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yuumei··on Music Theory for Programmers
> Two things fall straight out of that.

Hi Claude

yuumei··on Creepy Crawlies
Here is an idea: instead of PoW do “proof of AI” each user who wants to access the page run AI/LLM prompts to undercut the corpos abusing the pages
yuumei··on The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
What country have you been living in? The UK is most certainly at war with anonymity: one of the highest CCTV countries in the world, key disclosure, OSA, KYC means yes you do need to scan your passport/ID now for any financial institution, Apple stopping full device encryption, the only thing left is ID cards and we will have no anonymity at all.
yuumei··on The only road in London where you have to drive on the right
The Hemel one is more “complicated” but honestly it’s easy, you just do one roundabout at a time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempst...

yuumei··on The Document Foundation ejects its core developers
Wow that list of commits is brutal. Libre Office is dead. Just another corporate take over of an open source project.
yuumei··on The Document Foundation ejects its core developers
Euro office looking very suspicious here
yuumei··on UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
As are Bedfordshire police: https://libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uk-police-workin...
yuumei··on Parametric CAD in Rust
Note that one of the co-authors of the source is "Claude"
yuumei··on Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)
This is a semi joke answer but I have worked at some of the big corps and see how they use OSS software. One way I have continuously thought about to prevent usage is to make all of the variables/function names/APIs contain profanity and PR incorrect jokes. I do know that every single corp has a profanity filter to prevent any bad word being added to code. It’s not bullet-proof but certainly makes it a lot more difficult to get that code on corpo servers and past legal.
yuumei··on The Connectivity Standards Alliance Announces Zigbee 4.0 and Suzi
That’s my issue with it: iot devices shouldn’t have access to the internet by default. With Matter it’s possible. No one is going to create outbound firewall rules for these things.
yuumei··on NextSilicon reveals new processor chip in challenge to Intel, AMD
Same but I can’t access archive.is either because of the VPN
yuumei··on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided
Worth noting that with RIPA (2000, activated in 2007) UK has enforced key disclosure. It is illegal to fail to disclose a password for any data for any reason (including random data).

I would say the UK has worse privacy than any other country on earth. I'm really hoping for plausible deniability to become more common to help protect against the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...

yuumei··on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
> The CAPTCHA forces vistors to solve a problem designed to be very difficult for computers but trivial for humans. > Anubis – confusingly – inverts this idea.

Not really, AI easily automates traditional captchas now. At least this one does not need extensions to bypass.

yuumei··on Funding Open Source like public infrastructure
If you are looking for OSS support for things like libre office, graphics, bluetooth, WSI, upstreaming, kernel and more, Collabora is a UK based company that can help~
yuumei··on Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update
I have the same Samsung sound bar and absolutely nothing works. We need to hard reset it every day because it refuses to work, switching between programmes in Netflix causes a horrible loud crack, the latest one is having speakers out of sync. Really bad. Unfortunately the rtings reviewers didn’t seem to test any of these things.
yuumei··on DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to catch up
The government wants to introduce a law to make it illegal to possess AI tools that are capable of CSAM output. As we know this is impossible, any company starting in the UK with AI will likely fail compared to other countries if this law passes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d90qe4nylo

yuumei··on NordVPN says its new protocol can circumvent VPN blockers
As a test: I am always on a vpn
yuumei··on Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience
But at least with Google captchas you can use AI to solve them. I use the buster captcha extension to solve them. It moves the mouse around like a human and solves automatically. I pay for captcha solvers for hcaptcha which is worse but cloudflare is just cancer. It’s made the web unusable
yuumei··on RISC-V HiFive Premier P550 Development Boards with Ubuntu Now Available
The last SiFive board I had died after about a year of use and is no longer supported so buyer beware
yuumei··on Dazed and Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of ReCAPTCHAv (2023)
I use AI to solve my captchas now. Pay for the service from nopecha, the internet has been killed for VPNs without it
yuumei··on Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux
Has the btrfs sub volume quota bug been fixed yet? I always had issues when using it
yuumei··on Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
I'm using Octopus mentioned in the article, I got paid £0.67 to use 12.62kWh over 4 hours due to spare energy in the UK on 8th June. So not really worth it financially, but the ability is there already to help even out the load.
yuumei··on Ask HN: Best way to remove CO2 in a bedroom?
Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery is a common term (MVHR). Basically a fan but it tries to recover the heat lost in winter. Usually comes as a whole house system but there are some that do single rooms.
yuumei··on ESASky
Beautiful, but could do with using quaternions for rotation to avoid gimbal lock. At least I assume that’s the problem with getting stuck on the poles
yuumei··on Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor [video]
Not sure why you are being downvoted, quote from the video "It's actually systemd's fault":

https://youtu.be/Q6ovtLdSbEA?feature=shared&t=1491

yuumei··on Electricity generated by fossil fuels in Great Britain drops to record low
Very much, I think the Guardian could do well by including the graph with min/max/average
yuumei··on Electricity generated by fossil fuels in Great Britain drops to record low
66% maximum fossil fuel usage last year: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-fossil-fuels-fall-to-re...
yuumei··on When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked 'Halloween Documents'
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yuumei··on Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell
I’m close to putting all my money in crypto and using prepaid cards to avoid the utter hell I have to deal with to pay for something using a normal bank.
yuumei··on Just paying Figma because nothing else works
Inkscape is one of the best programs out there. I use it for everything now. Did you know it can do mesh gradients too now
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