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ahoka··on Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016)
Same in Hungary: https://worldwidepanorama.org/wwp1208/BanfalvyZoltan-5060.ht...

"This is a special storage facility, type Granit 2 (or 3), designed for A-bombs."

Not sure if it's true, but the article says these nukes were meant for Italy.

ahoka··on Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base
But they didn't give a DONALD.
ahoka··on The lost malloc()
I have always thought about C being a language with "simple" syntax (but things like type declarations are hell), but very complicated semantics.
ahoka··on Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines
I keep hearing this since Windows 98.
ahoka··on Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks
Last consumer router that ran any kind of BSD based firmware was probably Apple Airport and that was a long time ago.
ahoka··on Supermarket freezers in Belgium and Sweden hit by suspected cyber-attack
Monitoring, I guess?
ahoka··on Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
Yes, using prime numbers are a good way to reduce the risk of multiple timers coinciding, for example a 10s, 30s, 60s period on a freshly restarted node / process.
ahoka··on Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery
They were sorry.
ahoka··on Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale
They are indeed a little bland, but the GPT is very far from creative either, just busier and way over the top.
ahoka··on We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers
It would be very useful for some use-case I have around deciding if an input has potentially sensitive data, to avoid sending it to AI providers. Having to call an external API makes this a catch 22.
ahoka··on Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA
Unfortunately you cannot check the insides, but it's still nice that it's on display.
ahoka··on Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard
Tapping in a tempo could be useful.
ahoka··on QGIS bans AI assisted contributions
I think the economics just change drastically. A few years ago a helping programmer was great help and would implement something that was agreed to be needed to be done by the project or something very important for the contributor (the reason they spent the time to contribute). Now anyone can get a 20$ subscription and prompt away, but so do the project's core developers. So why should they bother separating the wheat from chaff? I totally understand that.
ahoka··on JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
Dying of FOMO.
ahoka··on Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation
I'm waiting for someone to actually name something "Torment Nexus", which is the name of this phenomena.
ahoka··on Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data
I think this is the worst part about it. Some company making a profit selling my data should be illegal.
ahoka··on CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software)
But 700 euros almost gets you a microfreak and an sp404.
ahoka··on LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
Maybe check their employees linkedin feed?
ahoka··on Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”
Daylight saving changed the UTC time, because opening hours were always in local time.
ahoka··on Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"
I've seen a product where they used UTC to store opening hours. They had to rewrite all dates via a script twice a year.
ahoka··on How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms
Ah, the classic tyranny of structurelessness.
ahoka··on OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
I'm pretty sure it's already illegal to hack others.
ahoka··on Neki – Sharded Postgres
I scrolled through the landing page and even the "Get started" page and I have still no idea what is this. Is this a managed db? Something I can run myself? No idea.
ahoka··on Splash-free urinals (2025)
I really like the inverted version, where it's almost guaranteed to splash yourself as a deterrent.
ahoka··on Learn Programming with OCaml
Why learn an instrument when you can just press play?
ahoka··on IBM Bob
It's Nokia again now, bought out Siemens' share more than a decade ago.
ahoka··on Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
It's distributing malware, do not use any of the "TPB" sites.
ahoka··on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
This is not true. For example not every citizen can vote (people under guardianship or criminals) and not citizens can vote in local elections in the EU, if they came from another EU country.
ahoka··on True Rate of Unemployment
People could use the fifth day to go to school.
ahoka··on Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT
Oh fun, we have used it in school to etch PCBs. Right outside of the class room with no protective equipment of course. It was in a bucket.
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