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jesprenj··on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
I just repeated what you said, sorry for any confusion.
jesprenj··on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
Wow, I think it's pretty weird that we have white and black history months if that refers to human races.
jesprenj··on Want to build a sequencer? 454.bio opens up their plans
I'm not educated in molecular biology. Will this device enable DIY enthusiasts to sequence their entire DNA, the whole 700 MB of it, at home? Or is the device only able to sequence small chunks of the DNA?

Is the device able to sequence DNA with minimal errors?

jesprenj··on .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
"Je" in slovene also translates to "is" in English. Since adverbs are written before verbs in slovene, it's a nice hack to use http://okusno.je (a recipe website), which translates to "[It] is tasty".
jesprenj··on .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
It's interesting that the AI TLD has an A record and an HTTP server directly on the TLD: http://ai

This practice is forbidden on gTLDs, but no such rule exists for ccTLDs.

jesprenj··on Try to make sudo less vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks
Good job, though it doesn't really help when you have a buffer overflow leading to RCE in a suid binary (remember sudoedit CVE?)
jesprenj··on Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop
AFAIUC, the reason for the word blacklist here lies in the fact that some applications have WAFs or similar software that detect malicious requests and since passwords are sent in plaintext to the WAF, they are detected as malicious exploitation attempts, if they imitate SQL injections, although your parent comment did not give any concrete examples.
jesprenj··on 29M-year-old grasshopper nest found intact with eggs, study says
> We apologize, but your web browser is configured in such a way that it is preventing this site from implementing required components that protect your privacy and allow you to view and change your privacy settings. This functionality is required for privacy legislation in your region.

> We recommend you use a different browser or disable the “EasyList Cookie” filter from your “Content Filtering” settings (found under “Settings” -> “Shields” in the Brave Browser).

jesprenj··on Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop
Slovenian bank (NKBM) only permits 6 digit passwords and nothing else -- probably so that users can dial them via DTMF when on the phone.
jesprenj··on Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop
WAF always sees unhashed passwords -- passwords are sent TLS encrypted in a POST body (unhashed) and are hashed by the server software -- and that's regardless of the password policy.
jesprenj··on Python3 is removing crypt.crypt and not replacing it with anything
Debian is quite useful here. They keep prebuilt packages in the archive, one just needs to disable PGP key expiration checking to install them. But otherwise old Debians still work.
jesprenj··on George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
What's wrong with the linked site? It looks good on my phone. (not tested with a desktop)
jesprenj··on Ternary circuits: R=3 is not the Optimal Radix for Computation (2019)
Note that this paper does not mention balanced ternary and only presents tables, diagrams and results for unbalanced ternary with values 0, 1 and 2.

The Setun computer, mentioned in the introduction, however, used balanced ternary with values -1, 0 and 1. Balanced odd bases consist of digits centered around zero.

Could balanced ternary redeem it's position with logic cirtuits in mind?

jesprenj··on Archiving Steam games for fun and profit
Wow, I certainly did not know this is the origin of the phrase! thank you.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25205/what-is-th...

jesprenj··on Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service
I'm used to claws-mail, so I'm using it daily. But I think it's quite terrible -- there are regular delays every minute for a couple of seconds and in that period, most buttons on the UI are disabled. I think that whenever it does something with IMAP most of the functionality is locked. Also I think it doesn't implement IMAP push and it has to poll for new mail every minute.

Also opening a mail that's 30 MiB in size (pictures) and has to be downloaded just freezes the entire UI.

I'd like to advise people to use other software, but I don't know of any perfect email clients:

* sylpheed/claws-mail has this locked UI problem

* mutt doesn't render images and has a steep learning curve

* thunderbird has software bloat, doesn't work on my low end hardware

And other recommendations?

Webmail is also mostly broken. I liked prayer, but it also doesn't render images IIRC and roundcube dropped the classic theme on new versions, and the new theme has less information density.

I like the classic HTML UI of GMail and OWA, though.

jesprenj··on Archiving Steam games for fun and profit
Profit?
jesprenj··on Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
Slovene has three levels of politeness:

* ti (second person singular)

* vi (second person plural)

* oni (third person plural) -- archaic

jesprenj··on Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS and iOS
Are there any more details about this? I read all the comments here and the entire readme and I still don't know if I'm affected.
jesprenj··on iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation
Not parent, just asking the same question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore...

There's a log here, so it doesn't even seem linear to SNR.

Would SNR increase linearly to TX power?

I don't know.

jesprenj··on CHART: Completely Hackable Amateur Radio Telescope
I mirrored whatever they had when they got taken down on github: http://ni.4a.si/anonymous/krakensdr_pr/

The wiki is still public afaik.

jesprenj··on Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories
For it's own post, it extracted a wrong comment link and therefore generated the wrong comment summary:

Summary: HackYourNews is a website that uses OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo to provide AI summaries of the top Hacker News stories and their comments. The site offers a minimal design and a mobile view that is easy to skim on any device. The creator aims to help users focus on the most important stories while browsing aimlessly.

Comments: This Hacker News thread discusses a website called 'How Query Engines Work' that offers a free book on the topic. Users express their excitement about the resource and inquire about additional formats, such as ePub. Some users also ask for recommendations on similar websites or books. One user questions the accuracy of a statement in the book about the power of Spark, leading to a discussion on the features of Spark and its comparison to the Hadoop ecosystem. The thread also touches on topics like Apache Arrow and its potential impact on the database industry, as well as the future of PostgreSQL and the use of Apache Arrow in related projects.

jesprenj··on Are any words the same in all languages?
What about stop? It had likely spread to most latin-type countries due to traffic signs.
jesprenj··on Login to any user account using other Facebook app access token (2015)
Please add (2015) to the title.
jesprenj··on SF Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance
Is the mentioned video public?
jesprenj··on Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules
While this requirement may really be in the GPL, there is no way to enforce it if the party creating a proprietary driver does not distribute the Linux kernel itself. In other words, as far as I understand, Nvidia does not exercise the rights of distribution that GPL provides, so they do not have to follow any additional rules of the GPL. GPL regulates distribution, not _use_ of software (see free software freedom 0).
jesprenj··on Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules
Why shouldn't a proprietary driver be able to interact with a free kernel?

Linux is literally implementing kernel level DRM, the thing free software swore to destroy.

Or at least the requirement that proprietary drivers do not interact with GPL-only code would in my opinion be considered an EULA.

jesprenj··on Authentication on meet.jit.si
Maybe a list of community hosted jitsi servers could be put in place.

One instance that our national educational network organization hosts is at https://vid.arnes.si./

jesprenj··on Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)
mosh is quite smart with this
jesprenj··on Eppie is a decentralized email with full address and account ownership
Interesting! How does this <<feature

Eppie can use conventional email as a name service: so you send a message to Gmail address, but it never lands on the server and goes straight to the decentralized network.

feature work without a central name managing server?

jesprenj··on Eppie is a decentralized email with full address and account ownership
What are its features? I did not see that on the webpage. Does it for example offer perfect anonymity even to network attackers, on a similar level BitMessage [0] provides?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmessage

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