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Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:21PM (#50330942)
Through an HDMI connection?
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:17PM (#50330918)
JellyFin or Plex. Personally i just use a Linux Mint desktop connected to the TV instead. Web browser for streaming and VLC for downloaded videos.

But JellyFin and Plex exist for people who don’t want that.

Re:TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @12:52AM (#50322816)
I switched to OPNsense last week. Consumer grade WiFi AP is behind it. I’m not depending on firmware updates from a company that has no incentive to make them.
Re:Linode Security Incident on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:48AM (#50313525)
I need this.
> It was written at a time when there were actual real humans who fiercely believe other actual real humans should not have the same rights.

What are you talking about?

Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:51PM (#50309261)
If you have to hack 1,000,000 custom setups to get the same results as one hyperscaler, would you bother?
Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:46PM (#50309222)
My company just did this. Still using AWS S3 but everything else is on-prem with kubernetes.
ROI on 25000 EUR in 5 years?? How are you spending 5000+ EUR per year on electricity?
Impossible scales in 2026 terms but what about 2076? Genuine question
Why would you think that? Is a privately held company.
I bought a 3rd party remote that has input buttons.
Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:42PM (#50237179)
… until your get to the political messages further down.
Re:OpenAI: Securing our frontier model training environment on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:21PM (#50215525)
Can’t they physically air gap the frontier model training environment? I don’t see that mentioned in the post, but I didn’t read all of it.

If not, why?

Re:Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:16PM (#50215452)
Which PM2.5 meter do you have? I’ve been looking to buy one and AirThings keeps coming up.
Re:Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:43PM (#50213583)
The Austin Air HealthMate is great as a noise machine. Very loud. It’s a HEPA filter and lasts 5 years. Never seen any other that lasts that long, but you pay for it upfront. after-market replacements are $250-300 for another 5 years.
Re:Jailbreaking the Switch 2 on Thursday October 22, 2026 @06:45PM (#50202133)
The Belgian WeMo like a wall switch. What do you use it for? Powering the device on/off?
Re:Google cloud outage takes down banks on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:54PM (#50174316)
Thank you, this is great insider info. I only wish they had free checking accounts; they have all sorts of requirements in order to waive their monthly fee. Then I’d switch in a heartbeat because of your post.
Re:SimCity, but with Permits on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:40PM (#50171598)
This might be a good idea for marriages, too.
Re:EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:28AM (#50167874)
are there any consequences to eMudhra?
Re:Google cloud outage takes down banks on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:31AM (#50167042)
cash is a more reliable redundancy.
We've been waiting for you to solve it. We know you, and only you, have the solution.
Golf in the Gulf. Must happen sometimes.
This. If the LLM has access to the outside world through its harness, then it can do real damage - data exfiltration, etc.
Re:Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins on Friday October 16, 2026 @07:11PM (#50126011)
I gave Open 5.5 high your hint. This was the most interesting output:

'Side curiosity: many of the SECG/X9.62 seeds contain the ASCII text 4D696E6768756151 75 = "MinghuaQu" (a Certicom researcher), sometimes shifted by half a byte.'

I don't see any mention of that in the article.

You can buy gun parts on ebay in the US. Here's one example, a trigger for a 9mm Browning Hi-Power:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/287616828521

$30.00

...and arrested for breaking and entering.
Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:35PM (#50107175)
> a finite number of neurons in a finite number of configurations

Neurons and synapses change, especially synapses (the connections between neurons). Some neurons have a few connections to other neurons. Others have hundreds of thousands of connections to other neurons. These grow and change. "Estimates are between 100 trillion and 1,000 trillion neural connections" Is it finite? Depends on your definition of finite. If anything countable is finite, then it is finite but the number may be practically uncountable. Is it fixed? No.

Re:Hittite royal archive found in Turkey on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:40PM (#50077472)
FOR A GOOD TIME CALL CORNELIA L. VIA APPIA 5258

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