland Only: https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaper

X11 Only: https://github.com/jtsiomb/xlivebg

Technetium··on David Mackenzie – A Personal History with Linux and BSD Unix [video]
Videos of this caliber are rare to find organically. I would have never otherwise known that he had a YouTube channel. Thank you very much for posting this.
Technetium··on Syncthing – A decentralized continuous file synchronization program
https://docs.syncthing.net/users/relaying.html + https://docs.syncthing.net/users/strelaysrv.html
Technetium··on Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Turns out you're right, thanks for the correction! It's been so incredibly long since I used XP that I forgot it does need to be installed. It was introduced as a default in Server 2008 & Vista per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...
Technetium··on Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
IPv6 was introduced in XP, so it's probably safe to assume vulnerability there as well. They don't provide updates pre-2008 anyway, so we'll never know until a PoC comes out for testing. Disable IPv6 just in case you do have one of those antiques connected to a network.
Technetium··on ArchiveTeam Warrior
I decided to read the README and saw the following notice: Version 4 is now available at https://warriorhq.archiveteam.org/downloads/warrior4/

Which then contains a README with a link to the source for the new version: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior4-vm

This new version is also mentioned on the homepage of the Wiki: An updated Warrior virtual appliance (v3.2, v4.0) is now available with better support for newer projects that utilize wget-at.

ArchiveTeam should update the appliance download URL.

Technetium··on NirSoft web site provides a unique collection of small and useful freeware
I've been very much enjoying WSCC for around 8 years. It has a nice interface to more than just NirSoft utilities, and allows for mass-updating. There's also portable version, which is convenient to have for diagnostics in remote areas.

https://www.kls-soft.com/wscc/

Technetium··on Dolphin Rolling Releases Announcement
YEAR.MINOR.PATCH is not semantic, it's MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH https://semver.org/
Technetium··on Windows 11 is now enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
This problem CONSTANTLY haunts me and my customers. (1) Uninstall OneDrive (2) Reboot (3) Apply policy to block OneDrive reinstallation (linked below) (4) Attempt to change your folders with Explorer: right-click the library folder, then go to properties, Location, and choose Restore Default. If this fails, use Move. (5) Manually move any remaining files from c:\users\username\OneDrive (6) Open registry, manually edit the keys shown in the link (7) Delete leftover OneDrive folder (8) Reboot for completion!

[3] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/onedrive/how-to-disab... [6] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-do...

Technetium··on How Meta trains large language models at scale
Please use the word ablated instead. That article's title is not using a real word. I'm assuming it's the author's English issue, since they called the model "helpfull" instead of "helpful".
Technetium··on AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can't Get Smarter
They don't express concerns because they've already gotten their data, and retroactive regulation won't ever take it away from them. You will never be able to train on even a fraction of the corpus OpenAI has culminated.
Technetium··on HP bricks customers laptops with faulty automatic BIOS upgrade
This is still not something you can take for granted, even on a mid to high range desktop motherboard. Flashback is still something you must pay extra for, and a secondary BIOS is the same. Laptops are even further behind!
Technetium··on I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension
Can you include a license? Will it be MIT like sqlite-vss?
Technetium··on Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
There's always a way, even if it's a lot more painful now! https://mas.owasp.org/MASTG/techniques/android/MASTG-TECH-00...
Technetium··on JSR: The JavaScript Registry
I can't even tell that I'm blocking anything, but: "You are offline. This site requires an internet connection."
Technetium··on Goodbye Auth0
Looks like you never actually had to pay for COBRA out of pocket. It's not financially feasible for the large majority of people, especially those who didn't have to pay out of pocket for their coverage previously. A single person can be ~$800USD, and if you want to cover dependents in your family, at least double it.
Technetium··on CT scans of coffee-making equipment
There are a lot of solutions to those annoying popups, but changing your browser shouldn't be one. https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu & https://hellogoodbye.app & https://privacybadger.org
Technetium··on Ask HN: My mother is slowly losing her eyesight, how to prepare?
Thanks for recommending Be My Eyes! I would have never known it existed if not for you. I'm very much looking forward to helping people :)
Technetium··on The code for Anna's Archive
Morals are subjective, and this is not the place to preach. The charges for “donating money” and “money laundering” are absolutely worlds apart, and conflating them is disingenuous.
Technetium··on Federal study links testicular cancer to ‘forever chemicals’
Wow, the amount of willful ignorance in some comments here is astonishing. It's so strange to see people argue for the continuance of something harmful to mankind as a whole. It really feels like seeing an argument on behalf of leaded water. What's the next leap? Trying to justify 3M/DuPont/Chemours/Corteva not paying for destroying the environment, even though they're profiting tens of billions a year from doing this? Let's try to stay grounded in factual reality; lawsuits don't happen randomly, and a $1,185,000,000 in damages should be taken VERY seriously!

They knew it was toxic for 73 BLEEDING YEARS[0], yet none of the studies come out publicly. They do it for profit, never any other reason[1]. Stock prices won't drop if people think it's safe[2]. They took a page right out of the big tobacco playbook there. It's as ingeniously profitable as it is evil.

[0] https://www.ewg.org/research/decades-polluters-knew-pfas-che... [1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/07/pfas-3m-... [2] https://static.ewg.org/reports/2019/pfa-timeline/3M-DuPont-T...

Lawsuit sources: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/02/dupont-p... https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/dupont-chemou... https://apnews.com/article/pfas-forever-chemicals-dupont-dri...

Technetium··on Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet
"As of May 4th, 2020, we have moved our domain from discordapp.com to discord.com!"

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042987951-D...

Technetium··on Senate votes to let people who’ve used marijuana work at intelligence agencies
You did NOT remember correctly. The only way you're going to have effects for a week is by using it for a week! The effects are VERY predictable, as studies have shown first-hand through trials for many decades. The only thing that isn't absolutely certain is an individual's rate of processing THC-COOH, which is only a leftover metabolite of what was once psychoactive THC (THC-A). You will absolutely test positive for THC-COOH a week after a single usage, sometimes up to a month; because it's stored in your fat. For this reason, it can even be detected up for multiple months in heavy users! An inactive metabolite is unable to cause any psychoactive effects.
Technetium··on CloudFlare’s last Warrant Canary was published over a year ago
"SpiderOak removes its warrant canary" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696276
Technetium··on Trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)
It's called "Conversation View" and it DOES exist! It's just disabled by default. You can find it in: Settings -> All Settings -> General.
Technetium··on Become Ungoogleable
Well, there's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32703995
Technetium··on ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails
They paid for the account in the name of their company, for company uses, with company money. If that's not account ownership then please define what is.
Technetium··on Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M
Nvidia AI will be able to train on all of Giphy too. Down the rabbit hole we go…
Technetium··on Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?
Like this: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/getting-started-with-gith...
Technetium··on Discord’s username change is causing discord
> Then use E2E encryption

Great idea, except for the part that modifying the client is a bannable offense itself, and you can get banned as a spammer for using it too often. Nevertheless, it's possible: https://github.com/leogx9r/DiscordCrypt // https://github.com/An00nymushun/End-to-end-Discord-Encryptio...

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