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_obviouslyon Mushroom hunters can't stop finding mysterious fungi

NYTimes.

_obviouslyon Adobe employees slam the company over AI controversy: 'Avoid becoming like IBM'

Adobe knows exactly what they're doing and no amount of PR double-speak is going to fix it. They want in on the billion dollar AI market and they'e not going to let your rights get in their way.

_obviouslyon Textile-based electrochemical sensors

Also known as the Cardassian molecular delay fuse

_obviouslyon Can a bridge be unethical?

Sure, for various values of unethical. Why not use more precise language? Is conflating ethical issues a good use of time? The author's opinion is obvious but poorly stated.

_obviouslyon Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago

In the 2010's, tech companies got together and tried to remove files from the user space.

_obviouslyon I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened

I think it's pretty clear from all Sam's interviews that I've seen that he is a sociopath. I wonder why Paul didn't see it.

_obviouslyon GPUs Go Brrr

Wow that really sucks for you. I just read it in 5 minutes and feel much more informed about the subject pf nvidia memory twizzlization. It's kind of funny to me that presumably young college guys are writing in a style that's very readable for my old ass.

_obviouslyon Design docs at Google (2020)

Remember, Google retains the right to copy databases as they're not copy protected.

_obviouslyon ArcaneDoor – New campaign found targeting network devices

WireShark would be a good start

_obviouslyon ArcaneDoor – New campaign found targeting network devices

This attack is very sophisticated and still the root cause is undiscovered.

_obviouslyon Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years

Clearly he needs a framework for making games in Rust instead of iterating through rust primitives.

_obviouslyon Open-Shell: A collection of utilities bringing back classic features to Windows

Windows 12 when

_obviouslyon Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separated Values (USV)

Yes turning complete wasn't the right term. , it would be better to say that it's surprisingly complex to parse

_obviouslyon Pilot of Boeing flight says he lost control after instrument failure

Real time operating systems are expensive to develop for and require laborious system validation. That's why we decided to use a custom version of Android Jelly Bean running on the latest MediaTek quad core processors featuring Arm Mali gpus. Sensor communications are handled wirelessly with BlueTooth. Be sure to turn off all electronic devices before the flight. :)

_obviouslyon Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separated Values (USV)

Unicode is Turing complete which makes it an attack vector.

_obviouslyon Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

We don't talk about bruno

_obviouslyon Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)

Sounds like a joke, an oxymoron.

_obviouslyon The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open-source language modelling data set (2020)

Seems kind of small tbqh.

_obviouslyon Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war

'Love to see a graph age of the accounts posting here and their positions on this topic.

_obviouslyon Wyze security incident update

Are they wifi or closed circuit?

_obviouslyon Wyze security incident update

Of course, the reason this keeps happening is the infrastructure is designed to let it happen in certain cases. Notice how they explicitly say, they need to fix it in the front end. They can't fix it in the backend because that would break eavesdropping.

_obviouslyon The existence of a new kind of magnet has been confirmed

Spintronic effects is how Saturn is a natural, planet-sized computer.