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only one comment mentioning the fly swatting?! Well, now there are two, including a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9oJRsw_Abs

I hope NASA will team up with Starlink for providing multiple 24-7 live streams. At least full hd please.

While the bigger irony is that it's a dog! 10 years ago people would have bet on a cat.

Maybe it's time to create the CatDogecoin... (remember CatDog?)

No data caps. No subsidy either. Or who knows, maybe sometimes in some remote villages (?)

Main reasons for such a good network and low prices: low income and piracy, which fueled a giant "duct-taped" Lan infrastructure some 20 years ago, with ISP's at every corner, which were then bought because the infrastructure was already there.

See the link in my other comment here for a better explanation.

Yes. And very good coverage too. Even my parents in a small village have fiber at those prices, since 5 years now.

We are basically a giant Lan party since the 2000's and should get a Netflix special/documentary with this script:

https://np.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/2ct58s/average_inter...

Reminds me of the last part from The Secret Life of Chaos [1] (after 51:00) and their 100 random brains.

[1] https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xv1j0n

Mandatory watch: Gigapixels of Andromeda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU

With sound.

There are some videos (from pictures) of eclipses, which show both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Kn3M2ierk

This one more zoomed out, but only with Phobos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViiriVhIhjE

Taking into account that the Sun itself is seen smaller than on Earth, we can already imagine the view. The main problem would be that "Phobos is one of the least reflective bodies in the Solar System, with an albedo of just 0.071.".

I remember Starry Night having the option to see the night sky from different planets. You know, in case you wanted to track the stars with a telescope, on Mars.

To put it very simplistic, there will always be the Wozniak's and the Jobs types in any scene/company/etc. (among others of course). The geo"hot"s of the world, with big egos, who like the publicity, make a rap video and promote "the cause" aggressively. That won't ever change but at least they are going into (and also bringing in) more mainstream media and folks. So there's that.

Something along the line of "there's no bad publicity", because out of the millions of tv watchers and his yt rap video watchers, these brings in a lot of people (at least teens) interested in the scene with a higher percentage of those who remain and go deeper into the technical parts of hacks, then learning about fail0verflow & co.

Many only then realized what the big picture actually is (insert podium meme)

So, for what it's worth, never underestimate how many people REALLY know and appreciate a lot more fail0verflow's work. Thanks again!

p.s. hopefully PS4 will catch up to the good old days of PS3. Pepperidge Farm remembers. Also that last year there was a pseudo-consensus that held-back PS4 hacks will be released only after the PS5 appears. (pretty please)

Obligatory George Hotz (geohot) PS3 rap from back then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iUvuaChDEg

First time he appeared in the PS3 jailbreak scene I was like "wait, is this a Romanian?! Some boy-genius expat?!" because George is a common first name here and (fun fact) Hotz means "thief". Actually it is written hoț but Romanian teens sometimes write tz instead of ț. He was meant to be a key thief, I guess.

I still wonder if they got to examine the video in the courtroom...

Gone as in taken to/from a boat with a helicopter, as seen at the end of the video. What happened afterwards, Rosatom knows.

At least the lighthouse generators were decommissioned and "all RTGs are now gone" (mentioned at the end of the video).

It kind of worked for us Romanians after executing our dictator and his dimwit wife in '89, by scaring them into fleeing, then a fast capture, followed very quick - slightly unfair - trial and then firing squad, on Christmas Day of all days (and all these recorded).

Of course, afterwards, the new elected president was a former communist party member who tricked everyone that he had changed, and of course his anti-west (and east) propaganda helped secure him his win (because "we should not listen to anybody anymore, so vote for me"), and of course, because of his win, the pseudo-communists still ruled/destroyed the country for the majority of the next 32 years but, anyway, I still say it was a win and I am very proud of our revolution.

Sure, there are those who say that most people died in vein for the revolution but such transitions take a lot of time and it would have taken even more if we waited another 5-10-15 years. It did not help that we were right between east and west either.

Now we celebrate 14 years of being in the E.U., which helped a lot, although we mismanaged tens of billions (sorry E.U.), while we are still many years away from managing so much money correctly and without illegal shenanigans... Also around 17 years in the NATO, which helped a lot I'd say (see our neighbor Ukraine for the contrary; Moldova is also behind us by some 15 years, at least).

But, technologically, the new freedom brought us some very interesting 90's and 2000's, catapulting our internet speeds to number one (sometimes two) in Europe [1] due to our giant nation-wide interconnected LAN-party networks, fueled mainly by piracy (or lets call it "hunger for information and everything that we missed before"). But there is a long reddit post which explains those years much better: [2]. Today everybody and their parents have at least 100 Mbps. Our main ISP doesn't include a 100 Mbps plan anymore anyway. Only 300 Mbps up. Even my parents in a small poor city have fiber since 5 years. Welcome to Romania.

These generated a lot of English speaking young people, me included. Lots of us becoming very good at electronics or IT. Sadly, many self-educated IT engineers left for other countries. We even had a running joke (urban legend mainly) that the second language at Microsoft was Romanian, which of course is said by other countries too (e.g. India) but somehow everybody knows somebody at Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, etc. While many of us are still (thinking about) leaving, placing us 2nd after Syria when it comes to mass emigration, still... executing those two bastards was for the best.

[1] https://i.redd.it/79y3efbig4551.png [2] https://np.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/2ct58s/average_inter...

there's also his response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_GgqTMvx-I

Speaking of punk and non-AAA, I'll throw in Frostpunk. Now, speaking of winter survivals (and non-AAA), The Long Dark is also a masterpiece.

In the meantime the PS4 jailbreak went from version 5.05 (where it stagnated for a long time) to 6.72 in July, which was also old by that time, being released in mid July 2019, but which now can run RDR2 up to the patch 1.13 (last on 6.72).

Or to put it differently... If you can't crack the game, crack the os. At least in the console world, this gives you the advantage that anything works up a certain fw version afterwards.

If I remember correctly, the jump from 5.05 to 6.72, added more than 1000 playable games for those who kept the PS4 on 5.05 (myself included).

Sadly, there is not much talk around HN about console hacking. E.g. Here is the bounty submission of Andy Nguyen (theflow0) for 6.72: https://hackerone.com/reports/826026

Sony might have shot itself in the foot by accepting the disclosure at the end... But, then again, they had to and there's not much harm done when the jailbroken fw is a year old.

And mods. Lots of mods. Some very good, others also silly.

A recently updated one is Renai Transportation, adding Train JUMP-tions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/i5yoaj/train_junc...

> Relying upon high-powered terrestrial radars (of up to one MW[3]), radar astronomy is able to provide extremely accurate astrometric information on the structure, composition and movement of Solar System objects.[4] This aids in forming long-term predictions of asteroid-Earth impacts, as illustrated by the object 99942 Apophis. In particular, optical observations measure where an object appears in the sky, but cannot measure the distance with great accuracy (relying on parallax becomes more difficult when objects are small or poorly illuminated). Radar, on the other hand, directly measures the distance to the object (and how fast it is changing). The combination of optical and radar observations normally allows the prediction of orbits at least decades, and sometimes centuries, into the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_astronomy

Factorio too. Raycasting engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lVAFcDX4eM

Reminds me of the Web Displays Mod for Minecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpqOv7SxkHA .

Complete with keyboard and mouse. Why ever leave the game?

And while here, watch Gigapixels of Andromeda: https://youtu.be/udAL48P5NJU Preferably with sound.

But also unlimited cheap power to reduce the heat in the atmosphere, through some kind of worldwide air conditioning. Maybe with unlimited power we can finally control our weather through heating, cooling and redirecting ocean currents and whatnot.

The USB-2-Sata interface is indeed USB 3.0. Thanks. USB 2.0 would be too slow to achieve my 100+ MB/s.

Depending on the purpose, for example if somebody just wants a compact home cloud, the Odroid HC2 could also - still - be considered: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two/

- Half the RAM but double the cores. I'm waiting for some benchmarks to see if the RPi4 is faster and by how much.

- Also Gigabit Ethernet and it works great. My downloads are always at 108-111MB/s for the whole transfer.

- Not USB 3.0 but has "oldschool" SATA through an internal USB-2-SATA adapter. It's at least more compact, otherwise the RPi4 with an external USB 3.0 drive will probably work even better.

- works with a normal 12V power supply, which could be lying around already, from older external drives.

Not to disrespect the RPi4, as I'll be getting one of them too very soon.

I wonder if the blockchain (or contract?) approach could break the record after combining all that gpu power.

Is you want fun and weird then maybe check out the sites where teenagers get creative: https://9gag.com and Reddit. Although Reddit is more serious compared to 9gag while 9gag users often just "steal" from Reddit.

There's always TinyCore Linux.

Reminds me of Gigapixels of Andromeda [4K]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU (listening with sound is a plus). Now imagine there are at least as many galaxies as dots of stars in these images from Hubble...