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lstodd··on eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear
If someone wants a 14" blade, one can fetch some steel from a junkyard and apply an angle grinder to it. Best results with leaf springs. Then wrap one end with electrical tape and it'll chop an arm or a head off no problem. A bit more effort with the grinder and you get yourself something like a gladius.

Now, what is the point of those bans? So people feel safer while not being safer?

lstodd··on Solar panels that plug into your wall
There are things called distribution yards, they are very distinct on google maps, can't be hidden. They were successfully targeted by US in 1990s Yugoslavia war.

It does not take much to bring down electricity distribution.

lstodd··on Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
well, I did a test once upon a time on an Opel Corsa D 1.1, full weight about 1.3t, and it did reach 139 kph on gps, but.. let's say it if had it in it to go 170, i'd just back off at about 150.

I had no problems going 190-210 on a motorcycle. It's just like boat hull speed, after some limit no matter what you do it just won't go faster.

lstodd··on Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
well, 1983 peugeot 205 was let's say a rocket. under 800kg and ~70hp (or 120, but that's was just scary)

you just don't get a car like that today.

lstodd··on Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search
Now we need a paper about how black cats are secretly red and tabby.

(and you can see it on them in bright sunshine, perfect black cats are not, they exhibit both stripes and reddishness)

lstodd··on Bitwarden Dual License Model
I audited it you know. For myself, not to write a report. I don't think half of bitwarden people know how it works better than me.

Result: not recommended for general use.

lstodd··on Bitwarden Dual License Model
Hosted password manager is equivalent to publishing all your passwords outright.

Now, given the general ignorance on infosec I'm suprised that people actually refused to pay to upload their passwords. The world has some hope after all.

lstodd··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
> to attract great engineers, which, not unlike soccer players, can then be "sold" to a different company

this is so much bullshit I don't even.

even if they thought that could actually work : it could not unless by "great engineers" you mean "resume-pad masters".

lstodd··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
like, idk, nginx?
lstodd··on Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason
It is not obvious that a) reasoning is computable, b) that if it is, it's feasible and c) what reasoning is.
lstodd··on YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
The only way to prevent leaks and abuse is to not collect the data.

Since there can not be any trust in the supply chain and operations, the only way is to ban ALPR outright.

lstodd··on `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
My password is 123qwe so it's safe for now.
lstodd··on Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
reddit! use reddit!
lstodd··on Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
Normies have a cezve.
lstodd··on ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux
One can fit a nice (eg, not 1-channel, but actually useable) LTE base station frontend in a gigabit eth on 2014-s tech.
lstodd··on So you think you could be an electrician?
In Europe anything below 10kV is low voltage because 10kV is what feeds the 380V 3-phase distribution transformers that then feed single 230V phases to residential/office.
lstodd··on Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason
Turing complete does not mean reasoning. Zuse did turing complete computers in 1940s.
lstodd··on Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason
I think the question is if the "rules" however captured can express reasoning.

My position is that it is not possible.

lstodd··on Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
we in security teams can only dream of such incompetent management

zero CVE policy = halt on business development.

lstodd··on Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far
Maybe to expose the utter uselessness of "papers".
lstodd··on Tokens Too Cheap to Meter
Do you mean most of uses of grep are backreferencing? In my 30-yr career I did not use regex backrefs once except for learning them.
lstodd··on Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
"average people"'s means of production is their brains. which they have all the chances to own but often reject them.
lstodd··on The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)
I sat before a second-hand 20" 1280x1024 monitor in 2001. And it was old (as in >5 years) at that point.

then there was Iiyama Vision Master Pro 514 with 140-ish kHz horisontal scan

lstodd··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
FreeBSD 4 was big in early 2000s.
lstodd··on The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
train is the wrong approach. you earn respect with them, and then they defend you.

lol moment was when we with a girlfriend playfully fell down on sofa, but the then master-of-house siberian 6kg cat considered that a threat to me.

he jumped ~3m claws open, smashed a desk top lamp, shredded the gfs' top and basically opened up her back before I could stop him.

lstodd··on The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
3 lb housecat can shred your face so fast that your arms would be late arriving.

do not underestimate cats.

lstodd··on Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
^^ Behold the religious belief in "peer review" "field experts" and the attempt at argument reversal at the end.

This is what middle ages were famous for, and it took Renaissance to get rid of this.

edit: Giordano Bruno was burned at stake for challengin people like you.

lstodd··on Wax motor
About 3-5 seconds depending on plumbing.
lstodd··on Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
pointing to a "consensus" which is antithetical to science method.

but ye, who I am to persecute people based on their beliefs, this is for religious people to do.

lstodd··on Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
"There are also some shared values between all these people" is guilt by association by definition.

The rest of your comment is even worse. Cults? Consider AGW cult where people reject any attempt of a discourse because "science is settled". Which is equivalent to "God told us this".

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