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phyzome··on Can’t fish Ethernet? Use “invisible” fiber instead
Yep! Might be a more common term among electricians.
phyzome··on Let Me Ch...
The precipitation thing is actually pretty unintuitive. Go look up the actual definition and tell me if that's what you expected.
phyzome··on Radiation Map of the World
Yeah, and I was hoping that you could still look at high-level averaging over a country ("maybe the bad data will average out") but when I looked at a few hotspots it appears that those all came down to a couple uncalibrated-looking devices.

Not very useful or interesting in its current form, unfortunately.

phyzome··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
You're missing a bit of political context.
phyzome··on Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020
That's... kind of the point. Catastrophic failures usually have non-technical contributory causes as well, and we ignore that at our peril.
phyzome··on Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020
Well, that and the reductions in funding.
phyzome··on An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them
More on the "other components" issue -- a lot of people have issues with some of the fermentable carbohydrates (e.g. fructans) in wheat, which also happen to be present in the other gluten-containing grains. "Have gas" is a bit of an understatement. For some people this can lead to cramps, vomiting, and other fairly severe digestive problems.

So people on the low-FODMAPs diet end up using "gluten free" as a convenient shorthand for "doesn't contain these particular grains".

phyzome··on Why Anthropic's filing crushed tech stocks
Maybe! I expect a lot of animals construct narratives to make sense out of the world around them.
phyzome··on Tell HN: Scribd Breached
What's great about this is that the primary thing exposed (credit card info) is also one of the least worrying things to have exposed, as a user.

You can just get a replacement credit card.

phyzome··on Tell HN: Scribd Breached
Since we know that essentially nobody is using homomorphic encryption, the original point stands.
phyzome··on Why Anthropic's filing crushed tech stocks
Boy, people sure do love turning data points into stories.
phyzome··on Proton goes all in on using AI
So, completely ignoring the abusive CEO as an issue of its own, I think there's one very important aspect of AI usage that's already clear from the article:

« Workers describe an environment where employees have genuine concerns about security or being asked to develop security products with AI, but feel unable to voice them »

It's very hard to build reliable and secure products in a fearful environment. This sort of thing has come up in root cause analyses of disasters. We don't need to know whether Proton has defined "guardrails" for AI usage, or what the processes are like; there will be problems, gaps, and employees will be unable to raise those issues with management. That's all I need to know, really.

phyzome··on Proton goes all in on using AI
You can absolutely shake people out of their ways without being a raging asshole.
phyzome··on Proton goes all in on using AI
For the kind of end-to-end encrypted support they advertise? Tuta is the only one I know of.

Email more broadly? I can heartily recommend Fastmail.

I don't really send anything sensitive over email if I can help it. Signal is a much better choice.

phyzome··on Proton goes all in on using AI
Posting the CEO's own words seems pretty fair to the CEO.
phyzome··on Proton goes all in on using AI
Someone in the comments on a previous 404 article listed a few things -- nothing necessarily "cancellable" in its own right, but drawing a pattern:

https://www.404media.co/proton-to-re-interview-staff-about-a...

- Praising the Republican Party and endorsing a Trump appointee.

- Andy choosing a username with 88 in it (a common Nazi dogwhistle) but then claiming it had a different meaning.

- Sponsoring a far-right French YouTuber and claiming they had no idea.

Again, nothing hard and fast. But it meant I was not at all surprised to find out how fucked up the company is on the inside.

phyzome··on Proton goes all in on using AI
...no? That's just called being a crumple zone.
phyzome··on Proton goes all in on using AI
There have been a number of signs over the past few years that they are very much not the good guys.
phyzome··on Toxic experts (2017)
Take a(nother) look at the post he linked to. Comments were broken previously, but they're showing up now.

Pyon indeed seems like a complete asshat.

phyzome··on How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth
No, HN has a braindead feature that autostrips certain words from titles.
phyzome··on Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880
New technology bears additional focus.
phyzome··on Here be monsters: What do you still need to know when agents do the work?
FYI, your site is blocking me for some reason. I'm just on a regular residential connection in the US, no VPN or whatever. Something's screwy in your WAF.
phyzome··on Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC
It didn't look like the usual Claude slop to me... but I also didn't find it readable at all.
phyzome··on Did it just build.. a clock?
That doesn't really clarify things much. Surely you can answer that question yourself?
phyzome··on Did it just build.. a clock?
I am very confused about this comment and this submission.
phyzome··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
If you're using Firefox, hit Ctrl-Alt-r and it looks however you want it to.
phyzome··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
It's worth it to someone.
phyzome··on Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines
I have to say, I'm not convinced those studies are legit.
phyzome··on German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying'
What does "immo" mean?
phyzome··on CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority
I prefer the chaotic option of MITM-in-the-middle.

(Mallory-in-the-middle is OK too.)

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