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bar000n··on Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide (2019)
using a T470s currently with 20GB memory and a 2tb ssd, but it cannot keep up anymore because it has only 2 CPU cores Ubuntu/wayland is really sluggish sometimes. i think i'll go for a 5th gen T14. too bad that you can't upgrade the RAM anymore on the new T14s models... and also they ditched the LAN port at some point on the s
bar000n··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Sorry, I am new here, but who funds that bot farm? i don't get it
bar000n··on Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest
Your dream is most likely coming from a video game you played or are still playing sometimes.

I was having the free fall "nightmare" once in a while and i was on my bike falling free. But. Every time i touched the ground i kept going on them wheels no problem. Then it hit me, once in a while i had been playing this game on my phone Hill Climb, where i found myself with the motorbike on the moon which is a great way to farm gold coins. There is a lot of falling down on that map.

Since i had this revelation many years ago i started to "decipher" most of my dreams.

Makes me feel life is now a bit more boring though.

bar000n··on Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
i have daily backup instances to cold standby qemu-kvm VMs with snapshots of qcow2 storage which are kept for 10 days and i skip deleting every weekly Monday backup until space becomes a problem (usually months). sometimes the qcow2 storage backend becomes too slow with so many snapshots and that's when i qemu-img convert it which basically fixes it but removes the snapshots, so i keep both of them for a while.
bar000n··on USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits
lots of hallucination or should i say misinformation in this article
bar000n··on Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation
could it be that those people don't actually believe him and just appreciate the genuine shit-show he puts up enabling them to laugh at people who get sad about what he says, and their eagerness to believe
bar000n··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
i say technofeudalism, not sure i know what i'm writing about though
bar000n··on We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees
I can understand the frustration but let's face it: you cannot fool huge email providers such as Gmail. They have huge userbases and if their users mark some of your messages as spam then you're screwed.

I am email admin since 2003 and I have real email users, i don't take customers who send any sort of automated messages, and I never had any issues besides the occasional compromised mailbox once in a while, and that was way back in the day...

bar000n··on Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV Users via Revolut Bank
I wonder why all those articles about video streaming pirates use the term IPTV to describe illegal video streaming services.

IPTV is a term for some clearly standardized and perfectly legal technology to deliver television services. Check the wikipedia page and definitions maybe [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol_television

bar000n··on Country that put backdoors in Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers
3) ability to censor(content filter) the opposition also nice to have
bar000n··on I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer
I think it is obvious that the author just wants to come out as the great hero bounty hunter he is and in fact did reach the HN front page, so good for them.

If he wanted to solve it he would automatically sue them back for breaching his and his clients' personal data and not make any publicity blog post.

bar000n··on 65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform
HN is not the rest, it is not the majority. It's for a specific tech-savvy social category. This category does want skepticism and criticism because they tend to be perfectionists. This is not "negative sentiment" anything but very positive "evrika!" sentiment for members of the aforementioned category.

Would one say: nice attempt trying to tell people how they are supposed to feel around here?

bar000n··on Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
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bar000n··on How to use AI to augment learning without losing critical thinking skills?
This if you do have some critical thinking to start with, for the less gifted ones LLMs only make things worse.
bar000n··on If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app
When i think about it, I would be absolutely terrified by smartphone cameras. Think laptop accessories that cover the webcam - haven't seen any of those for smartphones. Yet we trust a green dot with all our heart nowadays. Back in the day when cameras started showing up on mobile phones there were even versions of popular business feature phones that lacked the camera (Nokia E51 if i recall correctly), probably triggered by requirements of clients with strict information security standards.

It seems we all learned to stop worrying and love the cameras.

bar000n··on Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
Agency is what those people you call trolls don't have. Leave them be, you don't want to end up lynched.
bar000n··on Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
maybe the "data sold to" part
bar000n··on Paged Out
If I were them I would do that typo on purpose.
bar000n··on AI World Clocks
It should be pretty clear already that anything which is based (limited?) to communicating words/text can never grasp conceptual thinking.

We have yet to design a language to cover that, and it might be just a donquijotism we're all diving into.

bar000n··on Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux
Ubuntu 22.04 user here. Indeed it hangs when out of memory, never had the time to properly address this but i will try to follow the advice provided here in the thread. My servers that run Centos or Debian just do this thing called OOMkill on a ram hungry process, out of the box.
bar000n··on New Huawei Headquarters Glass Dome Copyright Infringement Dispute
Probably the chinese they just asked chatgpt to draw them some glass ceiling
bar000n··on Building Ultra Long Range Toslink
i doubt about the 1.5mbps limit as many DAC specs toslink as 24bit 96khz pcm stereo capable, which sums up to almost 5mbps
bar000n··on I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone
What happens is that you in fact lend part of your brain to all the data that you see on your screen. You don't realize it but your subconscious mind sees senses a lot of stuff your conscious mind is not aware about. Until you see it after you just talked about it thinking it was your idea and panic.

What you actually talk about with people (excluding maybe the proffesional stuff) is mundane stuff you see on your screens, newspapers, billboards, etc.

bar000n··on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
International law always sanctioned a state's intervention in another state's affairs. In addition to this very well known fact by jurists, there is also recent works in the field contradicting your position.

"International law prohibits states from intervening in the internal and external affairs of other states [...] as coercion-as-control, an action materially depriving the victim state of its ability to control its sovereign choices. This may be done even through acts like cyber operations that the victim state is entirely unaware of." [1]

[1]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

bar000n··on A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)
If a bicycle hits a pedestrian and the pedestrian was on cycling path in The Netherlands, who's fault is it? If the pedestrian gets a broken arm who pays for medical services?
bar000n··on Gross Apple Marketing
They are lovely indeed.

Apple seems to be big enough to make fun of the AI fiasco.

bar000n··on Understanding Round Robin DNS
hey! so i got a cdn for video made of 4 bare metals and 2 are newer and more powerful so i give them each 2 ip addresses from the 6 addresses replied by dns for the respective a record. but from a very diverse pool of devices (proprietary set top boxes, smart tv sets, mobile clients ios and android, web browsers, etc) i still get ~40% of traffic on the older servers instead of the expected 33% given 2 out of 6 ip addresses resolved as dns a records for these hosts. why?
bar000n··on Controversy over introduction of numberplates
OMG, this is surveillance society, i want to be able to run over anything and not be held accountable, such restriction of my liberty and privacy is unbearable /s
bar000n··on Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash
maybe you want to run scripts on machines where you can't install everything you want (alternative shells)
bar000n··on Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer
soviet in title, nothing soviet in article.
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