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dd_xplore··on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
Is that available in lite version too? Now that the origin js being phased out
dd_xplore··on The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman (2016)
I loved the ‘Visual Dictionary’ of 2000s . Damn that booo is peak encyclopaedia, describing everything in amazing detail, I first read that book when I was 5. I have bought a second hand copy of that book for my future kids.
dd_xplore··on Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
I think they shouldn’t publish books which are fairly new. Hurts the authors…
dd_xplore··on StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
It's malicious intent! The developer isn't a kid, they're releasing the software for world wide use. It's a simple thing, do not send private data to remote servers without explicitly asking the user!
dd_xplore··on Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability
I always thought dual socket systems would be good for storage and vps based systems, but here we see that inter socket latency was hampering them. Good read!
dd_xplore··on Launch HN: Gecko Security (YC F24) – AI That Finds Vulnerabilities in Code
It reminds of AI bug reports in ffmpeg(was it ffmpeg?)
dd_xplore··on LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date
I think during the merger the event horizon must be changing rapidly, so I guess there's some(or a lot) of chance that matter can escape these merger events. The matter will already have high kinetic energy...
dd_xplore··on LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date
Also to put in perspective, most of the mass isn't converted to energy in either nuclear or hydrogen bombs, it's just the bond energy. Pure energy for a given quantity of matter is released only in case of annihilation-like event(merging with anti matter). So even fusion releases max 0.7% energy of the mass

I'm not sure what happens in black hole merger.. is it an annihilation like event or is just fusion...

dd_xplore··on Preliminary report into Air India crash released
Most importantly it's extremely problematic that BBC is pushing the pilot error angle subtly! This is a preliminary report! No news organization should spread opinion pieces based on this. Somehow it feels like Boeing paid BBC to shift the narrative.

We should all wait for the final report. Pilot error or Machine fault, either way it's a huge tragedy.

dd_xplore··on Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi
I have a moded chromebox(booting windows and linux), which refuses to boot without any video device attached to hdmi port. So I had to use a dummy plug.
dd_xplore··on Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch
In this case the 'improvements' aren't required for this particular project.
dd_xplore··on Why does my ripped CD have messed up track names? And why is one track missing?
I see a lot of praise for MusicBrainz, is it really that good?
dd_xplore··on Builder.ai did not "fake AI with 700 engineers"
Unfortunately a lot of people!!
dd_xplore··on The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull and a bitter feud over humanity's origins
When humanity (including all the homo species) gained intelligence over 2-300000 years ago, I'm genuinely surprised that they were able to live so long together!

Although 'species' is term is bit extreme, which is why they reproduced with each other a lot!

I also wonder what kind of history they might have! It's interesting to think about. Most of the history that we have is already opinionated....

dd_xplore··on iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU
Is it emulating iOS? Or only running iOS binaries? Why does it specifically say iPhone 11?
dd_xplore··on Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
I self host: Jellyfin qbit Authentik Budibase Pihole Nginx proxy manager Immich Jupyter ….. The list goes on, these software have tons of dependencies, installing everything on a single OS would break them! Containers are godsend for self hosting and for anyone deploying many tools at a time!
dd_xplore··on Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
RPi is amazing for IOT tasks cuz it’s pretty portable but not for running general purpose server tasks, you’d get better performance per watt with used gear
dd_xplore··on Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
There would be some sort of internal ‘switch’ that can be bypassed I believe
dd_xplore··on Richard D. Fisher, Jr. On Taiwan: China, Pakistan, India and Taiwan
Lmao, propaganda piece on HN
dd_xplore··on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
Incompetent workers migrating to the US is a big issue.
dd_xplore··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
I have been trying to setup ultra low cost rdp clients program for schools using RPi Zero 2w.

This is mostly a hobby/community help project. Majority of schools in my area are either not required with computers or they have lots of older ones with no funding to maintain our modernize them.

I'm trying to setup everything within VPN (either wireguard or tailscale). I'll most probably go with tailscale so I can use the subnet router.

The zero would would run the older RPiOS (32 bit) and would autostart a rdp session using xrdp client. It's pretty usable for mostly static work that students need in schools.

Each RPi unit would cost around ₹2500 ($29) which includes all the adaptors, power supply, sdcard etc.

On the server side I'm running two Ubuntu server OS VMs (inside proxmox) configured with XFCE4 and KDE.

The work is still in progress, I'm yet to iron out major bugs.

dd_xplore··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Thanks for this! I didn’t know this tool existed
dd_xplore··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
People just want to bash Windows left n right. But no other OS in history has been this mature with handling GUI snd and providing the flexibility, customisations etc.

Before I say anything, Windows 11 is bad.

I remember playing with Win98, XP , I would modify many many registry settings, mod binary files to do something with games, you could access all sorts of weird hardware which only had drivers for windows!

Windows 98-7 were best for learning stuff about computers (inner workings etc).

I remember, to remove viruses (XP)I was trying to hard delete system 32 folder, it deleted lots of files and it continued to run!

dd_xplore··on India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
Paxtan has always sheltered terrorists, even now they are providing security to LeT, JeM etc.
dd_xplore··on India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
Like US co-ordinated with Paxtan to destroy laden? The laden who was hiding near a military base in Paxtan?
dd_xplore··on Evolving OpenAI's Structure
But it cannot think on it's own! Billions of years of evolution couldn't bring human level 'AGI' to many many species, and we think a mere LLM company could do so. AGI isn't just a language model, there's tons of things baked into dna(the way brain functions, it's structure when it grows etc). It's not simply neuron interactions as well. The complexity is mind boggling
dd_xplore··on Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)
People who have better things to do, won't want rtsp
dd_xplore··on .localhost Domains
Why do you need gzip when it's running locally and being accessed on the same system?
dd_xplore··on What if we made advertising illegal?
We’d back in Soviet Russ
dd_xplore··on How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon
The irony !
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