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akamhyon Carrier pigeons used by police in the Indian state of Odisha

Clickbait title, these birds are now pretty much obsolete. They infact themselves mention it it the article.

akamhyon eng.mil.ru is returning HTTP 418

The http-status is 418 since 2022-02-24 10:07:41 UTC

  $ waybackpy --url https://eng.mil.ru/ --cdx --limit 10 --from 20220223053825 --cdx-print statuscode --cdx-print timestamp --cdx-print archiveurl

  20220223053825 - https://web.archive.org/web/20220223053825/http://www.eng.mil.ru/
  20220223114449 200 https://web.archive.org/web/20220223114449/https://eng.mil.ru/
  20220223120250 - https://web.archive.org/web/20220223120250/http://eng.mil.ru/
  20220224083710 - https://web.archive.org/web/20220224083710/http://www.eng.mil.ru/
  20220224100741 418 https://web.archive.org/web/20220224100741/https://eng.mil.ru/
  20220224211908 418 https://web.archive.org/web/20220224211908/https://www.eng.mil.ru/
  20220225023226 500 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225023226/https://eng.mil.ru/
  20220225042322 418 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225042322/https://www.eng.mil.ru/
  20220225110000 301 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225110000/http://www.eng.mil.ru/
  20220225110001 - https://web.archive.org/web/20220225110001/http://eng.mil.ru/
  20220225110001 418 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225110001/https://eng.mil.ru/
  20220225122228 301 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225122228/http://eng.mil.ru/
  20220225122228 418 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225122228/https://eng.mil.ru/
  20220225141350 500 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225141350/https://eng.mil.ru/

akamhyon Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia

They could have used https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot (python API interface) or https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia

akamhyon Time Person of the Year: Elon Musk

- https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2021-elon-musk/

akamhyon U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy

Okay, I'm dumb. But can anyone please explain how the UK has any right to stop an American Company(Meta) from acquiring another American Company(Giphy)? If the UK can, can Germany, India, or even China and Russia do something similar?

akamhyon Internet disrupted in Sudan amid reports of coup attempt

Not really, Bolivia has seen the highest number of coups or attempted coups. Sudan is the country with highest number of coups in Africa.

akamhyon Internet disrupted in Sudan amid reports of coup attempt

Aren't coups commons in Sudan? Maybe the country with most number of coups is Sudan.

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_coups_in_Sud...

akamhyon India may build new coal plants due to low cost despite climate change

21 new nuclear reactors are expected to be set up by 2031.

https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/power/21-ne...

akamhyon Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged

^ Indian culture

Every culture

akamhyon Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged