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authedon Clumps of human brain cells in a dish can learn to play Pong faster than an AI

modern fuel cells

authedon Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls

the --tree feature is incredibly slow

authedon Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux

Can Wine nowadays run CAD software like Inventor, etc?

authedon Defense Department blocks ads to counter malvertising, official tells Congress

Can't they sue the advertisers too?

authedon Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar

I just installed AirGuard to help prevent this attack... It is available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.seemoo.at_tracking_detect.... Hope it works as advertised... time will tell.

authedon Ask HN: Any known cases of large outdoor digital screens being hacked?

Some examples

http://www.screens.ru/en/2010/9.html

https://www.digitalsignagetoday.com/articles/hacked-digital-...

https://securitytutorials.co.uk/hacking-digital-billboards/

https://www.screenly.io/blog/2018/11/16/digital-signage-hack...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/giant-advertising-scre...

authedon Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from the public

> We should probably change the phrasing from black to something else, though.

illegal budget sounds good to me...

authedon Ask HN: Are there any good “coding for kids” books?

not a book, but I like https://code.org/

authedon An NFT without a blockchain

authedon Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from the public

Democrats and Republicans appear to be different when you listen to their speeches... but in the end, when you look at their actions or inactions, they are very similar on many topics.

authedon Ask HN: Can web scraping be the basis of a viable business model?

Scraping user content or recipes should be fine.

authedon Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from the public

> Reforming these two policies would be entirely sensible, if the country wasn't so hopelessly polarized.

I guess it will have to get a lot worst before it gets better...

authedon The sheer size of our government workforce is an alarming problem (2019)

> I'm not sure if you're saying this is a good thing or bad thing.

Mission accomplished. I try to be neutral.

authedon Ask HN: Find it strange that USPS are involved in so many non-mail related tasks

packages are mail... petroleum, is mail related, in this context.

authedon Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?

any non-physical work should be paid for 24-7?

authedon Facebook bans 7 'surveillance-for-hire' companies that spied on 50k users

drop one ally

authedon The sheer size of our government workforce is an alarming problem (2019)

police/army is probably 90% of it? if you include the black budget

authedon Facebook bans 7 'surveillance-for-hire' companies that spied on 50k users

unless you pay them a fee.

authedon Facebook bans 7 'surveillance-for-hire' companies that spied on 50k users

Only 7 forgot to pay their dues?

authedon How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls

I don't see it either.. maybe a Signal employee posted this comment to try to justify phone number collection because they can sell those at a premium (or a secret order from the Gov. forces them to do it).

Also, what I want is accounts protected solely by username and password (actually, just a 50 character password without login would satisfy me)... this is one reason why I am slowly moving away from gmail. 2FA doesn't help me because I use my own device to login and if they get compromised, I am screwed either way.

authedon How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls

> Signal without the phone number requirement becomes THE way to move data from anything to anything - malware would be written which setup a Signal account and used that for command and control.

Element doesn't require a phone number and I have no malware issues... also email doesn't.

authedon Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety webpage

Data stored in the cloud should be considered public (at this time), but not the data on your device.

authedon Bitcoin could become ‘worthless’, Bank of England warns

I was talking about artificial delays, high fees and things like that... You can have very low fees and near instant transfers with some Cryptos.

authedon HTTP/3 Is Fast

s/Lie/deceive

authedon Bitcoin could become ‘worthless’, Bank of England warns

It is being used to transfer money in other countries to avoid the fiat shit show.

authedon OpenSSL Security Advisory (14 December 2021)

"Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is."

authedon US to blacklist eight more Chinese companies including dronemaker DJI

https://archive.md/lOAx8

authedon Should Tesla Open Up Their Control Code to Public Audit?

Maybe because they call it full-self-driving... but I guess we don't need to see the code to know that they are lying.

authedon Ask HN: Private Alternatives to Alexa?

untested: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2019/11/20/privacy-focuse...

authedon Omicron spreading in US could bring wave as soon as January, CDC warns

Is there a wave pattern, yet? So that they can stop reporting on it...