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aritmoon SQLite WASM: Something subtle in the browser

>If you were really competent with dev tools, and dedicated enough to pour over the uncompressed JavaScript, you’d notice..

That hurt.

aritmoon Humans May Be Shockingly Close to Decoding the Language of Animals

They used to believe there was a Language of Humans. If you did not teach any language to a baby, somehow he would start talking in an ancient old language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_deprivation_experimen...

Now it is the same but with animals.

aritmoon Biotech CEO pays $2 million a year to decrease age by 5 years

If my math is right, in 14 years he will be an infant.

aritmoon Loneliness is a measure of self-understanding

It was a typo, indeed I meant "addiction".

aritmoon Loneliness is a measure of self-understanding

This style of reason has very shaky foundations.

Watch some videos by Gabor Maté. He links addition in adult life to childhood traumas. You can fit loneliness in there as well.

aritmoon The Russian missile that was designed to sink aircraft carriers

An advisor resigned because he said that the missile was intercepted and then fell on the building.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64304310

aritmoon The Russian missile that was designed to sink aircraft carriers

The Wikipedia article for the missile has this recent addition:

>On 14 January 2023, a possible strike a Kh-22 on a 9 story residential apartment building in Dnipro, demolished most of the building and started a large fire. At least 44 civilians were killed, and 73 were wounded in the attack.[24] [25] It was fired by the 52nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment. [26] It is a missile that Ukraine can’t intercept, only a PAC-3 Patriot missile or SAMP-T could shoot it down. Nothing in the Ukrainian Air Force’s current arsenal can stop it. [27]

The last two sentences are out of place for a Wikipedia article.

aritmoon Two Cyberattacks on the Extranet of Booking.com

This has been published a few days ago but you cannot find any article at all in English. Only in French.

aritmoon Endemic pathogens are causing psychiatric illnesses and shortening lives

The author is Riva Tez (https://twitter.com/rivatez). She first posted this on her blog, hosted on ghost.io, but she abandoned that personal blog. She then contributed her article on this new website that collects such articles. The new website does not show the author's name when you read an article. You have to look into the article index to view the her name as the author of the article.

The author name appears here https://return.life/category/views/page/5/

aritmoon T95 Allwinner T616 Malware Analysis

"work a little". How is that relevant here?

The "T95" is likely an unbranded TV box and some people that bought it, got pre-installed malware in it. Is that the case with all T95 TV boxes? We don't know. Likely but we don't know.

Did the seller infect the TV boxes with the malware before selling? Probably.

Is this some malware that is implemented in the hardware of the TV box? Hell, no.

aritmoon T95 Allwinner T616 Malware Analysis

It's the same title of your post on github. The mods did not change anything.

aritmoon T95 Allwinner T616 Malware Analysis

It's an "Android TV Box", model name "T95". Where is that information in the title?

aritmoon Honey consumption improves blood sugar and cholesterol levels, study suggests

"Honey, especially robinia, clover, and unprocessed raw honey, may improve.."

Scientific papers on the benefits of honey tend to be infomercials for the honey industry.

How do you figure it out? If the suggested "good" honey is limited to a specific geographic region. The local honey industry can benefit from the positive exposure. They don't do these informecials if the honey can be obtained from all over the world.

Where does the Robinia tree grow natively?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinia_pseudoacacia

aritmoon Istanbul mayor jailed for 'insulting' officials ahead of 2023 election

1. Presidential candidate, threat to Erdogan's chances for the Turkish elections next year.

2. Conveniently just jailed for two years.

aritmoon Ask HN: Eliminating those annoying “Accept / Reject” banners on websites

That extension was bought by Avast and it is not good anymore.

Use instead "I still don't care about cookies".

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-still-dont-care-...

aritmoon The Face-Off Between Russia and a Small Internet Access Firm

https://archive.ph/mQVTp

A mistake in the title. A VPN service, aimed to circumvent restrictions.

aritmoon Experimentally Inventing a Programming Language Using Chat GPT

This is very scary human-like. I was a teaching assistant and asked students to fix issues in their code. They acknowledged these issues but submitted again the same erroneous code.

aritmoon Anker’s Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cameras

The media transfers are encrypted. But he uses the Developer Tools of the browser, so he sees the content of the encrypted packets.

It is obvious that any cloud-based security camera has to send the media to the cloud! There is no other way.

The marketing people at Eufy made a long series of mistakes. It is a marketing problem.

aritmoon Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than help an opposing group

It took me some time to understand the title.

Better summary: Individuals that are dissatisfied with their own group, prefer to harm it directly than join some other opposing group.

aritmoon ‘Gold hydrogen’ is an untapped resource in depleted oil wells

'Gold hydrogen'? Sounds like the marketing term 'clean coal'.

aritmoon We are addicted to insigh-porn

Oh, not a plug for https://insigh.io/

aritmoon Trump has fiduciary obligation to delay non-TruthSocial posts by 6 hours

"As further described in the section titled, “Information about TMTG,” President Trump is generally obligated to make any social media post on TruthSocial and may not make the same post on another social media site for 6 hours. Thereafter, he is free to post on any site to which he has access. Thus, TMTG has limited time to benefit from his posts and followers may not find it compelling to use TruthSocial to read his posts that quickly. In addition, he may make a post from a personal account related to political messaging, political fundraising or get-out-the-vote efforts on any social media site at any time."

aritmoon [dead]

Good luck with that. It really says "removed by the moderators of r/gifs".

aritmoon [dead]

A rollercoaster of a post...

aritmoon Russian railway on verge of collapse as bearings run low

China makes ball bearings. A lot of them. Even for trains.

aritmoon Dear Chess World

It was obvious that Hans did not make a real effort while playing chess with Magnus. Hans was not concentrating. Hans was constantly moving his hand, covering his mouth. Hans was not paying attention.