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asdefghyk··on Residential proxies detected on White House network
A person would think that ... security software running on the users PC would / could detect this problem .......
asdefghyk··on Residential proxies detected on White House network
Answer my own question - It was actually an outside entity that detected the problem. However , it gives the network admins a way to determine if this activity is happening on networks they are responsible for .....
asdefghyk··on Residential proxies detected on White House network
If residential proxies detected on White House network, why have network admistrators blocked the device?

And why have they not physically located the device OR at least vastly reduced its possible location , by determining the flow of the traffic from network elements ?

asdefghyk··on Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half
For the energy transition , making renewables , RELIABLE ( at large scale) for a country is the very challenging part.
asdefghyk··on eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear
Would include mobile phones and watches - they both transmit "... RF Energy ....." In fact lots circuits transmit RF energy - computers do it un intentionally ... just saying
asdefghyk··on Palm OS Developer Archive
I just found this associated link https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/15/give-him-a-ha...

Gives more background information about how this upload came about.

asdefghyk··on Palm OS Developer Archive
This article immediately triggered recollections of my Palm III I had - in around 1996 There was a submarine / depth charge game that I found addictive. Last time I powered it up, a few years ago the LCD screen was not working.
asdefghyk··on Linus Torvalds is using AI to develop Linux kernel code now
The real issue would be the quality of the proposed solution - whatever the tools or system used to produce the proposed code change. It seems that the code has been examined and the quality bar has passed satisfactorily. ( My interest in this is that I was a test analysist for 20 years for mainly corporate software . I did not do code reviews )
asdefghyk··on Solar panels that plug into your wall
partly because there is a shortage in Australia of people with such skills.
asdefghyk··on The darker side of being a doctor
It seems there needs to be more doctors to help reduce the insane workload. Must be lots burn out suffered ? by Drs?
asdefghyk··on ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound
I recall, One bit sound was detailed extensively in Byte Magazine starting in mid 70s. A square wave that has its frequency varied. A google of the words " Generating speech with a square wave wave , Byte magazine " picks up lots links about this technique. Fourier transform show a square wave consists of odd sine wave harmonics. [A more advanced technique (more than one bit) would use microprocessor interrups to generate several sqare waves, output them with more than one IO pin and combine them with a resister network]

This mention of one bit sound made me remember the Lis’ner 1000 project of Steve Ciarca , cira 1984 , WHICH WAS speech recognition system of about 30 words. It used a GI SP1000 chip

asdefghyk··on Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982
I never had a Commododore , but I had several other computers starting from around 1979. From that era , from arount 1975 forward there where often SEVERAL NEW different computers released each year. That include SBC Single board computer that was sold as the board , often without a power eupply or case and S100 systems and DIY hobbyiest build systems I still have most of books and magazines from that era, most of my computers , got lost, I still have a few.
asdefghyk··on Another Tesla on Autopilot Stopped on Freeway, Driver Died: Report
Its not clear to me if the driver died while car was moving? and the car stopped somehow as a result of this?

If so I wonder if car activates blinker - hazard lights and tries to move to the edge of the road ( to the slower lan? ) to try avoid accidents ?

asdefghyk··on AU government is planning 2 implement opt-in and opt-out feature on social media
Apparently ...“.....If you set up a social media account as a young boy in Australia today, it takes an average of 23 minutes for you to be fed misogynistic, violent misogynistic content online ..."
asdefghyk··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
OK that action allows them to do the transformation.

But how about the importing into the AI tool?

Does this "transformation" somehow override the authors complaints of AI taking their book and not compensating the authors for its mass usage in the AI tool.

asdefghyk··on Facebook, Insta owner Meta settles social media addiction case for $25B
The Facebook owner has agreed to cough up billions after claims it set out to turn kids into addicts – but only if TikTok and YouTube match it.
asdefghyk··on Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online
I wonder what would happen if Annas archive announced

In response to the 340M fine, .... "We have set up a LLM and are deleting all our books ? "

asdefghyk··on Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online
when I read title . "Annas archive owes $340 million absolutely first thing that came to mind is " How much do all these Ai companies owe for their unauthorised use of books and other media?"
asdefghyk··on Drones with Claws
Like a spider, the Ice Dart can land on and latch onto steep, slippery surfaces such as icebergs and glaciers
asdefghyk··on Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)
A paragrap from the linked articale

Z80 was the choice of a microprocessor for then home computers such as Radio Shack TRS-80, SORD M23P, M5, Sinclair ZX81, ZX Spectrum, KayPro II, and many other manufacturers.3 It was capable of running the CP/M operating system in most Z80-based PCs. Z80 had a reasonable share in the PC market until Intel revealed its 16-bit microprocessor in the mid-1980s. Z80 was very popular as a microprocessor not only in PC applications, but also in industrial embedded applications, and some of the big manufacturers have Z80 core inside their ASIC chips still today or use enhanced versions of Z80 in consumer electronic devices.4–7 Zilog still manufactures ez80, an enhanced version of the original Z80, which is still being used by Texas Instruments in its TI-84 and TI-84 Plus calculators.7 It is among the few silicon chips that made a remarkable impact on the electronic device industry.8 To this day, Zilog produces a range of Z80-based microprocessors and intelligent peripheral controllers, and they are available from reputed electronics component suppliers.2,9,10 This microprocessor is one of the longest living microprocessors of all time.

asdefghyk··on Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha
I always though in order to be able use these gadgets, The user should be required to submit themselves to its use on themselves. That includes stun guns and these hand shock gadgets.
asdefghyk··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
RE "...Instead, they enforce the copyright and force AI companies to shred books they want to ingest...."

Why are AI companies forced to shred books?

asdefghyk··on Only one type of lawyer will survive the AI wipeout
Sorry link is paywalled A short part of the articale. The computer science lecturer who used artificial intelligence to beat Macquarie University in an industrial relations stoush has a grim summary of the future of the legal profession: carnage.

Greg Baker caused a stir when he used AI agents to run a successful case against the real lawyers representing the university in the Fair Work Commission.

Greg Baker spends his time contemplating the future of work.

In what is the first known instance of a self-represented litigant successfully using AI – certainly in Australia – Baker won the right to have his casual teaching role converted to a permanent part-time position. ......

In the articale, He predicts that while judges will still be needed, there will not be not much role for lawyers

asdefghyk··on Would you eat fish raised in wastewater ponds?
NO , because you do not know pollution is in the waste water. What poisens ( hopefully none ) are in wastewater .....
asdefghyk··on Vietnam veterans mark 60 years since the Battle of Long Tan
A story I find interesting for intellectual curiosity reason. 10 to one ratio of opposers. Fought by the 6RAR's D Company in a rubber plantation called Long Tan, the battle was one of the most significant engagements involving during the war.
asdefghyk··on Asus Bike Booster
In the linked page it shows the battery as easily removable. If the potential thief , realizes the battery has been removed, "I think" it would sharply reduce?? the attractiveness of ebike theft to the thief ?
asdefghyk··on Tech adds phone tracking to license plate readers, associating devices with cars
SignalTrace, a system marketed by the security company Leonardo, is designed to work alongside automatic license plate readers. The company says it can recognize groups of consumer devices that regularly move together, then associate them with license plate records and time-stamped locations. The pattern can then be searched even when a police investigator does not know the plate number
asdefghyk··on Meta wiped key scam evidence in Andrew Forrest suit, US judge rules
A United States judge has ruled that Meta deliberately allowed its systems to wipe key evidence at the heart of its legal stoush with billionaire Andrew Forrest, a major loss that could scupper the social media giant’s defence against claims that it lets scams run rampant on its platforms.

Forrest is a billionaire

FROM PayWalled https://www.afr.com/technology/meta-wiped-key-scam-evidence-...

asdefghyk··on New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
RE " Everyone Wins "

Well the tax payer, would be paying the 30% subsidy for Home Battery deployments, which I understand is severeral $Billion 8.5 AU at present.

One group of loosers will be people who can not afford to participate in this program. It would seem another group would be users who cannot shift their electrity demands from peak times when electricty will become quite expensive.

asdefghyk··on Road Trains Roam the Backroads of Australia
In the outback of Australia, where the roads are so empty and the distances so great, the three- or four-trailer road train starts to make a whole lot more sense. Road trains aren’t going anywhere as long as Australia maintains its low population density and needs to haul goods to and from distant rural and regional areas.

Scroll down the linked articale for pictures of road trains up to 60 m long....

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