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aritmo··on Ubuntu 21.04 Is Here
It's not a "Microsoft takeover". Whoever wrote the release notes, shows a focus to business users rather than the community.
aritmo··on Ask HN: Are Premium Domains a Scam? Getting charged $800/domain :(
You should have avoided Namecheap and their "premium" domains. The "premium" is a made-up term in order to milk customers of their lovely $$$. They put ad hoc restrictions on selected domains, and these may include unreasonable fees for things like renewals or even transfers to other registrars.

If you bought the domain from another registrar, you would have paid retail price.

Read the comments at https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...

aritmo··on Stop Sacrificing Good American Nuclear Jobs for Cheap Chinese Solar Panels
>But it’s today clear that “the China price” stemmed in some measure from the coerced labor of Uyghur Muslims.
aritmo··on “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
A university-wide ban helps in converting the issue into an internal issue of that university. The university officials will have to figure out what went wrong and rectify.
aritmo··on Facebook bullies third-party apps Swipe and Simple Social into oblivion
This is a shame. I would never install the Facebook apps on my phone.
aritmo··on Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report
This is getting silly. Huawei is the most prominent Chinese company and because of the economic war, you get such speculative articles.

And a few days ago, Cisco was found to have a bug in their routers for small businesses that lead to remote code execution. https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/cisco-router-flaws-left-s...

aritmo··on Signal Vulnerability?
The newest version of the Signal app (Android) has the option to also unlock with the unlock pattern.

The screenshot in the video shows the older version of Signal.

aritmo··on Ask HN: How does FB know my phone number?
The weakest link is some of your contacts that opted (because that is the default) to upload their phone contacts to a Facebook service. Through those phone contacts, Facebook correlates the contact name with your Facebook account.
aritmo··on Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
I could not find information about the Linux distro he used. He says at some point "Wayland", which cancels Ubuntu.

Which distro did he install?

aritmo··on Deliveroo April Fools' joke backfires in France
I would pay $$$ to have a glimpse in the Zoom meeting that decided this April Fools.
aritmo··on Mathematicians find a new class of digitally delicate primes
Not much they "found" but rather they "declared" a new class.
aritmo··on You can be pro-vaccine and still see the dangers in vaccine passports
But if they put the vaccine passports on the blockchain? A game changer.
aritmo··on People have started 'fake commuting' because they crave the alone time
Another click-bait article title. "Fake commuting" would mean that people actually drive or take public transport in the morning and then immediately return back to work at home.

What the article says, is that people cannot tolerate a fully sedentary lifestyle at the same location and have to go for long walks, or even go for a drive to change environment.

It is not that they long the commute experience.

aritmo··on Is that ship still stuck?
MarineTraffic direct URL: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:5630138/zoo...
aritmo··on Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store
This means that I have to install this extension as well.
aritmo··on [dead]
She does have a point but drops under the bus all Trump supporters as unreasonable people.
aritmo··on Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN's Khashoggi investigator
Why isn't Saudi Arabia afraid of US sanctions? Biden should do something.
aritmo··on Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)
There is a misconception that removing Android Webview is "fixing" the problem. The proper word is that removing the updated Android Webview is "a temporary workaround" until an updated Android Webview is released.

You cannot remove Android Webview because it is an essential part of Android. By "removing" the package, you are removing the latest update and revert back to the old (and probably insecure) version of Android Webview that came with the initial Android version of the phone.

In the end, Google eventually released a new package now, so you can perform the update of Android Webview to the latest version.

aritmo··on Turkey’s currency plunges after the head of the country’s central bank is fired
Alternative: https://archive.is/r6mTZ
aritmo··on Ancient Native Americans were among the world’s first coppersmiths
Summary: There are copper spears from 8500 ago, way before the Copper Age. Copper ore was easy to access but was too pure to make durable weapons. Stone weapons were just as effective and durable as the pure copper.
aritmo··on Bill Gates's Ask Me Anything
He does AMAs every 3 months now?
aritmo··on UK police warn students to avoid science website
Does Sci-Hub work any more? The popular links lead to citationsy dot com, which is not Sci-Hub.
aritmo··on Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland
Here says[0] that Ghana and China are about to sign a $2b deal to build schools, roads, hospitals and other infrastructure. In exchange of cocoa products.

Did this work out for Ghana? There are no newer posts since 2018 on this.

[0]: https://archive.is/CPFhC

aritmo··on The family feud behind America's Covid test swab supply
It's "swab", not "Covid test SWAP company".
aritmo··on Workaholism at Goldman Sachs
Workaholism is when the person is happy to work that many hours and in such conditions.

This is more like exploitation of junior analysts.

aritmo··on The human brain grew as a result of the extinction of large animals: new paper
Do we really currently use our brains as efficiently as possible?

The decrease in size could be the outcome of one of the bottlenecks, like the one 200k years ago.

aritmo··on U.S. sanctions for the Uyghur genocide are hurting China. But they aren’t enough
The U.S. is leading an economic war against China and these sanctions are just part of the economic war.
aritmo··on Avoid Consumer Routers
OpenWRT support does not come free. There are volunteers that need to spend lots of their personal time so that a consumer router may get reasonably good support in OpenWRT.

Whole range of chipsets with no free software support are immediately excluded from OpenWRT.

aritmo··on Sleep Is the Mate of Death
> Melancholic depressive patients report that they feel worst in the morning, just after waking up, get better as the day goes on, and feel least affected in the evening just before bed. Continue the trend, and you might wonder how depressed people would feel after spending 24 or 36 or 48 hours awake.

Perhaps melancholic depressive patients end up experiencing negative dreams while sleeping, and that makes them wake up depressed in the morning? Because if you sleep deeply you tend not to remember what you dreamed during the night?

That looks so straightforward but the author goes all in into sleep deprivation as a way to "treat" depression.

aritmo··on HN was down
There was a noticeable increase in productivity during the last hour or so.
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