xk3

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The Color of White Light(ludens.cl)
98 points by xk3 1mo ago|50 comments
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by xk3 2mo ago
I think if you ask the median human to count to 100... more often than not you'll hear "One, Two, skip a few, Ninety-Nine, One-Hundred".
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by xk3 2mo ago
> intercepted by any MITM Most things are... even SSH is Trust-on-First-Use. You can really only verify out of band. OTP is quite a bit better than CC or bank account numbers... assuming the OTP is only restricting use (and not giving ac
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Pneumatic Line Launching Systems (2016)(antennalaunchers.com)
1 points by xk3 2mo ago|0 comments
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by xk3 3mo ago
I've done something similar before with Btrfs https://gist.github.com/chapmanjacobd/bc6e31c8bc3647e0bcb0c4... pretty fun!
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A Rejection on the Eve of Launch (2024)(jonofyi.substack.com)
2 points by xk3 3mo ago|0 comments
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by xk3 3mo ago
None of the comments here are really about the article! Of course one can always turn an ISO into a writable filesystem but this is doing something a bit different. Pretty interesting! Thanks for sharing
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by xk3 3mo ago
Yeah I tried Kinoite on a couple machines for a couple years and it's so much easier and faster to use normal Fedora for single dev/server machine. However, I can definitely see some situations where it would work well -- especial
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by xk3 3mo ago
> a bunch of pipes and valves can be conscious Billions * billions of pipes and valves can result in emergent behavior that appears conscious while at the same time the sound of a single independent water pipe can moan and sound like hum
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by xk3 4mo ago
So the solution was to do the same thing that the hackers did?? > "tell the Meta support AI that the account is hacked and ask it to send the verification codes to an arbitrary email address they control" I agree it seems like
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Clarus, Moofo, and Lackey(storybytes.com)
5 points by xk3 5mo ago|0 comments
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by xk3 5mo ago
maybe just check TERM? although to be honest--do you even need a pager if your shell/terminal is nice enough? I rarely pipe to a pager because kitty/fish/tmux support OSC 133 pretty well and I can press one button to go up to
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A Python Interpreter Written in Python(aosabook.org)
157 points by xk3 5mo ago|54 comments
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An Archaeology-Inspired Database(aosabook.org)
1 points by xk3 6mo ago|0 comments
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by xk3 6mo ago
And it also doesn't really apply here... If YOU the individual (who owns your own medical records) agree that the transmission method is safe then HIPAA doesn't apply. HIPAA applies when the OTHER party sends it: This is called &q
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Show HN: Nofs: a FUSE-free mergerfs alternative(github.com)
3 points by xk3 6mo ago|0 comments
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by xk3 6mo ago
Depends how simple you want it: - 200 line BASH script: https://github.com/Sub-SH/Beacon - 17k lines of Ansible YAML https://github.com/iiab/iiab
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by xk3 6mo ago
they're really packing in the whole kitchen sink into video games these days... https://old.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/p4xlpr/ark_is_over_200...
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by xk3 6mo ago
> and probably 8x less compressed than it should be ZIM uses zstd so it is pretty compressed--but the thing that takes a lot of room is actually the full-text search index built in to each ZIM file. Unfortunately the UI of kiwix-serve se
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Personal Computing (2022)(josh8.com)
23 points by xk3 6mo ago|5 comments
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Mother of All Grease Fires (1994)(milk.com)
98 points by xk3 6mo ago|43 comments
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Show HN: Decision Tree Builder(unli.xyz)
2 points by xk3 7mo ago|0 comments
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How NOT to do serial interfacing(nickh.org)
3 points by xk3 7mo ago|0 comments
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Eats Disks (2000)(nickh.org)
1 points by xk3 7mo ago|0 comments
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Pages from Ceefax: Today's news at yesterday's pace(pagesfromceefax.azurewebsites.net)
1 points by xk3 8mo ago|1 comments
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Crisis in the Kremlin (1992)(peyre.42web.io)
2 points by xk3 8mo ago|0 comments
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by xk3 8mo ago
So less energy than a human brain uses...
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by xk3 8mo ago
Makes me think of Syncthing... I wrote a wrapper for it that attempts to make it easier for people to use: https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/syncweb-py https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/syncweb-ui U
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by xk3 8mo ago
You might squirm at using refurbished or used media but those 3TB SAS ex-enterprise disks are often the same price or cheaper than tapes themselves (excluding tape drive costs!). Will magnetic storage last 30 years? Probably not but they do
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by xk3 8mo ago
Also, it would be good to regenerate the web seeds metadata (this doesn't change the info_hash section) when the mirrors (subdomain prefixes) change. (like PHP code except it is binary data--it could be done on the fly)

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