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Re:Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI on Sunday August 25, 2024 @03:47PM (#41350627)
How is it different than the company making fake rhino horns to flood the market to fill the demand and reduce harm to real rhinos?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/06/10/fac...

Re:Make Your Electronics Tamper-Evident on Sunday August 04, 2024 @08:12AM (#41153021)
Thinkpads have a little switch under the bottom cover that will get flipped up when the cover is removed. There is a BIOS setting to require a password whenever this switch is toggled. When combined with signed BIOS updates it seems like it would be hard to bypass on a short term (like an actual "evil maid" attack).
Re:Daily Usenet Feed Size Hits 300TB on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @04:07PM (#40930974)
Gosh that's a lot of discussion!
Re:The Epson HX-20 – A Contrarian's View on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @04:31PM (#39684557)
The later Epson PX-8 has a much more usable screen in a similar form factor.
Re:Walmart Store Managers Can Make Up to $400k on Monday January 29, 2024 @04:05PM (#39182588)
Is this astroturfing by Walmart? Why are there two stories on the front page about how much Walmart pays people?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39176877

Re:Textfiles on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:52AM (#39080140)
That site hosts a lot of historical material that many "budget" providers would probably balk at and kick you off their network without much recourse. Having a good relationship with a provider that knows you and will go to bat for you can cost some money. That said, $100/month is not terribly expensive for dedicated hosting.
Re:Computer Engineering for Babies (2021) on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @06:11PM (#39034931)
Have your baby fix it.
Re:Show HN: MicroTCP, a minimal TCP/IP stack on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @01:39PM (#38088510)
What is the licensing for this code?
Re:Cool Retro Terminal on Thursday July 20, 2023 @10:26AM (#36800942)
I think you mean to use "cat" instead of "pico" to show your text file. Otherwise it should draw pico's interface.
Re:Camneerg: The Mac Plus Web Server on Sunday July 16, 2023 @10:07PM (#36753294)
From the "Old Site Archive" at https://www.spacerogue.net/wordpress/?page_id=47:

Camneerg the machine, as well as the other systems and projects described within its pages have either ceased functioning, were dismantled, or given up on long ago.

Re:Localhost Resource Permission on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:53PM (#36576504)
RAM and CPU time are resources, so all websites are using "your computer's resources"
No, but I also can't imagine Apple shipping something that needed a bodge wire soldered in to make it work well. They do a lot more power consumption engineering than most PC companies and they operate on such a large scale that they'd have found out about a battery drain like this much sooner and could fix it in the production process.
Chromebooks don't use UEFI, just coreboot
Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @09:55AM (#35802443)
Because it's a PIN protecting a certificate stored on the device. Even if you know the PIN but don't have access to the device, you can't use it.
In the US, this was the standard phone number to dial to connect to an operator-assisted (and later automated) information lookup, such as "get me the number of so-and-so in such-and-such city and state".

Personally I haven't needed to use it since probably the 1990s.

Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails on Friday April 07, 2023 @09:13AM (#35481228)
Are there other languages where the dominant web framework changes so much? Will Rails ever be "done"?
Re:Revert for jart’s llama.cpp MMAP miracles on Sunday April 02, 2023 @12:38PM (#35412395)
ggerganov commented Apr 2, 2023

So this is pretty stupid - I just lost my Sunday trying to figure out how to salvage this stupid drama

@anzz1 and @jart

You are no longer welcome as collaborators to the project.

Re:Doors I touched today (1999) on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:58PM (#35242035)
archive.org

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