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gnu8··on Microbes that cause cavities can form superorganisms able to ‘crawl’
Maybe that statement should come with an explicit topological constraint on the meaning of “inside” the body. Viewed as a donut, gut contents would be considered “outside.”
gnu8··on From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate
Maybe Amazon should take a cue from the service industry and have a lot more sex and drugs in their warehouses. Right now it's all misery and desperation.
gnu8··on An anonymous donor just sent 299 Ether (equivalent to 393k USD) to redox_OS
“If money had to be clean before it was spent, we’d all be living in caves.”

Any attempt by feds to steal this money or sanction Redox for using it should be considered a direct attack on the project for its own sake, meaning the feds feel that Redox is a threat and they want to shut it down. The origin of the money is not a valid concern.

gnu8··on Uber investigating breach of its computer systems
A reasonably sophisticated attacker could arrange for the entire team to get SIM-swapped and suspended from Facebook when they launch an attack. If only there were some way to have a central rallying point for everyone to meet at. Perhaps some sort of a structure, with the company's name on it, and it would have places to sit inside, with computers connected to the company's infrastructure to use.
gnu8··on Uber investigating breach of its computer systems
It's just multiuser keepass with integrations for active directory and such. It's not surprising that three startups building the same thing would realize they could merge and charge 10x the price they could get if they were competing. Since Delinea's rep just took a hit (due to customer error), there is easily room for two or three new players in this space.
gnu8··on Uber investigating breach of its computer systems
> - Network share has powershell scripts with admin credentials for their PAM vendor, Thycotic

This is gross incompetence.

gnu8··on How San Francisco makes it insanely hard to build housing
Do you have a link to one of his blog posts about this?
gnu8··on The search for dirt on Mudge
This is a no-true-Scotsman argument where none was asked for, but thank you for linking to Wikipedia properly.

“Ethical” hacker is also a nonsense term. Ethics means the study of moral philosophy, it is not a synonym for “good” and to use it as such belies a superficial understanding of both morality and hacking.

gnu8··on NASA can now reliably produce a tree’s worth of oxygen on Mars
That might be an interesting project, configuring a Raspberry Pi to emulate a single transistor and then using them to build a computer.
gnu8··on America Has an E-Bike Problem That Can’t Be Solved with More E-Bikes
A cyclist is annoyed by being stuck behind slower traffic? I am amused.
gnu8··on Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years
Have you looked at shielded twisted pair or optical fiber for that run? I have a similar project planned but at the moment I’m not looking forward to trenching the cable into the ground so it hasn’t moved forward yet.
gnu8··on Tell HN: Stop sending unsolicited emails to developers GitHub email
Why would they block you when they are the ones that contacted you?
gnu8··on Apple M2 vs. AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U Performance in Nearly 200 Benchmarks
I am sure Michael Larabel knows what he is doing, given how long he has been benchmarking. I think both devices have soldered memory though, so the amount of installed RAM isn’t flexible.
gnu8··on Why is the OpenBSD documentation so good?
If you install dwww, all of the documentation installed on the system is made accessible from a local web server. Not sure how secure that is these days but I thought it was really cool 20 years ago and it very useful to me.
gnu8··on Apple M2 vs. AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U Performance in Nearly 200 Benchmarks
The difference in RAM size should not matter as long as both systems have their memory channels filled out and the workload fits in memory.
gnu8··on Toptal trying to sue us for saying there are Toptal alternatives that cost less
Is the word fnord?
gnu8··on Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions
It speaks to financial desperation more than cynical profit grubbing. They need to juice sales and fully recognize the income to remain solvent.
gnu8··on Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
I'm wondering how much of that language is common to all publicly traded companies and how often the clawback policy is actually activated. Maybe the board sees enforcing the clause to be detrimental because it would impair their ability to hire another CEO, or it would have a chilling effect on the performance of CEOs in general. The board members are all wealthy themselves so this isn't a decision that affects their lives in any material way, except for their likelihood of being appointed to other company boards in the future. They basically meet in a fancy conference room once every six weeks to eat an expensive lunch and play-act at running a company.
gnu8··on Arris / Arris-variant DSL/Fiber router critical vulnerability exposure
A Cisco 8200 would probably be what he wants.
gnu8··on It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
That’s all it is, they ran into an engineering problem and they’re trying to get the world to bend to their will instead of solving the problem because they think it will be easier. Mark’s arrogance is nauseating.
gnu8··on Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ (2015)
By all means, that is a great film to see at the local artsy theater!
gnu8··on Tell HN: Discord is permanently locking out users with multiple accounts
What you are running into is that every supposed feature of Discord and Slack is actually a fatal bug. There is no replacement for IRC.
gnu8··on Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com?
Why on earth would Facebook think it is ok to bypass that? This should be considered a violation of the CFAA. Start putting Facebook execs in federal prison.
gnu8··on Car Repos Are Exploding. That’s a Bad Omen
It's impossible to have a job without a car.
gnu8··on The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs
It is two different modalities of heating though. Electrical heating is 95% efficient at dumping energy from the grid into your house, but a heat pump is using energy from the grid to concentrate and move heat from outside the house to the inside (which is itself unintuitive to people when it is already much colder outside the house than inside). So how do you develop a fair comparison of the two in total energy expended to keep the building at the desired temperature?
gnu8··on A Chinese woman wrote millions of words of fake Wikipedia history
Very specious of the CCP to think English speaking audiences have any interest in what they have to say.
gnu8··on Asian carp threaten the Great Lakes. Will calling them ‘copi’ help?
The simple solution is to fill the canal in with rocks and soil. It ought never to have been dug, because the economic interests of Illinois should not be allowed to threaten Michigan’s environment.
gnu8··on ‘Stunning’ Anglo-Saxon burial site found along HS2 route
That really is awesome. How big is a smallholding?

I have several acres of trees in the states and there is almost nothing interesting out there. Some trash from hikers is the most I ever see.

gnu8··on Toyota unveils 8.7 kWh battery for residential applications
I am super interested in this, is there a grid tie solar box out there that supports heterogenous battery chemistry like you are describing?
gnu8··on Tell HN: Cloudflare prevents transfer-out of domains, sets to 'pendingdelete'
Why wouldn't they pull that as soon as a startup customer becomes successful?
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