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asudosandwich··on Essays: NSA Surveillance: A Guide to Staying Secure – Schneier on Security
Right on. People complained about the camera in my bathroom so I told them the same thing. If you’ve done nothing wrong you should have nothing to hide.
asudosandwich··on Ask HN: Which movies did you watch multiple times?
I treated my family’s copy of a copy of Spaceballs the same way. But Ghostbusters could easily have been my babysitter of choice if we’d owned it.

Narrowing the question to more recent times: The Death of Stalin because it made me laugh in the way Spaceballs used to.

asudosandwich··on Gemini Pro refuses to acknowledge yt-dlp
Madeleine Clare Elish described AI as providing “moral crumple zones” (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2757236) where it can serve as a buffer of plausible deniability to deflect blame when it behaves irresponsibly. For the corporation defects in the LLM are a feature.

https://pluralistic.net/tag/moral-crumple-zones/

asudosandwich··on Wild new Wi-Fi routers turn your home network into a security radar
Lots of already established names sound kind of goofy absent their familiarity.

Panaphonics? Unilever.. Toyota.. Sorny Trinitron..

asudosandwich··on Roku's New TOS Makes It Nearly Impossible to Sue the Company
The terms changed for a device already paid for up front, not a monthly subscription. That’s the particular rub here.
asudosandwich··on New car buying guide: the algorithm (2021)
Totally need that SiriusXM though.
asudosandwich··on Space After Periods (1993)
“Sean Connery” also misread it on a SNL Celebrity Jeopardy spoof.
asudosandwich··on Google to explore alternatives to robots.txt
Indeed, AI is called out directly. Google’s laying groundwork for their own version of a regulatory moat.
asudosandwich··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
The punctuated green site from yesteryear had a special moderation carve-out for funny comments distinct from the insightful contributors to keep things on track and interesting. But the parent poster dignifies neither and is better deserving of an Onion headline IMHO.

>> I've scrolled through the top ~10 or so comments

>> I'm not a lawyer and it's hard to parse the above.

>> Overall this seems like a weak comment to me.

asudosandwich··on Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
Try tapping with three fingers to bring up a set of editing operations including undo & redo.
asudosandwich··on Hocus focus: how magicians made a fortune on Facebook
A quarter century ago Leno and Letterman were asking people on the street who was buried in Grant’s Tomb. It’s not a trend.
asudosandwich··on NIST is broadcasting a test signal on minute 8 of the hour on WWV and 48 on WWVH
Or Baby's tape recorded remix https://youtu.be/Dtb_8Y5bHww
asudosandwich··on Maryland nuclear engineer and spouse arrested on espionage-related charges
IIRC it was indicated as the motivation behind convicted spy Christopher John Boyce in the movie The Falcon and the Snowman.

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

asudosandwich··on Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm
Iron horses. I like that.
asudosandwich··on Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats
This showed up here six minutes after the issue was opened. Kudos for being proactive I guess.
asudosandwich··on Intruder at the top of the 20 meter amateur band?
That depends, are you a hobbyist or lobbyist?
asudosandwich··on UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
asudosandwich··on Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?
>> There are legitimate reasons for port scanning

Such as?

asudosandwich··on If Rockets Were Transparent [video]
Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff talked about this too, with the Mercury astronauts being called spam in a can.
asudosandwich··on Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to California
Yeah young children are pretty bad drivers, I can attest to that. Sometime around age 4 I swiped my dad’s car keys from the kitchen table (I recall I had to climb a chair to reach the top of the table). I think I wanted to mimic how adults operated cars.

Luckily, I didn’t make it far. When I finally got it into gear I crashed into the viaduct paralleling our house blocking the road until another motorist found me.

My parents didn’t spank us often but I sure caught hell for that stunt and my allowance was garnished for a very long time!

asudosandwich··on Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
That’s a reason for the sympathy.
asudosandwich··on This Video Has X Views
>> a little corner where the 'webmaster' had a page that mentioned the server, or his cat, or some silly pic.

Or a “links” page. I haven’t seen that in a long while. No affiliate garbage or anything just a page linking to other sites that the webmaster liked or whatever. It’s hard to remember when that fell out of fashion but it did seem to add a personal touch as well.

asudosandwich··on My new favorite vim/tmux bug (2014)
Could be a new hobby for the author. Like https://xkcd.com/148/
asudosandwich··on If your cipher were secure, this image wouldn't have repeating patterns (2015)
What if he’s not meant to be read in good faith?
asudosandwich··on Video Gaming Will Take Over
Civilization 6 is available in the App Store for iPhone and iPad. However, on my 2017 10.5” iPad Pro I find it uncomfortable to play beyond a short stretch (15-20 minutes) because the UI obscures a good part of the map (even fully collapsed) and panning the board is not smooth because of the frame rate. My hand, wrist, and arm tire quickly from all the swiping and panning too.
asudosandwich··on Google Sued Under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act
Google can guess that these 3 faces are the same, but it doesn't know for certain that they are

uCaptcha V3: “Click the people you know.”

asudosandwich··on GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to DCLXVI
Sounds like my web browser.
asudosandwich··on A Junkyard Billionaire
Reminds me of the Beetle with aftermarket afterburner http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/
asudosandwich··on Pascal's Mugging (2009) [pdf]
I only had to wait for the next comment.
asudosandwich··on The transit of Mercury starts at 7:35 am ET and will last for 5.5 hours
I remember being bored. Fondly in hindsight.
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