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baobunon Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it

Assuming things much? It's actually totally reasonable to opt out of both of those, too.

Then on the other hand, who cares about those when your car is already tracking you? /s That kind of helpless reasoning needs to die.

baobunon I mathematically proved the best "Guess Who?" strategy [video]

The signal is in observing the number of options your opponent eliminates after a guess.

baobunon I mathematically proved the best "Guess Who?" strategy [video]

If it helps your intuition: Even at 3-4 remaining, you'll still win at the next turn. Above that your chances of getting it right are too low compared to the reduction (assuming there is an option eliminating enough).

This could be made more complicated/interesting if you play a series of games and are awarded points based on either how many rounds it took to win or how many remaining cards you still had.

baobunon GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack

I would put blame on contemporary GitHub for a few things but this is not one of them. We need better community practices and tools. We can't expect to rely on Microsoft to content-filter.

baobunon How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

See also: The Moomins.

baobunon How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

I guess Patty part-times as dog sitter

baobunon Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras

Tangentially related it's also useful to quickly gauge if your smarts-wielding neighbors are home or not so noise levels can be adjusted accorsingly (:

baobunon Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: setting the record straight

Whoa there, you're in reverse-engineering territory of their website already!

baobunon Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: setting the record straight

I can only read this as the entirety of "Arduino open source ecosystem" being part of "the Platform".

baobunon PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"

Cash. Monero.

baobunon Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

I'm sure there are dozens of us.

baobunon Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy

They could have been stored at the client, and encrypted before optionally synced back to OpenAI servers in a way that the stored chats can only be read back by the user. Signal illustrates how this is possible.

OpenAI made a choice in how the feature was and is implemented.

baobunon Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface

htop shows IO usage too if your version is recent enough. Tab.

baobunon YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'

I would love but probably be horrified to see the documented support for "serious physical harm or death".

baobunon Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

The curly braces are the one thing that really "pop out" from the font the moment I look at it. Even if I can agree they are pretty and even adorable, also visually noisy, distracting, and something that makes me not want to try the font out.

Being distinct from parens and brackets is obviously still desired and sorry I'm not a designer myself enough to give more specific feedback on how it could be improved.

Otherwise very attractive font.

baobunon YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'

The only issue I have on my Plasma 6 laptop is also lock-screen related: About 20% of the time keyboard input is ignored/blocked after coming back from sleep. Closing and reopening the lid usually sorts it. Haven't seen what you describe.

I did have some earlier snags which all went away after switching from Wayland session to X11 session.

baobunon YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'

It would help to know what it is you are not loving with Mint+Cinnamon... My picks for a beginner-friendly batteries-included Linux dist for KDE:

- You can install KDE on Mint without switching distro or reinstalling[0]

- Debian (caveat: packages can be out of date if you need the latest-greatest of something)

- Fedora (caveat: two major OS upgrades per year can feel like a chore)

- EndeavourOS (caveat: Requires a bit more expertise and grease to properly maintain)

- Aurora (caveat: Still young project and I'd still consider it a bit experimental and adventerous)

- kubuntu (caveat: snaps. Accept them or learn how to disable)

KDE Linux is a thing and something to keep an eye on but it's still in alpha/beta and probably not ready for your use just yet.

[0]: Caveat: it's possible that some DE service might not be disabled properly from your old setup and conflict with KDEs variety if you keep the cinnamon packages around

baobunon End of Japanese community

Another reason in context of public forums is that it's dismissive of any concerns or questions raised: If a call would be sufficient, that implies they think that nobody else cares.

baobunon Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux

You could use docker to build and then run the resulting binary without.

baobunon Ask HN: Help me pass Cloudflare Turnstile on my phone?

This may be crapshoot but have you tried PrivacyPass browser extension?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-pass/

https://privacypass.github.io/

baobunon The 512KB Club

There are plenty of anaytics options at <1% that size.

https://github.com/Destiner/astro-analytics

baobunon I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars

One factor was huge amounts of free credits for the first year or more for any startup that appeared above-board and bothered to ask properly.

Second, egress data being very expensive with ingress being free has contributed to making them sticky gravity holes.

baobunon Meta: Pirated Adult Film Downloads Were for "Personal Use," Not AI Training

I don't think it's probable to torrent (thousands of) porn videos from a cell phone.

baobunon Why we migrated from Python to Node.js

> its not just the lack of types altogether

Elixir is strongly but dynamically typed.

On the progress of static typing:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06391

baobunon Israels top military lawyer resigns, goes missing, is found and thrown into jail

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45801673

baobunon Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark

I would guess that having easy access to more recent kernels (including -zen) a and gpu firmware is a big draw for arch.

baobunon Why does Swiss cheese have holes?

Next up on Show HN: Uber for baking

baobunon Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793218

Don't hold your breath... This is configurable in Linux (at least I recall Xfce and KDE having display position config built in for years).

baobunon Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?

> > What frame should I get for my fixie bicycle?

> Just buy my brand of electric bike instead, it comes preassembled and you won't gst grease on your hands

baobunon Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?

Yes. All of them.