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guidedlight··on D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems
I remember this happened before, and someone smarter than me exploited the vulnerability to access every router and patch it remotely.
guidedlight··on Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser
I was curious if the Yeti would appear, I assume it is on the to do list. Great game. Keep going with it.
guidedlight··on Retro beige PC case goes from April Fools' joke to retail
I the two fake 5.25” drives are definitely a missed opportunity.

Maybe a pair of slot loading Bluray drives would have been good.

guidedlight··on Show HN: Flash Kitty – Archive of Adobe/Macromedia Flash Movies from Flash Kit
Great work. We definitely lost a prominent part of the Internet when Flash died.

Thanks Steve /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash

guidedlight··on Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blocked
It’s surprising the things that have been caught offguard by this.

In Melbourne, the ticketing terminal in 200 trams and 2500 buses is now broken.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/free-ride-as-myk...

guidedlight··on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
They do. So I guess the observed timezone is UTC-61314.
guidedlight··on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
Nah, the weirdest time zone is Africa/Addis_Ababa, which nobody in Ethiopia follows.

Instead the locals offset the time by 6 hours. So the AM cycle starts at dawn (i.e. 6am), and the PM cycle starts at dusk (i.e. 6pm).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Ethiopia

guidedlight··on QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
QUIC reuses parts of the TLS specification (e.g. handshake, transport state, etc).

So it can’t function without it.

guidedlight··on Why does FM sound better than AM?
No need to read the article. It’s literally in the name.

AM = Amplitude Modulation FM = Frequency Modulation

Obviously environmental factors can affect the amplitude of a radio signal. But environmental factors are less likely to affect the frequency.

guidedlight··on Helene Should Trigger a National Rethink of Home Insurance
In New Zealand after the Christchurch earthquake, the government condemned entire suburbs and made it illegal to build there.

They then initiated an inspection of every multi-storey building, and allocated an NBS rating. Some buildings were condemned, and other buildings must be strengthened. It's almost impossible to sell these affected buildings.

So in the US for a national insurance scheme to work, the government would need to actively remove high risk properties.

New Zealand also has no state governments, just one national government. So it's much easier for them to implement these sorts of policies.

guidedlight··on Microsoft: 'ever present' AI assistants are coming
I don’t know why everyone is so concerned. Microsoft has been sending telemetry data and your photos to Microsoft for years.
guidedlight··on US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash say daughter agreed to Uber terms
I don’t understand how a food delivery order resulted in a personal injury to the customer.
guidedlight··on Apple's new macOS Sequoia update is breaking some cybersecurity tools
These cybersecurity tools are like posting a contracted armed security guard to an airport departure lounge.
guidedlight··on iPhone 16's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law
guidedlight··on iPhone 16's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip
These aren’t games designed for touch devices. They are console games ported to iOS.

To play them you need to pair a controller, making the experience subpar.

guidedlight··on How economical is your local Taco Bell?
Wow. Most of these are really close together.

The US clearly eats way too much fast food.

guidedlight··on Show HN: Vomitorium – all of your project in 1 text file
This is probably very useful for use with LLM’s.
guidedlight··on Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all
Just like Microsoft told congress that Internet Explorer couldn’t be uninstalled from Windows 98, even though it didn’t come preinstalled with Windows 95.
guidedlight··on The Atari 7800
Atari (more accurately, what’s left of Atari), has just announced the Atari 7800+ console and a bunch of new and rerelease cartridges, releasing later this year.

https://youtu.be/vsArjSWdNV8

guidedlight··on Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours
It will be most interesting how this applies to teachers, who often have to prepare lessons and mark work outside of hours.
guidedlight··on iPhone 16 could let you shoot in JPEG-XL
The JPEG-XL test page (linked in the article), works well.

https://jpegxl.info/test-page/

At the bottom of the page it has animation demonstration, that doesn’t appear to work on my iPhone 13 Pro.

Does JPEG-XL really include animation support?

guidedlight··on The Atlantic is cooling at record speed
This is good to note. The New Scientist article is really talking about the rate of cooling, not the extent of cooling.
guidedlight··on Colorize Lidar point clouds with camera images
There are quite a few apps for iPhone Pro devices that achieve this. I don’t know why they aren’t more popular.
guidedlight··on Blockbuster Video VHS insert template
These look very similar to the ones used in New Zealand. I wonder what the regional differences are, particularly the barcode.
guidedlight··on SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards
I remember trying to explain to my grandparents how many individually addressable bits were in a 128MB SD card. To them the number was impossibly high.

I wish they were stay alive today, to see a 8TB MicroSD card. ;-(

I wonder what the limit is.

guidedlight··on Will there be 50B+ in student loan delinquencies in US?
Indirectly it does. Check out the economic multiplier effect.

https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/reference/multiplier-effec...

guidedlight··on Will there be 50B+ in student loan delinquencies in US?
The federal government is adding $1T every 100 days to the national debt.

That far outweighs any effect of student loans.

guidedlight··on 1935: Britain's First Milk Bar Opens
In Australia, Milk Bars are the equivalent of corner shops.

Interestingly, the etymology suggests the Australian term is directly derived from the English milk bar mentioned in this post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_bar

guidedlight··on Elon Musk is being ridiculous. Companies are free to choose where to advertise
This of course, this comes on the heel of Musk’s free choice to move SpaceX’s HQ to Texas to avoid legislation on gender identity.
guidedlight··on Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code
This makes sense to be used with Open Banking regimes, that is being mandated by government legislation.
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