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excalibur··on Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)
> But if different countries dispute the proper name for a body of water, our policy is to display both names, with each label placed closer to the country or countries that use it.

Is anyone actually able to verify this behavior? All I'm seeing is the Trumpy names no matter where I look.

excalibur··on Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
> The desktop UI was perfected around the time of Windows 95 and has gotten worse with every iteration since then.

Well that can't be entirely true, the desktop experience on Windows 10 improved on Windows 8 by leaps and bounds.

excalibur··on Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Today's news being....
excalibur··on The Lego group reveals collaboration with Daft Punk
They could have at least designed the final set before announcing it.
excalibur··on The Real Kevin Bacon
Fascinating content, engaging visuals, painfully difficult navigation.

B+

excalibur··on Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
This doesn't sound like a barrier to bots
excalibur··on Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks
How? Corporate interests have fully captured the government and are systematically destroying all avenues by which they could ever be removed from power.
excalibur··on Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
> “There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China,” Trump posted on September 14. “Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE!”

> “The people that say AI is going to destroy the World, and that Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood,” Trump also posted, “are Revolutionaries, but Revolutionaries for a Bad and Evil Cause.”

Pot calling the kettle black, as always.

excalibur··on There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
Will the pre-installed GrapheneOS phones still show up as "rooted" to things like Microsoft Authenticator?
excalibur··on Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
I expected an article full of basic medical jargon: cerebrum, cerebellum, cortex, synapse, etc. Instead it's talking about "forebrain" and "hindbrain". This sounds remarkably unscientific.
excalibur··on AirPods 5
Young Johnny Appleseed
excalibur··on I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s
> Assuming you’re somehow running Netscape 4.51 with a clock set before E-Certify roots expired on 2003-10-16, you can use these private keys to issue certificates. This describes zero people on the planet… except for this VM I set up.

The planet has a lot of people.

excalibur··on Tim Curry has died
I'm not familiar with her at all, but if it means this round is over I'll take it.
excalibur··on And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
> What if armed thugs are sent in and the choice is send the message or die?

Arm yourselves. Not just one person, arm your entire staff. IMO the most appealing option in this situation is to shoot the thugs in the face. (Ha ha, you're in the UK, I know.)

excalibur··on [dead]
This is an official government website. Your tax dollars are paying for this.
excalibur··on Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us
Viva La Resistance!
excalibur··on The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
Stop trying to steal The Matrix. It was released in 1999, that's OUR movie. You get the sequels.
excalibur··on Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
Imagine hosting a meetup in Chicago and getting raided by ICE
excalibur··on Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)
My impression was that it had happened several days to a few weeks prior. Enough time for the house through ordinary daily activity to largely exhaust its water reserves. Of course most of today's actual houses don't keep that much on hand, but it sounds like this one had a sizable store at one point.
excalibur··on YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview
All in favor of skipping the "rise" for this one
excalibur··on Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet
Our kids can't change a tire.
excalibur··on Grok 4.5
These days objectivity is politically left. The right has fallen off a cliff and pulled the Overton window down with it.
excalibur··on The "Merge" with AI Has Begun
https://archive.ph/Z3eaj
excalibur··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
Still have one, still works. Would happily use it if it were still practical. I think you can still load OpenWRT on them, but there's no software route around the hardware being outdated and slow.
excalibur··on Resetting Xbox
Missed opportunity to put a red ring on the announcement. ⭕
excalibur··on The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore
> Those of us who were cool used things like MSN Messenger, AIM, etc. to chat quickly without having to use an email.

Rubbish, MSN Messenger was never cool

excalibur··on Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?
I would assume that the list of Trump appointees would be a good place to start.
excalibur··on Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs
> So, if you like my ANES and you want to get a better look at it, check the description for a link to my OnlyFans.

BEEP!

> ...for a link to my GitHub.

excalibur··on Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'
> The timing of Hoffman’s remarks is pointed. SpaceX went public on June 12th, with AI central to its IPO narrative. Within days, the company announced it was acquiring Cursor, the AI coding tool. Hoffman’s read: that’s not proof of AI capability, but evidence of its absence. “You could almost think of it as the IAC of AI,” he said, invoking the serial acquisitions roll-up strategy of Barry Diller’s internet-era conglomerate. “Use the market cap to buy AI companies and try to buy your way into relevance.”

Sounds like securities fraud to me.

excalibur··on I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
You guys, I think maybe THIS is the Bad Place.
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