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pppp··on US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover
>>NATO would be dissolved...

This plays right into Putin's hands including everything else Trump has been doing to bring down the USA.

pppp··on Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power adapter with 60W max
Anyone else think those inductor windings look sloppy like they were done by hand instead of a machine?
pppp··on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
Sorry, after the Tegna deal they will own all three stations in my market. Essentially, the viewpoints we see will be determined by one man.
pppp··on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
Nexstar, who initially threaten to pull Kimmel's show from all (200) of its stations and started this ball rolling, owns ALL THREE OF OUR LOCAL network affiliate stations. All 3 in one market. Remember when this was illegal?
pppp··on Firefox tab groups are here
Is there a way to hide the colored tab group buttons so they can only be seen in the List-all-tabs drop-down?
pppp··on Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spiral that can end oil
Where I live (in the USA), they are still building new gas stations. Are they expecting the government to bail them out? What kind of business person sees the impending end of fossil-fuel cars and builds a gas station?
pppp··on Windows 11 is getting a force quit option to close apps without the Task Manager
Is there anything compelling in Windows 11 that would make me want to switch from Windows 10?
pppp··on A New Bootable USB Solution
Getting a malware warning from virustotal.com on the download.
pppp··on Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy for prescription medicine delivery
I tried to go to their site to look up a drug that my spouse takes - you can't look up prices without signing up and you have to give them your phone number...NOPE!
pppp··on Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?
Liquid soaps are a poor choice from an environmental/cost standpoint. Most of the soap goes down the drain and is wasted. Bar soap stays on your hands and last many times longer.
pppp··on Kubernetes the Easy Way
Oh yeah, I'm going to download a script from a website I've never heard of and pipe it into shell without review.

Even if 99 percent of the time nothing benign is happening, why get people used to doing this?

pppp··on How the Nvidia Ruler Measures Up
Adafruit makes a nice ruler for a reasonable price:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1554

as did eevBlog:

https://www.eevblog.com/projects/uruler/

pppp··on PulseAudio requirement breaks Firefox on ALSA-only systems
FYI, we're a long time Linux shop (mostly Ubuntu server) and are slowing moving away from it because I don't like the direction it is going (systemd, etc). I've got more than half of our systems on FreeBSD/OpenBSD now.
pppp··on PulseAudio requirement breaks Firefox on ALSA-only systems
It's gotten much easier to both upgrade and to install software. Example:

To apply security patches:

  freebsd-update fetch  

  freebsd-update install
To upgrade to a new version of the operating system:

  freebsd-update -r 11.0-RELEASE upgrade
To install software:

  pkg install chromium
You can still use the ports system if you want to, but pkg is so much easier.
pppp··on 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School
If police really thought this was a bomb, why didn't they evacuate the school and call the bomb squad? Their motives are suspect.
pppp··on Police in Texas arrest Muslim teenager for DIY clock
If police really thought this was a bomb, why didn't they evacuate the school and call the bomb squad? Their motives are suspect.
pppp··on Ask HN: What's your favorite CLI or ncurses program?
nvlc - a ncurses vlc videolan media player built into vlc.

nvlc is just a script supplied with vlc: #! /bin/sh exec /usr/bin/vlc -I "ncurses" "$@"

pppp··on Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees
Title is inaccurate - the important part at the end was cut off: "- Ex-employees"

Accusation is presented as fact.

This would be a better title: "Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals - say ex-employees"

pppp··on Own-Mailbox, the first 100% confidential mailbox
Many ISP's including my own in the U.S. don't allow running servers from home, especially SMTP.
pppp··on Why I dislike systemd
I wouldn't say the init scripts on OpenBSD are complex:

# cat smtpd

#!/bin/sh # # $OpenBSD: smtpd,v 1.4 2012/10/26 06:51:59 ajacoutot Exp $

daemon="/usr/sbin/smtpd"

. /etc/rc.d/rc.subr

pexp="smtpd: \[priv\]"

rc_reload=NO

rc_cmd $1

pppp··on Apple releases iPhone Lightning Dock for $39
And it accepts power from.....a lightning connector. Seems like an expensive way to stand your phone up.
pppp··on Why we are leaving Dropbox
6. No client-side encryption

7. Deceptive advertising. Telling their customers that they encrypt data enroute and at rest without telling them that they use a single common password for every customer.

pppp··on Why are glasses so expensive? (2012)
Zenni seems to be moving away from Acetate frames to plastic which aren't nearly as nice.
pppp··on Amazon Cloud Drive: Prime Photos
Amazon has a history of creating web applications (I'm thinking about their MP3 cloud drive) and then seemingly abandoning all further development. Either they have small teams of developers that move from project to project, or it is outsourced.

I'm not confident in Amazon's long term approach to these products.

I'm a advanced-amateur photographer and half of my photos are RAW format, not JPG's. I'll be surprised if this offering supports any format besides JPG.

pppp··on True Goodbye: ‘Using TrueCrypt Is Not Secure’
Here's my theory (step-by-step):

1. Truecrypt is a gigantic pain-in-the-side for US intelligence agencies.

2. Intelligence agencies brainstorm about the best way to deal with the situation.

3. Taking over and tampering with the current code is deemed unrealistic. The user base of Truecrypt is very sophisticated and even minor changes to the source code would be scrutinized.

4. "How can be get people to stop using Truecrypt?" "We can discredit the project - get people to voluntarily stop using it because they don't trust it".

pppp··on Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays?
Bazqux

Put it on the list - it's got 4 votes already

pppp··on Dwolla Launches Realtime
Duplicate post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6509437
pppp··on Dwolla realtime payments
Anyone considering doing business with Dwolla should read up on how they treated their customer TradeHill. (Google it). The internet has a long memory.
pppp··on FastMail’s servers are in the US – what this means for you
I am more than willing to give FastMail twenty USD per year, so it is not expensive in that regard, but it is expense for what you get. 1GB of space? Give me a break. All of the tiers need to shift down a notch while keeping the price the same. $20 for 10 GB would be reasonable.
pppp··on Why I'm saying goodbye to Dropbox and hello to SpiderOak Hive
Not open source - not possible to trust it. I switched to duplicity and a cheap storage (shell) provider accessible via ssh.
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