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throwaway48375··on Defensive tactics from the modern history of urban warfare
Perhaps the German offer of helmets wasn't as useless as it seemed.
throwaway48375··on Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
It appears just to be a leaseweb server.
throwaway48375··on Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
Any time someone refers to Anonymous as if they are actually some kind of cohesive group it's a clear indicator they have no idea what they are talking about.
throwaway48375··on In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously
>US society is very backward in its attitudes to banking and payments, and in giving access to banking to everyone

ironic

throwaway48375··on Ask HN: What was better in the past in tech?
Not that long ago I built a gaming computer for my girlfriend's nephew. He asked me to help him with a problem and when I opened up Chrome to google it defaulted to Yahoo search. He said it has been doing that for a while and he didn't know why. Those days are unfortunately not over.
throwaway48375··on Ask HN: What was better in the past in tech?
UK?
throwaway48375··on Ask HN: What was better in the past in tech?
I definitely have some nostalgia for audio cassettes. I remember listing to the radio with the tape paused on record waiting for a song to come on to make a mix tape. Floppies I can't say I miss much. They were always getting corrupted. The only good thing I can think of is that AOL sent out free ones.
throwaway48375··on ‘Zero-click’ hacks are growing in popularity
dumb phones have their own problems
throwaway48375··on Demodulation of the LTE uplink
I believe you, but can you provide a source for the Qualcomm firewall?
throwaway48375··on How we use Notion as a startup
My old job had a google search appliance that searched their internal documentation. It actually worked. I miss it.
throwaway48375··on A Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world
everyone
throwaway48375··on Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021
Not vacant land vacant housing. For example there is a small apartment complex near me that was bought by an out of state investor. They moved their kids into one unit to keep an eye on the place. The rest of the units they aren't renting out. Why bother dealing with renters when the property value has more than doubled since they bought it?
throwaway48375··on Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?
D.A.R.E did a pretty good job too.
throwaway48375··on The data are clear: The boys are not all right
I haven't heard about the NYT article. Do you have a link?
throwaway48375··on Words known better by males than females, and vice versa
Can you think of one?
throwaway48375··on Words known better by males than females, and vice versa
>For each vocabulary test, a random sample of 67 words and 33 nonwords was selected. For each letter string, participants had to indicate whether or not they knew the stimulus.

Nowhere in the study were they asked to define it.

throwaway48375··on Surviving the front page of Hacker News on a 50 Mbps uplink
I wish OPNsense had cake.
throwaway48375··on Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
I think the point is that it technically isn't illegal to mine coins, later mix them, and then sell them. It is very suspicious though.
throwaway48375··on Building a modern home in the woods
I live in the Mojave desert. Fires are a real problem here. I know people who have lost their homes because of them. We tend to have low humidity and high winds which are a bad combo. The desert isn't all sand dunes like people think. The dry brush burns really well. Here is what it looks like when it goes.

https://i.imgur.com/VJ7ENis.jpg

throwaway48375··on Send your email right to the other person's spam
For me it was "corrupted floppy disc".
throwaway48375··on Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations
They also received a massive amount of chargebacks precipitating this decision.
throwaway48375··on Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations
They absolutely do medicate people against their will all the time. Google "booty juice".
throwaway48375··on Building a modern home in the woods
I just skimmed the article, but I thought it said it was in BC.
throwaway48375··on Building a modern home in the woods
That area is almost exclusively hydroelectric power.
throwaway48375··on Building a modern home in the woods
There are a lot of people willing to take an idiot's money.
throwaway48375··on Building a modern home in the woods
The desert burns too.

Source: I live there

throwaway48375··on What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity
>And we have -- we can kind of almost see the end. We`re vaccinating so very fast, our data from the CDC today suggests, you know, that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials but it's also in real world data.

--Rochelle Walensky, Director CDC

throwaway48375··on What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity
If we had started training more nurses at the beginning of this pandemic they would have graduated already.
throwaway48375··on What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity
I don't see how it is so hard. Every positive PCR gets reported to the local health department which reports it to the state DPH. If the state can use this data to send me a letter asking me to donate convalescent plasma surely they could add this information to their digital covid passport.
throwaway48375··on Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online
Couldn't you just remove the speaker and microphone then wire the speaker output to the microphone input?
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