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sammy2255on What we know so far about Spain train crash

TCAS has its own flaws, especially around take-off and landing where it's completely disabled. Which is exactly where it matters most.

sammy2255on Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?

No, infact i'm more empowered than ever.. might burn out tho.. we'll see

sammy2255on Herdr has released native app

Another desktop application without a screenshot in the Readme.. sigh..

sammy2255on Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

If you tried this on Linux desktops you wouldn't get far

sammy2255on SpeedCrunch 1.1

Love speedcrunch it has been sitting on my taskbar for many years always my go-to for quick scratchpad for equations, etc.

sammy2255on Matthew Prince on why Cloudflare offers a free version and always will (2016)

The phantom latency is likely their WAF running all its rules on your traffic on every request

sammy2255on Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia

What is the charge?

sammy2255on Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

Maybe because TCP is exponentially worsened by latency?

sammy2255on QGIS bans AI assisted contributions

If you didn't mention it, how would they know if your contribution was written by AI or not? What happens to contributors who sneak in their AI-assisted commits where it's not obvious?

sammy2255on QGIS bans AI assisted contributions

Dude maybe if it was ChatGPT 2.0.. AI has come a long way.

sammy2255on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

They should start putting data centers underground like deep under central park

sammy2255on German Bundeswehr uses AI to screen applicants for right-wing extremism

Pretty low, but it's damaging enough to worry about

sammy2255on German Bundeswehr uses AI to screen applicants for right-wing extremism

Whos to say it's right or wrong? If I make a twitter profile impersonating a specific person and fill it with right-wing extremism will it get flagged by their process?

sammy2255on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

>We’re talking about people - innocent civilians, including children - being murdered just for existing.

This is exactly what HAMAS did on October 7th attacks - they choose to target civilians

sammy2255on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

>You’re essentially asking people to peacefully accept their oppression

When you get arrested, do you fight back and resist?

sammy2255on Felony Bench

There's no such thing as a "Felony" in Australia. That's a US construct

sammy2255on LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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sammy2255on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

Did they explain how exactly they adjusted those results?

sammy2255on Hetzner Price Adjustment

A very welcome price hike

sammy2255on Siri AI

To this day, Siri does not understand "Subtract 5 minutes off my timer" when having an active timer

sammy2255on Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

Is this a bug on Valve? Or is it simply a case of "My ISP is fucking with my internet traffic and they won't admit it please help me"

sammy2255on The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once

Probably unfair to class Cloudflare as "degraded" they have over 300 PoPs theres always going to be some in maintenance mode and re-routed

sammy2255on Love systemd timers

I've converted all my crons to systemd timers+services over the past year but cant help but think it's sort of.. less tangible than cron

Like imagine trying to explain systemd timers and services and unit files to a beginner.

sammy2255on Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

Out of curiosity, why did you have it on in the first place?

sammy2255on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert

IM THE BOMB AND ABOUT TO BLOW UPPPPPPPP

sammy2255on The Website Specification

Ironic how this "Website spec" website doesn't have caching

sammy2255on Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

Seems to be down! Timeout

sammy2255on I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty

Did you Bypass AWS API Gateway.. or did you bypass it for a company who had their AWS API Gateway misconfigured?

sammy2255on Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout

Mullvad doesnt do that, but "ExpressVPN" absolutely does