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natebcon TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters

https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/screening-partnerships

> The Screening Partnership Program contracts security screening services at commercial airports to qualified private companies.

natebcon $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks

There really always is a man behind the curtain eh?

natebcon New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK

If they're not a spyware company then they really super duper picked the wrong name. Maybe they were just going for evil, in which case ... well I'm glad NYC hospitals have dropped them and I hope many, many more companies and organizations choose the same path.

natebcon OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43

paypal, heck every retail gift card too.

natebcon Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)

the Drugwars and Tradewars BBS door games were so great!

natebcon OpenSUSE Kalpa

there were some pretty deep shenanigans in ventoy not too long ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44810281

This was pretty wild too: https://github.com/ventoy/PXE/issues/106 that's where they installed a self-signed EV cert in the trust store.

natebcon Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis

Timberborn. It's fantastic!

natebcon Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

I sent it to archive.ph here:

https://archive.ph/rP4cb

and it has the content but the formatting is atrocious.

HTH.

natebcon Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure

It's unlikely that they could because of the ... well the Elections Clause other than the Senators bit I suppose.

My broader point was that the Judical Branch itself is starting to show some signs of backbone regarding the unchecked flexing going on in the Executive Branch. I was more talking about where you said:

> Experts said no. But this Supreme Court surprised experts before.

That generally, maybe, hopefully the Executive Branch will get a surprise or two as well.

I can be naively hopeful at times.

natebcon Bitwig Studio 6

Bitwig is such great software! The way the interactive help is a fully functional representation of the actual component being described is such a fantastic way to handle documentation.

Just getting started with 6 and I never do anything but make goofy music for myself but it's such a great stress reliever for me.

natebcon Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure

Ah, yeah, I see now that I've refreshed. Yes, it will get tricky with the current Supremes. Hopefully the signs we're seeing around Obstruction and Contempt in the federal courts lately indicate the _maybe_ the Judiciary is finding it's backbone.

I don't have much hope for Congress doing the same.

natebcon Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure

It's not really up to Trump or Congress though is it?

Elections are run by the several states.

natebcon An interactive map of Flock Cams

https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article29105...

A Sedgwick, Kansas, police chief used Flock Safety license plate readers to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend’s vehicles 228 times over four-plus months and used his police vehicle to follow them out of town, according to a city official and a report released this week by the agency that oversees police certifications.

natebcon I baked a pie every day for a year

Waffle House pecan pie can hit the spot. ... cup of black coffee, damn fine.

natebcon Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music

Doc Severinsen can get me almost every time too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42TgFgVTIIA

natebcon Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan

You're right. Hytale is certainly shaped similarly in that regard.

natebcon Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server

Anybody from CMU, tell your ITSO people to calm down, it's just a few nerds rediscovering something.

natebcon PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible

I have some great memories of LAN parties at friends playing Unreal Tournament and even that funky Nerf version they made.

natebcon PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible

I think that person doesn't understand what a liar is either lol.

I'm too slow to finish a game like Celeste but the soundtrack is an all timer. Lena Raine's music is fantastic.

Super Mario music is great too ... why do we have to tear one thing down to lift another up?

natebcon Vibe coding kills open source

Did something change? Is LLM generated stuff now able to be protected with copyrights?

I was under the impression that copyright was only available for works created by people.

natebcon Open source server code for the BitCraft MMORPG

This is really cool. If you've never seen it before BitCraft is quite a lot like Runescape. Great art style and very crunchy gathering/crafting gameplay.

The developer open sourcing all of this is awesome.

Here's an blog post from them last year covering their open source plans: https://bitcraftonline.com/news/open-sourcing-bitcraft-onlin...

natebcon Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)

Back then (2010-2013ish) I was driving a motorcycle primarily so I was hyper aware of the immediate weather and Dark Sky was like magic in that use case.

natebcon Alien: Braun Aromaster KF 20 Coffee Makers (2012)

I have a breville burr grinder that i've used every day for the last 15 years and i've only cleaned it maybe 3 times?

At this point it will likely outlast me.

natebcon Alien: Braun Aromaster KF 20 Coffee Makers (2012)

Arguably for "coffee geeks" it is a hobby!

natebcon Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)

I think the point was (and i'm certain my experience is) that with Apple Weather you just don't get the notifications at all (or rarely do) so it's very hard to get a feeling as to how accurate they are.

natebcon VW is bringing physical buttons back to the dashboard with the ID. Polo EV

Occurs to me that this is likely one of the reasons car manufacturer warranties have really gone into the crapper.

natebcon OpenTTD 15.0

Master Hellish has a video covering the new stuff if you're interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3iDSxrqAPE

I've always been impressed with OpenTTD