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aclarryon Show HN: Identify car crash editorial anti-patterns using NLP

But the solution that comes out of that framing is to somehow shame drivers into being better, as opposed to making roads better.

aclarryon How to Build a Low-Tech Solar Panel?

The title made me think of my final first year chemistry lab where we made dye-sensitized solar cells from raspberries. It was an incredibly low-tech process aside from the conductive oxide-coated glass slides used as the electrodes. I'd love to see an in-depth guide on this solar panel design.

aclarryon Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

No, not if you "loaded in the past". But if you have recently engaged positively with it, sure.

Plus that's kind of two degrees removed from the original comment. If someone who does a horrible thing cites a community as a motivation/inspiration, yeah that group should absolutely at least think about what that says about them. It's not an immediate condemnation of guilt, but if there's strong evidence that that community's behaviour or ideology provided motivation, or if there's a repeated pattern, then it's a problem. The alternative is to say there's nothing wrong with white supremacists because all those people who commit racial violence citing white supremacy are just incidentally related, or that there's nothing wrong with gangs because we should avoid "linking" people who commit gang violence to their associates.

aclarryon “We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”

Citation for knowing it isn't true for ionizing radiation? LNT is supported by the US NRC, the EPA, and UNSCEAR. Not saying that it supports the papers on EM radiation, but it's definitely not crazy to assume LNT in your research (and given we don't know much about the effects of low radiation doses, it's definitely the more precautionary option).

aclarryon PS4-5.05-Kernel-Exploit: A fully implemented kernel exploit for the PS4

I wouldn't say it's entirely unrelated, my first thought when I saw the headline was "does this mean we can run unrestricted GNU/Linux on PS4 now?" ;p

aclarryon 86% of CrashCrate subscribers used passwords already leaked in other breaches

Even better if it just says "your password does not fit our requirements" :)

I was signing up for a bank account and had to make a password for my online account in the branch. Turns out my 16-character randomly generated password made the system unhappy. Tried 6 more times with newly generated passwords (character-only, alphanumeric only, alphanumeric and "#" or "$" only) and it just said the password was not acceptable. So in the end I used my probably ~15 bits of entropy super easy to crack password from when I was 10, with a few randomly generated characters on the end (because more than a few would make the system complain again).

The pervasiveness of poor UI and security design baffles me. You would've thought that one of the largest banks in the world would have a little more competency but nope.