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aritmo··on Neanderthals and Humans Were at War for over 100k Years
Bad article, trying to dramatize science. For whom? For those who can only consume science if it is dramatized?
aritmo··on Amulets may prevent Covid-19, says a paper in Elsevier journal. (They don’t.)
Reading the title, one could claim there is some form of placebo effect. But in reality, the actual paper content is much much worse.
aritmo··on The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
Thanks to the article editor who did not do the common "The Earth is pulsating every 26 seconds and NOBODY KNOWS WHY."
aritmo··on Genomic evidence for reinfection with SARS-CoV-2: a case study (full article)
Sarcasm: so The Lancet is part of the liberal media now.
aritmo··on Netflix is testing a feature that switchεσ off its annoying ‘still watching?’
Some characters look weird in the title. Was that in the original title that was pulled by HN?
aritmo··on How to get a free .ml domain
They are free until your website gets traction and then they take the domain away. You cannot based your work building such a domain only to lose it a bit later
aritmo··on Putin says Russia and U.S. should agree not to meddle in each other's elections
Putin insinuates that the U.S. has ever meddled in the Russian elections?
aritmo··on Opinion: Google Code In Is Flawed
Is that program the one for high school children?
aritmo··on Facebook vows to restrict users if US election descends into chaos
"vow" is too strong of a word considering Facebook.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...

aritmo··on Facebook warned it may stop operating its core app and Instagram in Europe
Eventually some great news!
aritmo··on Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity
An attacker would not bother to brute-force non-22 SSH ports.

The mere fact that you bothered to chang the port is indication that you likely are not using common passwords either.

aritmo··on Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?
This is so petty and undermines the British legal system.
aritmo··on Backdoors and other vulnerabilities in HiSilicon based hardware video encoders
The vulnerability is not in the computer chip. The vulnerability is in the management software of the OEMs.

I was expecting some exotic VPU hardware backdoor. Nevertheless, the article was a good read.

aritmo··on Show HN: Tobab, a poor mans identity aware proxy. “BeyondCorp” for selfhosters
Shouldn't there be a hyphen in "identity-aware proxy"?
aritmo··on OnlyOffice is an alternative to LibreOffice
Is this the same "blogger" that yesterday was disparaging snap packages?

I can see a pattern in being superficial in their writings.

aritmo··on Public asked to report receipt of any unsolicited packages of seeds
I know this one. They make such phantom sales to increase their standing on the platform (ebay, Aliexpress). The platforms do not know it, they put people to make those fake sales so randoms in US and Europe.

In most cases they send hairpins and such stuff, but in this case it happened to be seeds.

If the government response is so heavy handed on this stupid issue (sellers trying to trick the platform), imagine how silly other investigations could be.

aritmo··on Ask HN: Main reason that year of the Linux desktop hasn't happened (yet)?
There are too many Linux distributions and too many desktop environments. There is no coherent message as to what software to use. It is difficult to develop a critical mass of users that uses the Linux desktop.

Lenovo announced recently that they will support Ubuntu in their range of P-series laptops because they are interested in the near 3% total Linux global desktop users.

aritmo··on Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism
"Witchcraft" is an excuse to socially isolate people, and in some cases arrest or kill them.
aritmo··on Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement
It is also possible that a fisherman from South America got stuck in ocean currents and went to Easter island instead. This is simpler than making it to South America and then back to Easter island. There are ocean currents in the SE Pacific that can take a boat from the shore into deep in the Pacific.

If there was an Easter Island seafarer that went from Easter island to South America and back, then they would have a very good standing in the community. His guests would leave a bigger genetic mark in the community.

aritmo··on Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages
Of course it is and of course you would need to recompile snapd. These are standard practices in software engineering.
aritmo··on Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages
I think gnome-calculator was just an experiment for Ubuntu 18.04 to test snap packages. In 20.04 it has been switched back.
aritmo··on The coronavirus may not have originated in China, says Oxford professor
All these test kits would check for the presence of small fragments of RNA. If you are applying the test on lots of sewage, it is likely to find some weird false positive that is not COVID-19 in the first.

I would find it even more interesting if there were specific agents in sewage, irrelevant from COVID-19, that would cause a false positive.

aritmo··on Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism
As ironic as it may be, there are cases of "witchcraft" now in India. Just like in the Middle Ages, even now it is being used as an excuse to rob the land of the poor.

There are many videos and documentaries on YT on this.

aritmo··on Göbekli Tepe
There were definitely more cities which were coastal that disappeared as soon as the sea level rose several tens of meters.
aritmo··on Modern Android is pretty secure
AS long as you do not start installing apps, and avoid using some vendor pre-installed apps.
aritmo··on Dolphins learn from their peers to use empty shells to catch fish
Such complex social behaviors are taught from generation to generation.

And makes even more important the need for conservation to protect pods of dolphins so that they do not lose this collective knowledge. If these pods gets destroyed, then other pods have to figure out the technique from scratch.

Apart from humans, some whales go into menopause. The evolutionary benefit is to have experienced females help raise their grandchildren and pass knowledge to them. This makes it even more important to protect older animals.

aritmo··on Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks
I think the "security concerns" are just a smokescreen .

That is, free trade was good as long we were on top of it, but now that we get a big competitor, it is not so good.

aritmo··on Ask HN: Why do $5 VPS offerings still have the same specs as 10 years ago?
They do not have the same specs. They have slightly reduced specs.

You can no longer get a $5 VPS with 50GB SSD, 2GB RAM, and two vCPUs.

aritmo··on Why does the SpaceX droneship camera cut out? [video]
They could just show the drone-ship feed with a 5 second delay, and the video would be continuous.
aritmo··on Your mobile data sold, without your knowledge
Most likely the users installed one of those free apps that ask for location access. Those apps collected the location, even when not ruining and uploaded for sale.

It is a pity they did not do better forensics on the installed apps. One or more were revealing the location.

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