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https://rootkitlabs.com/2023/07/08/5-Strategies-to-Sink-your... from that blog was a fun/interesting read.

This isn’t a dropshipping success story, a lucrative exit, or a guide. This is a silly story documenting our failed hardware startup. It’s embarrassing to fail, so we seldom hear these stories, but I’m going to tell you one, here goes.

I like the idea. Maybe add a very brief explanation about how it learns?

Also please make a tvOS version. It's a perfect fit. :)

Bug report: Copying selected text doesn't work. Mac/Chrome. Via keyboard shortcuts or context menu.

Previously when the EU has ordered US companies to pay penalties of a "few billion EUR" for trade abuse there has typically been a lot of jingoistic outrage here. This one will be interesting to watch.

Supposedly like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvR4qK0B--w&t=517s

(I see now that it was already linked elsewhere in the the thread.)

Pretty impressive for cross atlantic one-time pad voice comms in an analogue era, I think. It's amazing what money and smart people can accomplish.

Also found this fantastic page: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/usa/sigsaly/

I could see Cloudflare randomly deciding that my single-employee company domain name needs an enterprise plan in a few years from now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY#Operation if anyone just wants to get a feeling for how it worked. Pretty good writeup IMO.

Scan from the print issue: https://archive.org/details/wired-magazine-04.12-1996-decemb...

Interestingly, it has 8 GB LPDDR5X, up from 4 GB LPDDR4 in the 3rd gen. That's a sizeable part of the BOM cost, I assume. They really wanted local AI?

At least according to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_TV_(device)#Technical_sp...

As per the founder in the thread:

"Once the Phase I trial of PVX-001 concludes, we will open-source the design and manufacturing information needed for others to produce and build on it, and we will not enforce our intellectual property rights against anyone who uses it to make vaccines against any betacoronavirus [...]"

The headline seems slightly inaccurate. A pledge of later going open-source isn't the same as open-source. Sure, "marketing".

Congrats! I understand that you tried with the US first and was forced to rethink. Why Australia?

No. This is by design. I do not like it. It's a tactic often deployed by libraries that want to retain some control over scanned assets. To be fair, normally they are funded by tax payers.

The answer is weaponized scraping.

This looks quite interesting:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/jbaw38/is... (2020)

ISA-over-USB, using real ISA cards in an emulator

https://github.com/Manawyrm/ISASTM/

USB and VM latencies are both questionable here, I would think.

ISA motherboards still work and have been mass produced in the hundreds of millions. (I have about a dozen in my retro closet.)

The esoteric ISA expansion cards would be the bottleneck, not the motherboards.

No, you are in the wrong here.

Is https://ytlarge.com/monetization-checker BS?

https://i.imgur.com/Hq61TTI.png

'The video "Based arbitrator destroys uber" Is Monetized'

'Advertising Status: Ads are active'

'Total Number of Ads: 1 (1 Post-roll)'

No. Just no. We don't need monetized influencers pontificating and building fandoms on this. That is gross.

That wasn’t the ask though.

The product is falsely advertised as is:

"Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

This is on one (or two) particular domain(s) where setting up wildcard DNS should be relatively trivial, if they actually cared enough about the UX of this product to make a special case in their code.

I don't understand how people can launch stuff like this.

Install via brew worked. Getting the hostname to resolve took 30 mins of waiting. Have they heard of wildcard DNS?

I'm staying on Sequoia for at least one more year.

iOS 27 is pretty good though.

The BBC article goes on with "He was flown back to the United States on a commercial flight, but their investigations are ongoing in conjunction with UK authorities." though.

I suspect that I can't really understand this:

"A US embassy staffer accused of possessing indecent images of children, was detained at his south London flat and flown out of the UK in August, without being first questioned by British police."

Sure, I get the overall mechanics. "was... flown" - any brits here to help? What exactly does this mean in BBC English? It implies something, doesn't it?

Kinda agreed. Except I continued watching because it was kind of ...pleasant?

Jeff: please do better! :)

Only needed if you connect it to the network. Don't.

I worked with a few people (tech) that Spotify later hired. Sweden is kind of small.

The calibre went from extremely high to surprisingly average within a decade. Not bad, to be clear, but kinda mid. I think they scaled too quickly and hit the 'bozo effect'.

Yes, anecdotal.

You're remembering correctly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203654

What's funny about having to rely on unauthorized clones to provide a fast native UX was that Spotify's original client back in 2008 started out as beautifully light, custom rendered native client.

Few Apps ever had that wow factor the first time I used it, it was so much lighter and more responsive than anything else of the day. I remember being perplexed at how I could search and skip to any part of a song quicker than iTunes could looking at a local library. Everything was latency-free and instantaneous.

We were building a Music Startup at the time, so we investigated how it worked. We we’re very surprised we couldn’t find any evidence of an established UI toolkit. It looked as though they had built their own custom UI renderer and optimized TCP protocol which sent back its metadata in XML. Their traffic looked like it was initially seeded from their own (or CDN) servers (for best latency) and then overtime we would see some P2P traffic on the wire.

Our QT/C++ client had decent performance but was noticeably heavier than Spotify's. I was disappointed to see their native client eventually be abandoned and succumb to become yet another Chromium wrapper. I expect it fell to the pressures of a growing startup adding 100s of developers (without the skill of their original CTO/devs) where a native UI couldn't be updated and re-iterated as fast as a Web App. I wish they maintained 2 desktop clients, and left their native client alone to just be an audio player and push all their new social features to their new flagship CEF app.

It's unfortunate the skill and desire of building fast native UIs are being lost to Electron and CEF wrappers. Seems the larger the organization the more likely they are to build new Web rendered Desktop Apps and we have to rely on unauthorized Indie efforts like this for fast, responsive native UIs.

(The comment is from a 2021 post about another Rust-based Spotify client.)

"Most people use GitHub and features for free"

Do you have a source for that factoid? (I suspect the vast majority of Github resource usage is paid. And we are upset.)

Yeah, compared to AWS the lock-in effect is tiny. I'm sure there are highly prioritized plans to "improve" on this.

I guess they would need to control/"own" more of their customers data in proprietary formats. Not markdown/source code in English with agents running on customers' machines.

Something cloud/web-based, "preferably".

Yes. No Silver Bullet (1986) said that 40 years ago.

That "AI-generated fake magazine advert" for the VX-4 is glorious.

Fine, I guess I'll finally learn how to transfer a domain.