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Boltgolt··on Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
It's been quite a while since Finnish independence
Boltgolt··on 200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green
But highly susceptible to unauthorized use. The app version can also alert drivers directly with an audible alert that an emergency vehicle is close by
Boltgolt··on Anticheat Update Tracking
That's exactly what's being done, but you do not want everything server side over a network delay that is almost always more than the time between frames. Only server side physics would mean a lot of visual jank. It's now usually a model where the client and server make the calculation and the server "rolls back" the client of they do not match.

Data is being limited though, like not sending opponent location data unless the client can see them

Boltgolt··on Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
Depth reconstruction with IR cameras in laptops today is incredibly hard. While the camera itself is exposed in Linux as a USB camera, the sync with the IR emitters is completely lost. Because of this we cannot extract a "left" and "right" lit image reliably as Windows hello does
Boltgolt··on Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
Main dev here: If you're on the 3.0 version you'll be able to install howdy-gtk, which will show a popup at the top of your screen when authenticating.

You can also enable "rubberstamps" which require an action from you like nodding yes to confirm authentication and making it harder to fool. As noted in the readme though, Howdy is never going to be 100% secure

Boltgolt··on NTSB faults Boeing for lack of safety protocols in 737 MAX door plug blowout
May text.npr.org never die
Boltgolt··on Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup
What's your view on the ÖBB mini cabins? It seems to me you can't possibly be much more dense than that within the European gauge
Boltgolt··on Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup
The fact that _you_ have not heard of it does not mean that it does not exist. The Austrian ÖBB has created a massive network over the last few years, including some innovative new rolling stock with sleeping cap capsules. Many classic routes within larger countries still exist, like the multiple routes in the UK, France and Sweden. There are new private startups like European Sleeper that operate an Antwerp - Prague sleeper
Boltgolt··on Ask HN: Conversational AI to Learn a Language
The fact that the Dutch translation of the app is awful does not inspire confidence. Really basic stuff like translating "No" to "Geen" (none) in a yes/no question
Boltgolt··on Every programming language has its 'killer' domain
I think you underestimate the sheer volume of wordpress sites that pay for custom development
Boltgolt··on AI is draining water from areas that need it most
I'd rate basic necessities like food 4000x more important than data centers too
Boltgolt··on 18-Year-Old U.S. Teen Develops AI to Reveal 1.5M New Space Objects
> English is the only language that separates out our cardinal numbers from 13-19 because they end in "teen"

Most Germanic languages do. A lot of languages even have the same concept of a "teen", like "tiener" in Dutch. This whole comment is as confidently incorrect as an LLM

Boltgolt··on PhD Timeline
The US can also put anyone in jail for a Facebook post, or as in this case a single student newspaper article
Boltgolt··on Firefox starts testing "Link Previews"
I'd bet that even a tiny LLM can create more accurate summaries than whatever SEO garbage is usually put in the meta description
Boltgolt··on Europe's GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within 'weeks'
The issue is when you want to be able to stay logged in to a site, but do not want Google track you across the internet. Cookies do not differentiate between what they are used for, so sites have to make it clear only if they are going to track you. You do NOT need a cookie banner if you're not tracking your users
Boltgolt··on North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500
There's no one _outside_ north korea
Boltgolt··on How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack
Increadible that "but what about her emails" is still the only defense for sending military secrets over a non secure line to a journalist
Boltgolt··on Knowing CSS is mastery to front end development
Interesting, I can type CSS much much quicker than describing to an LLM what kind of layout I want and with what look
Boltgolt··on Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage
Mentioning "load shedding" would have made a more accurate title
Boltgolt··on Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions
> AI-native

It's IFTTT with an LLM integrated?

Boltgolt··on The Depths of Wikipedians
This is called the "Talk" page and it's usually an order of magnitude longer than the actual page
Boltgolt··on Advent of Svelte – a release per day until Christmas
Opening a link as a private tab in Firefox will ask you if we want to open it in an external app or not
Boltgolt··on Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write
The implications are different. There has to be a high euro sum you can offer to get someone who won the lottery to still brief a colleague. You can throw money at a dead person all you want but that will not have the same result. It is a sudden end in knowledge that can not be restored with time or money (like running out of lottery funds)
Boltgolt··on Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill
Ah, so exactly like health insurance?
Boltgolt··on Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer
Seems rather desperate, please give this whole situation a once-over Matt
Boltgolt··on Apps can now block sideloading easier and force downloads through Google Play
Seems like it's going to get even more annoying to get apps for a country that you're traveling in. So many apps you want to use as a tourist are geolocked
Boltgolt··on I just finished testing over 150 smart lights... here's all the data!
A good ZigBee stick like the Conbee and a plethora of open source controller options will allow exactly that, at a fraction of the power consumption of WiFi in every bulb
Boltgolt··on Speed limiters now mandatory in all new EU cars
Is it "pre-crime" if it activates once you are speeding? Surely we can agree that is a crime
Boltgolt··on Detect Migrating Birds with a Plastic Dish and a Cheap Microphone
It would be, if it wasn't just a "plastic bird-feeder cover" as the article suggests
Boltgolt··on Postzegelcode
IIRC the first envelope scanned at a sorting facility invalidates the postzegelcode immediately, any envelopes using it after that will be handled like they had no postzegel at all (receiver has to pay)
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