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WaitWaitWhaon Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant

reading the article

> The agent took the phone away and only returned after approximately 45 minutes, during which Kennedy believes that data on the phone was copied. He was then released with no charges.

Does the owner, Mr. Kennedy has actual knowledge/proof if the phone was copied, or this is a guess? Might be missing from the article.

WaitWaitWhaon Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

... of politicians. Because they are the ones who could write the laws to ban privacy invasive solutions.

WaitWaitWhaon 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

why not both?

WaitWaitWhaon Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive

how long are these videos? 2,973 of them (and not even the 20,000 count)? even at 15 minute clips that is like... five years?! watching non-stop.

I am hard pressed to believe that this was for the exec.

what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

I just wnat to know what bandwidth this exec has at his house. I want it.

WaitWaitWhaon Trump to sign executive order on foreign equipment in U.S. energy infrastructure

Yes, and no.

A US President definitely has the authority to restrict what is used on Government contracts. The Gov is the buyer so they can and do ask what they do and do not want used by the federal contractors.

Can a US President dictate for non-Gov contracts? Strong to weak to none. Strong around infrastructure providers (think power, water, electric, etc.) through the Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA). This is where this EO falls, "banning certain foreign-manufactured equipment from the U.S. bulk-power system".

Conjecture, but i think this is targeting data centers...

WaitWaitWhaon How Claude's text watermarking works

Is there a method to opt out of this for non-EU people? I do not see such option in the article.

WaitWaitWhaon Dear people who work at the airport

I have gone through Schiphol and strip searched because the buttons on my winter coat were suspicious.

WaitWaitWhaon Dear people who work at the airport

This is not a US-only airport staff issue. I am on the road most of the last three decades and it is international. It is one, binding "quality" in every country. Most the airport staff's core competency rests elsewhere in almost all airports.

I am hedging because i have had nuggets of exceptional service and support here and there, even in nightmarish hellscapes like Heathrow. Flight attendants are a whole different area of joy and fears...

WaitWaitWhaon HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

Where would Netgate pfSense+ fit on that list?

I tried Mikrotik and the UI was wasting so much of my time, it was worth switching to Netgate, for me.

WaitWaitWhaon 98% isn't much

The author seems to equivocate by comparing completely different domains.

Whether 98% is acceptable, it depends on the cost of failure, not the percentage itself.

WaitWaitWhaon European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple

or, not force people into mandatory digital ID wallets at all.

WaitWaitWhaon Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?

An unethical company is likely would consider a lawsuit to put such private site out of business. A collection of unethical companies would be an exponentially higher risk to such site.

WaitWaitWhaon Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not

> human + agent can right-click-solve it offline in a browser like Comet

You are almost certainly right. And yet, this is a good start. I did not think of this, so kudos to mondaycom.

> Just get the agents to pay to access the content

How would you identify who is a human versus agent?

How would you get them to pay? Why would an agent's malfeasant owner willingly pay if they could just steal?

WaitWaitWhaon Stealing Is a Skill

> When you recreate someone’s creation, you learn their story: every piece of brilliance, tradeoff, and imperfection.

I vehemently disagree that this happens. What you see is the end result, and thinking and struggling through for each element is not present. It is like copying the Mona Lisa and claiming the relationship with the sitting model and her smell and feel and complaints about cramped neck is all in the copied painting.

(Please do not change the cursor, specially the size. There is a reason I changed it.)

WaitWaitWhaon Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice

I am not familiar with German business entity structures, so this is very interesting.

So, if I started a sole proprietorship, it is not possible to convert it to a full blown, privately held corporation in Germany?

WaitWaitWhaon Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice

I think most red tapes and bureaucracies have loop holes. For example, a different, simpler type of business type, then conversion to the actual desired type. At least, this has been my experience in a few countries I worked in. Sometimes it will cost more up front, but if the end result is significantly faster, maybe it is worth it.

I am sorry he has to go through this just to start a business.

WaitWaitWhaon Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)

This is an AWS (and other FAANG) tenet.

It has to come with appropriate information, not just a date.

I usually ask for a twisted "STAR" if this is presented to me.

Give me context (who, what, where, when), the planned action in short (and other choices that were considered and why they were abandoned), and the result that the choice will have.

If i have all these, i can quickly context switch, and ask follow ups if needed, or just let it move forward. This is conceptually what AWS asks for in a one pager.

WaitWaitWhaon Renting a sewing machine from the library

How are you going about this? Asking because I thought about doing something similar (e.g., Makerspaces, hackerspaces, Fab Labs).

WaitWaitWhaon Techno-libertarians are flocking to the Caribbean

I am not sure i understand what you are writing.

What is your definition of "techno libertarians"? asking because my understanding is that their primary work and concentration of work is not agriculture; there is no need for "fertile land". They can build stuff on a rock like Hong Kong.

I image this as a bunch of F/LOSS techno peeps living in condos or town homes with postage stamp grass to take care of. they would run off to the shore to do some water activities, go into the town and do some restaurants and some such.

Basically, this reads like an attempt to anchor digital nomads.

WaitWaitWhaon Techno-libertarians are flocking to the Caribbean

I been to St. Kitts & Nevis. The only thing I can remember is the very stark contrast between the commercialized beaches versus where the locals lived, and the roaming cows everywhere.

Nevis (the baseball) was only boat accessible, and St. Kitts (the bat) is mostly hills of national park.

Vast majority of things must be flown or shipped in. I am hard pressed to see some "techno libertarians" doing techno without Amazon/Temu/Walmart/<insert fav vendor> in 24h drop ship.

WaitWaitWhaon CrankGPT

... at 1:03 he hits steady 700W. At 1:29 shows they kept increasing the incline at least to 40 degrees. Why not keep it at the same incline? . . .

WaitWaitWhaon Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

What?! And thus eschew all the vexation and tribulation of this labor?! Far be it from me to shirk mine obligation to fashion most futile things with great toil and hardship!

WaitWaitWhaon Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

Fishing yes, not surfing kayaking (things will eat you :D).

Really just so I can see these neat things. Like these little tiny crabs, maybe thumbnail size at most (Ocypodidae ?). They come out at low tide, have one claw as big as their body, they stand at their hole and wave it at each out other like "hey! check THIS claw out! No, brah, check MINE out!" and, they do this all the way till tide comes in. Or, the rays sitting on their nests and will wait to the last moment to swim away when the tide is going out. At high tide all kinds of bigger things will come in and check the local scene.

Once I have HA linked, I can start a camera record some of this. Yes, it has to be a rube goldberg machine; a digital camera powered by tide, recording kicked of by an over-complicated mechanical device that is also driven by flowing water.

WaitWaitWhaon Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

https://www.home-assistant.io/

the interface can be set up on her phone, a tablet on a wall, and limiting things to giant buttons and displays is very easy for you.

And, you can monitor and be alerted near real time to issues of course.

WaitWaitWhaon Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

can you add annual flowers to this? Maybe even perennials, trees?

WaitWaitWhaon Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

Have you looked at Home Assistant (HA) as your consolidating platform? I helped set up one in a nursery home with mmWave motion, temp, humidity, switches, electricity flow, etc. If they want to, they can control water faucets, sinks, flushing WC, ceiling fans, heat/cool, plugs and switches.

The beauty is that you just need to find a device with either existing comms "protocol" (e.g., RESTful APIs, MQTT, Zigbee, Z-Wave, BT, BLE, Metter, Wi-Fi) that HA understands, or get one of the many community solutions for others (e.g., LoRaWA, 433MHz, modbus).

WaitWaitWhaon Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

A tide flag. As in, a mechanical device that turns a weather-vane-like flag that moves with the ebb and flow. It has to be powered by the tide, and must be able to withstand the elements. And, must look cool.

Then, I will slap an ESP32 & z-wave on it :D secretly to feed my Home Assistant. :D

WaitWaitWhaon Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study

His website https://peterattiamd.com returns several direct creatine articles, podcasts, and AMAs with him and others.

WaitWaitWhaon We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin

because the assumption is that he wanted the child baptized by a Polish priest.

Could it be he just wanted the child baptized, no matter if it was Spanish or Polish priest? Then, starting with Latin is the way to get a priest's attention.

WaitWaitWhaon Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)

Take advantage of canceled meetings.

I step outside and enjoy nature for those few minutes, even if it is just to watch nature.