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hansjorgon An Introduction to Meshtastic

Benn Jordan (The Flashbulb) has a good video on this and some other interesting related topics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk

hansjorgon Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up

There was no native text mode on the Amiga at least.

hansjorgon Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died

He's dead Dave. At least he went peacefully in his Jeep.

hansjorgon Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]

His work on this and similar topics is very good, he has deep technical insight and is a good communicator, but it's a bit funny seeing him referred to as a security hobbyist as in my mind he's a musical genius and one of the greatest living US musicians/programmers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_SxlRQhHOA&list=RDZD8N9tDDQT4
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vzXHhRBLnA&list=RDTgoAgYR4584
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHCg47cWIUc&list=RDXHCg47cWIUc

hansjorgon SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds

"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe."

hansjorgon The Sagrada Família takes its final shape

I kind of envy those who can so easily dismiss something like SF. Just try to imagine what they must have experienced to become so blasé.

hansjorgon How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?

If you want a fun way to spend the rest of your afternoon, just prefix any of these with "nic." and enter in your web browser. Interestingly, for example, it seems that .ninja is ran by what appears to be actual ninjas.

hansjorgon Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

If you want a tip my friend, just block all of Huawei Cloud by ASN.

hansjorgon Weird Expressions in Rust

Tough crowd.

hansjorgon Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court

> Why are the right libertarians and 2A folks not speaking up right now

It has been entertaining listening to the people at Reason Magazine lately. They have convinced themselves thoroughly that they're not actually racist authoritarians, so now that they're getting what they really want, but it's so diametrically opposed to what they say they believe, they have to contort themselves endlessly.

Do not expect any kind of help from those kinds of people. Their anti-authoritarianism is largely performative or reserved to their in-group. When it's not performative, it's just rich kids complaining they're not allowed do to whatever they want.

hansjorgon Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)

> CDC stands for Communications Device Class https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_communications_device_cl...

Why is this buried almost at the end of the article? Why even mention it at that point?

hansjorgon Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America

Why are all the fascist tough guys so afraid of criticism, or even just of internet downvotes?

This is a central insight into their mindset. They are so incredibly mentally weak.

hansjorgon Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

This is a "fun" idea, but I'm a bit troubled by the fact that you've chosen to release this right now.

Are you implying something? Not that subtle, truth be told. I'm not American, but hopefully there are someone here who knows the proper X-handle or other official authority to report this to.

hansjorgon CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins

So what you're saying is that we shouldn't put our trust into people who pride themselves on being master manipulators and deceivers?

hansjorgon DOOM CAPTCHA

As in the original, you can use alt + left/right arrow keys to strafe.

hansjorgon The enduring power of kitsch

Many people would say that coffee is an acquired taste. Are you saying that people who don't like coffee are in the wrong?

hansjorgon We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi

Why are tools using hardcoded lists of WHOIS servers?

Seems there is a standard (?) way of registering this in DNS, but just from a quick test, a lot of TLDs are missing a record. Working example:

    dig _nicname._tcp.fr SRV +noall +answer

    _nicname._tcp.fr. 3588 IN SRV 0 0 43 whois.nic.fr.

Edit:

There's an expired Internet Draft for this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-sanz-whois-srv-0...

hansjorgon Aphex Twin gave us a peek inside a 90s classic (2017)

I've spent so much time listening to it, it really is beautiful.

Just noticed on Bleep that they're releasing a 30th anniversary expanded edition on the 4th of October: https://bleep.com/release/460396-aphex-twin-selected-ambient...

hansjorgon Aphex Twin gave us a peek inside a 90s classic (2017)

The video with the tracker is only part of the final track, it's missing percussion at least. Here's the version of Vordhosbn from the Drukqs album: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ro1aHvhGec&pp=ygUJdm9yZGhvc2J...

Drukqs is a great album btw, if you're at all interested in music you should give it a listen. It's got everything from tender prepared piano pieces to his signature drill and bass. Syro from 2014 is also an amazing album.

hansjorgon 'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back to the public

I already explained what I meant by damage. Being unable to see how the freedom of a tiny minority shouldn't trump the freedom of basic modes of being of the vast majority, that's damage.

hansjorgon 'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back to the public

For some people freedom means being able to violently deny others to roam the land, to deny access lakes, to deny foraging for berries and mushrooms and even to deny them access to the coastline and the ocean.

For them, freedom might entail being able to deny these basic modes of being e.g. based on monetary worth, social standing or even ethnicity (like country clubs in the US).

If that's what you consider freedom, I don't think I'm going to be able to convince you otherwise.

hansjorgon 'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back to the public

The damage being that people have been conditioned to being unfree in a very fundamental sense.

hansjorgon Digitized Continuous Magnetic Recordings for the 1859 Carrington Event

According to Wikipedia:

> At present, five significant events are known (7176 BCE, 5259 BCE, 660 BCE, 774 CE, 993 CE)

Seems like the Carrington event wasn't strong enough to be considered a Miyake event.

hansjorgon Thomas Cochrane

This is very entertaining, but it seems a bit too crafted for a specific audience with all the "those damned bureaucrats!" and whatnot.

For a similar naval hot shot, check out Peter Tordenskjold (lit. thunder shield):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tordenskjold

There are lots of amusing stories about his crazy deeds, but he employed people to do PR for him, so take it with more than the usual grain of salt.

hansjorgon 4B If Statements

Come to think of it, I'm sure there are other optimisations you could do as well.

hansjorgon Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler

Eclipse OpenJ9 (previously IBM J9) is in active development and supports Java 21.

hansjorgon The FCC voted to reimplement net neutrality. Now comes the hard part

When it was removed, several states, stepped up and introduced their own net neutrality laws.

E.g California with their Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act.

Some of the large telecoms are on record saying that this made it not worth it to enact the changes they had planned.

WNYC On The Media had an episode on this recently.

hansjorgon Why are there so many colourful houses in Bristol?

In Greenland they had a system to encode what purpose a building had. For example, if you were in a medical emergency, you would look for a yellow building.

> Red buildings signified churches, schools, teachers’ or ministers’ houses. Yellow colours were assigned to hospitals, doctors, and health care personnel. Green was at first the symbol for radio communication and later became the colour of telecommunications. The colour blue was often reserved for fish factories. Police stations were black.

https://www.polar-quest.com/blog/greenland/the-backstory-of-...

hansjorgon What should you know about Svalbard? (2020)

There are fiber cables to the mainland:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Undersea_Cable_Syst...

Interestingly from that Wikipedia article:

  The Svalbard undersea cable system connecting the archipelago to the mainland was unexpectedly severed in January of 2022. A preliminary police investigation implicates human activity.

hansjorgon Dream First Bank Assumes All of the Deposits of Heartland Tri-State Bank

You've got to appreciate the preciness of the language, and the assuredeness it's meant to instill, in press releases like this.