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poopsmitheon Europium UltraGlow Powder – Green

There is some good humor on this site. :)

Depending on the answer given to the quiz on the bottom of the Chemistry Experiments page, visitors are directed to one of Thomas The Tank Engine, Disney, or the actual safety page.

https://unitednuclear.com/chem_exper.htm

poopsmitheon Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

Zooming in isn't even necessary because you can use the flight playback scrollbar to see the little plane move along the route.

poopsmitheon FCC Bans Authorizations for Devices That Pose National Security Threat

From the link they posted, the guide says to forward the port to any unused IP address, like 192.168.1.252. I think this effectively causes an attacker's traffic to get dropped.

poopsmitheon Twitter was special. But it's time to leave

I keep hearing this, but where is the evidence?

poopsmitheon How to sell tickets fairly

YES! I love this concept. The big clock featured in the post was described in a Tom Scott video[1] earlier this year. It's the Royal FloraHolland's flower auction in Aalsmeer. Fascinating to see how it worked then and how it works now. Same concept, just computerized and accessible remotely by bidders.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAdmzyKagvE

poopsmitheon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2022)

  Location: Spokane, WA, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Ansible, Node, Lua, Vue, Docker, SQL
  Résumé/CV: https://grimtech.net/about
  Email: chris@grimtech.net

poopsmitheon I wish my web server were in the corner of my room

I want the same thing but for different reasons. I want 1TB of HDD storage for a one time payment of $50, instead of having to shell out $80/mo. for the same thing in a datacenter.

poopsmitheon Pigeon – Send Messages by Carrier Pigeon

Go on

poopsmitheon A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says

I think your #2 is unjust and illogical given the lack of harm caused by the stunt.

poopsmitheon Show HN: Narratives Project – A news product for a more peaceful internet

"Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to www.narrativesproject.com. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR"

poopsmitheon Tell HN: All .fj domains have gone offline

Why do you say .io is a crime against humanity?

poopsmitheon Send a text message about Ukraine to a random Russian mobile number

go on. why?

poopsmitheon Show HN: StealthDrop – Anonymous crypto airdrops using zero-knowledge proofs

Web2.0 boomer here. Can someone ELI5 what is an, "Airdrop?"

poopsmitheon On the Future of 12ft

Well this is ironic. Well intentioned developer creates site to bypass paywalls. Site is a popular success, and begins to cost too much money for the developer to maintain. Developer comes up with a solution which is to introduce an optional paywall.

I'm not just poking fun... I actually sympathize because I'm in a similar situation with one of my projects. I've had to reconsider being a 100% ideals-based person and actually set up methods for people to give me money.

I've always appreciated sites offering free content, but now I'm in the unique situation where I'm the one publishing content. It takes a lot of time and energy to put together and my other sources of income can only cover the bills for so long. The harsh reality is that free services require money to operate.

poopsmitheon Ask HN: Where do you hang out virtually online?

The VR in VR chat is optional. There's a desktop mode for people without the headset.

poopsmitheon Cthulix: a Single System Image construction kit that is currently in development

> Q: "What is released so far?" > So far, there has been no release of code.

bummer, I was hoping for some examples

poopsmitheon Show HN: CodeCaptcha - Hide web links behind coding challenges

I love this!

poopsmitheon The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

Ah damn, I didn't want the story to be over. That was a good read!

poopsmitheon Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

Yes. Wow I thought it was just me. Had to refresh Firefox to get anything to load

Menu > Help > Troubleshooting Mode (it asked me if I wanted to refresh)

poopsmitheon OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration

Streamlabs was using the name, "OBS" (Streamlabs OBS aka SLOBS) in their fork of OBS and it led a bunch of people to believe that Streamlabs == OBS.

On OBS github, contributors asked SLOBS to stop doing that, and Streamlabs declined.

Streamer community outrage ensued via Twitter. Large exodus of SLOBS users to OBS. Streamlabs publicly apologized a few days later, and renamed Streamlabs OBS to Streamlabs Studio.

poopsmitheon Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

I'm archiving every video from my favorite Chaturbate streamer by uploading it to Backblaze, IPFS and providing an index.

(NSFW) https://futureporn.neocities.org/ (NSFW)

I'm also automating as much of it as possible. Currently writing an extensive test suite for my node library which handles transcoding, thumbnail generation, and uploading.

(NSFW) https://github.com/insanity54/futureporn (NSFW)

My home internet sucks, so I also have an ansible playbook which handles spin-up of a VPS which is better suited for capturing full HD livestreams and uploading them to web3.storage and B2.

It's a passion project that doesn't make me any money, so during the day I sell anime trading cards on eBay. I make enough to pay rent so I'm living large.

poopsmitheon Drone operator will try to rescue dogs from Spanish volcano

Yay! I am cheering them on.

I believe I found Aerocameras youtube channel, which also contains links to website, Instagram, Facebook, and Linkedin

https://www.youtube.com/user/dreamsfactorysl

poopsmitheon L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

Ah yes, the trusty info site and code repository with no explanation of what the software does.

poopsmitheon Show HN: Download videos, but only the parts you want

Pretty cool!

I'm curious as to why this is offered as a cloud machine and not something that runs locally. Wouldn't the encoding performance on a free or cheap cloud instance be poor?

I create a lot of video compilations using twitch and youtube videos as source. My internet is 5Mbps down, 3Mbps up, so it can take hours to download long video streams and extract just the parts I want.

Because of my network limitation, I found a way to combine ffmpeg and youtube-dl to grab sections of video from a twitch or yt video. The following is an example which replicates the videodownloadtool.io example.

    ffmpeg -ss 00:15:34 -to 00:16:09 -i $(youtube-dl -f best -g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf2tplcb6eE) -vf "crop=(iw*0.75):(ih*0.80):(iw*0.20):(ih*0.08)" ./output.mp4

poopsmitheon Autonomous drone navigates independently through the forest at 40 km/h

put the fire out with more drones problem solved and nobody dies

poopsmitheon Hackers drain cryptocurrency accounts of thousands of Coinbase users

I've heard the term used in libertarian circles. I think it's justice without punishment. Instead of the offender being slapped on the wrist, imprisoned etc., the offender must work to restore the victim to how they were prior to the offense.

poopsmitheon Using RSS to replace social media

I've been enjoying using https://fraidyc.at/ for the past year or so. It ingests RSS and is smart enough for everything else. I use it to follow people on Twitter, know when a favorite youtuber uploads a video, subscribe to a number of blogs, and know exactly when a new post is added to the subreddits I frequent.

poopsmitheon Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Banking target for 2023

You gave them your bank account login credentials and you didn't think it was strange?

poopsmitheon San Jose Fire had an impossibly complex incident scene (2019)

Is there a version of this that doesn't require a FB account?

poopsmitheon Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

There's a few machines like this in Spokane Valley, WA. Not that that the machine's operator is secret, but they have mystery buttons. It's been around for years and it's right outside a Coke distribution center(?). My siblings and I used to refer to it as, "The Mystery Magic Coke Machine"

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6787458,-117.2733456,3a,49.5...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iNN12D4W7k