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stop50··on Linux has an INFINITE file [video]
Only /dev/urandom. Nothing new. Could be replaced by dev/random, since the kernel has only one random source anymore.
stop50··on Ask HN: What to do when a vendor doesn't respond to security issues?
i would contact the local entity that is responsible for cybersecurity, like the bsi in germany or as an second option an ngo that cares about security. The later can also publish it themself or helping to publish it without legal problems
stop50··on Peekl: An Alternative to Puppet and Ansible
From the looks of it it only tries to replace puppet. ansible has the strength that it doesn't need to run on the remote server or uses apis that have nothing to do with the remote host itself or has no access to. My aap sits in an completly different network and has access to an vault cluster that the remote hosts have not.
stop50··on 200+ Deaths in the Nepal-Tibet Floods of Aug 26. These deaths were avoidable
Monitoring requires more than Satellite images. It requires sensors to measure the speed, snowfall/rainfall, how mich water melts, ...
stop50··on Any Recommended Alternatives to Google Maps and Apple Maps?
I use and participate in openstreetmap. When i see an blocked road, like an construction, i can update the map within minutes. For navigation i use osmand, but i use a few tools that access openstreetmap in the background.
stop50··on Booklore self-hosted digital library with kobosync
The website itself is broken
stop50··on 200+ Deaths in the Nepal-Tibet Floods of Aug 26. These deaths were avoidable
I can think of two ways two ways of preventing this catastrophe or at least saving lives:

1. getting the world on reducing carbon dioxide at least from the 70s on worldwide. This also could have saved some lives in the middle east.

2. Use the list as an start for monitoring the glaciers and alerting the people for evacuation with an regular test of all alarming systems, but this also would have taken years to implement.

stop50··on Powerful US utilities fund 'grassroots' groups to sway cities away from
Lets call it what it is: astroturfing
stop50··on Individual Stock Trades as President
The link is the captcha
stop50··on Ask HN: Why does the US government search through people's phones at the border?
it started with Institutional paranoia and is now an method to prevent critics of gouvernment to get into the us
stop50··on California regulators restrict by 70% what replacement tires you can buy
So around 50% of the tires are probably a waste of money, 20% are probably near the proposed minimum
stop50··on Ask HN: How do you prove two machines computed the same float32 result?
Like a-dab wrote: its impossible

With some numbers you can, because the binary representation works, but others like 0.3 have an reputation to be differemt what someone might expect.

If you need precise results, do not use floats or define how precise your numbers need to be and round them to that precision before storing or displaying them

stop50··on Why Windows Is Losing Gamers
Is it just me or is the video ai generated? The voice has an strange pronounciation around terms like TPM 2.0 The person looks also very strange around the eyes.
stop50··on 'Rehabilitated' postwar Germany's government was full of Nazis, study reveals
How does this need a study? This is public knowledge for decades.
stop50··on Ask HN: Local-Only Microsoft Word?
The registration and a few other things run over the internet
stop50··on Ask HN: Local-Only Microsoft Word?
2003 maybe.
stop50··on OpenHashTab Has Been DMCA'd
This is only the link to the bot, not the xcancel link
stop50··on Ask HN: Do people with authism have emotions?
Of course they have emotions, some have just an problem showing them or don't want to show then.
stop50··on New x86 CPUID Entry For "EVOLUTIONARY"
Its only an vendor id. Nothing Intel can influence except their own entry
stop50··on Stripe Lands in Minecraft
They fixed it years ago.
stop50··on German Driving Licenses for Expats
There are not 1200 individual questions. There are a few hundred scenarios with 5-6 variations of the surounding environment.

As for the documents. On hat to be with you when you drive and the other should be in an secure location, since it verifies you are the owner of the car.

stop50··on Ask HN: How do you call the "-" on a keyboard?
Minus
stop50··on Ask HN: What do you use to monitor cron jobs and queue workers?
I abolished cron. I use systemd timers which are monitored through prometheus.
stop50··on The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
less than a minute of an duckduckgo search: https://www.sysmocom.de/products/sim/sysmousim/index.html
stop50··on New Jersey governor signs law banning surveillance pricing to protect shoppers
Its only state law
stop50··on Weird password rules for website to register
In most cases i see an difference in the special characters.
stop50··on Ask HN: How do you troubleshoot desktop Linux crashes/freezes?
My worst cases were all related with early boot problems, so the dracut shell was helpful.
stop50··on Restarting Germany's Reactors: Viability and Outlook [pdf]
the imports were caused by not by need, but because the prices were lower or even negative from especially france. France couldn't react in time for the lower need than projected.
stop50··on What Is Linux Swap, and Should You Enable It?
(Chinese)
stop50··on Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe
Nobody understands it. Merz never worked. The last time he worked was when he did his service in the Bundeswehr. His Politics can be described as Anti-Merkel: Immigrants are the Evil and the woking class must work for the lowest pay possible and preferably die before they can enjoy retirement; and lastly nobody is right of the CDU.
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