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echoangle··on Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027
Sure, but hasn’t that been the case for all the time since DST was introduced? The original comment to me sounded like DST is responsible for people being in a worse mental state now than a few years ago.
echoangle··on Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027
Well most people haven't existed for 60 years. Where I'm from, DST was introduced 110 years ago and people still complain. When will the worsening mental state reach equilibrium? Or is there maybe a chance that the worsening mental state isn't due to DST?
echoangle··on Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027
> and worsening mental state

How would something that has been in effect for at least 60 years still lead to a worsening mental state over time?

echoangle··on Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain
With a car, you should always drive at a speed so you can stop in the distance you can see and predict as the driver. With a train, you can’t really do that if you don’t want to go walking speed around every bend in the track. So a high speed train is always operating in a state where it needs external sources to tell it if the way is clear.
echoangle··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
If it’s fair use, the license doesn’t matter.
echoangle··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
Couldn't the adult file download just as well be used to train a model that rejects adult uploads to roblox? I don't see the outrage.
echoangle··on Prisoner loses challenge to an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite
Which is a pretty weird claim because there’s no nutrient that only occurs in port and vegemite. Or what are all the Muslims around the world eating to not be deficient? Surely not vegemite, right? But he also dropped that argument later…
echoangle··on OLED iPad Mini
Aren't most people using their device with a case anyways?
echoangle··on Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale
How does this work? You need to somehow flatten the globe into a plane, right? Are you just using a regular map projection? It says that everything is real scale in the description and that can’t really be true at high latitudes, right?
echoangle··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28476643/default-nginx-c...

That's the default though

echoangle··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
Does it actually use php2shell or some other known mediawiki vulnerability? Can you also do this for Wordpress for example?
echoangle··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
Shouldn’t the expected value of attempting this somehow include the likelihood of the key actually being on the machine? Surely the probability is much higher than 0? I would guess the expected value for actually being the first one is around $300, not 0
echoangle··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
If the AI can build an exploit from the patch, sure.
echoangle··on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
So how do we not have 10 php situations every day? Obviously just having a rumor that php was vulnerable wasn’t the exceptional problem here, the problem was that the rumor was specific enough to find the bug because it included mitigation advice.
echoangle··on Quad9 to exit France
It’s like buying a dodgy map, except the map pulls updates every time you use it. You could very well provide DNS for free and get everyone to use it and then suddenly serve tampered responses at some specific time and use that until everyone affected notices and switches.

And also you can just serve DNS normally and get the intelligence.

echoangle··on Show HN: Turn regular JavaScript into a neural net
I think this is basically a compiler that turns arbitrary JS code into weights of a neural net that then behaves exactly like the JS program. And the stuff at the bottom are demo projects that are now running as a neural net.
echoangle··on Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
I think you misunderstood the point.

In a working RNG, every number has equal probability.

But there's a probability <1 that the RNG is working as it should and a probability >0 that the RNG erroneously generates numbers that aren't equally distributed.

And because the range of possible numbers is so large and the probability of a mistake is not that tiny, a small result is more likely to be an error than a random result that happens to be small.

If I write a program to flip a coin and it generates heads 30 times in a row, is it more likely that this is just a random result or that I made a mistake in my programming?

One probability is 2^30, and the probability that someone makes an error resulting in this pattern is probably higher than 1/2^30.

echoangle··on Good type against all odds
> Instead of a whole rectangle of pixels being changed at once, the display is updated line by line, starting from the top one.

Isn’t it actually updating from the bottom? If the text is moving to the left and the bottom seems to be further left, those need to be processed first, right?

echoangle··on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
And they never tried this before? And no other such targets are vulnerable in the same way? That doesn’t seem very believable.
echoangle··on Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
The claim is “if I generate a random number with equal distribution in a gigantic range and get a very tiny number, it’s more likely that there’s a mistake somewhere than that I just got this number randomly”.
echoangle··on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
Yeah I don’t really get this, the rumor “there is some exploitable vulnerability in php” can’t really be the problem, because that’s probably known to everyone already. The rumor only helps you exploit it if there’s some specific hint how the exploit works.
echoangle··on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
How would this work without having to totally prevent anonymity on the internet? As long as you can log in from a country that doesn’t care about cybercrime, how would you prevent people from hacking others? You’ll never punish a North Korean hacker
echoangle··on PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
How did they get access to the script though? The output seems to be identical to the real PoC, so it looks like the same script.
echoangle··on PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
Don't you think the style of video looks a bit unprofessional? It's like the next iPhone being presented by the Apple CEO but using a vTuber avatar with subway surfer gameplay in the background.
echoangle··on Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
I don't think most people that use PHP use it because they love it and find it a great technical solution, it's mostly technical debt being maintained and the fact that PHP is available to host everywhere.
echoangle··on Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
How do you handle file uploads then? Isn’t that handled by the same process writing the uploaded files to disk?
echoangle··on IKEA – 3D Guide
Also the weird metrics. Would any human ever implement a counter showing total views and currently viewing users?
echoangle··on Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case
And also this only worked once, but in the future other entities getting sued now know they can just ignore it.
echoangle··on Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
You don’t need to use google fonts as a CDN, but I think a lot of people use google fonts to look for fonts they then download and self-host.
echoangle··on DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
That’s an argument against Anthropic/OpenAI, not for Deepseek. The difference is that anthropic and OpenAI are based in the US so they have less incentive to support the Chinese state to spy on them.
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