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tmerc··on 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37971038

4g now. 3g was turned off causing these cars to drain the battery searching for signal.

tmerc··on Mississippi libraries ordered to delete research in response to state laws
It's the exact digital equivalent of saying "it's not available at this library but you can buy it yourself or get access through another source"

Y'all give Mississippi too much credit if you think they hold the only copy of gender studies and race relations academic research.

tmerc··on Mississippi libraries ordered to delete research in response to state laws
No deletion is happening. They're simply not providing access through a tool they provide. The collection is still available outside of that tool.
tmerc··on Mississippi libraries ordered to delete research in response to state laws
This headline is incredibly misleading to the point of being an inflammatory lie.

MLC (https://www.mlc.lib.ms.us/) is a state body that helps library systems in the state with govt money. They have a tool called MAGNOLIA that gives public libraries, community colleges, and k12 schools access to scholarly databases like ebscohost. This article says that MAGNOLIA no longer provides access to those collections. Larger universities in the state don't use MAGNOLIA as they have (and pay for) their own access.

No research is being deleted. Mississippi doesn't have the power to delete research in ebscohost. They're using a feature provided by ebscohost to exclude access to those collections. This is literally 2 bit flips in a database.

https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/Content-in-EBSCOhost-Dat...

However, if you have concerns about the material included in MAGNOLIA, you can request a review of the material on the MLC website: https://www.mlc.lib.ms.us/review/

tmerc··on Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?
Why would enumerating a wildcard dns through brute force be something that evokes pride or shame?
tmerc··on The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)
Assuming female, 5'5", age 35, somewhat active because it's more conservative; daily caloric intake is like 1700. Your egg macros are about 5.5g of protein and fat per egg for about 72 calories per egg. A large egg is 7g protein, 7 fat. 91 calories. My math is based on large eggs, 9 cal/g fat, 4cal/g carbs and protein. To get all of of their caloric intake from eggs would be around 18 eggs.

Vitamin A in eggs is 75iu, 23ug RAE. RDA is 700ug for this person. 30 eggs. The tolerable upper limit is 3000ug. 130 eggs.

Macros: 126g of both fat and protein. Carbs in eggs are negligible at maybe .5g each, totaling 9g or 36 cal. Harvard recommends .36g/lb for protein, which is about 40g. They also set the theoretical upper limit at 2g/kg ; .91g/lb, which is 102g. So this is 24g excessive (3.4 eggs). The quantity of too much protein is debatable, though in the absence of heavy weight lifting, this is at least excessive for most people. Harmful depends on context.

126g of fat is 1134cal. This is below what they need to maintain weight (calorie deficit) and the biggest problem with this diet so far. If this person are more than 150g of carbs per day, I would be concerned because with circulating glucose, body fat is not used readily to supply caloric need. The body may want to use protein as a calorie source, which is where the danger of eating too much protein comes from.

After being on this diet for several weeks, they will be in ketosis, which will actually make it much safer. Body fat is used more readily in ketosis to fill energy needs and could make up the 600 calorie per day deficit, totaling to a little over the safe 1lb per week recommendation for weight loss.

I would advise adding more fat and reducing protein a bit (80g should be plenty though potentially excessive still), not because this is dangerous but because it is excessive and the body will need to remove the excess protein as waste. This isn't really harmful in smaller quantities but does put more strain on the kidneys.

Maybe 12 eggs a day and another 50 of mostly fat to get 500 calories, 500 deficit. If trying to maintain weight, increase fat by another 50g. Mix carbs if you want under 300 calories (75g) with that amount removed from fat intake and preferably in one meal with protein.

Doesn't consider vitamins other than A.

tmerc··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
I grew up buying meat and never seeing farms. About 7 years ago, I helped my sister/BIL raise a flock from hatchling to food. We did everything.

Having actually slaughtered and butchered chickens I raised, I'd rather raise my own. I know the chickens I raised had a better life and death than factory farmed chickens.

tmerc··on Yellowish Nodules on a Man Consuming a Carnivore Diet
I thought the same, but an open question for me (now) is what happens if you eat 3000 calories of protein and 3000 calories of fat or even carbohydrate. You have sufficient calories that your body doesn't need to metabolize protein for energy, but what happens to all the excess protein you consumed?

I assumed the excess protein would be undigested, but can't back that up with a citation.

tmerc··on Yellowish Nodules on a Man Consuming a Carnivore Diet
There should be enough fat in 12000 calories to avoid rabbit starvation. I did not consider the load of metabolizing all that protein and assumed the body would eliminate what it didn't need. They're might be something in protein toxicity here.
tmerc··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2024
I've only done some research, but if you have the space, you can skip the soda stream and carbonate in a corny keg in large batches. The lid of the keg has an input for co2 and an outlet for liquid. You should probably have enough space in the fridge for the large keg. There are smaller keg sizes but I'm not familiar enough to name them.

You can also find continuous carbonation lids but there are constraints on the water pressure being higher than the co2 pressure. My well water is 30 to 40 and the recommended co2 pressure is about 60.

On the whip (cylinder to cylinder filling tool) you linked, you can only ever equalize the pressure between the two cylinders. Most gas cylinders I've seen start around 2000 or 2200 psi if they were professionally filled (as in by a gas supplier like airgas). If your home brew store used a whip to fill your cylinder, it's going to be below their starting cylinder pressure. Each fill is going to lower the source pressure and generate a lower pressure in the filled cylinder. Vacuuming the cylinder should get more CO2 out of the source, but won't fill the small cylinder more. If I understand correctly, because you're pulling the remaining co2 out, you'll get lower pressure in both cylinders at the end because more gas has to leave the source to equalize the pressure.

Tbh, I'm more scared of the whip than a regulator and a hose after it. If you don't have a regulator on your source cylinder, whatever comes next has to handle the full cylinder pressure. In your case, all parts of the whip are at cylinder pressure. Regulators can handle full tank pressure and make it a safe level for the hoses so that in the event of hose failure, you're only leaking 60 psi (or whatever the regulator is set to).

I used to work with tanked oxygen for torch work (not professionally), but I think the above is correct. If not, please correct me.

tmerc··on Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
Just gonna point out that AWS IAM only started allowing multiple 2fa devices 2 years ago.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/you-can-now-assign-mul...

It's entirely possible that many sites shared this flaw.

tmerc··on Smart TVs are like "a digital Trojan Horse" in people's homes
Probably not international in context. Most IR receivers go behind a special semi-transparent plastic. That's also the cheapest place to put an LED. I think there are films you can get to block non IR light. Some tvs also have a connection to add an external ir receiver.
tmerc··on Smart TVs are like "a digital Trojan Horse" in people's homes
Roku TVs "phone home" a lot. I had one with pihole blocking it's collection, but they still updated my menus to suggest garbage for me. I wasn't willing to let the device go un-patched and still be on my networks, so there was probably still data getting back to them. A computer is easier to secure but still has all the same issues by default. The difference is that a computer isn't designed to spy on you. Netflix in a browser is still going to tell Netflix about your viewing habits, but at least it doesn't tell Roku via screen scraping as well.
tmerc··on Smart TVs are like "a digital Trojan Horse" in people's homes
Yes, generally that concept is possible. I don't know of software that makes a whitelist firewall easy to use. You also run into problems when your streaming provider updates ip addresses or cdn DNS names, which can be frequent. The other issue with this is that the streaming provider that you pay might also be adversarial. You may want to allow some of their traffic but not other. So you end up maintaining some kind of list that can break your streaming experience if you don't maintain it.

As content providers consolidate on shared infrastructure (AWS, gcp, etc) the chances of good and bad actors using the same IP increases. This decreases the effectiveness of firewalls that operate on ip:port matching. Most firewalls do this.

Realistically, what you probably want as a tech savvy consumer is home network level DNS blacklist. It is not a firewall and it doesn't technically block traffic. It does prevent traffic from leaving the device if the DNS the device wants to send to is blacklisted. This exists (pihole) and can be added to a network fairly quickly. Bad actors could bypass your DNS or use known ips directly. Whitelisting dns would also work with the caveat that you'll need to update the list frequently and I don't think pihole was designed for this.

All of that is fairly complicated. A wireless keyboard and mouse and HDMI cable are cheap and laptops are plentiful. You will have the same adversarial content provider issues with a laptop, though. Scriptsafe and ublock can help. Laptops actually shut down when you tell them to. Your tv is probably on even when the screen is off.

I made this decision recently when I inherited a Sony TV with a house. It has not been connected to a network and I use a laptop to stream. I also run pihole, scriptsafe, ublock, and I pay for most of my streaming providers. They're still getting data on me, but less than most people.

tmerc··on DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate
At least on some Android based dji products, the device os does not include Google services. If aabs are dependent on Google Play being installed, then this would be correct. Side loading is absolutely viable for apks, as are third party app stores. I am not an android developer.
tmerc··on Fixing a broken smart cat feeder with ESP32
The sonoff line is typically pretty hackable and now has etl certification on some of their products. If recommend something like this if you want to switch mains voltage. I use tasmota, which is similar to esphome. The tasmota wiki has disassembly and flashing info. I've always used wires to flash mine but I think there's a software only flash method. The s31 can be flashed with some spring hook probes and the appropriate rs232 cable (3.3v on the data lines iirc). Some of the in wall line need a few pins soldered on (typically 4).

Tasmota has a setup package of you don't mind manually setting up each device. You can also configure them with code if you learn a little c and platformio. At this point, I batch my devices and flash them with wires for initial configuration (Wi-Fi, mqtt, etc), then run updates wirelessly using an http server on my network and mqtt to coordinate.

Side note, the esp8266 is older and less powerful than the esp32. In practice, the esp8266 can't handle https but the esp32 can. This has never been an issue for me and most of my devices are 8266.

tmerc··on Google settles account settings lawsuit less than one week after being filed [pdf]
If you open setting in maps, you can disable driving mode, which gets rid of that bar at the bottom. I then couldn't figure out where to turn it back on. There's still an assistant button but in a less intrusive location.
tmerc··on Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users
As long as it stays off when you uncheck it, that's better.

When you set your default browser to Firefox but using the search bar in task bar opens everything in edge, that's problematic.

tmerc··on The end of cool small cars
Maybe fill the car with lithium ion batteries?
tmerc··on The end of cool small cars
I think until 1996 it was just called the Toyota pickup. 1996 introduced the name Tacoma.
tmerc··on Has Xbox lost the console wars?
That depends on what you value in a console. I bought an xbone a few years after I quit wow and got rid of my gaming PC. I don't game much any more but when I want to, I have xbone. 8 years of an appliance that plays games for like $300. My fiance doesn't play PC games but will play Xbox. My cat sitter doesn't need an account on my computer to play fortnight.

A gaming PC would be better in most ways but as far as value for dollar, xbone was well worth buying.

tmerc··on Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA
I think y'all may be missing a significant use case.

M1 Macs. Some places use only Macs for reasons and m1 is now the only option. But software is still optimized for x86 and emulation is not good enough yet. Not even that it's slow, but some things just don't work.

Yeah these cost money, but it works right now.

tmerc··on Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights
15 civic SI. Hill hold is 1.2 seconds I think and no early disengagement. But it's rear brakes only. You can't disable it that I know of.
tmerc··on Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights
You can engine brake in any "manumatic" like Subaru with their flappy paddle CVT. You could drive a manual without engine braking more than a normal automatic; nothing forces you to downshift. You could also only up shift and use neutral when braking with actual brakes, which I think a lot of people do when learning manual.

Indications that the car in front of you is breaking include brake lights, distance between you and them, and weight transfer to the front (nose down, rear up). Only one of those is affected by the thick pedal.

tmerc··on Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights
Newer manuals are really nice.. mine has hill hold, which some people hate but I enjoy. And supposedly engine braking uses no fuel.
tmerc··on Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights
Much easier, but not as technically interesting :) And I do pedal it if I think the driver behind me is risky, though I'm not sure where the light engagement is relative to brake engagement.
tmerc··on Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights
I've thought about putting a manual brake light switch in my manual transmission car because of this, but I'm also that guy that engine brakes more than actual brakes. 6 years of owning this car and I've never worn out a brake pad.
tmerc··on Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used
Brother is less bad and I still recommend them, but they're not not shady.

The starter cartridge that came with my laser printer said it was empty after 500 pages. I found a way to reset the chip from the printer and am still printing with the same cartridge a year later.

That said, it now works with Linux on WiFi and has not given me any other issues.

tmerc··on Parts for stolen Hyundais and Kias are so scarce the cars are being totaled
Not op, but my car has an active exploit for the key fob that won't ever get fixed. (Thanks Honda) many cars have similar.

"I make a point of locking my car. This explicit exists. Prove I was negligent."

Tangentially, if you install subwoofers, use a quick disconnect (and a fuse). At least if the subs get stolen, your car won't burn down.

tmerc··on Fuel from discarded plastics comes with a high cancer risk
Nothing is stopping you from buying and reusing paper bags until they wear out. They cost like $0.05.
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