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Jipazgqmnmon A Kid, a Minor Bike Accident and a $19,000 Medical Bill

Land of the free.

Jipazgqmnmon Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital

I would attribute this to both,

- (unquestionable) the attackers but as well as

- the IT-department that did not fix serious vulnerabilities (of an apparently mission critical system)

We have that in all kinds of places: If you neglect your duties on maintenance or diligence in areas where humans could be harmed (electrical installations, fire safety, construction, whatsoever), you are liable for whatever happens. I don't see why IT should be somewhat special. The Citrix patch came out half a year(?) in advance.

Jipazgqmnmon K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers

I just use a folder with (text) files. E.g. if you call them

keyword1-...-keywordN

you can `find` for keywords and `grep` for content and put in everything you want. You could also use subfolders for topics.

I don't see what K-Stash offers more.

Jipazgqmnmon K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers

Functionally I do not see any additional value compared to a simple 'grep' or 'find' on a folder with notes.

Jipazgqmnmon Source code of Germany’s official covid-19 contact tracing app

I suspect that you don't have the slightest clue about the effort that has gone into it. This morning, Timotheus Höttges talked a little about that. [1]

Sooner or later there will probably come auto-translated captions.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDnaNMGbXnw&t=1667

Jipazgqmnmon I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code

https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Jipazgqmnmon Real-time air pollution map

The real time is a nice toy but all together to me it looks like a stripped down version of https://earth.nullschool.net

E.g.: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/particulates/surface/l...

Jipazgqmnmon The strange postulated link between the human mind and quantum physics (2017)

Non sequitur? It's like writing: I ate a salty sandwich, hence I behave like a NaCl crystal. Or when I roll the dice careful enough, it gets deterministic. Hence the hole world is deterministic.

I think you can politely call it nonsense.

Jipazgqmnmon Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?

You’ll need to set up an external borg-server ONCE. From there you can additionally sync it to where ever you want using the method you want. E.g. Google cloud. As long as it's encrypted, you don't need to bother about the hosters activities. But forget the USB-sticks.

E.g.: Borg to local RAID every 2 hours, sync RAID with cloud every 24 hours.