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Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:30AM (#25701105)
https://github.com/aptrinh/Radio-Qt5

An Internet Radio app with local playlist (.xspf) support.

I still need to make a feasible .exe for Windows (preferably pyinstaller with --onefile but apparently assets are missing unless I place them right next to the .exe - in which case, it won't just be one .exe I will ship to users =( )

Re:Mozilla Lifeboat on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @02:28PM (#24135170)
This is a nice gesture and it's good to see people reaching out to those who lost their jobs at Mozilla.
In the "Goodwill Tops by State Over Time" blocks there's a state called Michegan right above Michigan. Made me look up to see if it was called that at any point in the past, but it seems to be a typo :)
Re:Trump suspends H1B, H4 visas till year end on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:53PM (#23607288)
Apologies. I had to clip part of the EO's official title to fit the title requirement.
I'll chip in because the OP's sentiment is fairly understandable, as there's no concrete metric that people use to quantify how "useful" one's tagline is on Github.

Also, you did mention that OP isn't attacking anyone, so I don't understand the purpose of flagging - even though the post may "seem" negative. I personally feel it's not.

If I play blue, no fun for you!

- Teferi

Here's a FAQ for those that have never played before or want to join: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Junethack/FAQ

Ask HN: How often do you think about death as a concept?

I'm not talking about suicide here - please don't worry! This post is about "the thought of death as a concept." Sometimes I can't help but think about it and all its mysteries, with the tech world evolving constantly and our understanding of death staying the same: "When we die, we die - that's it."- Is it a "reset" button for our consciousness, where we are reborn as someone else, somewhere...

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Re:Ask HN: What to do with a old MacBook Pro? on Saturday May 09, 2020 @01:46PM (#23126761)
I kept my old laptop (used to be win7, now Ubuntu) since my printer only support USB printing. Other than that you can keep it for side projects within your LAN =)
Then you're still friends. Depending on your performance and how both of you treat each other, that friendship may become affected but as long as you still treat each other as friends and hang out, that friendship will continue.

Of course, that was just my anecdotal experience.

> How do we teach people to draw that line

By teaching people to recognize where faulty data are and how they were collected. I always encourage people to look at several sources of news and figure out conclusions on their own, ignoring potential bias. [0]

It's never a lost cause to emphasize the importance of digging through an academic paper or a news article, effectively doing their own research instead of just listening to figureheads and looking through headlines.

[0]: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/how-to-spot-types-of-med...

> "Our prototypes are being tested by regulatory authority, while we’re running a pre-production batch of a few dozen pieces"

Since they are currently under review I'll wait a bit to see the results, but other than that the prototypes seem well made. Good job

Re:A hacker's mom broke into a prison and the warden's computer on Thursday February 27, 2020 @11:15AM (#22434497)
Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upa6IEwnTTo

Here's another one from yesterday - RSA Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqOGuXcLdOA

Re:How to stay private when using Android on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @09:46AM (#21928215)
That's a bit misleading. The 12th point did say:

> In order to use a more secure search engine, you need to download an alternative browser [0]. These let you change the default search engine and avoid Google collecting data on your queries.

[0]: https://protonmail.com/blog/best-browser-for-privacy/

The above article lists Brave, Firefox and Tor

Re:I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:25PM (#21287863)
When I was younger, I was taught not to pick up or eat colorful mushrooms - the more colors they had, the deadlier they were, supposedly. At the time, I thought it made sense as the same rule applied for poisonous frogs.

After reading the article and looking at Wikipedia's list of deadly fungus species, I'm not so sure if that rule also applies to mushrooms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadly_fungus_species

My own take throughout the whole thing is similar to Brian Kibler's [1]. To me, even though it made sense that Blizzard wanted to stay neutral, the punishment was too severe for all of the people involved (zero prize money, 1 year ban) so it's nice that at least one of them was reverted.

[1]: http://bmkgaming.com/statement-on-blitzchung/

Sidenote, Linus is reading the statement on the WAN show and he mentioned that Blizzard was "Lawful Evil." That's a pretty solid way to put it

Re:Simjacker – Next Generation Spying over Mobile on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:00PM (#20990493)
> The benefit of Simjacker from the attacker’s perspective is that many of its attacks seems to work independent of handset types

> Mobile Operators could also try to change the security settings of UICCs in the field remotely, or even uninstall and stop using the S@T Browser technology completely, but this may be slower and considerably more difficult to do.

I'm very curious to see what the actual fix will be and whether or not the general public will become more aware of the fact that their phones had always been vulnerable to SIMjacking. How do mobile operators usually notify customers of these large-scale exploits?

Re:Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:51AM (#20715701)
Direct link to research paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec19-antonioli.pdf

Relevant results are on page 1057. It's crazy to think all of the devices tested were vulnerable up to Bluetooth 5.0, but at least the attacker would need to be within range of broadcast, as another user pointed out

Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean on Sunday June 02, 2019 @09:56PM (#20079832)
>If you lower the brain temperature down to 30C (86F), it can increase the survival time from 10 to 20 minutes. If you cool the brain to 20C (68F), you can get an hour.

Wow, I actually didn't know this until now. Is this method used anywhere in medical procedures to resuscitate or prolong life?

Re:Baba Is Turing Complete: A Sketch of a Proof on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @09:16AM (#19919048)
Baba is one of those games where the learning curve is absolutely sublime and gives the player so much satisfaction after figuring out some of the puzzles.

Don't play this sitting on the toilet though, it's going to be a long toilet session

Re:Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @08:26PM (#19854758)
That would be a very large piece of paper!
Re:Google to unveil gaming project today at 1pm ET on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:25AM (#19429787)
My bets are on news regarding:

- Something related to VR, which will probably push competitions in the VR gaming sphere

- Or their game streaming service as seen in the AC test run (this is more likely)

- Or some type of gaming hardware (prebuilt gaming-focused PC) - This is least likely going to happen but we'll see

Re:Dubai 'gender balance' award 2018 winners are all men on Sunday March 10, 2019 @06:23AM (#19351307)
From the article:

> The full titles of the awards were:

- Best Personality Supporting Gender Balance

- Best Federal & Institutional Authority Supporting Gender Balance

- Best Gender Balance Initiative

I'm not sure what the writer is trying to say here as 2 out of these 3 titles are for people who 'support gender balance.' Wouldn't it make sense for males to do so if that's the agenda of these awards?

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