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danielmeskinon DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs

Glad I read the article, this is fascinating:

> In 2012, a LightScribe optical drive was successfully used by Maher El-Kady, a graduate of UCLA, to turn a specially prepared graphite oxide layer coated onto a DVD into graphene.[10] El-Kady and Richard Kaner, his lab professor, used an unmodified LightScribe drive. The disc was prepared by coating the disc with an aqueous solution of graphite oxide and allowing it to dry. Areas of the coating illuminated by the LightScribe laser were turned into graphene. Various shapes can be drawn, which allowed the scientist duo essentially to laser-print an ultracapacitor on graphene using consumer-grade technology.

danielmeskinon AO3 Down for Maintenance

It’s built into most smartphones now isn’t it?

danielmeskinon Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

I mean, clearly the person you’re replying to does

danielmeskinon Apple Music 404 Not Found

https://www.crowdsupply.com/certain-things/sprout-pi-mainboa...

This one claims to have Bluetooth and Internet support

danielmeskinon Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights

If you think you can finish the game in at most 15 hours then yes subscribing for a month or so will work

danielmeskinon Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

~~I feel like that would probably meaningfully increase the amount of compute necessary to serve the website. As it were it’s likely static html, but any randomness would have to rely on a server side operation for each request and couldn’t be cached.~~

I went and checked and in fact it is already serving a script s.js so I guess you’re right!

danielmeskinon Chopping up books when they're physically too big

What do you do with the pages of the book once you’ve scanned it?

danielmeskinon Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights

The issue, I suspect, is payment processing and KYC. To operate at their scale requires not only the cooperation of various PCI partners (who are not obligated to cooperate) it also involves massive liability. A better question to ask is for whom would the investment of building a new Shopify be worth it. I suspect the answer is “not anyone who is using Shopify”.

danielmeskinon Deflock Casa Grande

Making a list of the tells you have will only serve to have them prompted against.

danielmeskinon Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

Why limit to language and SDK? Have the LLM write machine code.

danielmeskinon EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0

Who exactly are "they"?

danielmeskinon Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus

They say they have leaders but don’t need them

danielmeskinon Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web

Well allbirds is an AI company now so I guess that makes sense

danielmeskinon πFS

I suspect this would have an effect similar to early internet worms that caused significant strain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_virus)

danielmeskinon Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras with Trash Bags

Yes, and the IR light they emit when they use it can allegedly identify them: https://github.com/Noflock/Flock-IR-Detection

danielmeskinon Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment

Reminds me a bit of Futurama S3 E7, “the day the earth stood stupid”

danielmeskinon The quiet renovation at Bitwarden

It is still maintained, but I believe the maintainer is employed by Bitwarden now, and is working on projects in addition to Vaultwarden.

danielmeskinon Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

danielmeskinon I built my own hair electrolysis machine

Yep! I don’t comment unless I have something useful to add to the conversation.

danielmeskinon I built my own hair electrolysis machine

This account was made solely to leave this comment, for what that’s worth to the non-bad-faith users on here.

danielmeskinon Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor

Does Skype no longer do POTS calls?

danielmeskinon Ask HN: My dentist prescribed me a toothbrush that wants to track me forever

This is correct. My gums unfortunately receded and * my teeth are extremely sensitive * the area is sore constantly * I will need a graft from elsewhere in my mouth to correct it.

danielmeskinon The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences

How much of that is the APU? I’d imagine the bottleneck would lie with manufacturers using the cheapest panels and digitizers they can.

danielmeskinon Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React

Worked for me, what did you `cat`?

danielmeskinon Playlist for iOS

I dislike it because chromium is almost a monoculture and Google controls it. I’m not diametrically opposed to chromium based browsers but I might be more hesitant to switch.

danielmeskinon Playlist for iOS

Sorry if this was asked already but is Synth chromium based?

danielmeskinon Slidev – Presentation Slides for Developers

How is this better than something like MARP?

danielmeskinon Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt

Plain old Linux: Free: GCP

Paid (but cheap): Linode, DigitalOcean

—- Machine Learning:

Free: Google CoLab, Paperspace Gradient

Paid (but [relatively] cheap): JarvisLabs, DataCrunch

—- Databases and user auth:

Free: Firebase spark

Paid (but cheap, remember to set billing alerts!): Firebase blaze

danielmeskinon Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)

As far as I know its Alibaba stock got split off into its own company (Altaba)

danielmeskinon Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division

Probably the opposite, instant massive userbase, then just slowly phase out the meat bags.