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mr_woozy··on Child Sexual Abuse Material Persists on X
I worked for a startup almost a decade ago that automated this process entirely (reducing the need for human oversight / comparing).

It worked, no one wanted to pay for it. Or were completely locked into Microsoft or other large companies solutions that half worked.

mr_woozy··on Last Call to Migrate Mojang Accounts
many of us alpha account users have no pathways forward for account migration either. Big suprise, M$FT is as horrible as ever.
mr_woozy··on The day Windows died
Windows 7 was the last possible usable version as far as I´m concerned. When Steam sunsets support in 2024 I´ll most likely switch to Ubuntu. Windows 8-11 are just untenable choices and we should all just realize this.
mr_woozy··on I have never been treated this bad in an interview process in 20 years
https://web.archive.org/web/20230331010423/https://startupdr...
mr_woozy··on Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site
Icelander here, we're all a bit chuffed at the moment that the world is recognizing what a cool individual he is. We already knew it here.
mr_woozy··on Heroes of Might and Magic III was released on this day 24 years ago
nevermind!

I found it here for anyone else interested:

https://archive.org/details/loki-linux-game-isos

mr_woozy··on Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before?
I worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory back in 2010. There we very nice perks that I noticed immediately,

* access to large interesting tools and projects

* Big big budgets that often take good long looks at their decision long term making

* Generally very smart people around and interesting community events unlike working at a corporation.

* Perks and benefits well above and beyond working at corporations (often in lieu of higher pay that corps would offer)

I worked on the LHC and RHIC projects on the data processing side and it was pretty great. The laboratory itself was very run-down and not maintained well in many areas. Conversely because you're often shortstaffed you get enormous opportunities to play with various aspects of technology and head up interesting projects.

Day to day it was a lot of coffee breaks and discussions about where to go for lunch that day. There's a 'hurried' aspect that probably exists at one of the FAANG's.

Last bit of advice, most labs are either DOD or DOE managed facilities that are often managed by a large consortium, in BNL's case it was Battelle. They are often run this way to keep workers from being Federal workers with more rights and perks. Different labs are run by different consortium's, something to be aware of.

mr_woozy··on Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox
I also rely on this feature extensively but it's functionality has been broken for 3 years now, with no sort of interest in fixing it in sight.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/1523

It's exactly this type of behaviour that Firefox doesn't seem concerned with addressing.

mr_woozy··on BitTorrent Site Magnet Database Archives Available via Torrent and Direct DL
I thought Wireguard was the new, preferred, simpler way of running a VPN nowadays. Supposed to be lighter protocol and less complicated to set up wrong than OpenVPN.
mr_woozy··on Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care in November 2019
yes that's the most suspect part of this narrative. that lab workers working in an environment and educated about virus and communicative diseases would get sick and then go to a public emergency room against all common sense.
mr_woozy··on $365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin
woah get a load of the philosopher over here guys.
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thanks for ruining my sleep schedule
mr_woozy··on Talk cancelled due to slides critical of Google and Facebook
What was first clue Google went bad?

When they couldn't even maintain a motto of "Don't be Evil"

That should have been everyone's red flag right there.

mr_woozy··on What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for hard drives?
> The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

I'm not your Bud, Pal.

mr_woozy··on Square: Bitcoin Is Key to an Abundant, Clean Energy Future
then you thought.......what?
mr_woozy··on USV Dumps 100% of Coinbase Stock
considering the recent timing of the IPO it's safe to assume substantial monetary losses or gains depending on public perception of solvency.
mr_woozy··on Bitcoin Blockchain Visualization
> Bitcoin Cash blockchain

pffffttttt

mr_woozy··on New cryptocurrency could potentially cause an SSD or hard drive shortage
Yea the guy only invented Bitorrent and changed the entire internet, what does he know!

I'm sure you're right.

mr_woozy··on Bitcoin mining hash rate drops as blackouts instituted in China
sure if you're suddenly not counting China's hydropower as renewables suddenly.
mr_woozy··on Spectrum upset about me using the upload they sold me
good thing for everyone, here you're unemployable.
mr_woozy··on Spectrum upset about me using the upload they sold me
wave your hands around some more and and clutch your pearls better I'm sure I'll understand your point eventually.
mr_woozy··on Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble
Most hit pieces don't
mr_woozy··on Buy a phone, get a tracker: unauthorized tracking code on Android
you're the only one sounding angry, and condescending.
mr_woozy··on A far-right extremist allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data centers
"you don't know me mannnnnnnnn"

>Any given person who identifies as an antifascist is vastly more likely to have deeply sincere & considered political beliefs than essentially anyone else you know in your life.

jfc bloviate more why don't you.

please get offended at sweeping generalizations about the left and the respond by making sweeping generalizations about everyone not identified with the left. I'm sure it'll convince everyone.

mr_woozy··on Signal Server code on GitHub is up to date again
Thanks for linking this, I had no idea this occurred.
mr_woozy··on Signal Is a Government Op
>CALEA legally obligates Signal to provide the government a lawful interception methodology.

Common misunderstanding but incorrect.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-real-reason-the-feds-cant-rea...

" Soghoian explained that communications, "encrypted with a key not known to the company […] cannot be intercepted." So in a situation where the decryption keys are handled on the device, and not by whomever is delivering the messages, then law enforcement must ignore the message entirely. "

mr_woozy··on Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
This comment right here %100
mr_woozy··on Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
You sound like you've really solved working
mr_woozy··on How much total throughput can your wi-fi router really provide?
>When a new IP or MAC shows up on my network I get a push notification on my phone (I wrote a small script to do this).

You should think about putting it online via github or similar. Probably many others would be interested in that functionality.

mr_woozy··on Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
Is it not possible to just add in a separate WAP to the MikroTik device ?
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