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anc84··on 200,000+ MikroTik routers worldwide compromised to inject cryptojacking malware
300€ is about 5 times what I would consider a price to pay for a home router though.
anc84··on Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates
Except that those predate the era of music records. People are not interested in notes, they are interested in the music. Recordings of Bach and Vivaldi are still usually not in the public domain.
anc84··on Twenty Questions Of Maddening, Delicious Geometry
Warning, the comments are spoilers in many cases. :(
anc84··on Project Atlas
And how would this crypto coin thing help here? Nothing in the announcement deals with obscure, large content.
anc84··on Project Atlas
That already exists with bonuspoints within torrent communities. It works well.

This Atlas thing is all about extracting real money. The owner of BitTorrent Inc is a cryptocoin scammer.

anc84··on Project Atlas
Adding money to this would easily kill the good intentions of people involved. I don't think it is a right idea.
anc84··on Project Atlas
I have not seen that flaw in ages as I am part of communities where giving and taking is rewarded with nothing but meaningless points and merit. It works fine.
anc84··on Project Atlas
> Project Atlas will connect the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network and the TRON blockchain network via a set of bittorrent protocol extensions, a custom token, and an in-client token economy to address existing limitations and open a new borderless economy for exchanging value for computer resources on a global scale.

I prefer the currencies of goodwill, altruism and data hoarding to provide humanity with access to media.

anc84··on S-tui: Stress Terminal UI
Thank you, I had no idea I could configure that in htop.
anc84··on S-tui: Stress Terminal UI
Does someone know a similar tool to monitor CPU, RAM and IO utilisation?
anc84··on S-tui: Stress Terminal UI
This will make a nice partner to glances' current-state centric display: https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
anc84··on Bandwidth Alliance: sharing the benefits of interconnected networks
Yaaay, more power to the behemoths!
anc84··on Beyond Deep Fakes
Thanks!
anc84··on Show HN: Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics
Lavalanche: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=59596
anc84··on Beyond Deep Fakes
I don't see what is "beyond" here, can someone elaborate on the contribution on top of established Deep Fake tech?
anc84··on Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux
Device drivers are one of the things I LOVE Linux. Instead of having to install 500 Megabytes of software from a CD or downloading 20 different vendor update tools, it usually is just plug and play. Instantly.

Of course configuration is needed. I doubt that the scanner issue is a driver thing. Are you sure the software is configured to do a full resolution, RGB scan?

Optimus GPU are hell on Windows as well. Never buy laptops with that nonsense. Generally, you cannot expect any random consumer poop laptop to work well. Linux does not work perfectly everywhere but it sure is more compatible than Mac OS when it comes to using your own hardware. Buy a proper business model laptop and it will work 99%. Just like Windows would.

anc84··on Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux
Heh, I wonder if the list is correct about its Doom games. It links to the 2016 Doom as well as DOOM II: Hell on Earth (1994). Silly trend of re-using old names for new releases, they might have mean the original Doom instead...
anc84··on A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers
The site uses JavaScript to render the Markdown to HTML client-side. Reminds me of when I thought XML with client-side XSLT for rendering was a good idea, lol.

I enjoyed the plain markdown page though, very readable.

anc84··on Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance On AMD Threadripper 2990WX
In Germany we care about sustainable life on this planet.
anc84··on Lenovo Launches Ultra-Thin ThinkPad P1: X1 Carbon Meets Workstation
I wish a screen was as good at angles like the fake marketing photo suggests: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13208/ThinkPad_P1_Lifestyl...

Images like that have no place in a journalistic article in my opinion. It turns it into a full ad.

anc84··on Exapunks
> web chumps think they're 'inventing' when they're solving problems that were solved decades ago, only worse, and most of them don't have the historical background, education, or even interest to know what mistakes they're making.

Your tone is very out of place in this thread. If you don't know that something was solved before and you solve it yourself, it is a great feeling and very rewarding.

I love solving crossword puzzles, riddles and similar games. Yes, even though someone else even _designed_ them. We were talking about gaming.

anc84··on New Map Scale Is More Readable by People Who Are Color Blind
Their abstract explains things better: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

They built a tool for any colormap. And then used it on Viridis. The result is this Cividis.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?size=l...

anc84··on LibreOffice 6.1 released
You are not singled-out, this is a submission about you so it makes sense to talk about you.

Everyone who tracks has improvements in mind.

anc84··on The magic of asyncio explained
Thinly veiled advertisement for a "Intelligent Infrastructure Analytics - a Machine Learning driven approach for DevOps & SREs of modern age" company. Seems like hackernoon just published a native advertisement? Not surprisingly shady though, considering the "buy crypto with credit card" link in the top bar.
anc84··on Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
No export feature prominently advertised, this looks like another startup silo.
anc84··on For babies, life may be like an LSD trip
Alternatively: Adults experience Baby-like consciousness during an LSD trip.
anc84··on Review: A Counterfeit, $100 iPhone X
100$ buys you a really nice Android phone.
anc84··on An entomologist rates ant emojis
What do you mean? This symbol was change in its meaning, I find that sad.
anc84··on An entomologist rates ant emojis
Sadly dumbed down to waterpistol instead of what it should be, a "pistol".
anc84··on An entomologist rates ant emojis
Archive mirror for Europeans who do not want Yahoo/Oath/Tumblr cookies: http://web.archive.org/web/20180718095145/http://curlicuecal...
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