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landgenoot··on Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world
RAV4 is always in the top 10 of most stolen cars [1]. Maybe this is why.

[1]: https://transconnect.com/en/blog/car-theft-in-europe-popular...

landgenoot··on We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?
Divide and conquer.

Group by country, and let them handle it.

https://www.edpb.europa.eu/contact/notify-a-data-breach_en

But I think you are asking the wrong question. The challenge is how to minimize damage.

landgenoot··on How I use AI (Oct 2026)
You are confusing syntax with knowledge of the libraries.

The struggle is not where to put a semicolon. The struggle is, how do I handle validation problem X with framework Y.

landgenoot··on Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
Just add a cronjob?
landgenoot··on HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
> can give you a non-bait interface to YouTube that works

Is there something like this for Twitter?

landgenoot··on Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos
So just fill your skin with this ink and use a laser to print any pattern.

Looking forward to see human ads

landgenoot··on GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]
Why didn't the manufacturer invent this themselves?
landgenoot··on Decade-old RAM is making a comeback
I have a laptop with soldered RAM. The motherboard upgrade to a 16GB variant was 120 EUR. Same price as the RAM soldered on it. It came with a CPU upgrade as well. I'm happy.
landgenoot··on ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux
I currently have a setup with a Raspberry Pi (alpine+pipewire+dac) to stream audio over the network.

This enables me the watch video with no latency problems, because it's embedded in the audio stack (buffered). That's why I was wondering which problem gets solved with this project.

But now I understand that this is for concerts not for some audiophile multi room setup.

landgenoot··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
Gather those ads, index them. Offer them as a subscription. Profit..?
landgenoot··on ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux
Very cool. However, I think I'm missing the usecase. It needs a separate LAN, so basically it's audio over CAT6?

Don't get me wrong, I'm genuinely trying to understand.

How does this compare to pipewire over ethernet? Is it realtime vs buffered?

landgenoot··on Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments
That's a nice wearable!
landgenoot··on What should we tell our students?
Don't you think a robot can fix your toilet as well?

Why are meta glasses such a big deal? Because they need training data for manual labor.

landgenoot··on Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
Never assume malicious intent when incompetence.

I have multiple devices that queries their update server every 15 seconds, which all shows up as the top 10 queried domain in my network.

landgenoot··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
I use a voyage as well. Wish it had USB-C, because that's the only device I use regularly that still has micro USB.

Apart from that it's great, books won't get any better with an upgraded ereader.

landgenoot··on PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura
So, like Lineage. I still rock my CyanogenMod
landgenoot··on F-Droid 2.0
> The EU mandates the 2FA method shows information about the purchase you're authenticating (timestamp, amount and cc used in my case), making unconnected dongles impossible to use.

There are unconnected photoTAN devices that support this. They have a camera that reads a QR code. Some European banks use this. E.g. Vasco digipass 770

landgenoot··on An update on Wayback Machine access
I worked on this before. You can solve the privacy issue using "statistical payments", by lack of a better word.

You visit website A,A,A,B,C,D,A,A

At the end of the month, you send your entire 20$ randomly to one of the websites you visited.

This will level out everyone's contribution and reward websites with lots of traffic. It eliminates the need for micropayments.

landgenoot··on Singapore subway (mrt) information display types
Why are plasma displays being used? I would expect they would burn in rapidly.
landgenoot··on Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
I think Qdenga was approved in India very recently.
landgenoot··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Isn't this a matter of regulation? I'm not sure about US, but in EU you have old houses/buildings that are protected. Sure, you can buy them, but you can't modify or destroy them (being cultural heritage).
landgenoot··on Airbnb Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale
> Do propery owners and travelers really care that much about the app?

There is a threshold how bad it can be. With airbnb they happen to exceed that threshold.

Their website is so bloated that I cannot use it on Firefox mobile. It simply did not load within 60 seconds.

Sorry, don't blame me for spending my money somewhere else.

landgenoot··on A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
> Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access patronview.com Why have I been blocked?

> This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

Thank you, from Vietnam.

landgenoot··on A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
Other sites are blocking VPN's as well. It's a contineous hassle of turning VPN on and off.

It feels like you are a third class citizen.

landgenoot··on Man nearly sucked out of 'detached' window on Ryanair flight
I would perform a chargeback if I paid for a window seat.
landgenoot··on OpenPrinter
Offices, maybe. Photography, not at all. Some photographers prefer inkjet over minilab.
landgenoot··on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
How do I compare the peering capabilities of different ISP's? Assuming tier 1 ISP's are not available in my geographic location.
landgenoot··on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
I don't care about fancy numbers, I care about high quality peering.

I'd rather have a stable 50Mbit than 1Gbit and 0.5Mbit international peering with packet loss.

landgenoot··on Set up your own DoH (DNS over HTTPS) service
Android private DNS does not support alternate paths, alternative ports or basic http authentication.
landgenoot··on How Europe Became the World Champion of Heat Deaths
It's easy to dress up warm. I think it's mostly about costs, not climate.
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