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At this point the primary thing that's keeping me from switching to Wayland (KDE) is lack of support for remote desktop software, especially with multiple monitors...

Hopefully AnyDesk and Remmina will address this issue before KDE ends it's mainline X11 support next year.

At this point I'm convinced that they're not a 'real person' and the 'Fabrice' is an operational code name for a very mature hacker collective.

Real people have to sleep at some point!

This sounds like an interesting project. Do you have any plans to publish a tutorial/journal article + source code?

> Why would someone in their right mind ever buy a Nintendo product?

Correction: Why would someone in their right mind ever buy a Nintendo product and use it accordance within the manufacturer's guidelines?

I purchased a first gen (rcm exploit) switch and I couldn't be happier with my investment.

I'm not concerned about being banned as it is never connected to the internet... for "reasons". :)

I'm sorry... please take this adorable tribble as a consolation!

> The thesis is that immigrants have no constitutional rights because they aren't citizens...

The constitution is quite clear on this issue and it has been affirmed repeatedly over the last 100+ years by the high courts. Anyone and everyone in the world who is on US soil and subject to US jurisdiction is considered a "US Person". This status is regardless of their nationality/nation of origin, the manner by which they arrived on US soil, or any other circumstance.

As a 'US Person' they are protected by the US Constitution with only minimal exceptions; the right to bear arms[1], ability to run for public office, or vote in federal elections[2]

This is by intent and design and is a necessary cornerstone of US democracy!

This is laid out in - Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 "Aliens in the United States"

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8...

> The Court reasoned that aliens physically present in the United States, regardless of their legal status, are recognized as persons guaranteed due process of law by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. Thus, the Court determined, even one whose presence in this country is unlawful, involuntary, or transitory is entitled to that constitutional protection

[1] Only citizens and permanent residents are allowed unrestricted access to firearms.

[2] Some districts allow pr visa holders to vote in local and state elections

Note: original title was too long -- "Trump wants green card applicants already legally in the US to hand over social media profiles"

There's an issue with the flow you described; the party requesting verification shouldn't directly interact with the verifying agent (the state) as this leaks to the state the identity of the requesting 3rd party.

The correct flow for preserving anonymity is: the requesting party issues a challenge token to the user -- the token header describes the type of request (>=18yo?) and the token body is completely random(). The user then takes this token and has the challenge verified (signed) on their side, the signed token is then returned to the requester.

This way the state never knows the identity of the challenge issuer.

() Note that this scheme requires good faith on the part of the challenge issuer that the token body is actually random, although it would seem that a simple DH-key mechanism would patch this vulnerability.

Found a weird bug... I've got a 3 monitor setup and the background animations (rain + pinwheel) only appears on 2 of the monitors... If the window straddles two of the monitors the animations only play on one half of the window!

I was big fan of my HTC Evo, I found the 3D images to be immensely helpful when taking documentation photographs. I could take just two images and get all of the info I needed to capture vs taking ~8 from multiple angles and having to mentally envision the relative dimensions of the space afterwards.

I've been using IONOS (formerly 1und1) for the last 20 years for all of my DNS and hosting needs and couldn't be happier. Their uptime, non-obtrusive policies, and customer support have all been top notch. Can't recommend enough.

As an example; I had a dedicated server that I was leasing that I wanted to upgrade, the sales tech noticed that the plan I was currently on had been retired/replaced and credited my account with difference of what I had payed vs the new payment tier which amounted to six months of billing on the upgraded server. You can't really put a price on that kind of honesty!

Very interesting approach! Question: How do you deal with environmental noise and unexpected flux from nearby devices?

> Unlike marking only on the surface of a 2D piece of paper or magnetic tape, this method of encoding uses two optical dimensions and three spatial co-ordinates to write throughout the material - hence the ‘5D’ in its name.

Ummmmm.......

Many many moons ago I connected a pickle to a 10kv transformer - in that case at least it was definitely the result of arcing :)

This is really quite laughable! What kind of adversary, that would elicit the deployment of these types of resources, would have their critical security infrastructure connected via wifi??

I absolutely adore this series of videos! Analog/mechanical computing is a fascinating field that is often ignored.

Also the pedagogical style of these videos is fantastic, simple, to the point, with no unnecessary distractions. It's hard to find this level of quality in the current 'click and subscribe' universe!

Happy to see this pop on HN :)

This is very well polished! Obviously took a lot of hard work and it shows in the results. Well done!

Question: I see the that the code for the examples can be pulled from github, but I don't see anywhere to download the text of the book for offline reading??

Tangentially related is the yearly Graphème publication from Smallest Functional Unit.

It's a curated collection of experimental music scores; part art magazine, part avant garde musical journal, and thoroughly delightful :)

https://smallestfunctionalunit.bandcamp.com/merch

It never fails to amuse me that the "exciting" things that Microsoft does to Windows always falls into one of two categories:

1. Implementing features that have been available in Linux/MacOS for years

2. Adding interoperability capabilities

I'm happy Microsoft is slowly catching up with the times, but it's still not a good look

> Did you read the cited articles or are you basing your assertions only on this Web article?

I did not read any of the cited articles!

> There might be a lot of detail on the evidence in the cited articles which are just not mentioned here.

I'm sure there is, but the linked article gave me no impetuous to read them; nor any guidance as to the most efficient order of consumption.

> It's somewhat ironic that you throw around a speculation that everything is speculated without actually trying to look at the possible evidence yourself.

something, something, Cunningham's Law

Thank you for posting an article worth reading :)

> Well I'm pretty sure they have some evidence to support that claim [...]

> article: To this day, it is unknown how the Incas worked with these calculators. There are several hypotheses about their use [...]

It appears, that there are people who have formed hypotheses, but apparently no consensus...

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> article: The mysterious tablets were apparently suitable for all four basic arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Many objects are suitable for numeric calculation (technically any object), just looking around my room I see a cupcake pan and a chess board -- the chess board being a little more useful for doing 8-bit binary arithmetic, but if I combine it with the cupcake pan I can add a dedicated shift register which makes mult/div a bit easier :)

--- Your continued quote from above:

> [...] especially considering they can directly link the word to the meaning "count".

Yes, because as we all know - words in any given language only have a single meaning! 8P

> Do you always just assume science is wrong?

Last time I checked; jumping to a conclusion using a minimum of evidence isn't scientific.

I really enjoyed the pictures, but that's an incredible amount of baseless speculation!

For all we know these 'devices' were ancient board games who's sole purpose was entertainment!?

I'm happy this invention is still in the news cycle after the initial announcement 10 months ago...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958531

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36993411

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951089

While I'm fairly dubious about the proposed dual-purpose structural implementation of this material -- if this works at scale it would be a boon for low cost DIY local energy storage in the developing world and remote areas in other places.

The idea that someone with minimal education/training can construct a durable electrical storage solution using commonly available materials and techniques is an absolute game changer!!

Not to detract for your overall statement as you make an excellent point...

> ... brake dust ...

I would hope/assume that EVs would primarily use regenerative braking and only use friction brakes for emergency stops, thereby dramatically reducing brake pad wear

FYI It looks like you can purchase that board direct from TI for $199.99 https://www.ti.com/tool/ADS1299EEGFE-PDK

As far as I know the plan has always been to use the martian regolith and water as primary radiation shielding -- same as the moon.

Here is a recent (2022) paper[1] on the concept, but you can easily find scholarly work on this going back many decades...

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00320...

I really like the concept of the M5Stack product line and was ready to suggest it to some friends that were looking into getting into embedded programming / gadget building, but a recent experience has given me some pause...

I was debugging an issue with a gps chip on a custom PCB and decided to get a reference hardware implementation to do some sanity checking. After doing some searching I found the M5Stack U032 GPS module which claimed to use the same chip and amplifier that was on the PCB...

So I ordered it and it showed up and printed on the case is the model # of the GPS chip which matched the documentation. Doing due diligence I open the case and notice that the footprint of the GPS chip on the board doesn't match the datasheet for that IC and there is no identification marking stamped on the chip housing, but there is a spot of glue residue where it looks a sticker was removed...

After some sleuthing I finally identified the gps chip on the board, which was not the chip listed in the documentation or printed on the case of the module!

I can understand having documentation that gets out of sync, but the fact that it looks like an identification sticker was intentionally removed from the chip housing leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.

On some Android phones pressing the power button 5 times in a row will call emergency services. I learned this the hard way when I was very drunk and fumbling with my phone - cue a call back from 911 where I had to awkwardly explain in the middle of crowded bar that the call was made accidentally.

If you have a young child you may want to consider disabling this feature as it's very easy to accidentally trigger and law enforcement is required to respond if they don't receive and intelligible response!