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TheAdamist··on Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership
Atsc 3.0 does this in a lot of areas, it is in my area, all the channels are multiplexed from one broadcast, although it's hard to tell on the tv since you get the virtual channel numbers that are different and the same as the atsc 1.0 channels
TheAdamist··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
He really does want to speed run everything sci fi, Kessler syndrome here we come!
TheAdamist··on All means are fair except solving the problem
I always change my bash PS1 prompt to include the exit code of the previous command, makes experimenting to write scripts so much easier.

I also include the runtime of the previous command which is useful to find out how long commands take without having to remember to time each one.

TheAdamist··on You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)
If not static analysis what would ai tools be considered? They're operating off the same source code

Also nice the onion reference by op.

TheAdamist··on Ultraprocessed foods make up to 70% of the US food supply (2025)
Tofu is heavily processed, try again.
TheAdamist··on Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Coming from the perspective of an eclipse fan, why is VS code the defacto answer nowadays?

Im forced to use vs code (so biased), but everything seems worse than eclipse, plus these repeated security issues from malware laced projects.

Theres been several posts about infected projects by fake recruiters here in the last year or two.

Im guessing the answer is probably Java is why eclipse is out of favor.

TheAdamist··on x86 prefixes and escape opcodes flowchart
Which clever code can utilize to determine which mode its running in and branch appropriately depending if the inc/dec were executed or not.
TheAdamist··on Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
Kudzu flowers supposedly have a grape like flavor. I just had a beer made with them from fonta flora in NC and you could vaguely taste it. Although unsure if it was my imagination.

Kudzu flowers were listed as one of the possibilities in the article.

TheAdamist··on Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
No.

.its an insane lawsuit, there are basically two outcomes crazy side effects from his lawsuit:

Tvs are banned. (Possibly can only texas permitted tv)

Or if he loses, which might be his donors goal of him litigating so terribly, all your data now belongs to the companies.

Theres no consumer friendly option here

TheAdamist··on Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
Same acronym still works, just swap gemini in place of google.
TheAdamist··on Why does Swiss cheese have holes?
Havarti has a lot of small holes, but its a different kind of cheese
TheAdamist··on LD_PRELOAD, The Invisible Key Theft
LD_AUDIT is even more powerful and fun to use. And far lesser known.
TheAdamist··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
News flash at 11, i.t. body shops to impose $100k indentured servitude debt on h1b seekers.
TheAdamist··on Half an year on Alpine: just musl aside
Its an alternative libc instead of gnu.

I've generally seen it for embedded systems due to smaller size and you can statically link it.

But there are some compatibility drawbacks for non musl binaries as well as source that intentionally or unintentionally relies on glibc behavior or non standard functionality.

You don't want to mix and match your libc's on a running system.

Buildroot may be a good way to start to play with musl (or uClibc, another small c library).

TheAdamist··on Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups
Meetup was great until it became so expensive to run a glorified calendar+ email list. $180+ a year is silly for small groups.

But meetup was awesome for discoverability of small local niche groups.

Manual link sharing doesn't help with local groups.

The alternative was Facebook groups for free, but has awful discoverability and awful event calendars. But most people have Facebook, so thats the default now.

How does this benefit me as an organizer? How can local people find my event without me having to spam it on services(Facebook, etc) that they already have accounts on?

TheAdamist··on The internet wants to check your ID
The Internet doesn't want to check your id. The government wants to force your the Internet to check your id. In the least safe way possible.

And as a convenient side effect dissuade people from using "morally objectionable" internet resources under fear of identity theft and doxxing.

TheAdamist··on Grease: An Open-Source Tool for Uncovering Hidden Vulnerabilities in Binary Code
No.

This is looking for coding bugs that allow unintentional behavior, not intentionally malicious code.

TheAdamist··on Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web
I don't understand why the remedies on google can basically be summarized as

"apple wins, its the only viable smartphone left".

TheAdamist··on Legal fights over kei trucks in the U.S.
Motorcycles lean to turn at speed, the trikes generally can't and are prone to tipping or flipping.

I've only ever seen them in low speed parades though.

Not sure how the slingshots with two wheels in front and one in back are at speed, i generally only see those at low speeds in cities blasting music instead of trying to get anywhere.

TheAdamist··on Legal fights over kei trucks in the U.S.
I'd like to see some investigative reporting on who or what organization is trying to get these banned via various state mvcs all around the same time, theres definitely a concerted effort.

The owners groups are battling the mvcs publicly, but nothing from the other side.

TheAdamist··on Murderbot, she wrote
I enjoy murderbot, but each novella is pretty short, so there isn't a lot of source material to draw from for the upcoming show, and original material for a show isn't always of the same caliber as the source unfortunately.

But my biggest concern about the show is, all the internal dialogue by murderbot, how do you translate that to the screen? Voiceovers maybe, but im not sure. Although i haven't listened to the audio books to see how they portray the internal dialogue.

That and murderbots androgynous otherness, although the casting of Alexander Skarsgård for the role is probably a good one, he's definitely played similarly weird characters before.

TheAdamist··on Murderbot, she wrote
Bobiverse books are full length. And highly enjoyable, but short "chapters".

Murderbot is on kindle unlimited (except for the newest), but yeah $15 for a novella starts adding up quickly.

Bobiverse is also on kindle unlimited, except for the newest book which is only on audible for now.

TheAdamist··on The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest princess
Malort tastes like extremely bitter grapefruit peel to me.

I also love my scotch as peaty as possibly. So most likely my taste buds are broken.

Fernet is dark and very herbally from my recollection.

TheAdamist··on The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest princess
I happen to enjoy malort, so there's probably something wrong with me.

Malort has been seeing wider distribution recently, which i hear may due to a buyout a while ago. Their website lists distribution in Delaware, Maryland, DC, and randomly checking San Francisco shows availability as well.

No more having to visit Chicago to purchase it enables a lot more people to buy it and businesses to serve it.

The weird Chicago only malort variants do disturb me, but i would try them.

TheAdamist··on Maybe Bluesky has "won"
Nope. But i wish them well.

If i read some interesting article that turns out to just be a reblogging of an interesting post on a service, the original embedded article is inevitably from xitter, which if i want to read more generally i can't. Either technical or personal issues usually prevent me from being able to read the original source and additional related tweets.

TheAdamist··on Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin
Binwalk claims to recognize crc polynomial tables i wonder if it could find this one.

Also someone needs to integrate binwalk & ghidra, they synergize too much.

TheAdamist··on Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
Sounds like an easy mass copyright infringement case to me against any third party store distributing your app without consent.
TheAdamist··on Private equity ruins tech companies
Tech seems to accelerate the decline though, without the inertia of physical stores or plants to slow things down.
TheAdamist··on Death of the Department Store
I've come to the conclusion that men will eventually just be naked in the future. Every time i go to shop for clothes in the USA the men's section has shrunk and the women's has gotten larger.

Or we will all eventually just dress like steve jobs, just pairs of the one legal compliance shirt and pants combo available for sale.

TheAdamist··on How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire
I was hoping it was actually a treatise on leadership by a firefighter. But expecting it not to be.
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