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resist_futilityon Source code of the Estonian online voting system

You could have verification be done in person and not online with no way to share it.

resist_futilityon SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video

warning: viewing the videos that auto play on that page shot up my downloads to 350Mbps on that page

resist_futilityon US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City

thousands of wooden piles to create a foundation with the first one even failing and the foundation being reconstructed

http://www.mexicomaxico.org/ParisMex/resumen.htm

resist_futilityon Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users

nice list of vulnerabilities and source changes

https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-12-01

resist_futilityon Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96M bill for website redesign

Did they get a new satellite too? /s

resist_futilityon Eleven Music

Does it sound like something a human could play? You're not attacking how it sounds but what it's playing.

resist_futilityon Preliminary report into Air India crash released

The switches on the lower panel that are switched, are the fuel cutoffs

resist_futilityon Preliminary report into Air India crash released

In this YouTube short you can see the pilot switching both fuel cutoff to run

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bd4Bler36Nk

resist_futilityon She Got a Permit for Her Chickens. Now the City Is Fining Her $80k

What do people have against chickens? Roosters should not be allowed but hens aren't loud or particularly smelly at all. Dogs can be a much bigger nuisance.

resist_futilityon U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams

Evidence of active harm, if they were in the US they would have been raided. They get sanctioned and can sue instead.

resist_futilityon GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill

Now you get a grey area when AI is being added to everything to use as an excuse to avoid state laws

resist_futilityon Show HN: Omiword – A daily, sector-based word puzzle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_fox

resist_futilityon FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies

@dang Semi-related but why are posts about Trump firing FTC Commissioners being removed/dead

resist_futilityon DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards

This is just adding to the bureaucracy, instead of approving all purchases on the card at once now they have to get approval for each and every purchase.

resist_futilityon Germany says its warships were sabotaged

It's pretty even on both sides of dot and comma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_...

resist_futilityon Apple explores robotics in search of life beyond the iPhone

What exactly are they ahead in? only thing that stood out was price

resist_futilityon Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO

>Wiz’s founders previously built security startup Adallom, raised money from Sequoia and Index and sold the startup to Microsoft for $320 million in 2015.

Copy, Paste and ask for 70 times more?

resist_futilityon Google Mesop: Build web apps in Python

https://google.github.io/mesop/getting_started/installing/

resist_futilityon Square Enix to record extraordinary loss of 22.1B yen

So half of last years earnings?

https://companiesmarketcap.com/square-enix/earnings/

resist_futilityon Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?

How would a random person know if that information was MNPI? How could you possibly prove that someone knew it was?

resist_futilityon UniFi U7 Pro

XG 6 PoE, 4 ports for $600

https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-switching/produc...

resist_futilityon Lasers deflected using air

It's always amazing how things thought of in science fiction end up becoming reality. In this case bending lasers in air, now we just need a small moon capable of retaining it's atmosphere.

resist_futilityon FCC refuses to scrap rule requiring ISPs to list every monthly fee

They already know what the fees are from, they just don't want to tell the consumer. How else would they calculate them?

resist_futilityon PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More Bloat

But also not to be confused with OLEDB

resist_futilityon Webb Telescope detects most distant active supermassive black hole

Are you saying the nucleus? because hydrogen is too

resist_futilityon Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation

I mean it still doubled in 12 years from 1995-2007 while workers increased by ~10% based off that graphic. The stock holders are the only ones coming out on top with a more than quadruple in value since 1995.

resist_futilityon The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 1: Three Dimensions in Software

Take a look at Unrecord, for the difference from 2010, photo realism has come a long way

https://www.polygon.com/23691482/unrecord-bodycam-fps-steam-...

resist_futilityon List of rivers by discharge

Had to look up the Colorado river because it wasn't big enough to even make the list, it's 37th in US alone. Wow, so many people rely on such a small river.

resist_futilityon How the US can stop wasting billions of dollars on each transit project

1-2+ million a month. I wonder how fast light rail will be when they have as many stops as are planned, will it be just as slow as a bus?

https://www.soundtransit.org/ride-with-us/system-performance...

https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/maps

resist_futilityon Electrolyser development: 200 times less iridium needed

200 * x(less) = y(previous)