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> (Source: I am one of Homebrew’s maintainers.)

I would've preferred a doc or a code repo link as a source. Otherwise, this just reads like a brag. A decent one, to be fair :)

Yes, this is mentioned a couple of times in the article and in Jonathan's birthday song featured in one of the videos on the page. :)
> Dutch police reportedly used flash-bang grenades in an effort to stun and apprehend Van der Stap as he was logged in to various online accounts.

Holy moly, this is the first time I hear about this tactic. I remember more benign distraction tactics used previously with Ross Ulbricht and the other guy in Thailand running another darknet marketplace.

Yes, but I think that asymmetry manifests itself in the opposite direction too:

It's much harder to have perfect opsec and never be caught for the wrongdoing. The other side only needs patience.

Re:NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook on Thursday July 16, 2026 @01:55PM (#48937891)
I wondered when the name change was coming because this is Google: products be endlessly repackaged and renamed, some only to be killed later.
Re:Apache Shiro security framework releases 3.0.0 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @06:20AM (#48843567)
In my junior-to-mid days (ca. 2010) Apache Shiro seemed like a breath of fresh air compared to Spring Security in terms of ease of integration.

Good to see it's still around.

Re:Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:20AM (#48566471)
Heyyy what's wrong with novel groupwise?
Re:Iroh 1.0 on Monday June 15, 2026 @05:02PM (#48546992)
Besides the novel/different form of addressing Reticulum pretty much imposes its Zen on users. So in a lot of things where Reticulum is quite dogmatic, something like Iroh I'd assume (if it's reaching corporates) would provide more flexibility. I haven't checked out the source though.

As an example, AFAIK, Reticulum encrypts packet origin, so only recipient can see them. I don't think this is admissible in a corporate network.

Fair enough and apologies. Justified or not, I took the comment I was replying to out of context of the current (MeshCore, LoRa) topic.

I was referring to the TCP/IP, I2P and yggdrasil endpoints. And regardless, "tons" was an unnecessary exaggeration.

There's a maturing implementation of the whole stack in go, so this is not far off.
There are tons of entry points available now [0], and I get thousands of announcements every day.

https://rmap.world/

It's so much fun with little pages, message boards and random people hitting you up for a chat. I brought up my own transport node and propagation node too to contribute to the mesh.

Re:NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist on Monday April 20, 2026 @07:12AM (#47832681)
You're obviously trolling. Those are called "truths", and you know it!
Re:Is Germany's gold safe in New York ? on Monday April 06, 2026 @07:19AM (#47659436)
If they don't want to push down the prices with excess supply, they'd have to sell very slowly. Like France did.
OMG, is this the reason why every other installer would get stuck at 99% forever? :D
We're discussing the quality of screening here, not the act/necessity of screening itself.
Re:I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:02AM (#47516795)
Wow, this is an interesting one! Thanks for the reference.
Re:I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @06:58AM (#47515704)
> At first, my aunt wasn't buying that any AI was involved. [...] There was a long pause. "I was like 90% sure," she said, hesitating. "But that sounded more artificial."

There is a thing about many people. I don't remember the phenomenon's name, if it has one, but it goes like this:

Given enough time to reconsider options, people will be endlessly flip-flopping between them grabbing onto various features over and over in a loop.

Meta is like one giant cancer that grew a few small tumors of benign[1] nature, like some of their efforts in open source and open research (React, Llama, etc.).

[1]: I could be wrong thinking those are benign.

Re:I Forked Httpx on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @05:43AM (#47515227)
What's the drama around starlette? (Can't find anything)
It's assembly for people who can code good.. and can do other things good too.
Why? Multiple times in the last 8 or so years I've considered both Nokia (HMD) and Motorola. Looking at reviews and specs I decided every time in favor of Motorola, despite liking the design of Nokia's more, and didn't regret it.
Re:Pebble Production: February Update on Thursday February 19, 2026 @09:08AM (#47073877)
I wouldn't put in the same league as pebble, but it definitely ticks the boxes:

https://banglejs.com/

Battery life is real.

Re:Clean Coder: The Dark Path (2017) on Monday February 09, 2026 @06:53AM (#46944250)
What I read between your lines: "I'm sooo tired of this strong-typed wankery. I shoot and only then ask questions."

P.S.: nothing personal, just playing the game.

I can easily see how 3 of the 4 categories mentioned here could fit.
> This decision came after Illinois Secretary of State [...] discovered that Flock had allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to access Illinois cameras in a “pilot program” against state law, and after the RoundTable reported in June that out-of-state law enforcement agencies were able to search Flock’s data for assistance in immigration cases.

This illustrates the textbook argument for why mass surveillance is bad: these tools can quickly end up in the wrong hands.

Play silly games, win silly prizes.

> There was a reliance on visual cues for too long and ironically the accident would probably have never happened if the visibility had been poor.

Ironic indeed.

The incident reconstruction video a bit further down the article is well done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXUf6B2wLtw

Re:Librebox: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine on Saturday August 23, 2025 @03:22PM (#44998424)
"Popular kids game Roblox faces pressure over allegations of child predators on its platform":

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/shows/t...

I read your comment carefully to see whether you've taken the GP's joke further, but alas :)

Re:Critical Cache Poisoning Vulnerability in Dnsmasq on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @09:56AM (#44951604)
I thought they have accidentally "responsibly disclosed" the vulnerability directly into a public mailing list, but the attached pdf is dated >3 months ago.

So assume it's a bit of an inaccurate phrasing.

EDIT: nope, the email itself seeks disclosure coordination etc. So yeah, oops.

Re:Sign in with Google in Chrome on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @05:57AM (#44721303)
> the number of new sign ups went up 8x overnight.

What's the number if you adjust for quality of signups? E.g. how many people convert and how many people stay on and convert later.

> The findings exposes a troubling asymmetry: at 0.1% vulnerability rates, attackers achieve an on-chain scanning profitability at a $6000 exploit value, while defenders require $60000, raising fundamental questions about whether AI agents inevitably favor exploitation over defense.

Seems not that good of thing on the balance :)

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