jonatron

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jonatronon 10TB portable SSDs on Amazon UK are scams

Tide has been a currency for more than 10 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5023204

jonatronon 10TB portable SSDs on Amazon UK are scams

Generally, marketplaces are not liable for trademark/copyright infringement listings until they are made aware. Amazon have a form for reporting that. In the case of items not as described, there are consumer protections to allow returns, but I don't know if they have to remove the listing.

jonatronon Similar Image Search (2022)

Interesting how you arrived at a totally different local descriptors solution than me. I used ORB descriptors for the small size, with LSH. Then to improve recall speed, first build a list of candidates using a subset of the features, before checking all the features of the candidates. Dividing the image into quadrants is a good idea, I should have done that.

jonatronon A custom-designed IDE SSD for old PCs

The Gigabyte i-RAM from 2005/2006, featured in a LTT video.

jonatronon A custom-designed IDE SSD for old PCs

A single board computer with something like a 10GbE connection to your laptop.

jonatronon Whisper.cpp example running fully in the browser

This might help out the timestamp guy for very long videos/podcasts.

jonatronon London’s historic Smithfield Market meets a new chapter

The different entrances to stations are missing from most maps, and they're important on the Elizabeth line. If anyone knows a map which has them, or knows how to add them to a map (like a layer on OSM/Google), let me know!

jonatronon UK lawmakers vote to jail tech execs who fail to protect kids online

https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137 Reading through 260 pages of legislation is tl;dr for journalists.

jonatronon Always look down in London: Pavement oddities

https://assets.ctfassets.net/vval1fkv4s9j/L8XTFNyvaSewQWSMOw...

> Some 19th century street furniture also remains, enabling the road to present an excellent understanding of the appearance of many residential areas in the era of horse transport. The council will promote the retention of the original street surfacing and furniture in the conservation area.

jonatronon Always look down in London: Pavement oddities

Barnmead Road ( https://goo.gl/maps/uGXKSum8azGJLbU29 ) has particularly terrible roads and pavements. It's actually deliberate, because it's a conservation area.

jonatronon The UK is wasting a lot of wind power

Octopus energy, on the agile octopus tariff: https://octopus.energy/agile/

jonatronon The UK is wasting a lot of wind power

I'm in London, electric prices last night: https://nitter.nl/pic/orig/media%2FFmNAukVXgAEF6Ar.jpg

jonatronon The UK is wasting a lot of wind power

I like negative prices, I got paid to heat my hot water tank and have underfloor heating on last night for 1.5 hours.

jonatronon Alphabet unit Verily to trim more than 200 jobs

It's not complicated

jonatronon Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation (Part 2)

dynamic string extraction: https://gist.github.com/jonatron/f7ec44e7ffd41c4dd50d51b3451...

jonatronon Fiber optics take the pulse of the planet

I saw someone splicing in 40+mph winds last night. The fiddly bit is stopping the umbrella from flying.

jonatronon Devirtualizing nike.com's bot protection

Using defineProperty can be detected with navigator.hasOwnProperty("webdriver"), which is why I suggested using it for reverse engineering rather than avoiding detection.

jonatronon Devirtualizing nike.com's bot protection

curl-impersonate https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate is great for avoiding TLS fingerprinting

jonatronon Devirtualizing nike.com's bot protection

If you assume that every bot protection script will look at navigator.webdriver, you can just set a breakpoint before the script runs, and set a debugger statement on the property to land somewhere useful:

      Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'webdriver', {
        get: () => {debugger; return false},
      });

jonatronon The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z

Not all countries have toilets that block as easily as American / Canadian toilets. So wading through dirty water is less likely in the UK for example.

jonatronon Casio-F-91W die-shot

"Can I share a photo of an entire book?"

No is the short answer to that one.

jonatronon Association between influenza vaccination and risk of stroke in Alberta, Canada

Figure 4D in the stroke study shows how small the hazard is for younger people, and how small the difference is. The shingles study shows the shingles IRR is higher for people under 65. As another comment says "I wonder at what age flu shots provide overwhelming benefits.", that is the reason why I posted it.

jonatronon Association between influenza vaccination and risk of stroke in Alberta, Canada

Flu vaccine increases risk of shingles: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/irv.13055

jonatronon Threeuk is blocking Tutanota

You randomly get 4xx or 5xx response codes (can't remember which one)

jonatronon Threeuk is blocking Tutanota

Three also have a transparent HTTP proxy, which breaks apt updates, so you have to manually replace http with https in your apt sources.list.

jonatronon How many computers are in your computer? (2021)

Some cables have a computer in them [1] [2]

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2013/03/04/cpu_inside_apple_vide... [2] https://www.chargerlab.com/two-arm-cpus-are-inside-teardown-...

jonatronon ThreeUK blocks access to encrypted provider Tutanota due to 'age restriction'

Pretty sure Vodafone and O2 are different. Maybe there's some sharing going on, but I've found Vodafone to be much better than O2.

jonatronon 100G-LR4 optic cable teardown

https://archive.vn/7k5c0 https://web.archive.org/web/20221212104843/https://social.af...

jonatronon GB National Grid Status

There's a few things that help with periods of low wind:

    More long distance transmission / interconnects
    Vehicle-to-grid
    Grid scale battery storage
    Domestic and commercial battery storage (Powerwall etc)
    Seasonal thermal storage - large insulated tanks or ground source heat pumps

These all exist, and there will be more new technology coming. It doesn't seem like an unsolvable problem.

jonatronon The Great Pi Zero Showdown

I had a Radxa Rock Pi 4, but I just couldn't get it stable. If I buy another non-raspberry Pi, I'd research reliability/stability before buying.