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I've recently (2022-03) done the same but also .space and all others from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom... and discovered:

curl http://ai

Apache's Hello world:

curl http://pn

ping tk

ping uz

ping cm

All others had this error:

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: %tld%

So that people could not bypass DRM (Digital Rights Management, not Direct Rendering Manager). And signing the firmware would not help because with source code it is easier to find vulnerabilities in signature verification code. Though they still could publish the firmware partially.

Is that "Verify your card in Apple PayⓇ" email real/non-spoofed? On that email's screenshot there's a huge red flag as with other 99.9% scams: bad punctuation. Nobody writes "number:" (1:, 2:, 3:, ...) for lists in English. https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/5680/is-it-ok-to...

> is free in Russia. I just visited the Russian version https://www.win-rar.com/start.html?&L=4 from Russia. There is still "Buy WinRAR" button. Although anyone can get an infinite trial version (like Sublime Text), some Russian companies buy it just in case, according to some random comments in threads that joke about mythical buyers of WinRAR.

Also I found rumors that the developer (Eugene Roshal) moved to Germany or the USA. No info found about his brother who is the WinRAR's copyright holder, which is what matters.

That would be bad news. There are one quadrillion ants. Unlike humans, most ants are born women. Only female ants work (aka slaves), while males are mating (raping?) with the queen (at least queens can mate only once in life) and then males die shortly after that. Males live for a week (but their sperm lives for years), workers (all female) live for about a year, a queen lives for decades.

Sometimes I see ants eating almost dead ants. Which means that while I write this, several billion women are being eaten alive and feeling all kinds of emotions. When there is no queen, the ant that eats the most protein becomes the queen.

And spiders with their webs... it's always such a horror to look at their captives.

And if souls exist and they possess the first available just born organism (FIFO queue) after we die, then that would mean it is a low chance to be born human again, at least for now. I was mentally prepared to become even a broiler chicken, but not an insect.

Or if there is suddenly a multiverse, but every universe can have only one consciousness which tries to live everyone's life one-by-one (also FIFO). That would mean we would have to live many quadrillion lives before becoming a human again. And also if we suddenly have to also live every possible route/branch within the many-worlds interpretation, that becomes too depressing.

> I have reservations, specifically that I have really poor eyesight so I honestly don't know how many windows I could usefully put on a screen anyway. Although I have a very good eyesight, my eyes tire fast when I look at small things.

I browse HN with 240% Zoom on 23" 1920x1080; vscode: font "Iosevka SS16", font size 33px.

So because of that I use i3 WM (...I have never used other tiling WMs):

On every virtual desktop I press Win+w (or sometimes Win+e if the monitor is rotated) to enable "Tabbed container layout"

and then I can switch between windows immediately by Win+Left and Win+Right.

With Win+w all windows use 100% of the display width and 99-100% of the display height (I also set border width 0px and disabled taskbar/statusbar), i.e. they are maximized.

Windows have no their own title bar, but you can see the window titles on the very top of the screen.

Since a window can use more space, I can use bigger fonts without being shown almost nothing.

Well, KDE probably too has an option to launch windows maximized by default, but probably not the other features.

> 1. It's usually a whole new set of keybinds I have to learn.

I use the i3's defaults:

1) Win+1..9

2) Win(+Shift)+Up/Down/Left/Right

3) Win+D (similar to Gnome's ALT+F2)

4) rarely Win+Shift+Space (disables tiling for a window)

5) rarely Win+Space (enables tiling back for a window)

That's all (also Win+Shift+j to reload the i3 config but I didn't remember this hotkey for years).

But if I had a 46" 4K monitor, I would use i3 as most others do (i.e. multiple windows are shown at the same time).

gcc and clang warn about if (a = b) and recommend if ((a = b))

gcc and clang don't warn about if (a & b) and don't recommend if ((a & b))

That doesn't make sense.

That's because on 2020-07-01 there will be a voting on constitutional changes. And Putin would like to give us a (false) hope that our life is going to become better and put his government in a good light.

Context:

In Russia we have a limit of 2 terms for presidents. Putin and his mafia don't like it, so he decided to be nullified and get additional privilegies (e.g. after he decides to resign, he will be able to dismiss a president).

Putin has even already signed the changes because he knows we are too scared of jail to protest IRL: even if you are protesting alone, police will likely beat & fine you (even if you are a girl or just holding a BLANK board) for an unauthorized demonstration. In one video the election chief almost laughed while saying everything is already decided and legitimate and they just want our opinion.

But for additional legitimization Putin set the voting. Probably he doesn't want the situation as in Venezuela. And he wants to increase his ego (his ego is very high, just compare inauguration of him and Obama/Trump).

He paid many famous people for short videos where they support some part of the changes, typical example: "I will vote yes because I like animals!" although we already have laws for animals.

And none of those videos mention that Putin would be the president forever. Only half people are even aware of this change (and many are forced by employers to make a photo that they voted yes). Oh, and our constitution doesn't work at all anyway. Gov-t people laugh at you when you mention anything from it. And there were news several years ago that a journalist got a suspended sentence (условный срок) of 4 years for extremism because he quoted the constitution.

P.S. >97% of Russian IT people seem to hate Putin according to the comments I read everyday. And Durov should hate him much more because Putin's mafia stole VK (that's our Facebook with nice UI/UX and awesome search) from his control.

I have a hotkey in i3wm:

bindsym $mod+backslash exec "xcalib -i -a"

which inverts all colors (btw, I have to `killall redshift` because of a bug). When colors are inverted, I feel almost undisturbed at any gruesome content (for me it's like seeing screenshots of Quake 2 with buggy GPU drivers), yet I can still easily recognise whether the content is disturbing. And when it's a video, I play it at ≥2x speed so that it wouldn't feel realistic for my brain.

I wonder whether those moderators use these two lifehacks.

These Samsung's and Xiaomi's foldable phones don't excite me as much as Nokia Morph.

On 2008-02-25, Nokia showed a concept phone Nokia Morph [1]. I have just watched the video about it [2] again and I am still as excited about it as I was 11 years ago.

> The phone's theoretical feature list would include the ability to bend into numerous shapes, so it can be worn around the wrist or held up to the face; transparent electronics, which would allow the device to be see-through yet functional; self-cleaning surfaces that can absorb solar energy to recharge the phone's battery; and a wide range of fully integrated sensors. [...] The manufacturer believed that some of the device's imagined features could appear in high-end devices by 2015.

So, I am waiting for something like Nokia Morph but also with a screen that can take the form of a standard physical keyboard and give me the same tactile feel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Morph

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs

That reminds me of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Shredder_Challenge_2011

https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-really-happened-a...

which was thought to be almost impossible to solve.

> DARPA, The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, created 5 coded-documents of increasing complexity, ran them through an industrial paper-shredder, scanned the pieces, and posted them online for anyone to attempt to solve. Each document had a certain amount of 'intel', every piece of which was given a point value. The competition, which launched October 27 and would expire December 4, was offering a prize of $50,000 to the first individual or team to find all the intel (first to 50 points).

> The competition gained popularity quickly, with over 9000 official entrants and 50,000 folks downloading the first of the five puzzles. But skeptics had already begun to question the contest after only 67 entrants could score any points at all. "Lots of experts were skeptical that a solution could be produced at all, let alone within the short time frame," said Dan Kaufman, director, DARPA Information Innovation Office. But, with just 2 days remaining before the competition was closed (only 33 days after it began) one of the entrants had solved all 5 levels completely.

So there must be a law:

1. Any device with internet access must be able to automatically update all its software.

2. Because a manufacturer can either go out of business (some devices are used for >10 years) or not care about its users, all its software must be open source. A code, which needs to be secret, can be stored on a hardware level.

3. But if a software is open source, it doesn't mean there would be people who'll fix the bugs, therefore there should be the list of OSes approved (by a regulator and EFF?) to be used on IoT-devices. The development of these OSes should be public (on GitHub, etc.). By having ~10 different OSes instead of a million, solving bugs would be possible and much easier.

4. By having such list of approved OSes, we also solve the problem of having a vulnerabilities in the updating process, e.g. missing signatures, using RSA-1024 or even RSA-512 for signatures.

5. By having such list of approved OSes, it'll be easy to maintain the live kernel patching service (in the future it'll be hard to imagine an OS without it).

6. By having such list of approved OSes, community would quickly fix the problem of using default passwords.

Without such law, expect 10 Tbit/s attacks in a year, and >500 Tbit/s attack in 2022 (if popularity of IoT would increase as fast as mobile phones did).