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by runlevel1 1mo ago
The government's response to the security threat of drones has been illogical and negligent at every turn. For example, the Big Beautiful Bill only appropriated $800M for counter-UAV systems. That's insanely low given the broad th
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by runlevel1 3mo ago
The price might be more commoditized if OpenAI kept true to the original mission that lives on, albeit vestigially, in their name.
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by runlevel1 4mo ago
You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. That all but ensures Google will face antitrust action in the US if the administration sours on them.
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by runlevel1 4mo ago
> The world is so not ready for the impact of LLMs on security issues. I agree, but it's the people I'm worried about. I'm hearing anecdotes from all over about devs pushing LLM-generated code changes into production witho
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by runlevel1 5mo ago
I still use AFP on my NAS for a few reasons: 1. When I benchmarked it, AFP was significantly faster than SMB. Both with SMB2 and SMB3. Even when transport encryption was turned off. 2. On SMB2+, symlinks created by the client are not real s
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by runlevel1 5mo ago
> YouTube added a feature so I can easily skip in-video sponsored sections That feature benefits YouTube, too. Maybe even more than its value as a Premium feature. It makes it so that viewers can skip the ads the creator was paid to make
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by runlevel1 5mo ago
`rclone serve s3` is actually a thin wrapper around this: https://github.com/rclone/gofakes3 That repo is a fork of this project: https://github.com/johannesboyne/gofakes3 They bill it as being fo
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by runlevel1 7mo ago
How disappointing it is to see how easily some leaders in our industry abandon their principles, and how cheaply they sell out their fellow man. The tech industry was never perfect. It was never a charity. But there was a time, several year
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by runlevel1 7mo ago
If faith in the fairness and belief in the protection of the rule of law collapses much further, I suspect people will learn. The question is whether they'll learn in time to do anything about it.
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by runlevel1 7mo ago
Just last week, two NYPD cops were indicted for evidence tampering for doing exactly that. The indicted cops responded to an off-duty cop's DUI crash. They texted each other on their personal phones so as not to create a record. They p
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by runlevel1 7mo ago
I'm not sure what's more insane: That they're willing to make those claims or that companies are willing to downsize based on them.
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by runlevel1 7mo ago
Just like when Verizon sold its customers' precise location history to data brokers who then sold it to law enforcement agencies.[^1] Laundered. [^1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/court-rej
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by runlevel1 7mo ago
"L'enfer, c'est les autres" seems to work on a few levels.
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by runlevel1 8mo ago
Global Entry and PreCheck are not going to be the only consequences. The people in these databases are considered to be domestic terrorists. Presidential Memorandum NSPM-7 includes "civil disorder" in its list of acts of "dom
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by runlevel1 10mo ago
As George Carlin said: Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. While knowing that can help you have compassion for them, it doesn't make listening to them any less exhausting.
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by runlevel1 10mo ago
I've wanted a music player like the early versions of iTunes for a while, and this looks like it might fit the bill. Those who've only known Music.app and later iTunes versions might be surprised to learn that there was a time whe
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by runlevel1 11mo ago
That's not quite correct, but you're not a million miles off: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24833832-cellebrite-... To calibrate your sense of time, the iPhone 15 had been released in September 2023
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by runlevel1 11mo ago
One did "fall off a truck" and into Moxie Marlinspike's hands back in 2021: https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/ A bunch of their software was also leaked in a hack back in 2023: htt
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by runlevel1 11mo ago
Well that was more entertaining than I was expecting...
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by runlevel1 11mo ago
And Tesla, in general, is of particular interest to the HN community for a variety of reasons. So Tesla news of all sorts gets posted here.
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by runlevel1 11mo ago
Their numbers strike me as very optimistic: *Table 1. Cost comparison of a single 40 MW cluster operated for 10 years in space vs on land.* | Cost Item | Terrestrial | Space |:---------
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by runlevel1 1y ago
There's the rub: AI coding is like super tab complete. It's a useful tool. Full stop.
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by runlevel1 1y ago
Before he deleted his Twitter account, he claimed AI was already being better than humans and that singularity was only a few years away. He's confidently wrong a lot . (Even if I happen to agree with his new, more sober take on AI co
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by runlevel1 1y ago
There are too many suspects. This administration campaigned on climate denial and anti-science rhetoric, so it could be anyone. What the Sea People were to the Bronze Age, these people are to the Information Age. At least in the West.
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by runlevel1 1y ago
Eat your heart out RFC 1149! We're moving up to Layer 7.
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by runlevel1 1y ago
In theory, when there's viable competition, a competitor will take advantage of their competitor's overly-cautious interpretation.* But if the regulation is indeed oppressive or byzantine, everybody hurts and only the biggest surv
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by runlevel1 1y ago
Those comments... Wild what some people are willing to post under their real name -- and their employer's name.
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by runlevel1 1y ago
Looks like they quietly took the message down. For posterity, it said: > ⓘ Restricted-Access Federal Facility, Effective July 7, 2025 > > Effective July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-a
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by runlevel1 1y ago
I couldn't search System Settings when I setup my laptop for over an hour because it was indexing files I migrated from my old Mac. It made for a frustrating user experience trying to set this thing up.
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by runlevel1 1y ago
Oh dear... That's worse than I expected.

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