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> they have converged quite a bit from the original vision of safety first

do you mean diverged? As in they've moved away from the original vision.

moreation Show HN: Aroma: Every TCP Proxy Is Detectable with RTT Fingerprinting

Why would one want this? Are there particular situation(s) that it's desirable to detect a TCP proxy? Does presence of a TCP proxy indicate some adverserial behaviour? E.g. surveillance, censorship, a particular attack?

moreation A better zip bomb (2019)

There was https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection earlier this year. It sends highly compressed output of /dev/zero. No overlapping files or recursively compressed payloads.

moreation The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign

Around 1999 I interned at Philips Semiconductor. I worked with one of the first or early engineers of Teletext (aka BBC Ceefax) - a system designed in the 1970s that encoded text pages within an analog TV signal.

The World Wide Web was just getting popular and he was happy to point out he managed to get @ into the limited character set (maybe called a codepage?) all the way back in the 1970s. However many (all?) international variants used different character sets that replaced @ and other uncommon characters with accented characters for their alphabets/languages.

As a result Teletext in the UK (using the english character set) could show email addresses, but not in most (all?) other countries.

moreation The Cornervery: A 90-Degree Stapler

It crashed the browser tab for me - Firefox desktop on macOS.

moreation Tinyio: A tiny (~200 line) event loop for Python

In https://github.com/patrick-kidger/tinyio/blob/main/tinyio/__... there's

    from ._core import (
        Loop as Loop,
        sleep as sleep,
        ...
    )

Does using `<name> as <name>` change the runtime behaviour at all? Or is it a stylistic choice?

moreation 'Significant amount' of private data stolen in UK Legal Aid hack

I wasn't trying to suggest they wil. I emphasised Gossi's If because I missed it on my first read. I didn't want others making the same mistake.

moreation 'Significant amount' of private data stolen in UK Legal Aid hack

> The Legal Aid breach is, I’m told, a ransomware/extortion group (not mentioned in the notice). If it looks like the UK gov are going to pay, or pay via third party, this one will become a megathread. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/legal-aid-agency-data-bre... -- https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114533584686916433

Note Gossi's "If". There's no indication so far wrt possible payment.

moreation In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio

Semi related, I created linesum a few years back https://github.com/moreati/linesum to line by line sha256.

moreation Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market

UK, near Luton, Dunstable Downs Radio Club car boot sale https://dunstabledownsradioclub.org/bootsale/

moreation One in four 2020 Tesla Model 3 failed the Danish periodic inspection in 2024

UK is first inspection (called an MOT) at 3 years, then every 1 year until the car is considered 'classic' - after 40 years with caveats

moreation ZType – Typing Game

For those seeking something multiplayer https://play.typeracer.com/

moreation New dog, old trick: DaMAgeCard attack targets memory directly via SD card reader

I'm pleasantly surprised there are any devices supporting SD Express. I thought the standard had died on the vine. So Apple, please pull your finger out and include SD Express in the MBP models that have an SD slot.

moreation Making Electronic Calipers

I don't know the current draw of either. I don't know if newer designs are better, I only have one I bought around 10-15 years ago. For mine a bettery left in the calipers depletes within a few months, without use.

moreation Making Electronic Calipers

Recommend you take the CR2032 out when not using the calipers. Cheap/no name ones (atleast those sold 5-10 years ago) have a relatively high standby current, even when the LCD screen is off.

moreation How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)

What's in that 4.5 TB? e.g. message metadata? Message text? Media?

What time window does it cover? A rolling N day window? Everything since year dot?

Can it be pruned? e.g. only data of accounts followed or messages interacted with

moreation Wcurl Is Here

Was fully expecting wcurl to be an alternative name for curl on Windows, because Microsoft made "curl" an alias for their own http downloader command in Powershell.

moreation A Two-Stroke Engine Made from Scratch Using Basic Hardware Store Parts

Assuming the theme you mean is hobbyist machining, then https://www.youtube.com/@Blondihacks

moreation The Myers diff algorithm: part 1

Runny C.

> Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is a type of bacteria that can cause diarrhoea

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/c-difficile/

moreation 240-Gbit/s sub-THz wireless communications using ultra-low phase noise receiver

I thought it might be Generations, but that was 257.4 MHz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A9IZHWz45Q&t=20s

moreation PeerTube v6

https://diode.zone has been running many years. It was the first peertube instance I came across. Edit: https://tilvids.com/ is another

moreation Bluesky migrates to single-tenant SQLite

At a guess: that hash is performed relatively few times, so any performance difference is lost in the noise floor. Never having to answer "why did you use this insecure hash" or eliminating/minimising any possibility of a class of security problem is worth more.

moreation Raspberry Pi 5

Most or many, but not all. Apple Macbook supplies are a counterexample, e.g. https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MX0J2B/A/96w-usb-c-pow...

moreation ASK HN: What’s a small thing you’ve purchased which has made your life better?

Wolfcraft folding trolley (sack cart). It has a solid axle so it can still take heavier loads, unlike cheaper folding models. Good when your parking spot is a long from from your front door, such as in an apartment block.

moreation 55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021)

What's LOK in this context? Search and Wikipedia didn't throw up anything. Thanks.

moreation Googling for answers costs time (2020)

I've also seen "the recipe itself isn't copyrightable, so they add prose/filler that is".

moreation Infecting SSH Public Keys with Backdoors

The first paragraph claims (I've not tried it) that the same trick works in ~/.ssh/id_*.pub.

moreation Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children

https://www.hedy.org/ is billed as an incremental bridge from Scratch to Python, with built in learning aids and teaching aids.

moreation Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles

For anyone else curious, NMC is probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_nickel_manganese_cobal...

> Lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxides (abbreviated Li-NMC, LNMC, or NMC) are mixed metal oxides of lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt. They have the general formula LiNixMnyCozO2. ... NMCs are among the most important storage materials for lithium ions in lithium ion batteries. They are used on the positive side, which acts as the cathode during discharge.

moreation Huge pages are a good idea

Sorry, I didn't mean to trim that.