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thomasjudge··on Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video]
There is a youtube laptop repair show I follow that specializes in Dells and he *HATES* liquid metal, causes soooo many problems when it leaks
thomasjudge··on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
Bettridge's Law of Headlines: "No."
thomasjudge··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
>The USPS is also, ahem, rather incompetent,...

Just as a datapoint, the USPIS has a >= 98% conviction rate for cases that go to trial

thomasjudge··on I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
I think it is worth mentioning that at least a couple of these bases are pretty critical from a natsec standpoint. Fort Huachuca is a big IT and secure communications installation (United States Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, the United States Army Intelligence Center, Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Directorate); F.E. Warren AFB is one of the three AFBs that operate the strategic nuclear ICBM fleet. Not saying that any classified systems were potentially hacked/at risk in this situation
thomasjudge··on Creepy Crawlies
Are there lots of people doing development on mobile devices?
thomasjudge··on There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
who is Jamie Brandon
thomasjudge··on Extremely Low Frequencies
ELF is used as a plot tool in the Nelson DeMille novel "Wild Fire"
thomasjudge··on Welcome to Gas City
https://gwern.net/doc/cs/2005-09-30-smith-whyihateframeworks...
thomasjudge··on Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything
well this is overdue
thomasjudge··on Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
Anyone else is this the first you've heard of "Deezer"?
thomasjudge··on Vibe Genomics: Sequencing Your Whole Genome at Home
Would love to have some experts in the field comment on this
thomasjudge··on Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block
Could you bypass this with a VPN?
thomasjudge··on Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V
The comment in the "high level overview" section - "(just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU-Linux®)" is an amusing reference
thomasjudge··on How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
Related: (parody): if you haven't seen it, this is a critique - from microsofties I think - of MSFT product branding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

thomasjudge··on How to turn anything into a router
To me the single nic/double nic decision is a tradeoff between simplicity and complexity, and where you want that complexity to live. A single nic may be physically "simpler" but you need additional software complexity with VLANS and a VLAN aware switch. A double nic is mabe physically more complex but it allows you to have a simpler software setup (no VLAN's)
thomasjudge··on Reading Socrates in Silicon Valley
https://archive.is/VesJL
thomasjudge··on Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'
lol I was having the exact same thought
thomasjudge··on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
There are a number of US states that have moved off Microsoft (mostly to G-Suite) and a number more that are considering it. And yes it won't be EVERYone (you can pry excel out of accountants cold dead hands) or everyTHING (obviously mainly Windows) but it's at least a blow against the pricing and quality issues from MSFT
thomasjudge··on A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong
"aol.com"?
thomasjudge··on Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport
Closure rescinded https://x.com/FAANews/status/2021583720465969421
thomasjudge··on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
Will malware/virus scanners detect any bad software?
thomasjudge··on When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe
Today I learned of the existence of "organic, wheat-based cat litter"
thomasjudge··on Welcome to Gas Town
It took me a while to figure out if this was a really elaborate satire or not
thomasjudge··on 2025 Letter
"..for all of Trump’s ills, I see him as a sign of the underlying dynamism of the US. Who else would have elected so whimsical a leader to this high office?"

"Whimsical"

thomasjudge··on Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets
Per CNBC, MSFT is denying this report...
thomasjudge··on Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines
https://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
thomasjudge··on Build your own database
Very secure!
thomasjudge··on Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
The Teams mac client is so awful I completely gave up on it
thomasjudge··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
if the ceo of your company is personally paying the electric bill, go work for another company :)
thomasjudge··on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
Waymo has planes too??
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