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lozaning··on Cache of devices capable of crashing cell network is found in NYC
What you're describing is trilateration , not triangulation
lozaning··on Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone
we like it this way

but thanks

lozaning··on Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data
I'm honestly shocked in-q-tel isn't one of your backers.
lozaning··on Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
I took amtrak from Chicago to DC recently and my phone was constantly trying to tell me I was being followed/tracked cause someone else in the sleeper car had an airtag.
lozaning··on Lilygo T-Keyboard: An ESP32 Bluetooth Blackberry keyboard
Thankfully most everything lily-go throws on their boards is pretty generic and generally adafruit has an equivalent feather wing or some such, and you can use their documentation to figure out how to get your lily-go stuff working with a bit of time spent cross referencing schematics and code.
lozaning··on ESP32-C61: Delivering Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Connectivity
Traegerdoesn't even bother changing the OUI on the espressif module they put in their wifi connected smokers.
lozaning··on 33-46% of workers on MTurk used LLMs in a text production task
Habsburg AI – a system that is so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AI's that it becomes an inbred mutant, likely with exaggerated, grotesque features

from https://twitter.com/jathansadowski/status/162524580321127219...

lozaning··on Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?
May wanna double check that OOPM cant be hacked
lozaning··on Ask HN: How to make a photogenic server room
Apple at NAB 2007 is peak server room aesthetic to me. https://appleinsider.com/articles/07/04/19/high_quality_phot...

All that gear is EOL now and can be picked up for cheap on ebay. Setup some xserves to just send data back and forth between Xserve raid arrays for maximum blinken lightsen

lozaning··on Malls adding apartments to offset dwindling numbers of shoppers
Ya'll just need to connect all the buildings together with enclosed walkways on the 2nd floor like they do in Minneapolis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Skyway_System
lozaning··on Microsoft posts its own teardown and repair video for the Surface Laptop SE
X230 with a nitro mod https://nitrocaster.me/store/x220-x230-fhd-mod-kit.html and an x220 keybaord swap is my setup right now.
lozaning··on When Your Fiber ISP's 'Dumb' Device Screws Your TCP Sessions
I can get xfinity, CenturyLink, and USI fibre at my house in Minneapolis. It's great, the competition is such that I pay $50 a month for symmetrical gig fibre.
lozaning··on The Tinkerbell Griftopia
Modern art = I could do that + yeah but you didnt
lozaning··on ConstitutionDAO
Sothebys would appear to be all about this https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/sealed-cryptopu...

They don't care as long as they can take their buyers premium.

lozaning··on California ports among world’s least efficient, ranking shows
Not exactly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Price_Support_Program

Worked on a project a while back for pricing different qualities of milk and the amount of federal programs, guidelines, and laws regulating dairy markets is extremely substantial.

lozaning··on Senet and Helium Announce LoRaWAN Network Integration Partnership
Then it sure sounds like what they have is a proof of private keys algo, and not a proof of coverage algo. In which case why bother with a blockchain at all if there's a singular central entity that is the arbiter of all trust?
lozaning··on Senet and Helium Announce LoRaWAN Network Integration Partnership
The helium company charges miner manufacturing partners $40 a unit in order to generate the required private keys for their miners to be able to join the network.

As soon as I found out I couldn't stand up my own DIY helium miner and start providing coverage and making money I became entirely disinterested.

lozaning··on Senet and Helium Announce LoRaWAN Network Integration Partnership
They don't need to do a traditional ICO to grift.

In order to join the network and start mining, you've got to buy $80 worth of gear from some company marked up to $600. That company then has to pay $40 to the Helium company in order for them to generate private keys that let your miner join the network and start making money.

Helium is just https://network.fon.com/ on a different frequency + a bunch of unneeded crypto bullshit that hides the grift.

Call me when I can stand up my helium miner based on open source hardware and software and make money using that.

lozaning··on Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)
Then the siri founders started another company, which was then bought by samsung and eventually released as Bixby.
lozaning··on Facebook, Ray-Ban debut picture-taking smart glasses
What if I've also lost my sense of touch? I think it should also have to disperse a sulfur agent into the air, just to be safe.
lozaning··on Apple announces first states to adopt driver’s licenses and IDs in Apple Wallet
Through my American Express card I could get Clear paid for, and I still refuse to do it because I think the business model is just that scummy.
lozaning··on Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal
The number of people that come into the Samsung HQ on saturdays, just to take a 4 hour nap and then go home is staggering.
lozaning··on Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
Buzzfeed News != Buzzfeed. One has a pulitzer and the other tells you what Hogwarts house you're in.
lozaning··on Why is the university of California dropping the SAT?
UC system, back when I applied only let you weight something like 8 classes, regardless of how many you'd taken.
lozaning··on Time has run out on Time Capsules
Im still happily running an xserve raid in the basement.

If you throw in startech ide to sata adapters, theres just enough room to shove a 2.5" sata drive into the 3.5" sled along with the adapter.

lozaning··on List of Special Elevator Modes
All the buildings in Samsung's digital city in Suwon have their lunches organized by floor. It is verboten to go to the cafeteria before the lights on your floor dim, indicating it is now your floors turn. The cafeterias, while huge, aren't large enough to accomodate everyone going at the same time.
lozaning··on Ask HN: How to get started with CB radio?
Ham comes from pigs =)

Put originally it was a pejorative used by professional telegraph operators to make fun of 'ham fisted' amature radio oporators who were bad at morse code.

lozaning··on SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll
>Basically a company that attempts to collect as many patents as possible to weaponize

You've more or less explained IBM. You cant come at IBM because their patent portfolio is so vast, they you're bound to be doing something that infringes on some patent they have.

When I working there you wouldn't get promoted from being an IC to a manager unless you had at least 10 patents to your name during your tenure there.

lozaning··on HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users
It would have been a brilliant marketing move to announce another season of Silicon Valley.
lozaning··on Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils
Windows 10 LTS is all fun and games until you've got a samsung laptop, where the only supported way to load all the drivers is through their app on the Windows store, which does not work/isnt installed on LTS.

Honestly though, not having my hardware volume keys work is a small price to pay for not having the regular windows 10 garbage.

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