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fhdkweigon Hackers hit French national blood bank

Only if you can find them. And only if they are in a country where you can get them.

fhdkweigon Ballot Rejections Have Soared in Rural Counties as USPS Reduces Mail Service

Presorted Standard is cheaper than First Class. First class is sent with some expectations on whether it will be delivered and how quickly. Standard is "best effort". If a company wants you to pay a bill, then they want to make sure you get it, they pay extra for that stamp. If a company wants to send an advert that they know you are going to throw in the trash anyway, they cheap out.

But for the life of me, I have not been able to figure out the price of a Standard stamp. USPS sells stamps online, but you'd think it would be easier to find the price, but still I can't find it. I would love to know how much is spent on mail that no one really cares about.

fhdkweigon Why are car keys so expensive to replace?

I had a car with a pure metal key, and even with 30 years in the city, it never got stolen. I knew a single person who had their car stolen, and it was at gunpoint. I really don't think lock-picking or hot-wiring really existed outside of movies. It always felt like a scare tactic to sell more insurance.

fhdkweigon Why are car keys so expensive to replace?

> If I were to guess, how we let cars turn into computers probably started with fuel injection.

I don't recall the exact answer, but Technology Connections did a video on this very question 2 months ago.

Engines haven't been fully mechanical in decades - and that's good! 2.4M 1mo ago 58:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KoeY54M5VA

fhdkweigon Ballot Rejections Have Soared in Rural Counties as USPS Reduces Mail Service

In the stamp area, there is a note for either "first class", "non-profit", or "presorted standard" aka "PRE-STD". Normal mail is first class. Standard is spam.

Once you figure that out, it makes sorting the mail real quick. Never has standard ever been important, even if it comes from a company that I do business with.

fhdkweigon Ballot Rejections Have Soared in Rural Counties as USPS Reduces Mail Service

Or the 5+ oversized "vote for me" flyers that have been coming everyday for weeks (even after doing the early in-person voting). If one didn't change my mind, 10 from the same candidate isn't going to change my mind either. Election season is terrible for USPS and my phone's text messages.

fhdkweigon If you love a website, back it up

Some people self-censor by deliberately misspelling words. Hister is also another example (see Nostrodomus for that one.)

fhdkweigon The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence"

It is sad knowing we are spending all this money on monuments that will just be spent all over again when we remove them in 2 years. And yes, these word/name changes are meant to be a monument, a tangible mark on history.

fhdkweigon Turning a solar power system into its own backup

"The first installation will be"

It also hasn't been built yet. Let me know when they have one working prototype. Until then, it is just a concept on a drawing board.

fhdkweigon Embraer's Atech aims to double in size by 2030 with drone traffic control

This is in English and has the same title. I don't know if it has the same content.

https://news.lavx.hu/article/atech-targets-doubling-by-2030-...

fhdkweigon After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home

I think the commenter was referring to visa sponsorship. Visa sponsorship is a bit more involved than just money. Someone is putting their name on government paperwork saying that if something goes wrong with this visitor, all bills can be forwarded to me. It isn't like a goFundMe or Kickstarter where a whole bunch of people are chipping in on a person or project; it is one person putting their livelihood on the line to vouch for that visitor's trustworthiness. And if the country requires sponsorship for their visa program, and no one is willing (or if you don't know a single person in that country), you cannot enter.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=visa+sponsorship+meaning&ia...

fhdkweigon After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home

To sum it up in one word: visas.

Turns out walking thousands of miles is the easy part.

for another source,

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/exhibition-charts-karl-...

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Bushby

fhdkweigon Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign

If 100000 people want to cast an argument into the void, they can do that. It doesn't harm any other discussion going on elsewhere on the site. I'm posting this comment beneath a flagged/dead comment in an article labeled [dupe] and I'm okay with that.

fhdkweigon Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections

This is the same method as Georgia using Dominion machines. The printed paper has human readable text including the candidate's name and party so it can be verified by the voter.

It also included a QR code that I couldn't read (phones not allowed in the voting area) and don't know what it is for. I'm hoping that it doesn't tie a voter's identity to the printed ballot (that would violate privacy of secret ballot). If it is just a machine-readable copy of the human-readable to make it easier for the computer to read the paper for a recount, it would have been better to just let the computer OCR from the human-readable text. That would make it verifiable by the voter that the machine-readable QR code matches what the voter actually intended. If the human readable text isn't what the recount uses, then it doesn't really help.

But I don't know if that is what the QR code was even about, which is why I really wish it wasn't present.

fhdkweigon Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign

> gets flagged cause of a few snowflakes got their feelings hurt

correction: some guy got his wallet hurt.

It is clear to me that monied/political interests are on every platform, including this one.

fhdkweigon Diamond Transistor

hmm, I'm not seeing anything that can be described as "inertia". Not on chromium either. Both of these are on a laptop with dragging the side scrollbars and using the up/down arrows on the keyboard.

Is this something that is related to a touch screen? I'm not using a touch screen.

fhdkweigon Diamond Transistor

Normally, I am the first to complain about broken websites, but it looks fine for me on Firefox on a laptop. Scrolling works normal using up-down arrow keys and dragging on the side scrollbar. There is an unnecessary effect with the 3D diagram, but it doesn't interfere with the site. How are you viewing it?

fhdkweigon Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

Curious why the comment by the poster got flagged but not the full post. I like when the poster includes a comment describing the content and reasons why he liked it.

fhdkweigon Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS

This probably won't help you in the UK, but for those in the US, Wells Fargo uses an optional RSA SecurID Device.

https://www.wellsfargo.com/biz/online-banking/securid/

fhdkweigon Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

thanks

fhdkweigon Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

I got curious when you mentioned "google play store apocalypse", but I can't seem to find a comment of yours on the topic today. Would you be willing to post a link?

fhdkweigon No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner

If it is more than just the one guy, it could also mean that they are expecting the AI to kill them before the cancer does.

fhdkweigon Where Wealth Is Moving in America (2023)

So basically the same as "woke".

fhdkweigon Dutch National Cyber Security Center is Offline because it uses PHP

> Not all hacks are used to steal data

Sometimes, they just want to send spam. Ages ago, someone got a hold of our company's webserver and all they used it for was sending a ridiculous volume of emails. Our ISP spotted the traffic spike and pulled our server off the network.

fhdkweigon 3.75-MWh battery system installed indoors at NY affordable housing building

> these are lithium batteries, which have significant failure mode issues

Agreed. Specifically, these are lithium-ion rather than the new lithium iron phosphates which have none of those issues. No one should be doing lithium-ion for new installations. Lithium ions are only viable in cars which need the lower weight limits.

fhdkweigon [dead]

More discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50177911 which got pushed off the front page really fast, and I expect this will too.

fhdkweigon The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines

If you look at the before and after photos of past POTUSes, you can see a visible aging. If we ignore the current POTUS, I think we can say that there are a lot of long hours of stressful trolley problems.

fhdkweigon France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months

I read both. They seem related to me. They are both about supermarket fridges getting hacked over the internet.

I like similar articles' discussions to be linked together. I didn't see a link, so I added one. I don't see why I am getting all the angry downvotes.

fhdkweigon France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months

This is either a dupe or a followup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304 from 8 days ago with 1007 comments

fhdkweigon Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier

https://inkorr.com/en/litna-zinka-v-kostantinivci-napisala-v...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ukrainian+woman+writes+i+ask+for+b...

A woman wrote "I ask for bread" in the snow in front of her house. A passing drone photographed it. This led to a later mission to air drop food to her.