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swebs··on 5G Just Got Weird
Does every thread really have to turn into some us-vs-them USA election fight?
swebs··on 5G Just Got Weird
>Try using LTE in a large city’s central train station at a busy time and see how you get on.

There was some ad campaign in Helsinki about two or three years ago telling people to do just this to compare carriers. Telia, Dna, and all the others worked just fine at rush hour at the central station with 50mbps+

swebs··on Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands
>A wireless mic to the cops is not what you want in the house.

Yeah, that belongs in your pocket.

swebs··on Mac keyboard shortcuts
I actually prefer the Mac way since I often find myself accidentally killing terminal programs when trying to copy something. The fact that Ctrl-C is context dependent makes it a big pain usability wise.
swebs··on Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release
This is the exact reason why my next phone will be a Pinephone (just waiting for it to ship now). I'm expecting it to last a good 10 years just like any decent Linux laptop.
swebs··on Our World in Data: Suicide
This comment has been flagged for some reason, but I've also noticed the same thing anecdotally.
swebs··on Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles
And these are just the public bubbles. There have also been leaks of private groups such as JournoList (and its successor, Cabalist), and GameJournoPros.

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

https://ggwiki.deepfreeze.it/index.php?title=GameJournoPros

swebs··on Twitter used phone numbers provided for security to target ads (2019)
AWS
swebs··on Pleroma: A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server
Are you with Mastodon or Pieroma?
swebs··on Wakaresaseya: private agents hired to end relationships
I don't know of any country where it is.
swebs··on US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat
It's great for bypassing mass censorship. Wikileaks, Hatreon, 4chan are all prominent examples.

https://wikileaks.org/Banking-Blockade.html

swebs··on Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak
Why isn't China on that list as well?
swebs··on U.S. Economy Contracted at Record Rate Last Quarter
There was barely any lockdown here in Finland. The Helsinki region was quarantined from the rest of the country, but that's about it. Barely anyone wears masks either. The USA seems to be taking this much more seriously.
swebs··on ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
Any large power plant is pretty much a missile target if war breaks out, I guess.
swebs··on ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
>Europe [The member countries of the EU, not the entire continent] is responsible for the largest portion of construction costs (45.6 percent); the remainder is shared equally by China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the US (9.1 percent each). The Members contribute very little monetary contribution to the project: instead, nine-tenths of contributions will be delivered to the ITER Organization in the form of completed components, systems or buildings. In this way, the scientific and industrial fabric in each Member is prepared for the step after ITER—the conception and realization of the type of prototype fusion reactor that will demonstrate industrial-scale fusion electricity within this half of the century. For all Members, the potential benefits of participation are significant: by contributing a portion of the project's costs, Members benefit from 100 percent of the scientific results and all generated intellectual property.

https://www.iter.org/proj/Countries

swebs··on 11M households could be evicted over the next four months
Or that a current renter is looking to own their own home instead, which seems like the much smarter option. Especially when the economy is uncertain.
swebs··on ITER Live: Start of Machine Assembly
No, ITER will not be used as a power plant. Think of it as an experimental device like the LHC. The findings from ITER will be used to build DEMO which will be able to output power continuously. And DEMO's findings will be used to create PROTO, a commercial power plant. Sometime after 2050. Maybe longer.

And if you want to be really technical, we've had fusion reactors for decades, but ITER should be the first one that produces more energy than it consumes.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTO_(fusion_reactor)

swebs··on We thought it was just a respiratory virus
It's only been an hour, and insightful comments take more time to type out than ignorant speculation. Have some faith that this community isn't just another Reddit.
swebs··on Facebook sues EU antitrust regulator for excessive data requests
Sure, you can sue them for anything if you're willing to pay for a lawyer.
swebs··on Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers
>According to research conducted by Tulane University in 2009, 2.3 million Americans lived more than one mile away from a super market and did not own a car.

0.7 percent of the population isn't too bad.

swebs··on Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft
>FAAMG

Seriously?

swebs··on Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers
Not even the state of the union addresses? You can read the transcripts. They're not that long

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres...

swebs··on Ancient human ancestors carved handaxe from a hippo femur 1.4M years ago: study
>On the other hand, modern human's super-intelligence might have come from a lucky admixture of Neanderthral and Denisovan genes rather than slow mutation

Be careful saying that if your HN account can be linked to your real identity. I've seen some people get #cancelled for that.

swebs··on Krita, OpenGL and Qt
Microsoft does that too. It's infuriating.
swebs··on Things I wish I’d known about CSS
The employer pays roughly the same amount. It's just that the employee sees much less in Europe due to all the taxes.
swebs··on Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles'
They look completely different to me. Most of the conspiracist videos aren't even political.

https://www.their.tube/conservative

https://www.their.tube/conspiracist

swebs··on Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles'
Same, and uBlock origin stops it from going further. Here's an archive link

http://archive.is/k2gG7

But it's mostly just blogspam. Here's the real project

https://www.their.tube/

swebs··on Ubuntu Will No Longer Track Which Packages Users Install
Do you really need samples from that many users? Wouldn't a sampling of a few thousand users give you more or less the same results as a sampling from a few million? And if not, is it worth the bad will you're earning from your users by treating them like this?
swebs··on IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration
>From my jaded older perspective this is VERY common when they want no external applicants.

Or when they want very external applicants.

swebs··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
Sound like your problems are actually caused by Active Directory being shit and intentionally trying to lock out non-microsoft operating systems. Let this be a lesson to any future administrators. If you have Mac and Linux users, NEVER chose AD.
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