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Re:How ^NOT to Forge a Search Warrant on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @03:36PM (#34237638)
Many people won't watch a video, especially not a 16 minutes long one. I know I won't. Use written words.
Re:Start a Fucking Blog on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:41AM (#34232832)
He must not know about kiwi farms.
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:36AM (#34232756)
>In a democracy the voters are responsible for the actions of the leaders

The corollary being that citizens of democratic countries have the leaders they deserve.

Re:Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:03AM (#34232228)
Many people maliciously conflate "climate change" with "man-made climate change".
Re:How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11? on Monday January 02, 2023 @07:27AM (#34217197)
Where I live it's not illegal to pirate software for personal use.

Also, taking someone's car or food deprives them of them. Making a copy of Windows doesn't make it impossible for Microsoft to keep selling it.

Re:How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11? on Monday January 02, 2023 @06:52AM (#34216950)
Windows doesn't cost money because I pirate it. I could pirate this program as well but it's probably going to be harder to find a clean, recent version of it.
Re:How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11? on Monday January 02, 2023 @06:41AM (#34216879)
Costs money.
Re:How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11? on Monday January 02, 2023 @06:28AM (#34216779)
I'd rather Microsoft spent developer time on useful stuff and not updating dialogs.
Re:Casio-F-91W die-shot on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:23PM (#34211073)
Yes. I ended up buying a GWM5610 which synchronises through radio. It's cool. But still I would have hoped there would be a better "local" (i.e. self-reliant) solution.
Re:Casio-F-91W die-shot on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:21PM (#34211054)
I love my GWM5610, the only thing I dislike is how hard to press the buttons are and the bad display angles. But other than that it's a damn brick. And the radio sync is magic.
Re:Casio-F-91W die-shot on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:35PM (#34210576)
I bought one of those recently and I was surprised by how inaccurate it was. It drifted like 15 seconds every month. From what I've been reading, that is normal, but I was surprised - with all the technological advances that we have it is odd to think that cheap timekeeping is not a solved problem yet!

Also: how is the software of these watches without a CPU designed? Is it something like Verilog or whatever?

Re:The internet wants to be fragmented on Sunday January 01, 2023 @02:28PM (#34209820)
>IRC has had encryption for a very long time. IRCS is typically on port 6697 but some admins also have it listen on 443 for people behind fascist firewalls.

Transit encryption maybe, but admins can still read everything.

Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) on Sunday January 01, 2023 @12:32PM (#34208487)
My problem with people saying stuff like this in the open is that we all know it's not true - by recommending it to others, or even saying it out loud for others to hear, they are wasting the time of those who try it. It's malicious.
Re:Posters of the IPv4 and IPv6 internet as of Jan 1, 2023 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @06:22AM (#34205459)
>Some devices coming out now from Google, etc. are IPv6-only and do not support 6rd tunnels at all.

I find this very, very hard to believe. I haven't found anything online. Can you give me some pointers?

>Possible further benefit, reaching India and China who certainly aren't issuing IPv4.

All Indian and Chinese websites have ipv4 addresses in case I wanted to reach them.

I think people should come to terms to the fact that everybody is moving to cgnat and the world is not falling apart as they said it would.

Re:Twitter employees are bringing their own toilet paper to work on Saturday December 31, 2022 @10:34AM (#34197287)
Given the direct relationship of Twitter with the government there isn't much of a difference.
It's important for the title to say (2016) because things have changed A LOT.
Re:Golang is evil on shitty networks on Thursday December 29, 2022 @06:53PM (#34179757)
Yeah, let's just remove TCP_NODELAY and fuck all latency-sensitive applications.
That's safari settings. You can run another browser.
Re:The science on why animal fat is good for humans on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:49AM (#34174569)
All these studies are the same... A gazillion variables that they don't control for or that we don't even know about. On top of that some of those studies are paid for by organisations that have interests. Nutrition is nothing but junk science.
From what I've read the device is FDA-approved so I don't see the issue.
Re:Coins Stolen from Wallet on Thursday December 29, 2022 @06:47AM (#34171705)
That's like saying car companies are responsible to teach you how to drive safely.